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More Than 78,000 People Have Applied to Die on Mars
Mars One, the Dutch company that is looking for a few individuals with the "right stuff" (the "right stuff" being wanting to leave Earth and never, ever return), reports that more than 78,000 people...
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Stylist Admits He Was High When He Created The Rachel Haircut
Buried in the midst of WWD's fawning profile of Jennifer Aniston's hair care line, hidden like the Where's Waldo of interesting 90's facts, is stylist Chris McMillan's assertation that he was totally,...
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Chinese Officials Are Using Giant Rocks to Get Promotions
With Marxist doctrine fading among many of the Chinese, superstition has become increasingly common with party officials looking to achieve a promotion or better workforce cohesion. In particular, Feng...
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Even Canada's Drones Are Nicer Than Ours
Leave it to Canada to do something nice with drones. Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced Friday that they were able to save a 25-year-old man's life by using a small drone helicopter to locate him...
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I Wish My Mother Would Call
Sometime in April 2010, my father, Victor, a veteran who spent most of his life as an engineer, hanged himself in a garage in Blackwood, New Jersey. He and my mother, Marguerite, had a thing in the...
View ArticleWatch The Fight Between Students That A Florida Bus Driver Arranged
A bus driver in Bartow, Florida has been charged with false imprisonment, child abuse, and neglect after pulling over and encouraging two students to fight in her own front yard. Polk County Sheriff...
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California Woman Displays Excellent Logic, Slaps Cop to Quit Smoking
Etta Mae Lopez was ready. She was ready to finally quit smoking. But she knew it wouldn't be easy. No, it was going to be a Herculean effort. Ms. Lopez considered her options — perhaps a few months in...
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Malcolm Shabazz, Malcolm X's Grandson, Was Murdered Over a Bar Bill
A dispute over a bar bill is the supposed cause of the beating that killed Malcolm Shabazz (grandson of Malcolm X) on Thursday morning in Mexico City, according to the AP. Shabazz, who led a troubled...
View ArticleWatch out for that cougar!
Watch out for that cougar! Fox is trying to reboot the 24 franchise with a "limited series" of 13 episodes. The timing is perfect - both Keifer Sutherland and Elisha Cuthbert's series were canceled...
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Judge Defies Obama, Wants Morning-After Pill Available For All Ages
A federal judge continued his criticism of the Obama administration's attempts to delay making the morning-after pill available to all women, of any age, without a prescription. Judge Edward R. Korman...
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Scientists May Have Found Brazilian Atlantis
Scientists are reporting the possibility of a lost continent off the coast of Brazil. Brazilian and Japanese geologists announced this week that they found granite about 8,000 feet underwater, 900...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich Having Some Trouble Understanding What a Smartphone Is
Newt Gingrich is puzzled by a new device he owns — the video-playing cellular telephone. Yesterday, Gingrich released the video above, titled "We're Really Puzzled." In it, Newt is puzzled as to what...
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Bloomberg Reporters Spied on Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner
Bloomberg reporters didn't only use Bloomberg terminals (the machines most widely used by the financial sector to monitor the market) to spy on Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan. They also spied on the...
View ArticleAmazing Colour Footage of Street Scenes of London in 1927
The film was shot by Claude Frisse-Greene, an early British pioneer of film. See? London wasn't always such a drab, horrible place as all other photographic representations make it out to be. [Via Vimeo]
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Admissions Waitlist Turns Students Into Stalkers
Today the New York Times takes us into a new kind of dating world, a world fraught with insecurity, inappropriate behavior, and heartbreak. That world is the college admissions waitlist. Forget...
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Three Dead after 36-Hour Standoff in Trenton
Three people are dead, and three are alive, after a 36-hour standoff between police and an armed man in Trenton, New Jersey ended early Sunday morning. The hostage-taker, identified as Gerald "Skip"...
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Poachers Steal Ten Percent of a Tortoise Species, Rescuers Kill Half
Nearly half of the critically endangered tortoises seized from smugglers in Thailand last month have died since the rescue, and the fate of the remaining tortoises is in the air. In March, Thai...
View ArticleNot content to merely terrorize adults, Chris Brown is now frightening Los...
Not content to merely terrorize adults, Chris Brown is now frightening Los Angeles children with "grimacing, sharp-toothed, red-eyed goblin" murals around his home. Brown argues that his neighbors are...
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Matt Drudge Has Beautiful, Perfect Posture
Matt Drudge would like to spend as little as four to five hours sitting down, working on his blog each day. But sometimes a sex survey or the N-Word happens and he is compelled to stay blogging for up...
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Hipster Thieves Caught Because They Just Had to Instagram Their Food
Nathaniel Troy Maye and Tiwanna Tenise Thomason stole thousands of identities. And they might have gotten away with it, had it not been for a Morton's steak with macaroni and cheese, a meal so perfect...
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