Conan O’Brien has decided to spend his last weeks as host of The Tonight Show sticking it to NBC. That’s the logic behind his show’s newest character, the Bugatti Veyron Mouse. It’s a Bugatti Veyron, the most expensive car in the world, with big ears and a mouse nose/whiskers attached to the grill. Why did […]
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Jay Versus Conan, Crazy Cartoon Rumble
Posted 1/20/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganThe Jay Leno/Conan O’Brien/NBC situation is getting a lot of publicity and news coverage. From Coco’s Craigslist solicitation on, it’s just getting stranger and stranger. However, there’s nothing stranger than this weird Chinese news cartoon from NMA News about the situation. From the people who brought you the amazingly weird Tiger Woods reenactment, here’s another […]
Read »Microwaving Wine Boxes Is A Bad Idea
Posted 1/19/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganRecently, I had a pretty dangerous experience. I took a piece of china that I had assumed was microwave safe, and put it in the microwave. In case you can’t tell by the set up, the china is actually old enough, or fancy enough, to have a metal lip around the plate. So, what I […]
Read »Cute Things Exploding
Posted 1/18/2010 7:00 am by Ron Hogan
There are two things everyone loves: cute things and explosions. Well, I like cute things and explosions anyway. That’s where the brilliant new website Cute Things Exploding comes in. They take your favorite viral videos and have them all end with something adorable blowing to smithereens. While YesButNoButYes describes the site as “designed by a […]
“Pants On The Ground” Fever Hits The NFL
Posted 1/18/2010 6:30 am by Ron HoganThe game between the Minnesota Vikings and Dallas Cowboys was pretty much over from the very beginning. Dallas fumbled. Dallas missed a field goal. The Vikings scored on a 45-yard touchdown bomb from veteran quarterback Brett Favre to Sidney Rice. By that time, it was clear that the game was going to be decided and […]
Read »Fake Gatorade Bottles Bash Tiger Woods
Posted 1/13/2010 8:00 am by Ron HoganIf you were shopping for Gatorade in Longmont, Colorado today, you might have sensed something was a bit amiss. Gatorade, long represented by Tiger Woods, was the target of an unusual art project. Well, the creator calls it pop art; the Food and Drug Administration may call it tampering or adulteration. Over 1000 bottles of […]
Read »Wake Up With The Death Metal Rooster
Posted 1/13/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s been called the Death Metal Rooster. While some birds have golden pipes, making beautiful music with their songs, this is a creaky old chanticleer with a throat like a finishing nail being dragged across a rusted out rain barrel. That horrible croaky crow actually makes it significantly more awesome, because singing badly and loudly […]
Read »KU’s Basketball Bombers
Posted 1/11/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganHave you ever seen someone make a half-court shot? It’s one of the most amazing feats in basketball. Basically, you heave the ball from about 47 feet away and hope you get the ball through the hoop. While one half-court shot is amazing, what would you say to five of them in a row? That’s […]
Read »Golden Girls Tribute Via Face Paint
Posted 1/08/2010 10:00 am by Ron HoganIt may seem strange for a boy to watch a show about grandmothers, but I was and am a huge fan of the classic TV sitcom, The Golden Girls. With veteran actresses like Bea Arthur, Betty White, and Rue McClanahan, it was like a murderer’s row of 70’s sitcom actresses, and once you added Estelle […]
Read »San Diego Zoo’s Baby Panda Becomes A Web Sensation
Posted 1/08/2010 7:30 am by Ron HoganThe world famous San Diego Zoo has one of the most successful captive breeding programs in the world. When it comes to pandas, nobody does it better. Their giant panda enclosure is celebrating their fifth live birth during the 12-year history of the program. Their newest resident also happens to be their biggest star, as […]
Read »Underwater Antarctic Monsters
Posted 1/07/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganThey’re oftentimes spotted by Japanese whaling ships while going about their rounds. The pale, giant, two-legged mermaid-like underweater creatures known as Ningen are described in a wide variety of ways, but however you see them, they remain one of Japan’s enduring mythological creatures. Rumor has it the Japanese government keeps a lot of all ningen […]
Read »A New Year’s Eve Benediction From Neil Gaiman
Posted 1/04/2010 7:00 am by Ron HoganAt a New Year’s Eve concert by Amanda Palmer (of the Dresden Dolls) with the Boston Pops at Boston’s Symphony Hall, there was a special guest. That man was none other than Neil Gaiman, and a few minutes before midnight, he came out onto the stage to give the crowd a benediction for the beginning […]
Read »Miami Dolphin Pat White Gets Bulldozed
Posted 1/04/2010 6:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s one of the biggest, most brain-rattling hits I’ve ever seen on the football field. In college, Pat White was an All American quarterback running the option at West Virginia. His unique blend of speed and passing accuracy made him perfect for the Miami Dolphins, who run a option-based attack called the Wildcat. Unfortunately for […]
Read »Epic Mash-Ups: The A Team And Star Wars
Posted 12/31/2009 9:30 am by Ron HoganI’ve talked before about how I love crazy viral video mash-ups, so it goes without saying that I saw the epic combination of The A Team’s theme with scenes from Star Wars, that it HAD to go somewhere on this website. The fact that it’s so incredibly well done and pitch perfect when you compare […]
Read »From Tree To Lumber
Posted 12/31/2009 9:00 am by Ron HoganWhen I saw this post at Make Online about how lumber is made, I knew it’d be interesting. The video is of a device called the Jackson Lumber Harvester 3 Saw Vertical Edger, and it’s the device that turns whole trees into 4×4 and 2×4 cuts of lumber. It’s mesmerizing to see just how quick […]
Read »Fighting AIDS In Africa: All You Need Is Love
Posted 12/30/2009 6:30 am by Ron HoganTo raise awareness for (Red)’s efforts to fight AIDS in Africa and around the world, on World AIDS Day, Starbucks launched what they call the Starbucks Love Project to raise awareness and get people thinking and talking more about the biggest crisis in Africa this side of starvation. One of the first things they did […]
Read »Battlestar Rhapsody
Posted 12/29/2009 6:00 am by Ron HoganThere’s nothing quite like a good mash-up video, is there? And once again, we’ve got the classic Queen tune “Bohemian Rhapsody” as the star, only this time it’s not being sung by Muppets. No, this video features the great Luke Ski parody tune “Battlestar Rhapsody” from his album Target: Audience set to scenes from Battlestar […]
Read »Merry Christmas From PopFi
Posted 12/25/2009 10:45 am by Ron HoganI’d like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Festivus, Happy Kwanzaa, or Joyous Whatever You Celebrate in December. Since I took over PopFi as my very own baby website, I’ve put in a lot of time and energy both in front of the audience and behind the scenes, and I’m grateful for […]
Read »Jack Bauer Shakes Down Santa Claus
Posted 12/22/2009 8:00 am by Ron HoganChristmas is the season for fun videos of all sorts, but nobody does fun viral videos like the guys at Rebel Virals. They’re the maniac minds behind this season’s funniest Christmas card/parody, which you can see at the Rebel Christmas Card site. If you’ve ever wanted to see Jack Bauer interrogating Santa Claus, they’ve got […]
Read »Cop Pulls Gun During Snowball Fight.
