It’s one of the most horrifying incidents to ever occur in one of the biggest cities in the world. In an old brownstone apartment in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, a bit-part actor named Michael Brea used a stainless steel sword to butcher his 55-year-old mother, Yannick Brea, in what appears to […]
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Royal Wedding Date Set For April 29
Posted 11/23/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganAttention UK readers. Make plans for April 29, 2012, because you’re going to get an extra day off of work at the end of April. In celebration of the first royal wedding in nearly 30 years, between Prince William and Kate Middleton, April 29 will become a bank holiday. The details about the upcoming royal nuptials […]
Read »Opt-Out Protest Likely To Fail
Posted 11/23/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganThe plan is in place. Everyone seems fed up with the TSA and the humiliating choice between naked scanners or crotch-fondling, so why not do something about it? Tomorrow, Wednesday the 24th, is the biggest traveling day of the entire year, since it’s the day before Thanksgiving. More people travel on this Wednesday than they […]
Read »Netflix Raises Prices, Adds Streaming-Only Service
Posted 11/23/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganThe writing has been on the wall for awhile now. The incredibly-profitable Netflix, which tested a $7.99 per month streaming video only price point in Canada, has long said that their future was as a provider of streaming video, not as a DVD delivery service. Still, they keep offering DVD rental plans while beefing up […]
Read »Google’s Thanksgiving Deliciousness
Posted 11/23/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganIf you’re planning Thanksgiving this week, or you’re looking for an idea to bring something that’ll knock everyone’s socks off, then look no further than Google. I’m not talking about a Google search, either; I’m talking about Google’s Thanksgiving Doodle. If you click through on Google’s Thanksgiving Doodle, you’ll find a collection of recipes from […]
Read »Flamingo-Shaped Flock Of Flamingos
Posted 11/23/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganBobby Haas was photographing flamingos in Mexico, and everything was going well. He’d spent 30 minutes photographing the flock from the air via a rented helicopter, and he was about to head back when he saw something unusual. The flock of flamingos he was photographing had shifted to stand in a flamingo-shaped cluster. That’s not […]
Read »Nuclear Transport Agents Caught In Drunken Brawls
Posted 11/23/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganThese are some of the highest-trained agents in the employment of the United States Government. They’re the agents of the Department of Energy’s Office of Secure Transportation (OST), and they are empowered to transport nuclear materials within the United States. Their security record is very good where it counts: there have been no fatal accidents […]
Read »Clown Robs Woman On The Toilet
Posted 11/23/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganWhen 20-year-old Cory Buckley broke into 70-year-old Jacqueline Cutright’s home in Akron, Ohio, he immediately demanded to know where she kept her drugs and money. Jacqueline, never one to be intimidated, responded, “Boy, did you break into the wrong house.” Despite her wit and humor, Buckley (who was dressed like a clown and wielding a […]
Read »Warner Brothers Green-Lights “Buffy” Movie Reboot
Posted 11/23/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganImagine a world in which Buffy The Vampire Slayer is not completely controlled by Joss Whedon. Well, that world is our current world, and soon, Buffy will be returning to the big screen without creator Whedon or any of the characters made famous by the television series. Whit Anderson, a 29-year-old actor, writer, and Buffy […]
Read »Anti-Radiation Airport Privacy Underwear
Posted 11/23/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganWhen it comes to airport security, there are two choices for the traveler. You can choose to go through the naked scanner and risk having pictures of your junk leaked online, or you can choose to opt out and go through the pat-down line and have a TSA worker touch your junk directly. Businessman Jeff […]
Read »Lottery Winner Forced To Give Ex-Wife $3 Million
Posted 11/23/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganWhen Englishman Nigel Page won a $90 million dollar jackpot from the Euromillions lottery, he knew he was set for life. However, his celebration with current partner Justine Laycock has been dampened a bit by, guess who? Page’s ex-wife. Ten years ago, Page’s ex-wife Wendy cheated on him with a co-worker and then left him, […]
Read »Minnesota Vikings Coach Brad Childress Fired
Posted 11/23/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganBrad Childress took over for Mike Tice in 2006, part of the new regime that came into Minnesota when owner Zygi Wilf came on board. Now, Wilf is still around, but Brad Childress not so much. The 3-7 Minnesota Vikings have fired head coach Brad Childress, elevating defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier to interim head coach […]
Read »North Korea Fires Artillery At South Korea
Posted 11/23/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganDuring the annual Hoguk military exercises, tensions between North and South Korea are always high. Seoul takes to the waters of the Yellow Sea off of the island of Yeonpyeong for military drills and naval exercises, which Pyongyang always bristles at. However, usually it doesn’t involve trading artillery fire, but this year it did. North […]
Read »13 Feet Of Love: The World’s Tallest Married Couple
Posted 11/19/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganIf there’s one thing you can say about Wayne and Laurie Hallquist, it’s that they have a sense of humor. The appropriate motto for Laurie’s real estate business is, “Head and shoulders above the rest — in stature and service. That’s our motto.” Laurie is 6 feet, 5.95 inches tall; her husband Wayne is 6 […]
Read »Homeless Man Returns Laptop, $3300 In Cash, To Owner
Posted 11/19/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganFor the last 11 years, Dave Talley has been living on the fringes of society as a homeless man in Tempe, Arizona. He hasn’t had a drivers license since 1999, and has been a recovering alcoholic since 2003, but it’s that newfound sense of responsibility and sobriety that acted when he found $3300 in cash […]
Read »Susan Boyle Tops UK, US Music Charts At Once
Posted 11/19/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganIn 1967, The Monkees did it. In 1969, The Beatles did it. In 2010, Susan Boyle has done it. No, I’m not talking about LSD (though that’s probably true for the first two acts). Susan Boyle has become the first woman, and the first musical act in 40 years, to top both the US and […]
Read »Happy World Toilet Day!
