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It’s a real reversal of roles.  Generally, you would think that prison guards are there to keep order amongst the prisoners and prevent violent attacks.  However, it would surprise you to know that at the Orient Road Jail in Tampa, Florida, the inmates turned the tables and protected the guard from a violent attack.
When inmate […]

Sometimes, you just gotta dance.  I think we’ve all been there.  Some of us, meaning me, more often than others.  Mental Floss has captured some of the best dance routines ever captured on store surveillance cameras, and they’ve got them for you.  There are so many good ones to choose from, it’s hard to pick […]

Brandon Spikes, Florida’s stellar linebacker, must be a fan of the Three Stooges.  I mean, you can see their influence in the way he plays football.  That’s the only explanation I can come up with for his Curly impression this Saturday when he tried to poke Georgia running back Washaun Ealey in the eyes at […]

For any child of the 80’s, there are two characters who you’ll recognize right away.  One of them is a hamburger-selling clown named Ronald McDonald.  His restaurant’s not doing so well, but he’s still out there slinging Happy Meals to kids like crazy.  Another character who disappeared for awhile, but who is coming back is […]

There’s nothing funny about violence in school.  I am against kids bringing guns to class, unless that class is trap shooting or gun safety.  In those cases, I guess it would be okay to bring them to one class.  Just not all day.  However, among the many security measures designed to protect kids these days, […]

Artist Soomi Park knows that the eyes are the window to the soul. Since she’s Asian, she also knows that Asian women are obsessed with having larger eyes. I’m not sure why, but that’s the beauty obsession in Asian culture, and every year women paint themselves with makeup, get plastic surgery, and try […]

Angela Montez, a clerk at an Advance America check-cashing location in Indianapolis, was robbed recently.  That’s not terribly unusual; those places get stuck up all the time.  What’s weird is that gunman Gregory Smith spent 10 minutes talking and praying with the very person he was robbing after obviously having second thoughts about his outlaw […]

From iRobot, the makers of the Roomba and the PackBot, comes the newest monster to crawl from the hellish landscape of my nightmares, the robotic blob known as Chembot.  It’s like the worst of both worlds.  It’s both a fleshy, gooey, oozey monstrosity AND a horrible killer robot, all in one!  Given that the Chembot […]

Everyone loves those giant floor pianos, right?  I mean, I know I do.  I’d imagine that since the movie Big came out, there’s been a huge upswing in the giant floor piano business.  But that’s just fun, right?  I mean, if you rigged a giant floor piano up to a staircase, could you get more […]

The scientists at Activelink, a Panasonic subsidiary in Kyoto, have undoubtedly been inspired by the movie Aliens.  How else would they have gotten the idea (and name) for the Power Loader exoskeleton?  In “Aliens,” Ellen Ripley jumps inside a hydraulic exoskeleton called a Power Loader to fight off the Alien Queen.  The suit gives her […]

Normally I loathe remakes, but I have to admit there’s something about the upcoming remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street that has me kind of excited.  Maybe it’s the fact that Jackie Earle Haley, one of my favorite actors, is taking over the striped sweater and mangled face.  Maybe it’s the fact that the […]

British artist Mike Thompson has designed one of the most unusual art pieces I’ve ever seen.  Well, it’s kind of an art piece, but it’s also a functioning lamp powered by human blood. There’s even a video of the project in action, so you can see just how the blood-powered lamp is supposed to […]

The above piece of famous art is the Marilyn Diptych, by pop artist Andy Warhol.  Taking inspiration from this is Bon Yurt, a Colombian artist.  Using only paint ball pellets and a team of paintball players, he sought to recreate Warhol’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe on a large sheet.  Check out the results!

See, it is […]

Some people need to be kept away from a hot microphone at all costs.  One of the prime examples of this is a rapper by the name of Kanye West.  Already famous for his anti-George Bush rant during a live telethon designed to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims and his constant hissy-fits at previous […]

This is quite possibly the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen. Seriously; even cuter than Monifa the baby hippo. There’s nothing cuter than a baby duckling, and the ingenious way that these little ducks get saved from the peril of a heated baby pool they just quite can’t flap their wings hard enough […]