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I’ve had kind of a down week.  I’ve just waking up on the wrong side of the bed every morning, have been very short-tempered, and have generally had difficulty keeping my kettle from boiling over so far this week.  I need something to cheer me up.  If you’re grumpy and gray today, then why not […]

The Seminole Indian tribe is a little different from your standard American Indian group.  For starters, they’ve never actually surrendered to the United States government at the end of the Seminole Wars.  They’re also the tribe to make the switch from being simple tribal gaming organization to actually owning their own casino company when they […]

China is a veritable wonderland of weird people and even weirder animals.  Snake with a foot?  You know it’s from China.  Alien fish monster?  Found in a cave in China.  Village of midgets, dwarfs, and other wee folks?  China all the way.  And now, joining China’s menagerie of monsters and freaks is a six-legged calf, […]

Bryan Berg has been practicing his craft, building houses of cards, since he was a kid.  When he was 17, he broke the record for the world’s largest tower of cards, then later broke that same record again in 2007 with a 25-foot tower.  Given his love of stacking cards and his background as an […]

Among all the events at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, nothing was as popular in the home country as was the hockey.  Specifically, the men’s hockey gold medal game between the United States and Canada, which set all kinds of viewing records on both sides of the border.  If you take one look at this […]

I smell a holiday tradition!  On the heels of the amazing Sketchy Santas website is a companion piece for the spring, known as Easter Bunnies Will Steal Your Soul.  While the Easter Bunny is less likely to be a blatant child molesting old drunk, it’s no less creepy to find yourself terrorized by a 7-foot-tall […]

Mars, our nearest planetary neighbor, has long been a source of fascination for the world.  Are there aliens there?  Will we go pay a visit and explore the surface?  Are there gorillas?  Well, actually, the Martian gorilla pictures are a new phenomenon, but long story short, mankind has a long and storied history of being […]

What do you get when you take the best in Japanese high culture, the haiku, and mash it up with the best in Japanese pop culture, the giant kaiju monster?  Well, quite simply, you get the brilliant Godzilla haiku macros of blogger Samurai Frog.  You can find them at his blog under the tag Godzilla […]

You can bend him and shape him, stretch him out any way you want!  He’s 27-year-old Vijay Sharma, the Indian rubber man, and he’s looking to stretch and contort his way into the Guinness Book of World Records.  He’s already a fixture in the Limca Book of Records, the Indian subcontinent version of the Guinness […]

From the mind of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben. H. Winters and Leo Tolstoy comes the latest of the awesome Quirk Classics literary mash-up novels.  This one transplants Tolstoy’s classic romance novel Anna Karenina to a 19th Century world of steampunk, automatons, and aliens to bring about the remade classic Android Karenina.  […]

One of my favorite things about the Internet is the tendency to take two things that don’t go together and smash them together so they fit alongside one another via the magic of computer manipulation or just plain inventiveness.  For example, Foreigner and Metallica as combined by Rock Sugar.  However, what’s amazing me this morning […]

It’s been a really weird February for most of the United States.  From super blizzards all along the Eastern seaboard to basically every state of the union having snow on the ground somewhere, it’s been strange and cold all winter.  Even the usually temperate South has been getting some serious snowfalls lately, much to my […]

Apparently, at one time or another, it was okay for your gang to have a business card.  I imagine in the simpler times before crack cocaine, most gangs were just kids hanging out, not big businesses like they are today.  Still, that doesn’t mean the gangsters didn’t want to have awesome American Psycho-type business card […]

Melanie Typaldos has a few hundred pounds of rodent at her home in Buda, Texas, but she won’t need any rat poison.  The rodent she has is actually the family pet.  He’s named Caplin Rous, and he’s a 2-foot-tall, 200-pound rodent from South America called a capybara, and he might be the most popular capybara […]

It’s amazing just how popular Twitter has become.  It’s such a big deal that even astronauts use it!  Not only are they using it, they’re also using the power of Twitter and Twitpic to beam images of the Earth back from space!  Just check out io9’s gallery of Tweeted space photographs from Astronaut Jose and […]