Contest Time: Fender Wants New Guitar Cases
Fender Guitars, in association with Edison Nation has started a contest to redesign or create new guitar and bass cases. For a prize they’re offering to buy the rights to the design off you. Isn’t that...
View ArticleAnnual Birdman Competition 2013
Apparently this weekend was the time to be in West Sussex England. They had the lawnmower endurance race and the annual Worthing Birdman event. Their birdman event looks a lot like the Red Bull Flugtag...
View ArticleWorld’s Oldest Man Older than Any Before, Maybe
Meet Carmelo Flores Laura, he’s a native Aymara herder living in Bolivia, and he’s 123 years old. For reference that puts his birth July 16th, 1890 which makes him as old at the stop sign, and shredded...
View ArticleWhere Was My Invitation? Air Guitar World Championships
Over the weekend the Air Guitar World Championships were held. And I wasn’t even invited. The 18th annual competition was held in the northern Finland city of Oulu. I’m guessing it’s held at this time...
View ArticleI Didn’t Win: National Beard and Moustache Championships
So, the National Beard and Moustache Championships just came to an end in New Orleans. You know why I didn’t win? I didn’t go. That and I couldn’t grow a beard if my life depended on it. I just don’t...
View ArticleIn Sports News: California Hosts Dog Surfing Competition
If you missed this one of ESPN 8 “The Ocho” or in Obscure Sports Quarterly (name that movie) here my report on the Annual Dog-Surfing Competition recently held in Huntington Beach, California. This is...
View ArticleIt’s Opinion Time: Toilet Paper Loading Direction
Lifehacker has just started another flame war over which is the top way the toilet paper should roll. Of course they are looking for, “polite, well-reasoned, and well-articulated arguments” but I’d...
View ArticleIf Only The Great Artists had Seen Star Wars
Have you ever played the game of outrageous hypotheticals? How about just “The Game?” Everyone loses. Well, consider this for a moment. If Star Wars had come out a long, long time ago in a place far,...
View ArticleMaking it Better: Updating Art with Super Heroes
Remember yesterday, yeah I was at home dying instead of at work not working. Somebody got me sick, I have my suspicions on who did it and when I find out you’ll read about a murder in the paper....
View ArticleShowoffs: Pilots Open Beer with Helicopter
If there’s one thing I learned from my high school shop class it’s that you should always use the right tool for the job. During the 3-day Chinese Helicopter Tournament 20 pilots demonstrated the...
View ArticleHallo-Win: Halloween 2013
Because today is Halloween and I can’t be bothered to write anymore. Here’s a bunch of costume ideas to add to the list of Hallowinners. No I’m not in these pictures. not that my costume isn’t epic,...
View ArticleAlmost Too Pretty to Eat: Steampunk Cake
I said almost. No cake is truly too pretty to eat. Rock Cakes based in the UK created this beautiful steampunk cake based on Brian Kesinger’s comic book character Molly McGuinness. This cake has...
View ArticleWill You be Attending? Loo of the Year Awards
It’s that time of year again. The Loo of the Year Awards are coming. For those of us in America you probably call it a bathroom. Unless you are talking to your devil of an 8th grade English teacher who...
View ArticleBest Use for Broccoli: Food Art
What do you do with food that is inedible? Things like broccoli and cucumbers. You use them for art obviously. While some people think you should be eating these trash items we know better. If God...
View ArticleSign Me Up: Naked Sledding World Championship
Slated for February 15th in the town of Braunlage, Germany the Naked Sledding World Championships are going to compete with the Olympics. Please say this is going to be televised, I’ll happily take a...
View ArticleDidn’t Watch it All: All the NES Start Screens Back to Back
Think back to the last time you played on an NES. Wasn’t that a great day? Birds were singing, the sun was shining, there was a light breeze blowing from the east, and you didn’t even have to go...
View ArticleOh Internet: Lays Asks for Chip Flavor Suggestions the Internet Responds as...
Remember last year when Lays did their promotion for people to choose a new flavor. In the end Cheesy Garlic Bread beat out Sriracha and Chicken & Waffles to our great dismay. Well this year...
View ArticleNice Work: Useless Door in Minecraft Only Opens at the End of the Universe
We’ve all seen videos of incredibly ambitious people building outrageous things in Minecraft. Thinks like the USS Enterprise, the entirety of the Game of Thrones world, and now this. It’s a door that...
View ArticleDidn’t See that Coming: Crystal Ball Starts House Fire
What is the last thing you want to hear while you try to take an afternoon nap. For me it’s a smoke detector. I get to nap rarely enough that when I finally do lie down I think I would rather burn to...
View ArticleLooks Like a Party: Lockheed Martin Duct-Taping Engineers to the Walls
What happens when you put a bunch of bored engineers in a room with a couple rolls of duct tape? With any other group you’d probably come up with several new hazing rituals, but with engineers they...
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