Unusual Stuff

In six moves or less, you can connect anyone in Hollywood to Kevin Bacon via movie roles.  The world is different now, thanks to Facebook.  According to research from Facebook and Università degli Studi di Milano in Italy, the average number of connections between any two Facebook users isn’t six, it’s four.  That means that you’re […]

Sometimes a bargain isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Often it really is true that you get what you pay for. A woman in Miami Gardens, Florida learned that fact the hard way. Wanting to increase her curves, she turned to a black market “doctor” who charged the low, low rate of $700. His […]

There are very few constants in sports.  In Major League Baseball this season, there was pretty much one constant.  Every 5 days, Justin Verlander was going to take the mound for the Detroit Tigers, strike guys out, and take home an almost-guaranteed victory.  Indeed, Justin Verlander was voted the American League’s MVP this year by […]

Say what you want to about celebrities, but sometimes they manage to keep their word.  After watching a great viral video from Marine Sergeant Scott Moore, Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis both ended up attending separate Marine Corps Balls with their respective dates.  Mila Kunis attended a Marine Corps ball in Greenville, South Carolina this […]

It took five years for the experiment to take off, but once David Beckham got on the same page as his Major League Soccer teammates, everything broke the right way.  Beckham has struggled with injuries and clashed with his teammates since he came to America, but all that strive has been washed away this season, […]

Football is a sport that inspires fierce loyalty among its fans. A fan’s choice of a favorite team is often inspired by geographic location. Living close to a city that hosts an NFL team may make that the obvious selection as the team to follow. Loyalty to the state a person lives in can create […]

Dance! Dance! Dance! Many a budding romance began at a nightclub with a thumping bass line urging people to shake and move on the dance floor. Now, thanks to science, males can recreate a specific group of moves that will improve their chances of wooing the fairer sex. Thanks to the gyrations of 19 men […]

The world of sports has been in the news lately mostly for all the wrong reasons. Sex abuse scandals on the campuses of Syracuse and Penn State have rocked the nation. Lockouts due to labor strife have threatened both the NFL and NBA seasons. Now another tragic event has struck college athletics. Oklahoma State head […]

There are tweaks, there are changes, and then there are full-blown re-dos.  Baseball’s latest series of changes covers pretty much all those categories, and said changes will affect every team in baseball to some extent.  No team will be affected more than the Houston Astros.  In 2013, the Houston Astros will move from the National […]

All good things must come to an end.  From the perfect marriage of hipster equals to the perfect example of a cougar relationship, it seems like there’s nothing harder than a celebrity marriage.  Six years ago, Ashton Kutcher married Demi Moore in a noteworthy ceremony that people paid attention to due to the 13-year age […]

It’s another case of an animal that should be in the wild turning on its owner resulting in a death that could have been avoided. When will people figure out that keeping a wild beast in captivity is not a good idea. Personally I don’t think you can ever completely tame these animals whether it’s […]

One of the most iconic images of the Christmas season is that of the Salvation Army bell-ringer.  They stand outside stores and on street corners, ringing a jingly bell and standing beside a big red kettle.  Nothing says Christmas quite like being able to drop a few quarters into that bucket, and when I don’t […]

Have you been seeing some unusual new images in your Facebook news feed lately?  Have your friends been sharing images of porn, violence, and animal abuse that are decidedly against Facebook’s Terms of Service?  Well, odds are they’ve fallen victim to the latest attack against Facebook.  Facebook is under a spam attack, and users are […]

When it comes to the legendary temper of hall-of-fame coach Bob Knight, few men know his temper as well as Duke Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski.  Krzyzewski cut his teeth playing for Bob Knight at Army from 1966-69, and it was on Knight’s recommendation that Krzyzewski got the Duke head coaching job way back in 1980.  The […]

Before Google+ positioned itself as the mass-market Facebook alternative, there was an early anti-Facebook.  One of the first social networks to splinter away from Facebook, citing privacy concerns, was Diaspora.  Founded a year ago amid massive Facebook backlash regarding several privacy failures and data leaks, Diaspora was supposed to be the private person’s Facebook, though […]