Posted 11/19/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s strange, but one of humanity’s greatest inventions is our modern system of waste disposal. Before the toilet and the sewage system were conceived, you just squatted over a hole in the ground or punched in the side of a castle that emptied out in to a cistern. Well, these days, most of us have […]
Read »Mexico Auctions Off Narco-Bling
Posted 11/19/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganAre you looking to save some money, but don’t want to go camping out at your local Best Buy in an attempt to get your hands on the holiday goodies? Well, consider hitting up a police auction. As the budgets tighten, more and more departments are organizing big auctions, and there’s not an auction bigger […]
Read »Reality Show Star Charged With Domestic Violence Over Episodes
Posted 11/19/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganI don’t know anything about Amber Portwood and Gary Shirley, but I know enough about the pair from my few exposures to MTV’s hit reality show Teen Moms to know that Amber is the kind of person who should not be raising a child, or even having children. Long story short, she’s a crazy, violent, […]
Read »Family Camping Out At Best Buy For Black Friday Deals
Posted 11/19/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganThe Davenport family of St. Petersburg, Florida, might just be the thriftiest family in the United States. Tired of missing out on the best Black Friday shopping deals, the Davenports are taking a classic idea to extremes. The Davenports are camping out in front of their local Best Buy in Tyrone Square, a week before […]
Read »First Non-Milky Way Planet Discovered
Posted 11/19/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganFor the first time, astronomers have discovered a planet from outside of the Milky Way galaxy. Some 2200 light years from Earth, scientists from the European Southern Observatory have discovered a planet they’ve named HIP 13044b, which entered the Milky Way from a group of planets and galaxies called the Helmi stream. This is the […]
Read »KFC Offers Scholarship To The Best Tweet
Posted 11/19/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganIf you thought Domino’s $31,000 per hour paycheck was excessive, I’d advise you not to read further on, because KFC is topping it. KFC is planning on giving away $20,000 for a single 140-character Tweet. KFC has announced the Colonel’s Scholars scholarship fund, and the best response sent to The Colonel on Twitter will earn […]
Read »VH1 Gives Katy Perry A Breast Reduction
Posted 11/19/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganKaty Perry is just a constant source of controversy these days, and pretty much all of her controversies focus on her two big talents. Once again, Katy Perry is in the news, and once again, she’s leading with her boobs. When she’s not getting thrown off Sesame Street for her excessive cleavage, she’s telling advertisers […]
Read »Facebook And MySpace Officially Team Up
Posted 11/19/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganFox Interactive Media is taking great pains to reinvent its core brand, and MySpace as we known it is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Rather than compete square-up with Facebook, MySpace is turning itself into a media hub, and as part of that transformation, MySpace is announcing that you can officially connect your […]
Read »May The Force Be With Katie
Posted 11/19/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganMan, it’s tough to be a kid. Kids are cruel, horrible people (like adults, but without the decency to hide their cruelty. Katie Goldman, a six-year-old girl in Chicago, Illinois, has enough strikes against her when it comes to being teased. For one, she’s adopted, and for two, she wears eyeglasses. However, when some first-grade […]
Read »Google Launches Online Shopping Site Boutique.com
Posted 11/18/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganNot content to leave the shopping game to the likes of eBay and Amazon, Google has decided to enter the crowded world of e-commerce, but they won’t be opening up a store front any time soon. Instead, Google is launching a fashion and shopping website called Boutiques.com, which basically acts as a middle man between the […]
Read »Tasting 200-Year-Old Champagne
Posted 11/18/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganBack in July, a shipwreck discovered off the Aland Islands in the cold, dark Baltic Sea yielded several 230-year-old bottles of champagne from the famous French winery Veuve Clicquot and a long-forgotten vinyard called Juglar. Well, if you’ve ever wondered what 200-year-old wine might taste like, two of the rare 230-year-old bottles recovered from the […]
Read »Monkey Crossing Sign?
Posted 11/18/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganIf you want to be confused, look no further than Hangzhou, China. Town hall officials in that Chinese city have devised one of the most confusing and hard to understand road signs I’ve ever seen. On one side, there’s a human crossing a street at a crosswalk; on the other side, there’s a monkey crossing […]
Read »Reality Rage As Man Shoots TV Over Bristol Palin
Posted 11/18/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganAll it took was one performance, and Steven Cowan lost his cool. The 67-year-old man from Vermont, Wisconsin, had dinner, then sat down to watch Dancing With The Stars. Everything was fine until Bristol Palin came onto the show, then he lost his cool. Not only did he pull an Elvis and shoot his TV, […]
Read »Eva Longoria, Tony Parker, And A Teammate’s Wife
Posted 11/18/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s a love triangle worthy of Dallas, but it’s taking place in San Antonio. On October 29, former San Antonio Spurs player Brent Barry and his wife Erin Barry filed for divorce. Just yesterday, Eva Longoria and her husband Tony Parker, also a San Antonio Spurs player, filed for divorce. Sources say that Tony Parker […]
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