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Filipino man sets new world record for extinguishing candles with farts (and no, it wasn’t me)

This guy's sphincter control is nothing short of mind-boggling. On my best Taco Bell day, I could do two candles at…

10 years ago

The “Poverty Solved!” graphic about the Powerball $1.3 billion jackpot is wrong [Updated]

There's a graphic about the record-breaking Powerball jackpot that's going around the internet. Given how bad at many people are…

10 years ago

Experience your incredibly slim odds with the LA Times’ Powerball simulator

With a $900 million jackpot for Powerball -- that's a U.S. lottery game playable in 44 states as well as the District…

10 years ago

An 80s-tastic videogame soundtrack/retro tune mashup – “Bad Dudes: Mega Mash”!

Here's your end-of-week nostalgia fix: DJ 8-Bit Mullet's chiptune-tastic Bad Dudes: Mega Mash, which takes the soundtrack from the 1988…

10 years ago

The truth about political correctness

Cartoon by Tom Toles for the Washington Post. Click to see the source.

10 years ago

It’s not the most confidence-inspiring name for a vet…

I'm sure they're a very nice, very good vet, but in my (ahem) circle, we bring up the term "circle…

10 years ago

This software EFFING sucks

The Swiss dating site Blinq has teamed up with ETH Zurich, a University, to build a web application and mobile…

10 years ago

Golden Girls: The Force Awakens

Photo by "jsinfrankenstein". Click to see the source. Thank you for being a millennia-old Force-sensitive space pirate bar-owning friend. Thanks…

10 years ago

This video makes some good points about gyms

It's the first full week of the new year, and many gyms -- including the one I go to --…

10 years ago

The joys of cycling in Florida

Here's a cyclist's point-of-view video in which he complains about a log that someone left in the middle of the bike path and suddenly…

10 years ago