The call came in on Tuesday. Two young goats were stranded on the narrow ledge of a railroad bridge where it passes over a little-used stretch of road between Billings and Roundup in Montana. The only problem was, nobody could pinpoint where exactly this was (that should tell you how remote this area is). It […]
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Burger King Goes Private
Posted 9/03/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganBurger King, despite publicity stunts like the Windows 7 burger, interesting food innovations like the Crazy Whopper, and specialty restaurant brands like the Whopper Bar, just can’t seem to get past being second best. Long the #2 fast food chain in the US after McDonald’s, BK has been trying just about anything it can to […]
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Double Rainbow Windows Commercial
Posted 9/03/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganSometimes, it’s hard to turn your viral video success into legitimate money, but that hasn’t been a problem for Paul “Bear” Vasquez. The organic-farming former cage fighter and firefighter from Mariposa, California, shot to fame as the double rainbow guy, a hugely popular viral video in which Bear, on one of his many swimming trips […]
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Guns N’ Roses Driven Offstage By Irish Music Fans
Posted 9/03/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganGuns N’ Roses hasn’t had a trouble-free concert tour in, well… probably ever. Throughout the band’s history, there’s always been some kind of drama, from the band’s perennial lateness, to cutting gigs short early, being cut off by promoters, and even starting riots. GNR, in some sense, is the last real rock band, because they’re […]
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Smoking Toddler Kicks The Habit
Posted 9/03/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganIt was one of the most shocking stories I’ve ever seen when I wrote about the smoking-addicted toddler in Indonesia. Between his weight and his love of smoking, that kid wasn’t going to live to see puberty, let alone grow to adulthood! However, thanks to the hard work of therapists and significant government intervention, the […]
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Happy 90210 Day!
Posted 9/02/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganIt’s one of the 90’s most enduring pop culture phenomenon. It spawned a whole miniature empire of spin-offs and remakes, made Tori Spelling into a household name, carried the Fox Network’s non-animated programming banner, and somehow remains an incredibly popular show to this very day. It’s Beverly Hills 90210, and today is officially 90210 Day […]
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Misspelled Sign Declares Independence From Spell Check
Posted 9/02/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganGiven the abysmal state of most school text books these days when it comes to spelling errors, typos, and general inaccuracies, it’s no wonder when people don’t take the time to proofread things very closely before they make them. For example, in Charlotte, North Carolina, there’s a road called Independence Boulevard. However, when the North […]
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Triple-Horned Cowceratops
Posted 9/02/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganTalk about your oddities! It’s kind of rare to see a cow with two horns in America, but to see a cow with three horns? Only in China can you find this kind of weirdness! When this particular mutant cow was born on Jia Kebing’s farm two years ago, Jia saw the bump on its […]
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Drunk Courier Loses $1.3 Million Dollar Painting
Posted 9/02/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganIt’s not hard to lose something, especially when you’ve been drinking. Losing a prototype iPhone is bad, but when you misplace a million-dollar art masterpiece, that’s when you get in serious trouble. That’s the allegation filed by Kristyn Trudgeon, majority owner of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot’s “Portrait of a Girl,” against art courier James Carl […]
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Samsung Unveils Galaxy Tab Tablet PC
Posted 9/02/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganSamsung has decided to take its competition with Apple right into Apple’s living room. When Apple unveiled the iPad, it stormed into the tablet computer market and shook things up, mostly by making people actually pay attention to tablet computers. However, while the iPad is basically two iPhones glued together but without the ability to […]
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Apple Launches iTunes Social Network Ping
Posted 9/02/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganWelcome to a brave new world, ladies and gentlemen. In a world where everything syncs up to Facebook (even competitors like MySpace), it’s not surprising that Apple would want to get in on that lucrative social networking market. I mean, Apple is the original technology cult, what with their fanboys and other associated Macheads. Now, […]
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Conan Announces New TBS Show’s Official Date
Posted 9/02/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganConan O’Brien, to me, is one of the funniest guys to ever be on late night television, and I’ve been waiting for the official announcement of the name of his new show for weeks now. Well, ever since it was announced that Conan would be going to TBS, I’ve been waiting patiently for a new […]
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Man Survives 39-Story Suicide Dive
Posted 9/02/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganTodd Magill, a struggling actor and wannabe writer and/or editor, wasn’t having much luck in the real world. After his graduation with an English degree from Fordham University, he went through the same problems most former English majors go through as he struggled to find a real-world application for his basically useless English skills. Unfortunately […]
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Man Makes $18K Replica Of Ex-Girlfriend
Posted 9/02/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganThere’s something kind of pathetic about a man who deliberately sets out to make himself a girlfriend. No matter how detailed or life-like the artificial female companion might be, it’s still creepy. However, when the sex doll is an exact replica of your ex-girlfriend, then it goes past creepy and becomes some all new level […]
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Spilled Tea Causes Plane To Make Emergency Stop
Posted 9/02/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganThose British sure do love their tea. Anywhere they are, when it’s tea time, then it’s time to have a nice hot cup of tea, with the emphasis being on hot. With any hot beverage, you have to be careful because you might burn yourself. That’s exactly what happened on a Ryanair flight, when a […]
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Another Day, Another Baseball Brawl
