Unusual Stuff

What to know what goes on inside the walls of the Fox News Channel?  So did Gawker Media.  Somehow, they found a mole on the inside of Fox News who was willing to tell every detail about Fox News’s inner workings, no matter how mundane.  That mole’s name was Joe Muto, and the price Gawker […]

The Harry Potter universe is, for now, concluded.  No more new movies, no more new books, just Pottermore and the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to concentrate your love on… until now.  The mind behind the Harry Potter world, JK Rowling, has written her first post-Potter novel, and the details are finally starting to come […]

As it turns out, winning the national championship is a pretty good thing for the health of your basketball program.  Fresh off the 2012 NCAA Tournament Championship, John Calipari’s University of Kentucky Wildcats have something new to crow about:  the nation’s top player.  Nerlens Noel, a 6’11 center with the best hair since Kid from […]

When The Simpsons Movie was released, 13 different Springfields duked it out online, viral video style, for the chance to be the unofficial home of The Simpsons and to get a screening of the movie.  The winner of that contest was Springfield, Vermont, but according to Simpsons creator Matt Groening, that isn’t exactly where he […]

This has been a banner year for the Baylor University basketball programs.  The men’s team has made its second Elite Eight under coach Scott Drew, and the women’s team had a perfect 40-0 season with a national championship.  However, this powerhouse status hasn’t been earned cleanly.  The NCAA reports that Baylor has committed major violations […]

Of the things that Facebook does well, mobile photo sharing is not one of them.  Facebook is great at bringing in money and attracting users, but their mobile photo sharing apps are not exactly the best.  Fortunately, Facebook has a philosophy:  if you can’t build it, buy it.  Enter Instagram, the most popular photo-sharing and […]

You know you have designed something classic when it remains, unchanged, for 48 years.  The Porsche 911 is one such product.  The classic rear-engine sports car from Porsche has been in existence since 1964, when it was conceived as the brainchild of Porsche designer Ferdinand Alexander Porsche.  Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the designer of the Porsche […]

Once upon a time, Buford, Wyoming was a bustling town with 2000 residents.  Buford, the second-oldest town in Wyoming, dates back to the founding of the transcontinental railroad and is a key stop on Interstate 80, the main cross-country road between New York and San Francisco.  That was then.  Now, Buford, Wyoming is the smallest […]

Remember the good old days, when Macs were virus-free and only Windows users had to worry about security and protection online?  Well, those days are over, cats and kittens.  According to the Russian antivirus company Dr. Web, over 600,000 Macs are infected by a malware known as Flashback.  Flashback, originally targeted to Windows, has become […]

The final score was 67 to 59, but the game was closer than that.  Right until the end, the Kentucky Wildcats just could not put away the Kansas Jayhawks.  The Cats stormed out to a big lead, but every time Kentucky got the game closer to a 20+ point lead, Kansas would storm back, drag […]

Two programs with thousands of wins and dozens of NBA players between them.  A pair of history-ladened clubs meet in a historic NCAA Tournament Championship game tonight, as the top-ranked and top-seeded University of Kentucky Wildcats, led by college basketball’s best player Anthony Davis, square off against the Kansas Jayhawks, who are led by the […]

People love Apple products.  From the game-changing iPod to the iPhone and the iPad, Apple has made a fortune finding niches to fill with its products.  Between popularizing MP3 players to putting the smart phone into the hands of hipsters, Apple has managed to become a consumer electronics company and not a computer company.  According […]

Without a doubt, there are three things you can say about the Stanford Cardinal men’s basketball team this season.  They were the second-best team in the Pac-12.  They were the 69th best team in the country.  They are the postseason NIT champions.  It’s small consolation for a disappointing seasons, but the Stanford Cardinal crushed the […]

It’s been over 40 years since man first walked on the moon thanks to the brave astronauts of Apollo 11.  Now, an important artifact of the race for space has been discovered some 14,000 feet below the surface of the earth.  Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is planning to find and recover the F-1 rocket engines […]

Spike Lee is a good to great director of movies, but he’s got a problem.  A lot of times, Spike Lee says things without thinking.  He talks.  A lot.  And he’s not exactly the most accurate person when he speaks and especially when he posts to Twitter.  Once again, Spike Lee’s quick tongue has gotten […]