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 […]
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Thailand’s Bloody, Theatric Protest
Posted 3/17/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganUpset by the ouster of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra via military coup in 2006, thousands of Thai protesters gathered at the walled estate of current Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and expressed their displeasure at his new job the only way they knew how: they hurled bags of their own human blood at his house. […]
Read »Man Versus Gator In The Steel Cage!
Posted 3/16/2010 11:00 am by Ron HoganThe 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 […]
Read »Weird And Funny Russian Car Mods
Posted 3/16/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganMaybe it’s all those years spent under Communist rule that made Russians so creative. Maybe it’s because they’re used to making cars last for as long as possible. No matter what drives Russians to make weird car mods, there’s no one quite as creative when it comes to customizing automobiles. English Russia has a great […]
Read »Six-Legged Calf Born In China
Posted 3/16/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganChina 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, […]
Read »Personal Pan Jesus
Posted 3/12/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganAll college student Toby Elles wanted to do was eat a little snack before going to bed. He’d been out, drinking of course, and he needed nature’s perfect hangover food to keep him warm and help him sleep off his partying. So he got out the frying pan, threw on some bacon, and promptly fell […]
Read »Bryan Berg’s World Record House Of Cards
Posted 3/11/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganBryan 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 […]
Read »The All-Black Penguin Is Stylish
Posted 3/11/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganThere are some mutations that allow a creature to be more effective doing what it does, and then there are just random things that happen. For example, there’s a certain penguin that eats like his mages, waddles around like his mates, socializes and hangs out and generally, does what all the other penguins do. There’s […]
Read »Canada Wins The Gold Medal In Synchronized Flushing
Posted 3/09/2010 9:00 am by Ron HoganAmong 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 […]
Read »Subway-Style Map Of The Body
Posted 3/08/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganEverything in the body has a circuit it runs. That’s what makes the body such an efficient machine; it’s an actual machine. From the air we breathe to the blood in our veins and beyond, all the body’s systems are all circuits, with stopping points, entry points, and transfer stations. That’s what makes Underskin, a […]
Read »Evil, Evil Bunnies
Posted 3/05/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganI 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 […]
Read »Guinea Pigs In Costumes
Posted 3/05/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganYou know, I’ve never had a guinea pig as a pet, but I know a look of sheer terror when I see one, and that is a look of sheer terror. That Guinea Pig could not be any less happy than he is right there, dressed like Superman. Any time you put an animal in […]
Read »Gorillas And Other Martian Wildlife
Posted 3/05/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganMars, 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 […]
Read »Old-Style Posters For Modern Movies
Posted 3/04/2010 10:30 am by Ron HoganWhen Tavis Coburn of the UK advertising agency Dutch Uncle was approached to put together some movie posters to honor the 2010 BAFTA Awards, he drew his inspiration from the past, rather than the future. The end result is a group of incredible retro movie posters for the biggest critical hits of 2009-2010, including An […]
Read »Mashing Up Japan: Godzilla And Haiku
Posted 3/04/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganWhat 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 […]
Read »NASA’s Inflatable Spacecraft
Posted 3/04/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganIn what is proof that good ideas are never abandoned, just temporarily sidelined, recent NASA budget cuts have forced the company to, once again, turn to nontraditional means in which to continue space exploration. When first proposed in the 1960’s, inflatable spacecraft seemed like a great idea. Goodyear developed a prototype rubber space station (seen […]
Read »India’s Stretch Armstrong
Posted 3/02/2010 8:30 am by Ron HoganYou 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 […]
Read »Get Your Tiger Neutered?
Posted 2/26/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganOne of the few things I agree with PETA on is their drive to spay and neuter pets. People can be pretty irresponsible with their animals, and there are too many innocent little animals getting euthanasia in shelters for me to approve of most folks owning intact pets. Of course, some people are irresponsible in […]
Read »Android Karenina Cover Revealed
Posted 2/20/2010 4:00 pm by Ron HoganFrom 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. […]
Read »Mural Provided By Swingline
Posted 2/19/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganActually, it’s got nothing to do with the Swingline brand of staplers, but it is art made out of staples. The mural of Phaeton’s fall is called Aggravure, by French artist Baptiste Debombourg, is put together with just 35,000 staples. The mural, done in the Italian Renaissance style, took him over 75 hours to construct. […]
Read »Babies With Laser Eyes: Cute, Weird, Or Weirdly Cute?
Posted 2/19/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganOne 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 […]
Read »From Check-In To Claims: How Your Luggage Gets On The Plane
Posted 2/18/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganIn what has to be one of the most fascinating image galleries I’ve seen in a long time, English Russia has a great feature on just what goes on at an airport according to your luggage. It’s a bag’s-eye view of the inner workings of an airport, from the check-in counter all the way to […]
Read »Snowpocalypse!
Posted 2/16/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganIt’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 […]
Read »Frog Men On The Hunt For Googlemobile
Posted 2/12/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganAs it turns out, not everyone is looking forward to our Google-dominated future. Take, for example, this response from a couple of protesting frog men to the presence of Google’s Street View car in their street, mapping their homes for Google Maps. They’re pretty mad; mad enough, in fact, to hunt Google’s street view car […]
Read »Business Cards For Gangs?
Posted 2/11/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganApparently, 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 […]
Read »Chowing Down On Cobras And Other Marine Corps Training Snacks
Posted 2/10/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganNever let it be said that the toughness of a Marine doesn’t start from the inside out. That’s what soldiers from six nations are set to prove in the remote province of Rayong, Thailand, as part of the annual Cobra Gold war games, in which soldiers from six nations gather together to train in jungle […]
Read »The ROUS Named Caplin
Posted 2/09/2010 9:30 am by Ron HoganMelanie 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 […]
Read »Delicious Pepsi H1N1 For Sale!
Posted 2/08/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganI know what you’re thinking. Well, I know what I’m thinking, anyway. “People still care about H1N1?” Apparently so! That’s why Walgreen’s Drug Stores are putting H1N1 in their drinks, snacks, and even their Buffalo wings. It’s a sure-fire way to get people to pay up for an anti-H1N1 vaccine; you just have to poison […]
Read »Tweeting Pictures Of Earth From Space
Posted 2/05/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganIt’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 […]
Read »The Strange Worlds Of Matthew Albanese
Posted 2/04/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganIt looks like a photograph of Mars, but it’s not. That’s actually 12 pounds of cinnamon, charcoal, paprika, thyme, and chili powder artfully arranged into a harsh, desert landscape. It’s one of the many strange worlds depicted by artist Matthew Albanese in his collection titled (appropriately enough) Strange Worlds. Albanese uses everyday materials to […]
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