For most of America, he’s best know as the guy from America’s Got Talent, but apparently, before he was a poor man’s Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan was also a journalist. Apparently, he was a good journalist, too. That’s why Piers Morgan is going to replace Larry King behind the desk when King retires, taking over […]
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Don Johnson Wins $51 Million Dollar Lawsuit
Posted 9/09/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganFrom 1996 until 2001, Don Johnson was back in a big way thanks to a television cop show. No, it’s not related to Miami Vice, the show that shot a white-suited Johnson into the cultural zeitgeist, but the show Nash Bridges, about a San Francisco detective, his partner, and their misadventures that ran for over […]
Read »Google Instant Search: Annoying Or Effective?
Posted 9/09/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganGoogle debuted its new Instant Search in the United States yesterday, and so far a lot of people are having fun playing with it, myself included. Instant Search allows Google to take what letters you type into the Google search engine and start searching for search results you might be trying to type in using […]
Read »US Army To Design New Female Uniforms
Posted 9/08/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganLadies, are you tired of marching into a combat zone, laying down a stream of machine-gun fire, and slaying America’s enemies while looking like you’re wearing a camouflage potato sack? Well, you’re in luck. While you’ll still be in camouflage, at least your uniform will fit you a little better as the US Army has announced that […]
Read »Detroit, America’s Stress Capital
Posted 9/08/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganMotown. The Motor City. The D. Detroit, Michigan, has many names. Now, it can add another nickname to its impressive list of monikers: Stressville, USA. Why does Detroit earn that new name? Well, according to Portfolio.com and bizjournals, Detroit is the most stressful metropolitan area in the United States. Detroit: what we lack in jobs, […]
Read »Upset Alert: Fried Beer Loses At Texas State Fair
Posted 9/08/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s a shocking upset. To me, you’d think there’s nothing more Texas-approved than taking delicious beer and figuring out a way to deep-fry it inside a pretzel, but apparently there’s one thing more Texas, and that’s Frito pie. At the Big Tex Choice Awards, the fried-food contest held every year at the Texas State Fair, […]
Read »Google TV To Go Worldwide In 2011
Posted 9/08/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganOnce upon a time, James Brown said, “I’m bad; I’m nationwide.” Well, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is saying, “Google TV‘s bad; it’s worldwide.” Not bad as in bad, bad as in good. As for worldwide, well, Google TV is slated for an international roll-out in 2011 with the desire to convert all TV set makers […]
Read »Refudiate Tops Online Search Lists
Posted 9/08/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganSarah Palin is a polarizing figure. She’s wildly popular, either for the wrong reasons or the right reasons, depending on which side of the political spectrum you’re on and how much you like making fun of people. Still, she’s captured the public’s attention quite well, as shown by the fact that the word Palin invented, […]
Read »The Doll-Faced Bandit
Posted 9/08/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganIn a way, the guy had a great idea. When an unidentified black man headed into the Chase Bank in Atlanta, Georgia, determined to rob it, he knew he had to hide his identity, so he bought what is probably the creepiest possible crook mask ever made. He slipped a porcelain doll’s face over his […]
Read »Duke Nukem Forever Lives Again!
Posted 9/08/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s one of the most famous examples of vaporware in video game history. Duke Nukem Forever has been in the works since, literally, 1997. It’s been announced and pulled multiple times throughout its history, and has changed developers multiple times (3D Realms, Take Two, 3D Realms again, and now Gearbox Software). People have run through […]
Read »University Of Baltimore Offering Zombie 101 Class
Posted 9/08/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganAh, zombies. You’re everywhere these days, and with the excellent zombie comic book The Walking Dead going to AMC, it’s only going to get better (at least for people like me, who’ll watch a bad zombie movie over a good vampire movie any day of the week). Now, the zombie virus is spreading from popular […]
Read »NFL To Face More Blackouts This Year
Posted 9/08/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganYou’d think that, possible lockout aside, things would be good for the NFL right now. TV ratings have never been higher, league stars are now crossover TV stars and doing hair-care commercials, and the league is even trying to expand overseas with the standard London games and appearances in Toronto. However, all the news concerning […]
Read »Science Determines What Makes A Good Dancer
Posted 9/08/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganDancing is one of the most common social experiences throughout the world. Every culture, except for perhaps the Amish, will have dances, and those dances will always be terrible for 95 percent of the people attending. Well, okay, 95 percent of the guys attending. If you go to a dance, eventually you’ll have to dance, […]
Read »Another Day, Another Google Doodle Mystery
Posted 9/08/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganOvernight, Google decided to pile some mystery to more mystery. Despite the fact people still don’t know what was going on with Tuesday’s follow-the-bouncing-ball animated logo, overnight the company has decided to add to the confusion by debuting another new logo. This time, Google’s logo is grayscale until you type something into the search box. […]
Read »Two Asteroids To Buzz Earth Today
Posted 9/08/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganIn galactic terms, it’s what you call a pair of near misses. Today, Wednesday the 8th, 2010, Earth will get buzzed by not one, but two different asteroids, and they’ll be close. They’ll actually come close enough to Earth to pass between the orbit of the Earth and the moon, which is like the interplanetary […]
Read »Man Arrested For Telling Kids To Get Off His Lawn With Bullets
