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Death of a Gummy Bear

Posted 6/12/2008 11:58 am by Stephanie Sturgis

I’ve got a sweet tooth, but there’s one candy that rarely touches my sensitive palate.

I can’t abide Gummy Bears. I’m guessing even those stupid candy criminals didn’t even grab any of these during their stealing spree.
I know I must be in the minority as the sugary, sticky products keep turning up in all kinds […]

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Office Rampage Video Makes Suckers Out Of The Internet

Posted 6/12/2008 9:21 am by Ron Hogan

Remember that awesome viral video of that office worker going completely insane? Well, as it turns out, that wasn’t just some great hidden camera footage. No, it was just your every day, run of the mill viral marketing campaign. Instead of selling computer products or pepper spray, it was just a video selling […]

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Bombing On The Golf Course (Literally!)

Posted 6/11/2008 2:47 am by Ron Hogan

 Who doesn’t love a relaxing day on the golf course?  The sun’s shining, the grass is green and lush, there’s a nice cool breeze blowing through the trees.  Oh yeah, and there’s also discarded military explosives right off the tee box.  Wait, what?
Right off the 5th hole, Freddie McGee was operating a bulldozer with another […]

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Chicken Bomb

Posted 6/10/2008 11:27 pm by Stephanie Sturgis

I live in a rural area so seeing dead things along the side of the road isn’t uncommon.
Squashed raccoons, flattened opossums, dead deer and stinky stunted skunks regularly make up my daily drive to work.
But I’ll admit I have never spotted a chicken bomb on the edge of the highway.
That’s what one motorist in Connecticut […]

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Videos

Can You Pop Popcorn With Your Cell Phone??

Posted 6/09/2008 9:23 am by Stephanie Sturgis

Everyone knows we love a viral video here at Pop Fi.
Whether it’s an office worker going insane, an ugly divorce situation or the Obama kid, we try to keep on spreading the video love.
One of the latest to hit the Intertubes is a clip of folks using cell phones to heat up some kernels and […]

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Bicycling With Bubbles And Seeds

Posted 6/05/2008 11:18 am by Stephanie Sturgis

There’s just something about bubbles that regress every adult back into a kid again.
When I see some tots blowing soap bubbles on their front lawn, I either want to take the wand away from them and create my own round wonders or chase the floaters and pop each and every one.
An ingenious little design called […]

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Videos

Office Worker Has Huge Meltdown

Posted 6/04/2008 5:11 am by Stephanie Sturgis

We’ve all gotten frustrated at work before.
The daily stresses sometimes push us to the edge.
But most of us pull ourselves back from the brink.
Then there are those folks who go careening over that precipice and land in Crazyville.
Think back to the hedgehog tossed in anger issue Pop Fi has covered for you.
That seems very harmless […]

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Videos

Weird Creepy Pencil Face

Posted 6/03/2008 11:57 am by Stephanie Sturgis

I ran across this video produced at the Savannah College of Art and Design that is pretty cool and creepy.
After you watch this one, you’ll never look at a No. 2 pencil in the same way again.
It’s got a weird Alice in Wonderland kind of vibe.
I wonder what would happen if you used Pencil Face […]

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Videos

Japanese Bruce Willis

Posted 6/03/2008 9:31 am by Stephanie Sturgis

Every time I surf around the Internet, I invariably run across something that makes me scratch my head.

Often that scalp tickling comes courtesy of a Japanese television show featuring something like a velcro wall or a crazy obstacle courses.
That was the case when I ran across a clip of an Asian man doing his finest […]

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Holy Cow - Ice on Mars

Posted 6/02/2008 8:28 am by Stephanie Sturgis

Pop Fi recently shared info about NASA’s upcoming Kepler Mission through which you can send your name into space, now NASA is all excited about its Phoenix Mars Lander’s recent discovery.
Before it even reached out and touched the soil of the Red Planet, Phoenix sent a photo that created a stir back at home base […]

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Images

No Leaks in Umbrella House

Posted 5/30/2008 12:51 pm by Stephanie Sturgis

Pop Fi has brought all sorts of homes to your attention. We’ve had houses made of newspaper, “backpack” additions to condos and houses made from recycled trash. Even dog houses that would make some people jealous.
The latest unusual home is a house made of umbrellas. The structure by Japanese designer Kengo Kuma is comprised of […]

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The Penalty For Assault With A Dead(ly) Hedgehog

Posted 5/30/2008 9:10 am by Ron Hogan

We’ve all been hedgehog-throwing mad.  I know I sure have.  It’s important, when you’re at your angriest, to step back, take some deep breaths, and slowly put down the Erinaceinae, because if you’re anything like the New Zealander who threw the last hedgehog, you’ll end up paying a hefty fine.
While $545 is a pretty steep […]

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Intelligent Digital Pot Reveals Pertinent Plant Info

Posted 5/29/2008 10:40 am by Stephanie Sturgis

It doesn’t take long to figure out I don’t have a green thumb.

One quick look at the window sill where my few pitiful potted plants reside shows my sheer lack of intuitive human/plant interaction. Only the heartiest greenery survives my care.
There may be a rescue in sight for my not-so-green house plants.
It’s the Digital Pot. […]

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Images

Wacky Packages Stuck on the Coffee Table

Posted 5/28/2008 11:10 am by Stephanie Sturgis

Who doesn’t love some gross humor.
Come on, admit it. The lowbrow can still be funny.
We were taught this at an early age thanks to the folks at Topps who produced Wacky Packages stickers.
You remember don’t you. A pack of stickers with parodies of actual products available on the local grocer’s shelves reformed into a panoply […]

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Images

Vintage Photos - Pics from the Past

Posted 5/27/2008 11:38 am by Stephanie Sturgis

There’s nothing like looking back at society through the snapshots of the people.
I can spend hours scrolling through vintage photos and wondering how the lives of the people depicted were different from mine or just same as what I go through.
If you enjoyed Tracy’s earlier link to vintage photos here at Pop Fi, you’ll certainly […]

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Gamers Can Buckle Up Old School

Posted 5/22/2008 9:35 am by Stephanie Sturgis

I have to admit I’m anxious to get to play with the new Wii Fit.
The stand-on board from Nintendo looks like a real test of balance and, considering I’m not the most graceful, it will be a challenge.
One thing about the Fit, I don’t imagine the big white rectangle will be turned into a […]

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