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What Is A Scrudle And Why Do I Want One?

Posted 11/20/2009 10:05 am by Ron Hogan

Margaret O’Callaghan had a need for a new type of kitchen utensil.  The round-bottomed ladle and the spatula are just not good enough when you’re dealing with things like crock pots and serving dishes.  That’s why she invented the scrudle, a combination ladle and spatula designed to scrape the deliciousness from any sort of cooking […]

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Backpack Snag Prevents Suicide

Posted 11/20/2009 9:00 am by Ron Hogan

Ready to end it all, a 30-year-old Romanian man traveled to the Gulf of Corinth in Greece.  As he leapt from the cliffs to take his plunge into the Mediterranean sea, some 262 feet below him, he ran into a problem.  His backpack kept snagging on the cliffs, slowing his fall.  This meddlesome backpack ended […]

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Los Angeles Sans Traffic

Posted 11/20/2009 8:30 am by Ron Hogan

Every day, Tom Baker deals with the issue of traffic.  Given Southern California’s massive concentration of cars, it’s no wonder that Baker would get frustrated dealing with the daily traffic routine.  That inspiration resulted in these great images of Los Angeles without the cars.   Here’s the full image gallery, and it’s awesome.
I love the […]

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Arrested Over Not Leaving A Tip

Posted 11/20/2009 8:00 am by Ron Hogan

College students Leslie Pope, John Wagner, and four of their friends went out for dinner at the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  They had to get their own cutlery and napkins, had to walk to the bar to get refills on their drinks, and they had to wait over an hour for salad and chicken […]

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Inside The Salt Mine

Posted 11/20/2009 7:30 am by Ron Hogan

Have you ever wondered where salt comes from?  I mean, salt is in everything from fertilizers (potassium chloride) to the dinner table (sodium chloride), but where does it actually come from?  Why, salt mines, of course!  They’re not just for horrible industrial accidents or mad scientist lairs anymore.  English Russia has a great look inside […]

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Google Announces Chrome OS

Posted 11/20/2009 7:00 am by Ron Hogan

Revealing what is one of the worst-kept secrets in computing, Google has finally announced that they were indeed going public with the development of a computer operating system, cleverly called Google Chrome OS.  You can read the blow-by-blow coverage of the Chrome OS announcement press conference if you’d like (it’s worth a look for the […]

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Waistline-Busting Movie Snacks

Posted 11/20/2009 6:30 am by Ron Hogan

When you’re sitting in the theater, all decked out in your Twilight gear, you’re going to want a snack.  I mean, it’s only natural, right?  Once you walk into the theater and you smell that wonderful popcorn smell filtering in from the lobby, even the strongest-willed of dieters feels a moment of weakness.  However, if […]

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Frightening New Moon Merchandise

Posted 11/20/2009 6:00 am by Ron Hogan

For some reason, the kids these days love the Twilight saga.  Believe me, it pains me to call it the Twilight saga, because to me a saga is a great, sweeping work of masterful literature, not a teenage vampire romance novel.  Either way, the latest movie based on the Twilight books, New Moon (officially The […]

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Moldova’s Swine Flu Vaccine Is Garlic And Onions

Posted 11/19/2009 10:00 am by Ron Hogan

The Moldovan military isn’t very large.  There are only about 6500 men in Moldova’s armed forces, defending a country of about 3.5 million.  However, what the Moldovan military lacks in manpower they make up for in breath power.  You see, in order to fight off the swine flu that is raging throughout the country, the […]

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Black Market Waffles And The Eggo Crisis

Posted 11/19/2009 9:30 am by Ron Hogan

People worry about all kinds of crises as the world ends, but as the movie Zombieland taught us, sometimes it’s our snack foods that are most important to our happiness.  For Tallahassee, it was his beloved Hostess Twinkies.  If your favorite food is the humble Eggo waffle from General Mills, then you’d best head to […]

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USB Weapons For Digital Warriors

Posted 11/19/2009 8:30 am by Ron Hogan

Lots of people like to think they’ve got the skills of a keyboard ninja, but what good is a ninja without weapons?  Yes, he can still sneak around and attack any technological problem with his or her bare hands, but it’s so much easier and messier if you have something you can do damage with.  […]

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Mysterio Predicts Your Holiday Gifts

Posted 11/19/2009 8:00 am by Ron Hogan

I love goofy little websites like this.  From the Wal-Martians to quality engineering, I love a nice, odd corner of the Internet to investigate.  If it’s something that can result in some comedy thanks to random word generation, even better.   That’s why when Mysterio offered to predict my holiday gifts, I jumped at the […]

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Piranhas Invade Florida

Posted 11/19/2009 7:30 am by Ron Hogan

While fishing in a retention pond in Palm Springs, Florida, a 14-year-old boy fished up something that doesn’t belong in Florida.  This invasive species is the dangerous meat-eating piranha.  That’s right, there were not one, but two piranhas caught in the wild in the United States. The most troubling aspect is that the two piranha […]

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Klingon As A First Language

Posted 11/19/2009 7:00 am by Ron Hogan

Linguist d’Armond Speers is an odd bird.  How else could you explain someone that taught his son Klingon as his first language? For the first three years of his son’s life, Speers spoke to his son only in the fictional alien language Klingon from the Star Trek universe.  His reasoning?  It was an experiment to […]

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Santa Demands The Swine Flu Vaccine

Posted 11/19/2009 6:30 am by Ron Hogan

Among the many groups of folks who get swine flu vaccine priority are child-care workers like teachers, daycare employees, medical personnel, and those sorts of people.  Given that swine flu is everywhere, people are jockeying for a place on the swine flu priority list.  There are only so many vaccines to go around, and thousands […]

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Pantsless Crook Gets Stuck In The Window

