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XKCD Loves The Internet

Posted 2/08/2010 10:30 am by Ron Hogan

It’s one of my favorite XKCD strips of all time:  XKCD Loves The Discovery Channel.  And now it’s come to life in what has to be the ultimate tribute to the Internet thanks to Olga Nunes, featuring puppets, Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctrow, Miss Cellania, Google Zurich, and pretty much everyone of any importance […]

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Delicious Pepsi H1N1 For Sale!

Posted 2/08/2010 10:00 am by Ron Hogan

I know what you’re thinking.  Well, I know what I’m thinking, anyway.  “People still care about H1N1?”  Apparently so!  That’s why Walgreen’s Drug Stores are putting H1N1 in their drinks, snacks, and even their Buffalo wings.  It’s a sure-fire way to get people to pay up for an anti-H1N1 vaccine; you just have to poison […]

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Anti-Dog Sonic Stunner

Posted 2/08/2010 9:30 am by Ron Hogan

It’s the longest-running continual battle since the Hundred Years’ War, and there’ll soon be a new weapon at the front.  It’s the battle between the postal carrier and the dog.  Every year, thousands of postmen are bitten, and every year the current anti-dog peppermint spray is proven inadequate on the field of combat.   It’s […]

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Buy A Ghost Town, Only $3.1 Million

Posted 2/08/2010 9:00 am by Ron Hogan

If you’ve always wanted to own a relic of the Cold War, a one-of-a-kind item was recently auctioned off.  The town of Skrunda, in what is now Latvia, is not on any map.  During the Cold War, it was known as Skrunda-1, and was one of Russia’s secret cities, serving as a Soviet radar base […]

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Don’t Hide From Cops At A Police Station

Posted 2/08/2010 8:30 am by Ron Hogan

One of the most important rules of any criminal is learning how to hide in plain sight.  That is, you blend into the crowd, into the environment, be just another person wandering around in the aisles of the store before you make your shoplift.  That’s how you get away with that sort of thing.  It […]

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Former Georgia Tech Student Turns Shogun Assassin

Posted 2/08/2010 8:00 am by Ron Hogan

Taking a page from the playbook of one Sho Kosugi, when a disgruntled former graduate student had a score to settle, he didn’t go for a gun.  No sir or ma’am, firearms are for fools.   Kshitij Shrotri went for the more civilized implement of death, the sword.  Police say he went back to Georgia […]

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I Killed Them My Way

Posted 2/08/2010 7:30 am by Ron Hogan

If you thought karaoke violence was bad in the United States, you’re not familiar with The Philippines.  Butchering someone’s favorite song might get you beaten up in America, but if you do that in Southeast Asia?  You’ll risk getting killed.
The Philippines is one of the world’s biggest hotbeds for karaoke, where the people pride themselves […]

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Bored To Death, Literally

Posted 2/08/2010 7:00 am by Ron Hogan

Thanks to my menial day job, I spend a lot of time being bored.  What I didn’t know was that being bored can kill you, according to a study from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.  A longitudinal study was made of over 7,500 civil servants, ages 35-55, who were […]

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Super Bowl Ads Get Pantsless And Weird

Posted 2/08/2010 6:30 am by Ron Hogan

During last night’s Super Bowl, there was one really disturbing trend that emerged.  There were a lot of guys without pants on.  From the sumo wrestlers in their mawashis to an extremely casual Friday ad from pants company Dockers, this was the year of being sans pantaloons for a lot of Super Bowl advertisers.  I […]

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Saints March To A Super Bowl Victory

Posted 2/08/2010 6:00 am by Ron Hogan

It wasn’t exactly a classic Super Bowl, but it was the latest in a string of very good Super Bowls.  In the end, it was two surprise plays that won the game moreso than anything Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees did:  Peyton Manning’s win-sealing interception and an onside kick to start the second half.  Those […]

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Terry Pratchett’s Case For A Noble Death

