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I love a good flash mob.  From the masterful manipulation of Improv Everywhere’s subway Star Wars to the Glee-themed flash mob group sings, people gathering to surprise other people in public is something that I love.  I’m not sure why, since I hate Glee and all the other singing-themed shows, but when it happens as […]

Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark just might be the most interestingly bad musical in musical history, and that covers quite a bit of territory.  However, it also might be the most unlucky theater performance since MacBeth, as things just keep doing wrong during the performances.  The most recent incident was an accident where one of […]

Toyota has already paid a record $16.4 million dollar fine over its recent quality control issues and several delayed or botched recalls.  Toyota, by delaying the recalls, ended up causing people serious injuries but saving $100 million dollars.  That amount of cash saved keeps decreasing with every huge government fine.  Toyota is being fined another […]

Another day, another Google lawsuit.  While some folks look at images of themselves caught on Google Street View and change their lives for the better, other folks catch themselves on Street View, have a freak-out, and completely lose their minds.  One Japanese woman didn’t even have to make an appearance on Street View to trigger […]

It all started innocently enough.  When an elderly aunt died, she left Jean-Guy Laquerre an antique Santa Claus figure made out of papier-mache.  From there, things got a little out of control.  Through friends, relatives, and his own exhaustive efforts, Jean-Guy Laquerre has turned his modest home in Boucherville, Ontario, into a shrine to Santa […]

You’d think most mothers would have seen and done enough horrible things in the process of raising children to be fairly fearless, especially with multiple children.  SM, a 44-year-old mother of three, is a woman with no fear.  Literally, she cannot feel fear.  It’s not because of how she’s lived her life or what she’s […]

If there’s one thing I’ve proven during my time here at PopFi, I’m a big nut for natural phenomenon.  I’m something of a skywatcher, despite not having a telescope.  If I can go outside, look up at the sky, and see something cool, I’m there.  However, while I love a meteor shower, there’s nothing better […]

In 1937, Amelia Earhart took off from Lae, in what is now Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to become the first person to travel around the world by following the equator.  She was never seen again.  For years, it was assumed that Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan crashed their Lockheed Electra into the ocean […]

Denmark, like most of Europe, is facing a serious issue when it comes to immigration.  Specifically, Muslims are flooding into the country, and that’s creating quite a lot of culture clash issues when fundamentalist religion meets European liberalism.  However, one Danish political group has an idea.  To keep extremists out of the country, one political […]

After the fall of the Soviet Union, a lot of people got really rich, and a lot of industries got left by the wayside.  One of the biggest casualties of the sudden oncoming rush of capitalism was Russia’s beef industry, which was crushed beneath a wave of cheap imported meat.  Russia has made it a […]

It started as a routine traffic cop for Officer Jonathan Seiter.  He’d pulled over 64-year-old Otto Coleman and was prepared to write him a ticket when Coleman jumped out of the car and attacked the cop.  While the two scuffled, Angela Pierce and her aunt were driving by the scene and witnessed the attack.  Rather […]

When I was a kid, there was nothing funnier to me than the pratfalls and slapstick adventures of the hapless Inspector Clouseau.  I absolutely adored the guy, and through the incredible performance of Peter Sellers, I came to know the work of Blake Edwards.  Edwards was one of the rare directors who could blend both […]