Unusual Stuff

Plagued by recruiting scandals and accusations of pay-for-play schemes, the NCAA met this week to look at revising their standards on college scholarships, academic eligibility, and a whole host of other issues and boy, did they move quickly.  The NCAA has voted in a drastic change to the traditional scholarship structure, higher academic standards, and […]

Bobbing for apples is one of those things that people on TV do all the time, but I’ve never seen anyone have an apple bobbing station set up at any party I’ve ever been to, I guess because nobody wants to dunk their head into a tub of cold water in the middle of fall. […]

It’s a staple of any child that was of age in the 1990’s.  If you were in middle or high school between 1993 and 1997, you know Beavis and Butt-Head, a pair of slack-jawed morons who chortled and mocked their way through a collection of bad music videos and threadbare plots in which one or […]

Some 300 years ago, a man named Edward Teach was the scourge of the seven seas.  Dubbed Blackbeard, he’s one of the msot famous pirates in history, and from his home base on Ocracoke Island, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, he robbed ships, plundered loot, and even blockaded the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, […]

Lego and its omnipresent minfigures and bricks have been everywhere.  From a trip to space to the Royal Wedding, Legos have a place in every aspect of our society, even church.  However, there have been some surprises along the way.  While walking on Siesta Key Beach in Florida, Jeff Hindman stumbled across a pretty unusual […]

Originally written in the 18th Century, the Copiale Cipher was a secret document detailing the rites, rituals, and fascinations of an obscure German cult.  Long hidden away behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany, the document was unknown to the west for many years.  Even after it was discovered by Western researchers, the code of […]

A relic of the Cold War will be no more.  The B53 nuclear bomb, the most powerful atomic bomb ever developed by the United States, will be leaving America’s weapons stockpile.  The last B53 nuclear bomb was dismantled at a Pantex plant in Amarillo, Texas.  The bomb was the centerpiece of America’s nuclear weapons arsenal […]

They’re called the Northern Lights for a reason.  Generally, the aurora borealis is confined to colder, northern territories where the radiation from the sun’s constant activity is more likely to affect the atmosphere.  However, last night, the northern lights weren’t so northern.  The aurora borealis was seen as far south as Mississippi, Alabama, and even […]

Hugh Hefner, you’ve finally done it.  When Lindsay Lohan’s personal problems started happening and the acting work started drying up, Hugh Hefner was one of the first people to offer Lindsay Lohan some work.  Of course, it was Playboy work, so basically Playboy owner Hugh Hefner offered Lohan $750,000 to shoot a nude pictorial for […]

Ask anyone and they’ll tell you that being able to move in a small amount of space is very important when it comes to comfort and ease.  There’s a reason flight crews have weight requirements, and there’s an even better reason cops have to pass minimum physical fitness standards.  But what about normal, every day […]

This has been a banner year for NFL records being tied or broken.  First, you had Cam Newton breaking the rookie record for most yards thrown in his first game.  Then, you had Sebastian Janikowski kicking a record-tying 63-yard field goal and Tom Brady throwing a 99-yard touchdown pass in the same weekend.  Now, you’ve […]

In 1989, the city of San Francisco was rocked by the Loma Prieta earthquake.  The 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked the World Series (which was going on at the time), killed 63 people, and caused $10 billion dollars in damage.  Exactly 22 years later, San Francisco has experienced not one, but two earthquakes on the anniversary of […]

One more violent despot goes down. After the world celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden earlier this year, now another black-hearted tyrant is brought to brutal justice. Reports coming out of Libya this morning alerted the world to the fact that Moammar Gadhafi has been killed. Al Jazeera Arabic broke the news this morning […]

It may look like a kid’s kaleidoscope, but the new Lytro Light Field digital camera is the only camera around that offers photographers a second chance. It’s no cyborg eye camera, but with the Lytro, there are no more blurry, out-of-focus pics. The Lytro allows users, both on the camera and once the digital images […]

Before the opening game of the World Series, Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington joked that he couldn’t “match a wit” with notoriously cerebral and glum St. Louis Cardinals skipper Tony La Russa.  That didn’t stop him from trying.  During last night’s 3-2 victory by the Cards over the Rangers, Tony La Russa dipped into his […]