Posted 2/06/2010 6:00 am by Ron Hogan

It goes without saying that Terry Pratchett, one of the most beloved and talented fantasy writers of this or any other generation, escaped my notice until a few months after he announces to the world he’s got early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease.  Right as I discover the world he has created, forces beyond his control […]

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Preteen Mother Gives Birth At Age 11

Posted 2/05/2010 11:45 am by Ron Hogan

While we’ve not quite caught up with China’s 9-year-old mother, we’ve at least tied with Bulgaria’s 11-year-old mother for youngest recent child birth after an 11-year-old girl somewhere in the Northeastern United States gave birth to a healthy baby boy.  Even America has pregnant 11-year-old kids now, if only because we have to keep up […]

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Delicious Camel Burgers For Sale

Posted 2/05/2010 10:30 am by Ron Hogan

Dubai is one of the most forward-thinking countries in the whole of the UAE, but one of its biggest food trends right now is derived from ancient sources.  In the Middle East, there’s not much grass or water for proper cattle, so beef isn’t terribly available.  However, camels are everywhere.  The restaurant chain Local House […]

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Blame It On The Monks

Posted 2/05/2010 10:00 am by Ron Hogan

The United Kingdom has a drinking problem, and few places in the Isles are chugging down as much hooch as the Scottish.  The youth of Scotland are drinking so much that the Scottish Parliament is currently attempting to ban sales of a certain type of alcohol that’s taking the blame for a lot of social […]

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Airplane 101

Posted 2/05/2010 9:30 am by Ron Hogan

Have you ever wondered what all the various parts, doors, and seams on an airplane are?  Well, if you need a ground-up education in aircraft to figure out the engine from the cabin, you’re in luck.  South African airline Kulula and ad firm Atmosphere have put together Flying 101, an infographic/advertising campaign that is currently […]

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Man Mauled By His Own Dogs

Posted 2/05/2010 9:00 am by Ron Hogan

Four years ago, he saved the dogs’ lives.  This year, they took his.  A 52-year-old doctor from Ljubljana, Romania, was found mauled to death by his own pet dogs in his backyard, which surprised no one save the man himself.  After all, at one point, his beloved bullmastiffs were going to be put down by […]

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13-Year-Old QB Commits To USC

Posted 2/05/2010 8:30 am by Ron Hogan

When you’re a 13-year-old boy, you’re not supposed to think too far ahead.  Then again, not all 13-year-olds got written up as the quarterback of the future by Sports Illustrated… when they were 11.  David Sills is a seventh-grade student at Red Lion Christian Academy in Bear, Delaware; he’s also a quarterback and one of […]

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Tweeting Pictures Of Earth From Space

Posted 2/05/2010 8:00 am by Ron Hogan

It’s amazing just how popular Twitter has become.  It’s such a big deal that even astronauts use it!  Not only are they using it, they’re also using the power of Twitter and Twitpic to beam images of the Earth back from space!  Just check out io9’s gallery of Tweeted space photographs from Astronaut Jose and […]

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Cops Accused Of Being Too Friendly With K9 Partner

Posted 2/05/2010 7:30 am by Ron Hogan

There’s bonding with your dog, and then there’s bonding with your dog.  Five corrections officers in Powhatan County, Virginia, have been accused of getting a little too friendly with their K9 partner during training sessions.   Prosecutors accuse the handlers of touching the dog inappropriately in a very personal area.  I know you want to […]

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Homemade Rocket Bombs At Sledding Party

Posted 2/05/2010 7:00 am by Ron Hogan

It was his second annual sledding party, but the first time an unnamed 62-year-old man tried to build a homemade rocket sled.  In theory, the idea was… okay, I’m not going to be kidding anyone here.  In theory, the idea was dumb.  The man wanted to build a rocket, then attach it to his sled […]

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The Super Bowl’s Halftime Counter-Programming

