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For over 150 years, New York City has ushered in the holiday season with a uniquely New York tradition.  Every big retailer in New York’s iconic Fifth Avenue does window displays.  Basically, the front window of Macy’s or Saks becomes a mini holiday panorama, and as you walk down the street, every store tries to […]

The streets of Dhaka are running red with blood.  We’re not talking little trickles of blood, either; we’re talking full-on blood flood filling the city, turning the capital of Bangladesh into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.  There have been lots of horrible flooding events, like a flood of toxic sludge and street-clogging floods of frogs, but a […]

There’s just something about the waters around Puerto Princesa that lends itself to giant pearls.  The port city on the Philippine island of Palawan is the place where the world’s largest pearl, a 14-pound hunk called the Pearl of Allah or Pearl of Lao, was discovered.  Now, it turns out, a local man’s been sleeping […]

There’s nothing quite like walking into a video store, looking at the rows of boxes, and selecting a movie to watch.  It was one of my favorite things as a kid, and one of the few reasons why I went to Blockbusters right down to the end of their run.  Even after Blockbuster folded, I […]

Francisco Rivera Ordonez was simply carrying on a family tradition.  He’s a fifth generation bullfighter, meaning fighting bulls is the family business.  Generation after generation after generation, his family has been in the fighting ring year after year after year, and now he’s getting his daughters into the family business.  Ordonez put a picture up […]

The Room is one of my favorite movies.  It’s the rare film where someone spent a lot of money and did the wrong thing at every possible turn.  A passion project for mysterious, secretive director Tommy Wiseau, who claims to have been raised in Louisiana and only will call himself an American despite an impenetrable […]

Every year, the start of Pumpkin Spice Latte season is greeted with a host of social media posts, Instagram photos, Facebook likes, and all the other stuff that people do to spread the word about sugary goodness.  However, not every holiday drink is the star of such a social media platform, even if most of […]

You can’t play sports without lights these days.  The days of the day game have come to an end, and while day games are still fun on weekends or on a holiday, most of your major game time is going to be spent under the lights, assuming those lights actually work.  When the lights go […]

It’s not every day someone gets so angry they decide to take their fight with the police straight to the police, but people from Texas are a different breed, more than willing to roll up to the cop shop, Assault At Precinct 13 style, and take the fight right to the police.  That’s just what […]

The Kardashian media empire is now down a couple of members.  Sure they’ve added Kanye and baby North West to the clan, but they’re without their senior member.  Or rather, he’s still around, just with a different name and a different gender.  The former Bruce Jenner is now Caitlyn, making a splashy public debut via […]

Dr. Ian Crozier was on the front lines in the global war against the dangerous ebola virus, and he got burned for it.  It’s one of the biggest killers out there, and even under strictest precautions, it’s still a very dangerous disease that affects caregivers and medical personnel alike.  Crozier was one of those personnel, […]

Some things never change, but some things have to change with the times.  With every passing year, something shifts slightly.  Nothing stays the same in the NFL, from the franchise quarterback to the team owner and the stadium.  Even the vaunted Cleveland Browns, the team started by Paul Brown himself. The Cleveland Browns have unveiled […]

Say what you want to about the relative merits of Facebook, but with 1.35 billion users, businesses, and whatnot either signed up or actively participating, it’s a huge pool of information that most places are locked out of due to corporate Internet and intranet policies.  However, given how much people need Facebook to work to […]

Every year, Google does something fun for the holidays.  It can be something big, like free post cards or launching an awesome Santa Tracker website and app with awesome games, or it’s something simple like a little fun logo.  In this case, since the big present is out from under the Google tree, it’s time […]

Even if you like clowns, you have to admit they can easily become unsettling.  Just a few little tweaks in the makeup, maybe drop the real smile for a painted-on smile, splatter a little blood, and what normally delights children becomes a monster straight out of Stephen King.  If those clowns are skulking about in […]