Posted 9/07/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganIt was like a scene out of Gran Torino. When confronting a group of youths on the lawn of his Uniondale, Long Island home, 31-year-old George Grier went out onto his porch with a rifle. He told the group of youths to get off his lawn. During the ensuing argument, Grier did what every movie […]
Read »Non-Stick Pans Raise Child Cholesterol
Posted 9/07/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganSometimes, you get a bit of strange news that actually reinforces a prejudice. For example, I’ve always preferred the taste of food cooked on a legitimate, cast iron skillet over the taste of food cooked in an aluminum, non-stick frying pan. Yes, it’ll stick and burn and look like Jesus, and no, I don’t care. […]
Read »What A Crappy Cake
Posted 9/07/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganWhen you think of good customer service, what are the places you think of as providing the opposite of that? Obviously, one of the first things out of any reasonable person’s mouth (aside from the DMV) is the post office. There’s always a line, it’s usually understaffed, it’s going bankrupt, and generally, it’s a huge […]
Read »German School Kids Given Celebratory Porno Pens
Posted 9/07/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganAt first, the school children returning to their learning tasks at Adolf Reichwein School in the northwestern city of Essen, Germany, were probably bummed out. Yes, they got their traditional paper cone full of back-to-school candy, but volunteers from the German Communist Party (who were handing out the sugary propaganda) had also inserted pens into […]
Read »Black Widow Wins Buffalo Wing-Eating Contest
Posted 9/07/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganSonya Thomas is a tiny, tiny woman. She’s probably 5 feet tall and 105 pounds, on a good day. However, if you see this spritely-looking woman heading towards your all-you-can-eat buffet, lock the doors, pull the shades, and hope against hope that she doesn’t see you inside, because she’ll eat you out of house and […]
Read »The New World’s Shortest Man
Posted 9/07/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganEdward Nino Hernandez hasn’t grown since he was two years old, according to his mother Noemi Hernandez. Doctors studied him for awhile, but then lost interest. No one knows why Edward Nino Hernandez is only 27 inches tall, but Guinness doesn’t care about reasons, they just need measurements. The 24-year-old Colombian is officially in the […]
Read »Georgia Town Passes Anti-Sagging Law
Posted 9/07/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganIf you’re heading to Dublin, Georgia, you’d better pull up your pants. Or, at least, make sure you don’t have your underwear on display for all the world to see. Dublin, Georgia, is the latest town to pass an anti-sagging pants ordinance, which criminalizes visible boxer shorts. The ordinance defines sagging as wearing your pants […]
Read »Music War: Apple Vs. Google
Posted 9/07/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganOne thing that can never be said about Google is that they’re afraid of anyone. Google is going after Facebook’s dominance in real-time information. Google is challenging Windows in the OS arena. And now, rumor has it, Google is going to challenge Apple in the music business by launching a download store, digital footlocker, and […]
Read »Buzz Lightyear, Carrot Ranger?
Posted 9/07/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganToy Story star Buzz Lightyear‘s classic catchphrase, “To infinity and beyond!” might need some alterations now. How about, “To infinity and the stewpot!” or “To infinity and a nice tossed salad!” Why the change to Buzz’s catchphrase? Well, after 68-year-old retiree and grandfather Clive Williams pulled a Buzz Lightyear-shaped carrot from his garden in Henley-on-Thames, […]
Read »Road Sign Hacked To Read Eat My Shorts
Posted 9/07/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s kind of bucking the trend on these things. Rather than warn of impending zombie attack or advise readers on how to properly rock out, a recent road sign hacking in Seattle, Washington, has decided to be less helpful and more insulting. One of those yellow and black traffic signs near South Seattle Community College […]
Read »SpiderDan Climbs San Francisco Tower
Posted 9/07/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganDan Goodwin, AKA SpiderDan, has really earned that nickname. He’s one of the world’s most successful scalers of high-rise buildings, even if he hasn’t been active for awhile. Some of his previous climbs have been the CN Tower in Toronto, the North Tower of the World Trade Center, and several other climbs. He even claims […]
Read »Google Logo Gets Ballsy
Posted 9/07/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganFollow the bouncing balls! If you’re a Google user, and you probably are, you’ll notice that the company’s traditional Google doodle logo has changed, yet again. It’s not something Labor Day-themed, but it’s a bunch of bouncing balls that, when you mouse over them, they start flying around the screen. When left alone, they eventually […]
Read »Happy Labor Day From PopFi!
Posted 9/06/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s a wonderful day here in the United States. It’s a day in which all us hard-working men and all those hard-working women get to kick back, relax, and enjoy one last evening of fun and frivolity before the warm weather starts to end and the cold and harsh winds of winter resume whipping us […]
Read »Christmas In September
Posted 9/03/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s probably the longest standard Christmas season in the world. In the Phillippines, from San Juan to Manila, September means Christmas. Oddly enough, the Phillippine Christmas season generally runs 115 days, from September 1 until well after the actual day of Christmas. And I thought Christmas decorations in October was bad! However, while their national […]
Read »Boobies Bracelet Banned By Schools
Posted 9/03/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganControversy is busting out all over the United States thanks to a peculiar language choice. We’ve all seen those breast cancer awareness bracelets, right? Those little rubber pink bands that might have a little slogan on them, or say something about curing breast cancer? Well, Carlsbad, California-based charity organization Keep A Breast, which is designed […]
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