Posted 11/19/2009 6:00 am by Ron Hogan

You know, it’s got to be pretty embarrassing if you get stuck in a wall.  I mean, it’s okay for a cute little hedgehog to get stuck in a wall, because it’s a hedgehog.  It has a brain the size of a walnut; you don’t expect it to be smart enough not to crawl halfway […]

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A Walk In The Park

Posted 11/18/2009 12:30 pm by Ron Hogan

It’s kind of a dreary, wet day here.  I’m not feeling my best, I’m having a bad day at work, and quite frankly, I could use a pick-me-up.  Thankfully, MLW Photography has put together an incredible slideshow video detailing a walk through Manhattan’s beautiful and famous Central Park set to the song “Life in Technicolor […]

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Bomb-Proof Wallpaper

Posted 11/18/2009 10:30 am by Ron Hogan

Neatorama calls it bomb-proof wallpaper.  No matter what you call it, the X-Flex Blast Protection System is quite possibly the world’s most indestructible sheet of paper.  Basically, it’s Kevlar webbing (like the kind you use in a bullet-proof vest) writ large, with an adhesive backing so you can just plaster it to the inside of […]

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Power-Generating Music Pants

Posted 11/18/2009 9:00 am by Ron Hogan

The idea is there.  You take a pair of normal workout pants, combine them with the MP3 player of your choice, and then figure out a way to turn the kinetic energy generated by movement (like running or biking) and turn it into actual energy to power the MP3 player.  That’s the idea behind the […]

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Friday The 13th-Inspired Fashion

Posted 11/18/2009 8:00 am by Ron Hogan

Fashion designer Marc Ecko’s designs draw from a variety of inspirations, but there’s nothing as cool as his Black Rhino clothing articles.  After all, the Black Rhino collection is the home of the incredibly awesome Black Rhino Jason Hoodie, inspired by Jason Voorhees and the classic 80’s slasher movies in the Friday the 13th series.  […]

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Bad Breath Bandit

Posted 11/18/2009 7:30 am by Ron Hogan

Police in Tamarac, Florida, are looking for a man who robbed a TD Bank location in Broward County on Monday morning.  The clues to his identity are sketchy, but odds are you’ll smell him before you see him.  You see, this mystery robber has been called the bad breath bandit (by me) due to his […]

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$20,000 Settlement For Broken Teeth

Posted 11/18/2009 7:00 am by Ron Hogan

Accidents happen, but who is responsible for those accidents?  When Shane Reese, a 12-year-old kid at Intermediate School 219 in the Bronx, New York, took a soccer ball to the face during an impromptu dodgeball game involving over 100 students, he got hurt.  It’s not surprising, considering soccer balls are much harder than those soft […]

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Madeira Beach Monster Strikes Tampa Canals

Posted 11/18/2009 6:00 am by Ron Hogan

If you reported seeing a giant monster stalking the canals in the Madeira Beach area of Tampa, Florida, people would say you’re crazy.  Surely Russ Sittlow, a retired 78-year-old engineer, knows this.  However, after having captured a beast he calls Normandy Nessie (after the road he lives on) on film twice and having spotted it […]

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Unfriending The Word Of The Year

Posted 11/17/2009 1:33 pm by Ron Hogan

I love these pointless little declarations about the English language from companies like the New Oxford American Dictionary.  Every year I keep an eye out to see what the new word of the year is, and every year it’s something that, well, I figured already existed.  For example, the big word this year was unfriend, […]

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Woman Hides In Suitcase To Enter US

Posted 11/17/2009 1:15 pm by Ron Hogan

People will do a lot of crazy things to try and get into the United States for a shot at a better life.  When you’re dealing with accused illegal immigrant smugglers, like Maria Candelaria Moreno of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Mexican native Ricardo Moreno Separza, there’s no depths to which those people will sink to make […]

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One Man’s Nightmare: Cake For Every Meal

Posted 11/17/2009 9:45 am by Ron Hogan

As the old saying goes, “Be careful what you wish for, you must might get it.”  No doubt Cheng Yu was like every other kid growing up and wished he could have dessert for every meal.  Then he met Tian Mae, compulsive baker.  Now his marriage is on the rocks thanks to cake for every […]

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Preteen Boy Shoots Intrusive Bear

Posted 11/17/2009 9:15 am by Ron Hogan

What do you do when the bear won’t shoo?  Well, if you’re an anonymous 11-year-old boy in Driggs, Idaho, and you’ve got an American black bear on your front porch, threatening your family, there’s only one thing you can do.  Take care of the threat.  The boy grabbed a rifle and, after the bear refused […]

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Hungry Hungry Hippos Maul Crocodile Invader

Posted 11/17/2009 8:45 am by Ron Hogan

In some ways, the biggest mistake you’ll ever make is your last one.  That’s what a crocodile in Tanzania found out when he confronted a group of hippos in the River Mara.  The creature approached the group of hippos, but when they formed up defensive ranks to protect their babies, for some unknown reason, he […]

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15 Sci-Fi Inventions Come To Life

Posted 11/17/2009 8:00 am by Ron Hogan

There is nothing more exciting to the mind of a creative person than the allure of infinite possibilities.  And what sort of novel utilizes infinite possibilities more than science fiction?  There is no genre of literature that has so captivated the mind and so inspired the inventor than sci-fi, as you can see by these […]

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Skin Implants, Corset Piercings, And Split Tongues

Posted 11/17/2009 7:00 am by Ron Hogan

Throughout history, there’s been one constant.  People are going to do whatever they can to make themselves more beautiful.  Whether it’s a tattoo of an Internet superstar like Tay Zonday, a tooth tattoo, an eyeball coloration, or even an amputation disguise, there’s no shortage of ideas on what people can do to the body to […]

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