Brown Christmas: Norovirus Hits Two Holiday Cruises Sickening 400
Considering the the stress that can be involved in flying across the country to brave baggage claims, TSA lines, and winter weather, it’s not surprising that to some people, a nice long Caribbean...
View ArticleYou’ll Put Your Eye Out, Kid: Doctors Warn Of Dangers Of Flying Champagne Corks
It’s New Year’s Eve, which means plenty of us will be following a certain great global tradition –going home with a stranger in a desperate, booze-addled effort to prove that we, too, are worthy of...
View ArticleKeep Your New Year’s Resolution and Train for the Zombie Apocalypse With...
With the new year hours away, a lot of us are realizing how gross and out of shape we are after weeks of holiday eating. We’re also realizing just how easy it would be for zombies to get us when the...
View ArticleDr. Quinn, Medicine Panda: Scientists Discover a Powerful Antibiotic in the...
Never in a million years would we have guessed that panda bears, the very same creatures that tumble down slides and make us lose all sense of personal dignity over their irresistible cuteness, could...
View ArticleMom Buys Her Son New iPhone, Channels Inner Moses and Presents Him with 18...
All these Internet-enabled phones and other gadgets that seem to hit the market on a daily basis really are a double-edged sword. While we’re connected to more people and places than we ever could...
View ArticleIncestuous, Meth Smoking Washington Couple Arrested On Charges Of Being Worst...
Charges have been filed against a woman and her boyfriend — who is also her half-brother, for those of you working to fill out your “Degenerates on the Internet” bingo card at home — who were arrested...
View ArticleBritish Man Takes Son to Hospital in Double-Decker Bus, Should Win Father and...
Ross Cork was at work when he got the call that his son was having an epileptic seizure, so he did what any father would do– he went to help his son. Only, Ross Cork works as a bus driver, and when...
View ArticleToday Will be PSY’s Last Performance of “Gangnam Style,” But Let’s Not Get...
Proving that dreams do in fact come true on the night of New Year’s Eve, worldwide internet phenomenon PSY announced that tonight’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve will play host to his final...
View ArticleGeekolinks: 12/31
36 things ceremoniously dropped on New Year’s Eve (Mental Floss) Cute Diablo plush toys (The Mary Sue) 5 best Kanye and Kim baby memes (The Daily Dot) Howard Stern fan crashes Fox News live coverage...
View ArticleCan’t Wait for Google Glass? Don’t. Build Your Own
Google Glass, and projects like it, promise to be an exciting new future for how humans interact with technology. The problem, of course, is that the future these wearable computers promise isn’t here...
View ArticleDeveloper Zynga Gives the Axe to 11 Games, Now You Can Kind Of Get Your Life...
Social game developer Zynga is in the doghouse yet again with the announcement that the company, after laying off a majority of its development team and shutting down its Boston office back in the...
View ArticleHey, Paisanos, the Second Episode of Mario Warfare Has Hit the Interwebs
It’s been a little over two weeks, but the filmmakers over at Beat Down Boogie have finally released the second highly anticipated episode of Mario Warfare — a gritty and action-packed take on...
View ArticleA Good Year: The 12 Best Things to Come Out of 2012
Happy New Year! Today’s the start of 2013, sure, but that doesn’t mean we have to give up on 2012 just yet. There were a number of wonderful and amazing things released this past year. From video...
View ArticleCuriosity Sends Lackluster New Year’s Eve Message From Mars
This might sound like a spoiled rich kid complaining they asked for a Ferrari for their birthday but got a Lamborghini instead, but when NASA’s Curiosity rover tweeted that it would have a special New...
View ArticleThe View From The Blue Dot: The Best Space Pictures of 2012
2012 is over, and it was a pretty great year for all sorts of entertainment, as we pointed out earlier today. Sometimes, though, we’re in a more ruminative mood, and in those moments, we like nothing...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Internet! The Web We Know Today was Born 30 Years Ago
On January 1, 1983 the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) switched from using Network Control Protocol to Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP. Although...
View ArticleGeekolinks: 1/1
8 strangest new laws going into effect today (Mediaite) Samuel L Jackson wanted Nick Fury to be in Breaking Bad (The Mary Sue) 24 best moments for women in 2012 (The Jane Dough) 17 strange holidays to...
View ArticleDeep Space 69 Has Seen Things You People Wouldn’t Believe [Video]
The good people over at Mondo Media have released a new episode of Deep Space 69, and it’s as irreverent and funny as ever. The latest episode sees Jay and Hamilton come across a couple familiar...
View ArticleWhat Could $1.6 Million In Stolen Apple Products Look Like?
Whatever hangovers, hookups, or regrettable strikeouts your New Year’s Eve may have had in store, we’re prepared to say your evening was probably still better than that of Apple Store employees in...
View ArticleHulk Smashed! Scientists Look To Speed Booze Production With Gamma Radiation
Nuclear scientists in Brazil have finally turned their eyes to one of the most overlooked aspects of their work – how can radiation help to serve the world a better cocktail? Researchers at the...
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