German Radio Station Offers Funeral Giveaway
Picture it: you’re young, you’re hip, you’re German. You and your friends have the world by the tail, smoking cigarettes in the Altstadt, eating “eis”, riding your bikes around Schönbusch Park while sipping a can of Jack and Coke you bought from a vending machine at the natural history…
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This Valentine’s Day, Say It With Roaches
Hoo boy, here it is already Valentine’s Day and you still haven’t picked out a gift for that special someone. You were planning on going shopping over the weekend, but you started watching Law and Order: Special Victims Unit on Netflix instant watch and there are just so many episodes! Plus,…
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Top Gun Footage Slipped Into Chinese News Segment
What is the coolest movie ever? Yes, it is Top Gun! Top Gun is boss as hell, with planes going zoom and dudes telling each other they stink but everybody joining together in the end to head over to “The Danger Zone” and blow up MiGs in some kind of undeclared war, apparently. Top Gun is so…
Man Found Nude in Cemetery, Photographing Spirits
A security camera set up to catch vandals instead recorded photos of a man hanging out fully naked in a cemetery in south Mississippi. The man was eventually identified as 47-year-old Robert Hurst, who told police that he “didn’t mean anything crazy” by his nude appearance in the graveyard,…
Chinese Farmer Builds Robots in His Spare Time
At the age of 11, little Wu Yulu sat on his doorstep in rural China and dreamed of building terrible man-machines, with all the dexterity and guile of a biological human but made of metal, for strength. Now 46, Wu has spent the past three decades following his tinkering dreams, hand-building…
German City Taxes Sex Work to Reduce Deficit
Money: right now, nobody has any of it. What can we do to make money exist again, so that we can pay our bills and cover our deficits and keep having fancy things like street lights and streets? The German city of Dortmund has come up with a hot, hot way to narrow their budget gap:
Scientific Artifacts Obliterated to Make Fancy Phone
Having trouble finding the perfect gift for that boorish snob on your list? Unsure about what to get for a witless braggart with terrible taste? Well look no further! Because a UK designer of “exclusive elite gadgets” has created an iPhone made out of meteorite and dinosaur teeth. It…
North Carolina Man Pretends to be Doctor, Hangs Around Emergency Room
Old People: Getting Tricked, Trapped, Breaking Stuff
There are a lot of things that seem pretty great about being old: you no longer have to pretend to care about things like “Hot February Fashions!!!” or “High Tech Must-Haves for Horse Lovers”; it suddenly becomes socially acceptable to be cranky; and politicians tremble in fear at the power of…
Bacon-Flavored Soda to Challenge Concept of “Refreshment”
In our increasingly complicated and fragmented world, where it is perilously easy to slip through the cracks and find yourself adrift in a gray limbo of anonymity, it is important to secure your context and fix your place in people’s minds by having a “thing”. Maybe being smart at sports is…
