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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 […]

Vern Scoville has lots of experience building epic snowmen.  Last year, he built a 25-foot-tall snowman.  How do you top a 25-foot-tall snowman?  If you’re Vern Scoville, you build a 35-foot-tall snowman.  A man in Champion, New York, built a 35-foot-tall snowman with tires for buttons, a traffic cone for a nose, and a swimming […]

I don’t remember when NASA suffered its most famous and high profile disaster, but my aunt and mother, who both worked in the school system all their lives, remember the horrifying moment.  On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger took off from NASA only to suffer a catastrophic failure of some rubber O-rings and […]

Not even the guy who invented Facebook is immune to hacker attacks.  In the second high-profile hacking of the week, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fan page was attacked by hackers. The image of the hacked Facebook fan page was captured by Tech Crunch before Facebook pulled the page offline.  Earlier this week, controversial French […]

When crop circles were discovered in an Indonesian town, it became a sensation.  Was Indonesia playing host to aliens from another planet?  The crowds came to gawk at the circles and ponder what it all means.  The crop circles appeared basically overnight.  Just as quickly, experts have struck out at the crop circles, saying that […]

It might be a prank, or it might be someone too lazy to properly dispose of an old musical instrument.  Either way, residents of Miami, Florida, are talking about the presence of a mysterious grand piano.  Grand pianos, in and of themselves, aren’t mysterious, but this one is.  Someone put a grand piano on a […]

For some people, the urge for suicide comes with a flare for the dramatic.  In the case of one woman from Buenos Aires, Argentina, she decided that she wanted to make a splash and leap from the top of the iconic Hotel Crown Plaza Panamericano.  Well, a splat anyway.  Unfortunately for her, she survived her […]