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It’s Halloween, folks!  YAY!  The decorations are up, the pumpkin is carved, and the candy bowl is at the ready.  My favorite holiday of the year has finally arrived, and there’s lots of special events tonight.   Nothing’s more special than trick-or-treating for the kids, so dust off your costume!  Even Google is getting in […]

One of Ultraman‘s classic foes, the monster Gomora, is getting a new lease on life.  Not only will he be starring in Tsuburaya Productions upcoming movie, “Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend,” he’s also getting a new look in the form of this spectacular costume.  It’s 10 feet (3 meters) tall, 20 feet (6 meters) […]

West Midlands Safari Park, near Bewdley in Worcestershire in England, is welcoming a trifecta of new additions.  Home of the UK’s largest pride of white lions, the park is welcoming three new babies:  Portia, Phoebe, and Pandora.  The three cubs are roughly 12 weeks old, and are members of one of the rarest species on […]

Meet the latest in technology. This high-tech human imitator is the next step in robotic technology, a machine that simulates sickness. Rather than doing something people want to do, like work, fight crime and eat, this bot replaces something nobody wants to do. In this case, we’ve got a flubot on our hands. He sweats, […]

From the mouths of babes, as caught by the CNN cameras during the Heene family’s 15 minutes of fame, Balloon Boy himself lets slip the truth.  The runaway balloon, the missing child story, everything… it was all a hoax.  No matter how the family tries to spin things, that whole situation was completely phony.  At […]

We all have some word that’s a pet peeve of ours.  Some people don’t like the word “moist” and its many connotations.  Some people just hate slang in general.  However, as any parent of a teenager could tell you, there is no word in the English language more obnoxious than the simple word, “Whatever.”  Apparently, […]

One of the most teenagers of all time, Anne Frank was a German Jew whose posthumously published diary became one of the most moving portraits of the Holocaust and Jewish persecution in history.  Now, the only known video footage of the then 13-year-old Frank has become a Youtube sensation.  Despite only being 21 seconds long, […]

You know what makes a good meal any time?  Pancakes.  Breakfast, lunch, dinner, side dish, or even dessert, throw me down a stack of flapjacks with some syrup or fruit, and I’m a happy camper with a full belly.  Be they buttermilk or cornbread, pancakes are awesome.  You know what else is awesome?  This automatic […]

A word of advice for you, the PopFi reader.  If you ever see a car accident involving a van carrying hives of bees, don’t stop to help.  I don’t care how hurt the people inside might be, or how bad the wreck looks, just use your cell phone to call the cops and just keep […]

In what is one of the weirdest celebrity endorsements (and perhaps stretching the definition of celebrity) is the following weird advertisement for the Whoooooo! Scratch-off Game from the North Carolina Education Lottery.  Apparently, Ric Flair is the most popular person in North Carolina, and he’s kept really busy in his semi-retirement doing things like this.  […]

The police departments of Polk County, Auburndale, Lakeland, and Winter Haven in Florida spent nearly a year trying to bust convicted drug dealer Michael Difalco.  When the bust went down on March 6 of this year, Difalco was caught with crystal meth, marijuana, illegal weapons, and over $30,000 worth of stolen property.  Unfortunately for embarrassed […]

Kenny Mahoney has a problem. It seems that his garden keeps getting ruined by animals. So he put out a motion sensor and video camera. The usual culprits abound; rabbits, birds, and deer have all had their way with the food. However, there is one unusual animal found in Mr. Mahoney’s garden in Fairdale, Kentucky. […]

Chinese dentist Yu Qian has a novel way to remind his patients that they need to brush their teeth three times a day. You see, over his 15 years of dentistry, he’s had to yank a lot of teeth. Out of his estimated 100,000 customers, he’s harvested 28,000 teeth, most of which were victimized by […]

You can find out how to do just about anything you want to online. If there’s a way to make something yourself, there’s some fanatic out there that’s going to give it a go, no matter how difficult it might be. We’ve talked about homemade glow sticks, and a homemade energy meter, but how about […]

Quirk Books, the genius book company who developed the idea behind Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, are trying their hand at reinvigorating another 19th Century novel by the mistress of manners, Jane Austen. More zombies? Hardly! That’s been done already. Try Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters on for size. I for one […]