Whether you like all six of George Lucas’ Star Wars films or are a purist and really only appreciate the first three releases (or is that the final three in the saga?), the characters from the movies are iconic. They’ve been reproduced over and over again. We’ve seen Darth Vader Potato Heads. R2-D2 made from […]
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Attracting Attention With Amazing Business Cards
Posted 2/12/2011 8:30 am by Stephanie SturgisIn an ever increasingly competitive workforce, it gets more and more difficult to stand out from the crowd. It seems like every job opening has an endless supply of eager potential workers anxious and willing to fill the every need of the employer. So the question becomes how to stand out from the crowd whether […]
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Teen Builds Solar Death Ray
Posted 2/10/2011 7:30 am by Stephanie SturgisThe sun has always been a source of heat, light, energy and even food for man. The big bright orb in the sky has proven to be a touchstone of religious movements in centuries past with the ability to scare those who worship it when it disappears temporarily. Legend has it that Archimedes tried to […]
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The Simpsons McBain Short Film Theory Is McBusted
Posted 2/09/2011 6:30 am by Stephanie SturgisFor more than 20 years now the writers for The Simpsons have entertained on many levels. Much of what the writers have done has been overt. They’ve mocked and made us laugh with their takes on pop culture references, sports jokes, political tenets and religious statements in their episodes. Television’s longest-running show has even added […]
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First Photos of Snowflakes
Posted 2/08/2011 10:00 am by Stephanie SturgisThe old adage is that no two snowflakes are alike. In the age of digital photography – and especially in the snowiest winter in years – the Internet is awash in an avalanche of folks’ pics of their lawns covered in white powder and their dogs frolicking in the snow and their kids bundled up […]
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The Simpsons Phone It In On An iPod Touch
Posted 8/05/2008 4:16 pm by Stephanie SturgisFans of The Simpsons have been buying stuff with their logo, slogans and D’oh! likenesses on them for more than 20 years. These guys are marketing geniuses. Now, they’ve combined with the folks at Apple to bring you collectible iPods. Everything from Shuffles to Touches have one of three Simpsons images etched into these items […]
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London Street Bananas
Posted 8/04/2008 8:45 am by Stephanie SturgisWhile monkeying around the Intertubes, I found a site to make a chimpanzee nostalgic. London Bananas is comprised entirely of snapshots of banana peels left empty and neglected on the curbs, steps and trash heaps of London streets. Yep, page after page of abandoned banana peels. If the fruit flingers had only checked out PopFi, […]
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The Drunken Summer
Posted 7/31/2008 10:30 am by Stephanie SturgisNothing cools off a hot summer day like a cold beer. Just ask these two fellows participating in the ultimate summer activities while under the influence of a bunch of brewskis. Whether it’s driving a lawnmower while under the influence or attending a baseball game, beer makes for funny videos. I wonder if their blood […]
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Prison Aprons Popular In Japan
Posted 7/21/2008 12:14 pm by Stephanie SturgisYou never know what the Japanese will turn into a hobby or a fad. Everything from key chains that sound like bubble wrap popping when you press on them to canoes made from chop sticks can capture the attention of the Japanese. The latest fads there are items made by prisoners in prison. In kitchens […]
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Snakes on a Massage!!!
Posted 7/16/2008 12:14 pm by Stephanie SturgisMassages are supposed to relax the body and the mind. For those folks like Indiana Jones who suffer from ophidiophobi – fear of snakes – Ada Barak’s spa in Israel is not the place they won’t to stop in for a rubdown. The spa offers an unusual massage that includes the release of six non-venomous […]
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An Unbreakable Umbrella Version of Chuck Norris
Posted 7/15/2008 11:59 am by Stephanie SturgisWith the new Batman movie out this summer, I think back to all those Technicolor bad guys from the Adam West television version of Batman. Funny, yes; scary, not so much. I mean come on. That version of the Penguin’s biggest scare tactic was pointing at Robin with an umbrella while wearing a monocle. Normally, […]
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Google Moon Exposes NASA’s Secret
Posted 7/13/2008 3:38 pm by Stephanie SturgisWho doesn’t love a conspiracy theory? Everything from Roswell and Area 51 to the Grassy Knoll have been debated as potential cover-ups by the U.S. government. It seems Google Moon may have exposed another one of the government’s secrets – the faking of the lunar landing mission. Or at least The Vactioneers have done another […]
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Crazy Helicopter Video
Posted 6/26/2008 10:50 am by Stephanie SturgisI’ve purchased more than one remote control vehicle for my nephews with the ultimate goal of grabbing the controller out of their little hands in order take over the scaled down machines and drive them until their wheels fall off. Even then I crash them more often than not. But the king of the remote […]
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Interpreting Joe Cocker
Posted 6/24/2008 12:22 pm by Stephanie SturgisI actually watched some goofy TV game show for the first time where contestants tried to recall the lyrics to popular songs with $$$ on the line. The top prize was a million bucks, but I’m guessing no one is ever going to grab that brass ring. It was like watching drunks in a bar […]
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Morbid Munching in Casket Restaurant
Posted 6/23/2008 9:06 am by Stephanie SturgisI’m not a big risk taker in my life. I try not to tick off the Grim Reaper, keeping him at arm’s length as much as possible. I’m wondering what the owners and patrons of a new eating establishment in the Ukraine were thinking when they mocked death by building a theme restaurant named Eternity […]
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Evolution of Sarcasm
Posted 6/20/2008 1:44 pm by Stephanie SturgisSome call it being sarcastic. Some call it being a smartass. Either way, it’s apparently proof that we as human beings are evolving. It seems studies in Israel and California have shown that people with damage to the right side of the brain can not distinguish sarcasm during conversation. The scientists are saying that those […]
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Butt Was an Enema Statue Necessary?
