For 19-year-old Welshman Carl Griffiths, the cons of having size 21 feet include having to special-order shoes, not being able to wear regular men's socks, and getting rejected from rugby clubs because his footwear doesn't comply with their strict dressing codes. The pro: Lots and lots of ladies.
Today's entry in the mesmerizing Asian infomercial arms race: Calorie Shaper, a special Japanese underwear built with a "honeycomb spring" that supposedly helps the wearer burn calories while performing everyday tasks, like walking to the bus stop and performing choreographed dance routines in the office.
The best part of any Election Day is reading the comical stories of chaos, chaos at the polling stations! For example: A voter's nose in Ohio has been bit today. It has been bit. Is this what American democracy has come to? No! It's always been like this.
This photo of Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein attracting bumblebees in Beverly Hills raises questions.
An aspiring screenwriter put his script and laptop in a briefcase and dropped it off at an agent's office in Los Angeles. But the police thought it was a bomb and blew it up. If his script were half as good as this news story, he might have had a chance.
The police in Idaho Falls have asked 34-year-old William Falkingham to stop wearing his bunny suit in public after getting complaints that he was scaring children. What about this guy's First Amendment rights?
All you aspiring screenwriters out there, crank up your keyboards, cause here is a "quirky" romantic comedy waiting to be written. A man in Russia broke into a hair salon and the owner of the salon beat him up, tied him to a radiator and kept him as a sex slave for three days.
Last week, TOMS shoes founder Blake Mycoskie headlined event hosted by Focus On The Family. According to Christianity Today, Focus On The Family is "working to become a TOMS international distributor in Africa." Will canvas-footed progressives balk? [Jezebel]
Tim Pawlenty, the presidential candidate who tries too hard and ends up making people care even less, has heard in the news that some of his conservative brethren would fancy a government shutdown or two. I can do that! Tim Pawlenty announces in his latest Iowa ad. You want shutdowns? When he was governor of…
Remember when somebody slowed down Justin Bieber's "U Smile" 800% and it became a 35-minute symphonic masterpiece? Well, slowing down the sound of '90s-era dial-up modems connecting to the Internet does not a symphonic masterpiece make. It does sound sort of like an alien invasion, though, so there's that. [via …
Today's New York Times tells us that the trial of Casey Anthony, who's facing the death penalty for allegedly murdering her toddler Caylee, has become "this year's hot attraction" for tourists passing time in central Florida. Even Mickey Mouse has abandoned his gig to go watch the drama unfold.
Thousands of furries descend on Pittsburgh this weekend, for the sixth annual Anthrocon, America's foremost convention for "anthropomorphics," commonly known as "furries." Participants are already wandering the streets of Steel City, wearing costumes and carrying puppets, posing for pictures with locals, going to…
Facebook has been taking heat for letting kids under 13 use Facebook. So, people should be absolutely freaking out about this four-month-old fetus whose parents signed her up on Facebook and friended dozens of people.
There's trouble in Farmington City, Utah, as you can clearly tell by this headline on the website of local NBC affiliate KSL-TV: "Horse herpes outbreak forces rodeo queens to ride stick ponies."
Despite the stereotype, car guys can exist in New York City, where parking is expensive and annoying. This is the story of how one car enthusiast primed, painted and wrapped his BMW in a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. [Jalopnik]
Most people who wait out the long, slow-moving line into the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican leave with an overwhelming feeling of inferiority, slumped over at the feet of the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Not this guy! Nope, a U.K. man named Robert Burns has this to say: "One day I saw some photos of the…
Walterboro, S.C. resident Edward V. Spearman has been charged with trafficking illegal, hallucinogenic Psilocybin mushrooms that he allegedly grows in his secret mushroom laboratory. But Spearman's lawyer says his client's wares are actually flavorful shiitake mushrooms, which are legal even in South Carolina (for…
A Pakistani woman with a Burberry purse photographed her daughter beside the gate to Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound today. An Associated Press photographer captured the moment.
People who might appreciate bacon-scented cologne: your dog, possibly your cat, maybe your butcher. People who will think it's funny but weird: everyone else.
Who knew that the simple act of blowing one's nose in public could start a ripple effect that would put a man in jail? And he wasn't even blowing snot-rockets.
