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There are over 60 reasons for which a person can be barred entry from the United States, and British teenager Luke Angel discovered at least one of them.  While drinking and watching a TV program about September 11, something stirred in Angel and he rushed to his laptop, drunk-writing an email to the President of […]

Fair warning:  when you criticize the music of Brandin Hochstrasser, you’d better be prepared to run in the moments after your criticism.  Hochstrasser, a street musician who goes by the handle Bongo Jesus, was playing his guitar on the streets of Madison, Wisconsin, when a passer-by helpfully informed him that he wasn’t very good at […]

Oh Starbucks, must you be so sneaky?  The company, known for its variety of coffee offerings and known as the company that made coffee into a world-wide business, has gotten some flack over its newer, simplified drive-through menus.  At 11,000 Starbucks drive-through locations in the United States, the Tall (12oz) coffee size has been removed […]

The Internet is a wild and woolly wonderland full of information, entertainment, infotainment, and all sorts of things that may or may not be appropriate for human consumption.  If you’re a person with religious morals and values, odds are you’ve got Google’s SafeSearch on, but what if you wanted to make sure you had the […]

It’s becoming a uniquely Chinese problem.  For some reason, their airports keep getting shut down by UFOs.  First, there was the UFO buzzing the airport in July, and now, Baotou Airport in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia was shut down for about an hour by another unidentified flying object.  Is there something about communism […]

Germans love their sausages.  They eat millions of pounds of various wursts every year, with the new treat currywurst being the best of the wurst by far.  Basically, it’s pork sausage covered in curried ketchup or tomato sauce, with extra curry powder sprinkled on top of that.  You know, with health food like that, it’s […]

You’d think people would keep better records of this sort of thing, but not.  Apparently, in Japan, there’s apparently been a massive fraud ring of people claiming that their relatives are living to be 100 years old or older, but when authorities go to look for said centenarians, they’re not able to find them.  Some […]

You can kind of look at pictures of Laurence K. Saunders and tell that there’s probably something a little off about him.  I mean look at him, does he look normal?  Well, if you’re getting the creeps, you’re probably pretty wise, as the 62-year-old Saunders broke into a 64-year-old woman’s house, got naked, and tried […]

The Kindle was Amazon’s most popular holiday sales item last year, shattering records at the online retailing giant and making Amazon CEO and Kindle mastermind Jeff Bezos look like a genius.  Much like Apple with its iPod, he was creating an entirely new market for books on the go and pocket-sized libraries.  Now, there’s competition.  […]

When a new virus hits the internet, it usually hits pretty hard.  No virus in recent memory has vaulted into the global consciousness quite like the Here You Have virus.  It’s hitting computer networks so hard that they’re being forced to shut down email at companies like Comcast and Disney.  Here’s how the Here You […]

Two men, ages 24 and 22, were arrested in a parking lot in Melbourne, Australia, after their strange behavior got one too many customers ill-at-ease.  The two men had apparently broken into a pet shop and had purloined a lizard and an 8-year-old, 5-foot-long blackhead python named Boris and had gotten into an impromptu snake […]

It’s a hard life you lead in Fort Gay, West Virginia.  Across the river from Louisa, Kentucky, in the Appalachian mountains, sometimes the only way you can escape your surroundings is to escape into distraction.  For 26-year-old unemployed factory worker Josh Moore, his escape was his Xbox Live account.  Two years ago, he’d paid in advance for the […]

Got a craving for cookies and milk, but only have a package of Oreos to your name and none of the cow juice that’ll really make the chocolate pop?  Well, believe me, I think we’ve all been there.  (Except for the lactose intolerant, of course.)  However, when it comes to comparing farm-fresh milk with store-bought […]

See that weird hunchbacked dinosaur up there?  That’s a new species, called the Concavenator corcovatus, or the hunchbacked hunter from Cuenca.  Why is he a noteworthy discovery, besides his massive size for a carnivore, the fact that he’s a new kid on the dinosaur block, and the massive hump?  Well, Concavenator is the largest dinosaur […]