Cracked, one of the only site that can actually pull off a decent “Top X” list, traumatizes your inner, speckled teen with five horrible rites of manhood from other countries. But do any of them trump…middle school gym class? [Cracked]

The National Archives and Records Administration and Footnote have worked together to produce an online, searchable, version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Allowing users to search by name, rank, branch of service or hometown the service shares information about the record of each soldier’s record.
Facts about The Interactive Wall
At full size, The Wall […]

Amazing. Reading this it appears a 63 year old Russian émigré to Israel has solved a 38 year old math puzzle: how to give perfect directions.
I’m not sure I get the ins and outs but… Wow!
A mathematical puzzle that baffled the top minds in the esoteric field of symbolic dynamics for nearly four decades has […]

After having read Pack of Thieves by Richard Chesnoff, I have attentively followed news about reparations. The brutality and single-mindedness with which the Nazis and their collaborators worked to steal from their victims is nothing short of stunning; the efforts to return that property generally less than enthusiastic.
The Belgians are standing up and doing […]

This is the kind of thing we’ve always wanted to see from NASA:
Astronauts bound for orbit this week will dabble in science fiction, assembling a “monstrous” two-armed space station robot that will rise like Frankenstein from its transport bed.
It seems DEXTRE, as this monster robot is known, is guaranteed not to run amok or eat […]

For some reason it’s newsworthy that this simple flannel-lined windbreaker by Baracuta of Manchester has just reached its 70th birthday. Maybe it’s because Ryan O’Neal helped popularize it, or because Frank Sinatra did, or because Elvis did or because yesterday’s Daniel Craig Steve McQueen wore it too.
Me, I hate having ribbed elastic cuffs on my […]

It’s so common it’s a cliche: game geeks’ girlfriends and wives never get any action. For some ridiculous reason, video games are all too frequently more compelling to this dork set of society than their partner’s jubblies. JennyLC Chowdhury, an Interactive Telecommunications grad student at NYU, has created a possible solution to this problem with […]

Granted, these are from a turn of the last century edition of Ladies Home Journal, so who really expected them to be right about anything (yuk yuk yuk), but seriously, folks…it’s amazing how spot-on some of them were, and how radically incorrect others were. Highlights include:
• “Few drugs will be swallowed or taken into the […]

Bobby “Boris” Pickett was 24 years old when his one hit wonder shot to the top of the charts in 1962, forever cementing “Monster Mash” in the public consciousness. It was a fluke, inspired by the cheesy horror flicks from the ’30s and ’40s with Boris Karloff starring as classic characters like the Mummy, the […]

I’ve always heard that George Lucas was a control freak who doesn’t like other kids to play with his toys, but perhaps that’s ill-informed hearsay after this bit of news. Or maybe now that he’s a bloated old fart with more money than god he’s relaxing a little bit. Either way, this is exciting news: […]

All the guy wanted was a nice alligator belt, but Benjamin Hodges of Tampa, FL is still looking at 60 days in the slammer and a fine of up to $500 for pulling a dead alligator out of the Hillsborough River on Sunday and taking it home in a shopping cart. An anonymous caller […]