Posted 12/22/2009 6:00 am by Ron HoganLike I’ve always believed, if you give a man a license to carry a weapon, eventually the power goes to his head. That’s the case in Washington D.C., where an impromptu snowball fighting flash mob got a little out of hand when a cop pulled his weapon after being hit by snowballs. Not even […]
Read »Kremlin Buzzed by UFOs
Posted 12/21/2009 7:00 am by Ron HoganLast week, we had a UFO that actually turned out to be a Russian missile malfunctioning (supposedly) over Norway. Now, there’s an unexplained flying object that’s been spotted over the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Is this one going to be explained away as some sort of Norwegian missile gone off course? Or will they UFO […]
Read »YouTube Video Earns Man $30 Million Hollywood Deal
Posted 12/18/2009 8:00 am by Ron HoganYou’re just minding your own business, walking down the street or doing whatever it is that you do, and someone comes across you. Boom, you’re discovered! It’s every person’s Hollywood fantasy, but Fede Alvarez is living it. The producer/director/animator/jack of all trades from Uruguay has made his celluloid dreams come true, after his short film […]
Read »The 12 Days Of Christmas, Cop Style
Posted 12/18/2009 6:00 am by Ron HoganIt’s not often that we get to see the people behind the badges. I mean, we all know cops, and we all know of cops, but sometimes it’s hard to remember that behind the uniform is just a person, like you or me. Some of them are dour, some of them are goofy, some of […]
Read »Have Yourself A Heavy Metal Christmas
Posted 12/17/2009 8:00 am by Ron HoganI admit, one of the problems I have with getting into the holiday spirit is that, well, Christmas music is kind of lame. I mean, it’s the same songs you’ve heard for your entire life, and most of those songs are hundreds of years old, so there’s not much you can do with them to […]
Read »Christmas Light Hero
Posted 12/15/2009 10:30 am by Ron HoganIf you want to talk about crazy Christmas decorations, look past the deer with the decorated antlers and look at the following house. They’ve synced their Christmas lights up to the family Wii, popped in a copy of Activision’s Guitar Hero 3, and have managed to put together the coolest Christmas display since, well… ever. […]
Read »Berlusconi Battered, Bloodied At Rally
Posted 12/14/2009 10:30 am by Ron HoganItalian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is a controversial man. He owns half of Italy’s media properties, as well as the A.C. Milan football team, and is the longest-serving head of a G8 state. He has accomplished all this in spite of his many rude jokes, public relations blunders, a messy divorce and prostitution scandal, a […]
Read »A Dear Domesticated Deer
Posted 12/11/2009 7:30 am by Ron HoganThe Butera family has an unusual family pet. As a veterinarian, Melanie Butera runs into all kinds of unusual animals. However, when the family took in a sickly, abandoned doe with eye problems, they had no idea they were ending up with a pet for life. She’s Dillie the domesticated deer, and she’s possibly the […]
Read »Norway’s Disco UFO
Posted 12/10/2009 6:00 am by Ron HoganIt doesn’t look real, does it? However, folks in northern Norway are reporting seeing a strange spiraling blue light, swirling in the sky. It’s one of the oddest looking astronomical phenomenon I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen pretty much every type of UFO and unusual sky object that could be confused for a UFO in […]
Read »2009 Gets Auto-Tuned For Your Listening Pleasure
Posted 12/09/2009 8:30 am by Ron HoganOne of the biggest trends of the year has been Auto-Tune. It’s everywhere. Every song recorded in 2009 seems to feature auto-tuning in some way, and the trick of sound engineers everywhere has crossed over into the mainstream. In fact, people like Michael Gregory have even auto-tuned the news. That’s why an auto-tuned recap of […]
Read »DNA Perfume Smells Like Mad Science
Posted 12/08/2009 8:00 am by Ron HoganLots of people want to smell like celebrities. For example, my mom loves those Elizabeth Taylor perfumes. She’s especially a fan of White Diamonds, so for her birthday I got her one of those White Diamonds gift sets with the perfume, scented soaps, scented lotion, and some other stuff inside it. She was very pleased, […]
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