Unusual Stuff

If you’re not pleased with the speed of your broadband Internet access, you’re not alone.  Most Americans are unhappy with something about broadband, which costs a great deal to purchase for the end user and costs a great deal for the provider to wire up for.  That’s why only about 65% of American households have […]

It’s true that the Internet, in some form or fashion, has been around since the 1960’s.  However, it was 25 years ago today that the first company registered the first .com address.  On March 15, 1985, Symbolics Computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts, registered Symbolics.com, the oldest active domain address online.  Happy 25th birthday, modern Internet!   […]

For 56 years, through good times and bad, Jim Becker has attended Green Bay Packers games.  Lots of NFL teams have dedicated fans, but so few have given as much to attend those games.  Considering Becker and his wife raised 11 children, money was generally tight.  So, to keep the tickets coming, he gave blood.  […]

Once again cultures are clashing in Dubai, where the region’s forward-thinking architecture and business plans belies the region’s backwards-thinking laws and rules.  When Ayman Najafi and a female friend were out to dinner, they exchanged a kiss of greeting, which is very common even in the Muslim world.  However, what one side claims was a […]

Most of us work in awful conditions.  For example, I work in a windowless room with concrete block walls, no air flow to speak of, and fluorescent lighting.  If we open up the doors to let the air in, then we’re stuck smelling what other people burn in the microwave down the hall.  It’s really […]

If you’re looking to see a predatory cat out in the wild, then you’ve got one place to go.  The lowland rainforest of Jeypore-Dehing, in the Assam province of India, has the most wild cats ever spotted in one location.  There are an incredible seven different cat species to be found in the area’s 354 […]

Tomorrow is the second Sunday in March, and you know what that means.  It’s time for everyone to be grumpy and miserable by missing an hour of much-needed sleep in the wee hours between Saturday night and Sunday morning (unless you live near the equator or in Arizona, where there is no daylight savings plan).  […]

The Hump is one of many trendy foodie outposts in environmentally-conscious Santa Monica, California.  However, a sting operation conducted by the producers of the Oscar-winning short “The Cove,” about the annual dolphin kill in Japan, revealed that The Hump’s airport location has been serving meat from an endangered animal in its sushi.  The Hump’s head […]

Charles L. Stewart’s religious practices are a bit strange.  He claims that, as part of his religion, he had to illegally import a dangerously invasive species of Giant African Snail so as to protect his followers from illnesses.  Stewart, from Hialeah, Florida, maintains that drinking the mucus from living snails is a common practice to […]

Sometimes it’s really, really hard not to make a Polish joke.  For example, when a Polish guy robs a bank with a spoon.  Or, in this case, when a Polish great-grandmother gets banned from riding her bicycle after biking around while drunk.  However, while the concept is funny, the penalty is not.   Keystyna Patycka, a […]

On the remote island of Svalbard, Norway, is the most genetically-diverse spot on planet Earth.  The island itself isn’t the most pleasant place; in fact, it’s a miserable, frozen rock above the Arctic Circle where the only wandering life is polar bears.  However, dug into the side of Platåberget Mountain is the Doomsday Vault.  Better […]

I’m not sure what to blame for this one.  The recession?  The fact that nobody uses cash anymore?  The fact that she robbed what sounds to me like a little bodega?  Take your pick.  Either way, a woman in Thermal, California went to a lot of effort for very little reward.  She used a semiautomatic […]

After one too many close calls with a screeching, honking car, Peter Smith had officially had enough.  Tired of eating dust and getting cursed at by angry drivers, the dedicated bicycle rider from Austin, Texas, started circulating a petition.  Over 2 years and 50,000 signatures later, and he finally achieved his dream:  Google Maps has […]

Normally at this time of year, Wilbraham Park in West Cape May, New Jersey is a pretty depressing place.  It’s still at the tail-end of winter there, so everything’s dark and dreary and generally not the most pleasant to look at.  Of course, when spring comes, everything will be green again, but until then someone […]

It’s one of the weirdest custody battles I’ve ever read about, and it’s not even over a living person.  It’s not over a dead person, either.  It’s the stuffed, preserved head of a horse.  
Old Baldy, a horse, was the pride of General George Meade, a hero of the Union Army during the Civil […]