Videos

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Like everyone, the death of Michael Jackson has been a serious shock.  Of course, when shocked, my first reaction is to mumble a lot of crass jokes about Boy Scouts and the like, but once it hit me that someone I grew up listening to died?  I have to admit, I’m kind of depressed.  A […]

I can’t think of one person who isn’t fascinated with the concept of weightlessness. Man has always dreamed of flying, and the zero-gravity situation of space makes this humanoid flight possible. However, you don’t really get to ask astronauts to perform stunts for you, unless you’re able to email the Japan Aerospace Exploration […]

Next time you get a big mug of coffee from your local coffee shop, don’t just give right into it and start gulping away. Not only will you spare yourself lots of mouth and tongue burns by taking your time, you might also get to see a little bit of creativity. If you’re […]

You know, I love how strange the Internet world is. A few days ago, a friend of mine linked me to a trailer for a heartwarming movie about a shark and an octopus who become friends. Actually, it’s Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus and they’re more like frenemies united in their declaration that […]

Obviously this isn’t a real movie trailer, just a spoof. But is there any time where movie trailers deserve spoofing more than in the summer action season? I mean, these are some of the biggest, dumbest movies you’ll see all year. Don’t you think that if someone could figure out a way […]

It’s been a long, hard week. Everyone I know is grumbling as we round the corner into the last day of the work week. They may not have jobs, they may have jobs they hate, they may be having problems with husbands and wives and kids. No matter what’s got you down […]