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For four years, Victor Gradowski ate at his local White Castle restaurant in New York every Friday.  Rain or shine, Gradowski was there, with a burger in his mouth.  That’s the dedication needed to become not just a very good eater, but a hall of fame eater.  The 27-year-old Gradowski will be one of 13 […]

Scientists have long had the ability to shield things from view by disguising or reflecting light from the surface of the object, and they’ve even been able to microscopically shield a speck of gold from view, but none of these things have given humanity what we really want:  an invisibility cloak like in Harry Potter.  […]

Someone call Dog the Bounty Hunter, there’s an animal torturer on the loose and Monterey, California-based WildRescue wants him or her tracked down.  WildRescue, a wildlife rescue organization, has offered up a $2000 bounty for whoever catches the person putting beer can collars on seagulls in San Francisco.  Two of the birds have been spotted […]

The flight was supposed to be a routine one for Qantas, from Singapore to Sydney, Australia.  Unfortunately, the flight was anything but routine.  Shortly after takeoff, the passengers heard a loud bang and the plane started shuddering.  As it turns out, the engine of the Airbus A380 exploded in midair, forcing the plane to make […]

If you thought Madison Square Garden was toxic only when the Knicks were stinking up the joint, think again.  As it turns out, the building itself is kind of toxic even with no one else around.  Work crews doing some cleaning near asbestos-related materials forced the emergency closure of Madison Square Garden yesterday, forcing the […]

There’s one item of McDonald’s menu that is so rare and difficult to obtain that people drive hundreds of miles simply to buy one.  It’s a peculiar mix of compressed pork and barbecue sauce, topped with onions and plopped on a bun known as the McRib.  Well, the McRib is back at McDonald’s, and as James Brown once said, […]

For years, I wasn’t a cat person.  I didn’t actively hate cats, but I didn’t have any great love of them either.  They were simply there, like parrots or fish.  Dogs were pets, cats were decorations.  However, once I got a kitten of my own (by accident) all that changed.  I’m now seeing the appeal […]

Domino’s Pizza Japan is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and like all anniversaries, it comes with its own variety of promotional gimmicks.  For Domino’s Pizza Japan’s anniversary, the company is offering a couple of interesting deals.  For example, any child born on September 30 (the date of Domino’s 25th anniversary in Japan) will receive a free […]

Call it luck.  Call it fate.  Call it whatever you want, but there’s no denying that it’s a miracle story of survival.  A baby survives an 8-story plunge from an apartment window thanks to, get this, a restaurant awning.  The baby’s fatal fall was broken by a restaurant awning, which bounced the baby into the […]

It’s tough to get people excited about midterm elections.  I live in a state that had a couple of seats up for grabs, yet I was never really thrilled about the prospect that I got to choose who would next be representing my great state in the United States Congress.  Even in a battleground, Tea […]

There are some stories out there that I look at and decide, “Well, that’s weird, but it’s just too depressing for me to post.”  I’ve missed out on a lot of interesting things that way, but I do my best not to be a bummer.  However, this particular post is one that, when I read […]

Some people are just too old to go trick-or-treating.  I heard a comedian say the other day that once your costume starts to involve cleavage, you’re too old to go trick-or-treating.  Joseph David DiVanna, a 47-year-old man from Sarasota, Florida, didn’t have cleavage as part of his costume.  Instead, the drunk DiVanna was wearing a […]

In February, Microsoft announced that they were going to be developing a version of their Business Productivity Online Suite that would meet federal safety and security guidelines, so as to keep their cloud computing service working for and with the United States government.  That was months ago, and according to Google, Microsoft’s BPOS-Federal still fails […]

Dr. David Nutt, while having a great name, is also a brilliant scientist.  His specialty is the study of narcotics and other dangerous drugs, so when he speaks, no matter how crazy he might sound, he’s speaking from a place of evidence.  Professor Nutt recently stated that the three most dangerous drugs are alcohol, crack, […]

AMC’s new series, The Walking Dead, has become the most successful series debut in the network’s short history of producing original programming.  Mad Men and Breaking Bad might be winning awards left and right, as well as captivating the hearts and minds of critics, but they’re nothing when compared to a brain-hungry undead monster.  The […]