Posted 6/19/2008 11:02 am by Stephanie SturgisJust what can you say about a statue that honors anything involving the human butt? It’s pretty much put me at a loss for words but I’ll give you the bare bones of it all and you can click the link to get the rest. A Russian spa has built a five-foot tall statue of […]
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Soccer and Transformers
Posted 6/18/2008 1:14 pm by Stephanie SturgisNever let it be said that Pop Fi doesn’t give a regular dose of sports stuff. Why, we’ve even covered a tiny soccer team and games for your dog. It’s no secret that nearly everyone on the planet is mad for soccer, or as its known in most other locales on the globe, futbol. In […]
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The Case of the Shrinking Ice Cream
Posted 6/16/2008 11:24 am by Stephanie SturgisEverybody and their brother are talking about the rising price of a gallon of gasoline. I know I’m feeling the pinch in my bank account every time I fill my tank and see the numbers on the pumps whirling around and around faster than Britney Spears can pop in and out of rehab. But at […]
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Unicorn Deer = Freaky Bambi
Posted 6/13/2008 10:32 am by Stephanie SturgisI’m not the sort of person who gets all moony about mythological unicorns and rainbows, but I do get worked up over animal freaks. Whether it’s two-faced kittens or siamese twin calves or obese monkeys or featherless birds, I’m all about it. I just read about the latest Mother Nature mix-up – a “unicorn” deer […]
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Death of a Gummy Bear
Posted 6/12/2008 11:58 am by Stephanie SturgisI’ve got a sweet tooth, but there’s one candy that rarely touches my sensitive palate. I can’t abide Gummy Bears. I’m guessing even those stupid candy criminals didn’t even grab any of these during their stealing spree. I know I must be in the minority as the sugary, sticky products keep turning up in all […]
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Chicken Bomb
Posted 6/10/2008 11:27 pm by Stephanie SturgisI live in a rural area so seeing dead things along the side of the road isn’t uncommon. Squashed raccoons, flattened opossums, dead deer and stinky stunted skunks regularly make up my daily drive to work. But I’ll admit I have never spotted a chicken bomb on the edge of the highway. That’s what one […]
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Can You Pop Popcorn With Your Cell Phone??
Posted 6/09/2008 9:23 am by Stephanie SturgisEveryone knows we love a viral video here at Pop Fi. Whether it’s an office worker going insane, an ugly divorce situation or the Obama kid, we try to keep on spreading the video love. One of the latest to hit the Intertubes is a clip of folks using cell phones to heat up some […]
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Bicycling With Bubbles And Seeds
Posted 6/05/2008 11:18 am by Stephanie SturgisThere’s just something about bubbles that regress every adult back into a kid again. When I see some tots blowing soap bubbles on their front lawn, I either want to take the wand away from them and create my own round wonders or chase the floaters and pop each and every one. An ingenious little […]
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Office Worker Has Huge Meltdown
Posted 6/04/2008 5:11 am by Stephanie SturgisWe’ve all gotten frustrated at work before. The daily stresses sometimes push us to the edge. But most of us pull ourselves back from the brink. Then there are those folks who go careening over that precipice and land in Crazyville. Think back to the hedgehog tossed in anger issue Pop Fi has covered for […]
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Weird Creepy Pencil Face
Posted 6/03/2008 11:57 am by Stephanie SturgisI ran across this video produced at the Savannah College of Art and Design that is pretty cool and creepy. After you watch this one, you’ll never look at a No. 2 pencil in the same way again. It’s got a weird Alice in Wonderland kind of vibe. I wonder what would happen if you […]
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Japanese Bruce Willis
Posted 6/03/2008 9:31 am by Stephanie SturgisEvery time I surf around the Internet, I invariably run across something that makes me scratch my head. Often that scalp tickling comes courtesy of a Japanese television show featuring something like a velcro wall or a crazy obstacle courses. That was the case when I ran across a clip of an Asian man doing […]
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Holy Cow – Ice on Mars
Posted 6/02/2008 8:28 am by Stephanie SturgisPop Fi recently shared info about NASA’s upcoming Kepler Mission through which you can send your name into space, now NASA is all excited about its Phoenix Mars Lander‘s recent discovery. Before it even reached out and touched the soil of the Red Planet, Phoenix sent a photo that created a stir back at home […]
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No Leaks in Umbrella House
Posted 5/30/2008 12:51 pm by Stephanie SturgisPop Fi has brought all sorts of homes to your attention. We’ve had houses made of newspaper, “backpack” additions to condos and houses made from recycled trash. Even dog houses that would make some people jealous. The latest unusual home is a house made of umbrellas. The structure by Japanese designer Kengo Kuma is comprised […]
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Intelligent Digital Pot Reveals Pertinent Plant Info
Posted 5/29/2008 10:40 am by Stephanie SturgisIt doesn’t take long to figure out I don’t have a green thumb. One quick look at the window sill where my few pitiful potted plants reside shows my sheer lack of intuitive human/plant interaction. Only the heartiest greenery survives my care. There may be a rescue in sight for my not-so-green house plants. It’s […]
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