Posted 9/02/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganNeither team has anything to play for. Both are so far beyond playoff contention it’s not even worth discussing. The Nationals just shut down their best player for the year. There’s no excuse for the Marlins hitting Nyjer Morgan, except for the fact that Nyjer Morgan is probably one of the biggest jerks in baseball […]
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Eco-Terrorist Gunman Storms Discovery Channel Offices
Posted 9/02/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganJames Jay Lee, the protestor seen above, has had a long history of having a grudge against The Discovery Channel. The network, Lee believed, wasn’t doing its part in promoting environmentalism. Specificially, James Jay Lee’s extreme brand of environmentalism, zero population growth, which says that humans are a scourge on the earth and that people […]
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MySpace Gives Up, Links Up With Facebook
Posted 9/01/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganThose bitter former rivals, Facebook and MySpace? Well, they’re not so bitter anymore. Given that Facebook is serious business while MySpace is rapidly becoming an after-thought, MySpace is shifting its business model from being anti-Facebook to being as pro-Facebook as possible by allowing users to sync up MySpace and Facebook status updates. Is it a […]
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The Anti-Facebook
Posted 9/01/2010 11:30 am by Ron HoganOnce upon a time, Facebook was the elite social networking website. Anyone could hop onto MySpace, but only people enrolled in certain colleges could get on Facebook. These days, any fool with an email address can be on Facebook, and that, along with a lot of other issues involving the company’s privacy policies and heavy-handed […]
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Obama’s Oval Office
Posted 9/01/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganOut with the old and in with the new. Like pretty much every President before him, Barack Obama is going to change how his office looks, no matter how much it costs or how bad it might look to the rest of the country to be spending an estimated $20,000 on new wallpaper when the […]
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RV Dealer Challenges Twilight’s Jacob To Push-Up Contest
Posted 9/01/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganWhen Taylor Lautner needed a new trailer to use as a dressing room during the making of the latest installment of the Twilight series, he turned to custom RV dealer Brent McMahon’s shop, McMahon’s RV in Irvine, California. When the $300,000 RV didn’t show up on time or in the promised condition, Lautner’s people took […]
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New Dinosaur Like A “Stocky Velociraptor”
Posted 9/01/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganThe velociraptor is one of the world’s best-known dinosaurs, thanks to its appearance as the main villain in Jurassic Park. It’s the perfect mixture of speed and cunning, and while it has dangerous claws, it’s not exactly going to overpower anyone. However, the velociraptor has a newly-discovered carnivore cousin who is like a velociraptor on […]
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Sometimes You Gotta Dance
Posted 9/01/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganI’m a pretty smart guy, so I know what I can do and I know my limitations. I can slow dance a little, but when the tempo increases or if there’s choreography involved, forget it. I’ve tried, and while I’m willing to get up on stage and make a fool of myself, I just can’t […]
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Deep-Fried Beer, The Perfect Food
Posted 9/01/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganMark Zable is my new hero. Zable is what you’d call a food inventor. He figures out a way to take existing food items and make them awesome. For example, he invented the jalapeno shrimp corndog and chocolate-covered strawberry waffle balls. Now he’s back, with his greatest invention yet: deep-fried beer. That’s right, Zable has […]
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Oversleeping Workers Locked Out
Posted 9/01/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganLots of folks, myself included, have trouble getting started in the morning. I’ve been working hard on my ability to get up and get moving when my alarm goes off, but it’s not as easy for some of us as it is for others. Fortunately, I make it to work on time in the mornings, […]
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Sony Debuts Three Updated Readers
Posted 9/01/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganThe future of books just got a little brighter, literally. They also got easier to read, and apparently they added touchscreen capabilities. If you’re looking for an e-book reader, then Sony has a new carrot to dangle before your nose in the form of three newly-updated models of the Sony Reader series of e-readers. They […]
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Golf Swing Starts 12-Acre Wildfire
Posted 9/01/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganA golfer’s traditional battle cry, “Fore!” became a slightly altered battle cry of, “Fire!” over the weekend. While playing a round of 18 at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine, California, a golfer’s errant swing struck a rock. That rock sparked, and those sparks lead to an enormous fire. One bad golf swing caused […]
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Reds Bring Up Secret Weapon Aroldis Chapman
Posted 9/01/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganStephen Strasburg was great during his few starts with the Washington Nationals, with his live arm and media frenzy, but the real star pitcher might be a 22-year-old, 180-pound Cuban defector by the name of Aroldis Chapman. Yes, Strasburg can throw 101 miles an hour, and occasionally touched 103, but Aroldis Chapman made his major […]
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Old People Love Hearing Bad Things About Youngsters
Posted 9/01/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganOn the various incarnations of The Muppet Show, my favorite characters were those two youngster-bashing old men, Statler and Waldorf. Their biting wit was always a sarcastic highlight of the show for me; no matter what the other Muppets might be doing, it was never enough to impress the peanut gallery. While it’s a funny […]
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Let Google Prioritize Your Inbox
Posted 8/31/2010 12:00 pm by Ron HoganLeave it to Google to never rest on its laurels. Their GMail service is the best of the best as far as webmail service goes, having surpassed Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, and all the other free webmail servers thanks to its integrated chat, telephone/voice chat/VOIP, and spam filtering services. Now, GMail is about to organize your email for […]
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