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Unless you live under a rock, you’ve heard a great deal about the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan on March 11. If you’re among the best of us, you’ve even done your part by donating your time and money to the recovery effort. With reports rolling in of so many thousand people dead and [...]

You have to feel sorry for the people of Japan.  It’s rare that a place suffers one natural disaster, but Japan has been hit with two natural disasters in a row, much like Indonesia was.  In Japan’s case, it was a massive earthquake followed by a massive tsunami, then more earthquakes.  It’s looking to be [...]

He’s one of the world’s youngest billionaires.  He’s Time Magazine’s 2010 Man of the Year.  He’s everywhere you want to be.  He’s Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, and he’s getting the highest honor an American under 30 can possibly receive.  Mark Zuckerber has been made into an action figure. The company behind the Zuckerdoll is [...]

The trouble with composite pictures is that, like the most common man in the world, they don’t really exist.  Take, for example, a recent happiness survey of 1000 people.  According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, the happiest person in America is “a tall, Asian-American, observant Jew who is at least 65 and married, has children, [...]

There’s nothing cooler than a fire tornado, but they’re incredibly rare.  In  a way, they’re like ligers, but more destructive and less magical.  Still, any fire tornado captured on film makes for a very dramatic image, and this most recent example of a fire tornado is no different.  A fire at a plastics processing plant [...]

I want to completely ignore the Charlie Sheen situation, but I can’t.  I want to be afraid for Charlie Sheen’s health, what with his history of drug problems and the way his TV show has been pulled off the air due to his behavior, but every time he opens his mouth, something crazy/great comes out. [...]

Minneapolis, Minnesota, is no place to go topless in February.  However, when the Minneapolis Institute of Arts decided to advertise its exhibition of works by Italian master painter Titian, they featured a piece featuring a topless woman called “Venus Rising from the Sea.”  A funny graffiti artist decided that a topless woman was too cold [...]

For every large lake, there’s a monster.  The most famous of these is Nessie, The Loch Ness Monster, but even Russian lakes have (man-eating) monsters.  For the folks who live near Lake Windermere, their lake monster has been affectionately dubbed Bownessie, the English Loch Ness Monster.  While locals swear they’ve seen her, no one’s gotten [...]

The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is the crowning glory of the dog show world.  If you win Westminster, it’s a ticket to a full-time retirement, no matter what the dog’s age.  For this year’s winner, retirement means breeding and chasing rabbits for the rest of her days.  This year’s best in show at the [...]

When it comes to life-sized Transformers, perhaps they work better as statues in California than they do as drive-able semi trucks in New York City.  The Bumblebee statue is going to attract nothing more than weird looks, but apparently Optimus Prime can attract parking tickets.  A life-sized version of Optimus Prime got a parking ticket outside of [...]

Imagine attempting to leave for work on a Friday morning, only to find a bear sitting in the passenger seat in your car and a big pile of its crap sitting in the driver’s seat. Sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke, doesn’t it? Strangely, it’s not. For one Jetta owner, who goes [...]

If you’re one of the millions of devoted World of Warcraft fans who has set foot into Azeroth, one of the worlds in which the World of Warcraft takes place, then you’re familiar with the above graffiti.  That’s the symbol of the mighty Horde, and the noble battle cry, “For the Horde!”  Of course, as [...]

Google loves a good excuse to change their Google Doodle (that little Google logo on their main search page).  At the drop of a hat, they’re ready and willing to design a fun new doodle.  They’ve Doodled up tributes to artists, musicians, and even inventions.  Now, Google’s Doodle is honoring Jules Verne.  Verne was born [...]

Car designers have seen the future, and apparently, the future is pretty weird.  When it comes to the car of tomorrow, designers are actively working to figure out just what the car of the future should look like.  Apparently, this year’s car trend is to mash up two designs that don’t go together.  For an [...]

I understand that politics, by and large, is boring.  It’s meetings and hearings and committees and Robert’s Rules of Order and just writing this sentence makes me want to fall asleep.  I get that you need to keep yourself entertained during these things, or at least keep yourself awake.  However, I don’t think that browsing [...]