Unusual Stuff

It’s pretty easy to laugh off North Korea.  After all, they’re prone to doing silly stuff like changing their time zone for no good reason and prancing around with ridiculous medals.  All that provocation can go too far, though, and according to South Korea, the North has made a naked declaration of aggression against their […]

If seems that frogs, toads, and other amphibians can exist pretty much everywhere on earth, save the polar regions.  Frogs are basically everywhere, and yet it seems like unusual new frogs are being discovered everywhere as people continue to explore the earth’s hidden places.  Two new frogs were discovered in Brazil, and these frogs are […]

One of the best pieces of news for the fall television series wasn’t something new, it was something old making a comeback.  The Muppets were a television and movie phenomenon, and with the rebirth of the Muppets on the big screen, it only makes sense that the Muppets would come back on the small screen, […]

Tap water is usually something you can trust.  You go to the faucet, turn on the tap, and get yourself a cup of delicious water.  Now, there are some places that don’t have drinkable tap water, but my town is not one of them.  Unless of course there are some chemicals I don’t know about […]

Wherever there are people striving to be the best, you’re going to have people willing to do anything it takes to win.  When there are hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line, you’d be crazy not to use every advantage you have to try and get that money.  That’s why baseball has had a […]

One of the biggest stories in the news over the last few months has been the former US Olympian and Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner and his transition from male to female.  Not long ago, Bruce made a very public appearance changing to Caitlyn, and now Apple has honored her transition in a very public […]

Foul language is unavoidable, and it probably always has been.  No matter what the morals police have implied about this new world, cursing has always been a thing, it’s just that what used to be a violent swear is now just a cheeky old-timer expression, consarn it.  However, just because it can’t be avoided doesn’t […]

The Star Wars universe, like the actual universe, just keeps expanding.  Since Disney bought the franchise and decided to add more to the world of George Lucas, the announcements just haven’t stopped coming.  Will Yoda get a spin-off movie?  What’s JJ Abrams got planned for Episode VII: The Force Awakens?  Everyone seems to want another […]

There’s a reason Whole Foods is called Whole Paycheck.  The biggest player in the organic grocery game is renowned for being very, very expensive.  Personally, I don’t shop there, but I know a lot of people who swear by their products, despite the price.  Turns out there’s something to the store’s expensive reputation that has […]

There’s no such thing as too much choice.  Sure, in some cases, you might not want all the choices you get, but when it comes to paying for something like, say, a cable channel, then options are always good.  In the wake of HBO’s announcement of a stand-alone streaming service, Showtime immediately jumped on board, […]

The Guinness Book of World Records is pretty weird.  There are lots of records, and no doubt a bunch of them are doughnut related.  The world loves doughnuts; Americans really love doughnuts.  There’s a doughnut holiday, and we’re even looking into making getting doughnuts a lot easier.  The city of Hamburg Township, Michigan, really loves […]

Saint Louis prides itself on its baseball team.  They’re huge baseball fans in that part of the world, and they’re alwasy very proud of the way their team conducts itself and the way the team behaves.  Sure, fans might get a little blue, but the orgainzation does things the right way, according to them.  Not […]

Talk about a winner.  Take Monopoly, combine it with Lovecraft, carve some awesome-looking horrors to populate the game board, and go to Kickstarter to collect the money.  All is well and good, unless of course no one actually comes through with the games, rewards, and goodies promised to Kickstarter followers.  That fraud is what caused […]

Another day, another press appearance by White House press secretary Josh Earnest.  I couldn’t tell you what it was about (probably hot dogs), but it wasn’t the contents of the talk that were interesting, but the interruption.  The White House’s James S. Brady Briefing Room was evacuated during a live, televised press event.  One minute […]

When you’re dealing with data on a massive scale, it’s really hard to keep everything secure.  The more things get stored on servers or put up into the cloud or whatever, the more likely things are to get misplaced or outright stolen by nefarious parties or rogue states.  When you’re talking about the United States […]