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There’s a little secret about the Olympics.  In order to add a new event designed to capture the modern zeitgeist, an older event has to be cut.  With an urge to modernize the 26 events on the modern Olympic Games, the IOC has decided to remove one of the traditional events from the 2020 Games. […]

In 2011, villagers from a tiny town in the Philippines captured a 20.24-foot saltwater crocodile that has been believed to have been killing water buffalo and even people.  That giant beast took 100 people to drag it from a creek to the shore, where it was captured and took to a local aquarium where it […]

Last night, music gathered to celebrate itself during the 55th Annual Grammy Awards last night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.  The list of nominees was star-studded, and the awards ceremony equally so.  If you’re like me and you missed the award ceremony because The Walking Dead was on, here’s a wrap-up of […]

There are a lot of ways to smuggle drugs past the authorities, from potatoes and roses to the hat on your head.  However, one 54-year-old woman from Penn Yan, New York went above and beyond the call of duty to sneak a baggie of oxycodone into her son in Yates County jail.  When Kimberly Margeson […]

In August 2011, Vincent Burroughs was first contacted by the Internal Revenue Service with an ominous warning concerning an audit.  Nobody wants to be audited by the IRS, so when IRS agent Dora Abrahamson called him, he came running.  After all, it’s an audit.  That can ruin your life to the tune of millions of […]

When Disney bought Lucasfilm, it gave Disney CEO Robert Iger a world of new characters to integrate into the Disney universe.  Indeed, Iger promised a new Star Wars film every two or three years, and it appears that the company is right on pace for that.  First of all, there’s the upcoming Episode VII as […]

When it comes to bathroom fixtures, the less things I have to touch the happier I am.  When I go into a public bathroom and there’s a hands-free toilet, hands-free soap dispenser, hands-free sink, and hands-free dryer, I’m a very happy fellow.  Well, Dyson is contributing to the drive to eliminate all manual bathroom fixtures […]

Richard III was a man of many moods.  On one hand, he died bravely in battle in 1485, despite being a hunchback in the parlance of his time.  On the other hand, he was regarded by many as an evil king who had his nephews imprisoned and killed in an attempt to consolidate power in […]

When its leadership is not busy seeing Zionist conspiracies everywhere, there must be some pretty resourceful folk in Iran.  They’ve been blockaded for decades, yet they have managed to assemble a nuclear power plant with the help of some international allies, and since getting cut off from the rest of the world, they’ve also managed […]

Have you been seeing any weird Twitter messages lately?  Like spammy advertisements for green tea pills or Russian-made anything?  If so, that person might have been the victim of a Twitter hack, and that wouldn’t be the only compromised account.  This morning/late last night, Twitter did password resets for 250,000 accounts that may have been […]

There’s nothing ice cream mavens Ben and Jerry’s likes more than honoring someone they like.  From Stephen Colbert to Alec Baldwin’s Schewddy Balls, Ben and Jerry’s loves any excuse to create a new, fun ice cream flavor with a theme.  Much like Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey is another person worthy of being honored in ice […]

Sony isn’t a company that can do a lot of things secretly.  They’re a huge public entity and people pay a lot of attention to their every move, especially when their competition are either working on their next-generation video game console (Microsoft) or have already debuted their offering this year (Nintendo WiiU).  Even though the […]