Unusual Stuff

When asked about the possibility of a rematch between top-ranked SEC champion LSU and one-loss SEC conference mate Alabama, BCS executive director Bill Hancock said, “Absolutely, if they’re 1 and 2, and they are in all the polls released today.”  Oklahoma State may have destroyed Oklahoma to win the Big 12 championship, but it wasn’t […]

Oh, the betrayal of a friend, it can sting the soul mightily. When man’s best friend turns on him, the pain inflicted is more than just emotional. That was the case for a duck hunter in Bear River Bird Refuge north of Salt Lake City who was accidentally shot by a dog. Little did he […]

For many years, the rumored future king of web browsers was Mozilla Firefox, which was the first real challenger for Internet Explorer since Netscape went under.  Well, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is still the global kingpin in total market share, with 40.63 percent of total market share, but the real interesting thing is in the […]

San Francisco, in its never-ending quest to be the most nanny city in the nanny state, has decided that parents aren’t doing a good enough job raising their children, so they enacted a law.  If you sell a meal with X amount of calories, it cannot be marketed to children with toys.  It was basically […]

Lawyers don’t get a lot of respect from most people. They’re about as popular as politicians and used car salesmen. Defense lawyers are even less appreciated since they represent the criminal element. These professionals may now get even more heat for their affiliation with “paralegals” visiting imprisoned drug dealers in Miami. It turns out these […]

It was a banner year for rapper Kanye West, who found both critical and commercial success after a year-long hiatus from performing in the wake of the MTV Awards disaster when he interrupted Taylor Swift.  He’s back and bigger than ever.  Kanye West leads the way when it comes to 2012 Grammy nominations, but the […]

Well, that’s not exactly true.  Yes, the Jacksonville Jaguars are currently involved in a franchise re-invigoration plan, but you can’t really fire an owner.  Owners can only sell.  The Jacksonville Jaguars have fired Jack Del Rio on the same day that Wayne Weaver sold the team.  The team is now the property of Shahid Khan, a businessman […]

In a confusing move, the European Union has declared that water can’t prevent dehydration. Yep, the EU’s head-scratch-inducing proclamation came in an effort to regulate the bottled water industry. Not only did representatives of the EU make this claim, it took them three years of investigation to decide to ban the bottlers from claiming that […]

It seemed like a regular flight from Lismore to Sydney, Australia.  A passenger boarded Regional Express flight ZL319 with his iPhone in his pocket.  The flight took off and everything was fine until heat and smoke started to pour from the passenger’s mobile phone.  Apparently a Regional Express passenger’s iPhone spontaneously burst into flames during […]

When it comes to New York City, the Big Apple faces a critical shortage of public restrooms.  However, for most New Yorkers, the public restroom of New York isn’t in the subway station or the bus terminal, but the big green monster.  That’s right, Starbucks–due to its hundreds of New York locations–is NYC’s default public […]

Last year’s Black Friday was a disappointing one for Best Buy.  The company gambled on the fad of 3D televisions a bit too early; with no 3D players or content, early sales of the expensive televisions were slow and thus, the company took a bit of a beating in 2010.  Not so this year.  Best […]

Here it is, our first story of Christmas insanity for 2011. Now that we’re officially done with Thanksgiving in all its glory of parades and turkey and football and family and the follow-up of Black Friday pepper-spraying shopping maniacs, we can now legitimately turn our focus toward Christmas. The city of Chestertown, Maryland hosted its […]

Well, it looks like Mark Cuban’s Dallas Mavericks will get a chance to defend their NBA title after all. After a 15-hour marathon negotiating session, NBA owners and players reached a tentative labor agreement in the early morning hours of Saturday. The agreement ends the owners’ lockout and will result in a shortened 66-game season. […]

Nature keeps us on our toes. Everything from strange weather events like earthquakes or tsunamis to weird animals like a drunken elk in a tree or dachshund-snatching bears or a combination of the two with fish falling from the sky challenge us to be alert and ready. Now, when those weird or outrageous moments occur […]

Over the last 20 years, Apple has become the largest consumer electronics company in the world.  They’re in the running for the world’s most valuable company thanks to their massively popular tablet, the Apple iPad.  Apple has sold millions of iPads over the tablet’s lifespan, and that’s been the key to their incredible financial success. […]