Posted 2/05/2010 6:30 am by Ron Hogan

It’s Super Bowl weekend, and that means most of you out there (at least in America) are going to a party on Sunday, hosting a party on Sunday, or settling down to watch a football game this weekend.  While the National Football League has finally managed to match up two of the best teams in […]

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Man Fights To Save Dream Home

Posted 2/05/2010 6:00 am by Ron Hogan

Robert Fidler had a dream; like a lot of people (me), he wanted to live in a castle.  As a farmer, he had plenty of land to build on, but for some reason, he could never get the permission of local government to undertake his project and build his perfect home.  So he studied the […]

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A Sarcastic Principal Gets In Trouble? I’m SO SURPRISED

Posted 2/04/2010 10:30 am by Ron Hogan

If there was ever a post screaming for a SarcMark, it’s this one.  Litchfield Elementary School principal Ron Sterr no doubt gets a lot of caustic, overly critical remarks from parents, but when he returns the favor with a sarcastic letter of his own, he gets suspended for it.  The letter, sent home to parents […]

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The Strange Worlds Of Matthew Albanese

Posted 2/04/2010 10:00 am by Ron Hogan

It looks like a photograph of Mars, but it’s not.  That’s actually 12 pounds of cinnamon, charcoal, paprika, thyme, and chili powder artfully arranged into a harsh, desert landscape.  It’s one of the many strange worlds depicted by artist Matthew Albanese in his collection titled (appropriately enough) Strange Worlds.   Albanese uses everyday materials to […]

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Polygamist Woman Given Six Months To Pick A Husband

Posted 2/04/2010 9:30 am by Ron Hogan

It’s not unprecedented; for some reason, judges usually give a polygamist lots of time to end his various illegal marriages.  In the case of Lorri L. Freesland, from Kinde, Michigan, she gets six months to choose between her two husbands.  One of whom she married in 2000, though he moved to Alaska without a divorce […]

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Virginity Auction Nets Kiwi Student $45K

Posted 2/04/2010 9:00 am by Ron Hogan

How much can you get for the most precious gift of all?  About $45,000.  That’s the going rate for a 19-year-old girl’s virginity in New Zealand, after an anonymous auctioneer known only as Unigirl sold her virginity online via the online auction house.  The money will be going to fund her college education, so she […]

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Frozen Man Hides From Cops In Snow

Posted 2/04/2010 8:30 am by Ron Hogan

We’ve seen a lot of criminals getting caught because of the snow lately.  It leaves tracks easy to follow and makes get-away driving a lot more difficult, so it’s only natural that the snow is helpful to police, but one man tried to make snow helpful to crooks and paid the price.  An unnamed 23-year-old […]

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Europe’s Oldest Man Celebrates His 110th Birthday

Posted 2/04/2010 8:00 am by Ron Hogan

There aren’t many people who can say they’ve been around long enough to have seen the invention of light bulbs, but Stanley Lucas is close.  After all, the oldest still-burning light is only 109, and Stanley celebrated his 110th birthday yesterday.  That makes Stanley the oldest man in Europe, and third-oldest man in the world!  […]

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Predators, Prey Choose To Play Rather Than Fight

Posted 2/04/2010 7:30 am by Ron Hogan

Three young cheetahs on the prowl manage to separate a young impala, a deer-like member of the antelope family, from the rest of the herd.  I’ve watched enough nature shows to know what happens next, and I imagine phototographer Michel Denis-Huot knew what was supposed to happen next, too.  That little impala is destined to […]

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Pierced, Gothic Kittens

Posted 2/04/2010 7:00 am by Ron Hogan

Holly Crawford, a 35-year-old from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, had an unusual online business.  She sold kittens.  Lots of people sell kittens, so Holly differentiated herself via good marketing by picking up her piercing kit and marketing pierced, customized gothic kittens.  She used a 14-gauge needle, the likes of which are normally used on cattle, to do […]

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