“Dr Kristen Navara, of the University of Georgia, in the U.S., looked at birth statistics from 202 countries between 1997 and 2006. She looked at the ratio of baby boys to baby girls in relation to its capital’s latitude, its average temperature and its variation in day lengths. In tropical countries, 48.9 per cent of [...]

The Institute for Human Continuity (IHC) is issuing a lottery for those interested in gaining one of the few remaining positions within one of their planned shelters. The IHC began developing Operation Safe Haven decades ago in secret in advance of the what is projected to be worldwide calamities occuring on December 12, 2012. To [...]

It sounds pretty much the same thing … chocolate? chocolatey? FROM RawGuru.com, um, looks good enough to eat … Well, this process is apparently too complicated for the Hershey, the “Great American Chocolate Bar?” is now sadly, the “Middling ‘Chocolate-like’ thingermajigger … Yep, for “Whatchamacallit, Milk Duds, Mr. Goodbar and Krackel no longer have milk [...]

This is the funniest drawing I’ve ever seen in the WSJ … okay, not exactly much of a competition but still … Some conspiracy theorists have ideas why India & parts of the Middle East have lost most of their internet connection as several underseas cables have been severed. It could be sharks with lasers [...]

Little-known actor Chris Pine has been chosen to play the young Captain Kirk in the new Star Trek movie. Pine’s most familiar role opposite Lindsay Lohan (NSFW pic) in “Just My Luck” in 2006. The balance of the announced cast is looking pretty strong. Here is what the teaser movie poster looks like: The film, [...]

While I personally believe Conde Nast should give up on trying to produce their new biz magazine, Portfolio (it is a train wreck of a design filled with clueless advertisers who think ‘metrosexuals’ are still a desirable category only to confuse those who actually attempt to read the train wreck of content as currently produced), [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFCV2spKtg] This video blew me away. Can you imagine Mac users getting this resident on their Powerbooks? All I can say is, “Gimme!” Seamless reality distortion is now a reality! “Seam Carving For Content Aware Image Resizing”…It may be so cool from a personal usage standpoint but it is downright disturbing to know that some [...]

Wow! Here is one snap from a web site I just came across…the photos are amazing! Apparently, this site has some connection via a staffer at NASA itself. Clearly, who else could have taken these? Well, there are those little green, big round eye dudes and maybe the Russians, but that’s about it.

Yes, film fans…the film that is so bad it is great, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die!, has passed into the public domain! That means you can stream it on Google Video here or download it from the Internet Archive to your own computer here. Of course, the brilliant send up by the folks at MST3K [...]

Amazing Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Startling Stories…name your lurid moniker. These old pulps are wonderfully art directed considering they were designed to do one thing – sell. These covers helped to set the adolescent mind into motion like throwing gas on a fire. The cover lines were wonderfully leading and many of these old pulps [...]