Someone's getting rich off the online drug marketplace Silk Road. A new paper estimates that sales of drugs and other illicit goods on Silk Road total $22 million a year. Meanwhile, Silk Road got a fancy new redesign. It's officially boom times on the digital black market.
How would you react to the news that your ex-wife had hired a hitman to try to assassinate you? Would you react by telling her she got a bad deal on her hitman? You wouldn't, would you? And that's why you're not the chillest guy in the world. [via Videogum]
Walt Wawra, a police officer from Kalamazoo, Michigan, was vacationing in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife Debbie when he encountered a situation that made him reach for his off-duty handgun.
Two "Pleasure Carts" emblazoned with punny slogans such as "getcha vibes here" and "relish the moment" will be employed by the makers of Trojan Vibrations to distribute some 10,000 free sex toys on the streets of New York starting tomorrow.
"5 years ago, I was disowned via letter when I came out to my father," writes Redditor RegBarc.
For the skeptics still holding out for physical proof that the fourth season of Arrested Development was truly, madly, deeply in production: Here's your very first look at the set of the revived show's first episode, courtesy of Michael Bluth himself.
Mike Judge's cult sci-fi comedy Idiocracy could be getting a spin-off series or possibly even a prequel if Terry Crews has anything to do with it.
"I wrote the song Perfect Bitch about Kim," Kanye West tweeted today, referencing the new song he unveiled in NYC over the weekend.
Drinking and driving takes on a whole new meaning in this dash-cam footage of a Russian man swerving through highway traffic in shopping trolley.
Heh heh. "Color" can have two different meanings. Click the screenshot to enlarge, read from the bottom. [Business Insider]
During a shareholders conference call last week, "Papa" John Schnatter, founder and CEO of the pizza chain that bears his name, issued a warning to consumers that, unless Obamacare is repealed, the company's pizza prices are likely to increase.
To the settle the matter of the Olympic boner that wasn't: First, American rower Henrik Rummel was celebrated for appearing to have a "giant boner" after he won the bronze. Then, on Reddit, he demurred, claiming that the sculpted outline visible through his rower's shorts was actually his flaccid, unerect member. This…
A Fort McCoy, Florida woman who engaged deputies in a high-speed chase down County Road 318 excused her behavior by saying she was driving topless and needed to get home to surprise her boyfriend.
Courtesy of Entertainment Weekly comes the first official image from Steven Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln biopic, featuring Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president of the United States.
To celebrate the opening of its second location, Wendy's Japan has added a line of "premium" ocean-themed food items to its fancy fast food menu.
Imagine if you turned on your computer and found your entire digital life was wiped: years of photos, emails, documents—gone. That happened to Wired writer Mat Honan last weekend, when hackers broke into his most important accounts. But it could have probably been prevented if he'd done one thing: Enabled "two-factor…
What sets good dads apart from great dads? The answer is entirely subjective.
A man in Ohio was arrested Saturday night after entering a showing of The Dark Knight Rises with a loaded gun, among other weapons.
Here's the first color photo from Curiosity, the two-billion dollar NASA robot that landed on Mars yesterday. What a crock of shit. This is the first color photo of Mars we're getting? An Instagram of a mountain? Is Curiosity taking photos with a RAZR? This is the worst photo I've ever seen. Fire everyone at NASA. […
