Navigation » Unusual Stuff | Videos | Images | Monthly Archives

The British car program Top Gear is one of the most popular programs on the BBC.  Just last week it won an award for best factual program at the National TV Awards in the UK.  One of the reasons why Top Gear is so popular is that the show’s hosts, Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson, and James May, […]

The Shinmoedake volcano is widely known to an international audience.  For James Bond fans, it’s known as the secret volcano base of Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld.  However, for the Japanese, Shinmoedake is best known as the volcano that’s erupting right now.  Shinmoedake volcano, in the Kirishima mountain range on the southwestern island of Kyushu, […]

When the Egyptian government shut down the Internet, the only real pipeline for unfiltered, uncensored, on-the-ground news in Egypt was shut down.  Social networking, specifically Twitter and Facebook, were very important for Egyptians, both to tell the true story of what was happening on the ground, discuss evacuation procedures for foreign nationals, and to organize […]

When you’re the brains behind 80 percent of the world’s computers, everything you do is big news.  Unfortuantely for Intel, that means the good things and the bad things.  Intel has been billing its Sandy Bridge processor and Cougar Point chipsets as drastic leaps forward in computing technology thanks to a unique combination of power […]

You’d think that Florida would have plenty of roaches.  However, the many, many native roaches of Florida weren’t what Derek Alan Rader wanted, so he went online and placed an order.  As it turns out, the roaches Rader wanted required paperwork, so he did a little (or a lot) of forging and bought his roaches […]

One of the hardest diseases to treat in otherwise healthy people is diabetes.  Given fluctuations in food consumption, hormone level, and other body changes that are hard to track from day to day, treating diabetes is a nightmare.  Treating diabetes is even worse in pregnant women, whose bodies are haywire even without blood sugar problems. […]

Unless you’re really into jazz, you don’t know the name of John Barry.  However, if you’ve ever seen a James Bond film starring Sean Connery, you know John Barry’s work.  Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry passed away on Sunday after a heart attack.  He won Oscars for the soundtrack and title song for Born Free […]

Officially, Indonesia is a secular democracy, but in practice the world’s largest Muslim nation continues to find itself growing more and more conservative while also growing more and more Westernized.  There is no case that illustrates the divide between the conservative Muslim elements and the young, hip elements like the case of Nazril Irham.  Nazril […]

Mountain climbers are a brave breed, and Adam Potter is no different from the average climber.  Well, except for the fact that Adam Potter might be the luckiest mountain climber in history.  While scaling Sgurr Choinnich Mor near Ben Nevis, Scotland, mountain climber Adam Potter fell 1000 feet down a mountain and somehow survived unscathed. […]

The reign of Hosni Mubarak is in trouble, and no amount of creative photo manipulation can save his regime now.  This is either going to end in an Egyptian democracy or a brutal crackdown on dissent, and there’s not much in the way of a happy medium.  As the rioting and conflict increase and the […]

Just call it all-star weekend all around.  While the NFL was playing its annual all-star game in Hawaii, across the country the NHL was also hosting its annual gathering of the best and brightest, as well as a brand new format.  At the RBC Arena, home of the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh, North Carolina, the […]

I think we’ve all stopped at the store to try those little free sample products they have out, like when they have the griddle out and they’re frying up little sausage bites or giving out little shots of lemonade or what-have-you.  Everyone loves those, right?  Well, a woman in Albuquerque, New Mexico isn’t loving her […]

A Dutch prisoner named Angelo MacD. is having a little problem.  Well, in his case, it’s a big problem related to his jail cell.  Angelo’s attorney agrees that his cell in Krimpen aan de IJssel, Netherlands, is fine for a standard prisoner, but Angelo MacD. is a giant who apparently cannot fit comfortably in his […]

Just call it Generation Stress.  Every year, the University of California-Los Angeles conducts a survey of incoming freshmen students.  Dubbed “American Freshman,” the report is a look into the circumstances and mindsets of a wide variety of college students enrolling at UCLA, and it’s one of the longest-running and most exhaustive surveys of student thoughts […]