July 2009
3 posts
“Following a series of deaths in the ’70s, the Pennsylvania legislature...”
“In 2007, a shortage of prints of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth resulted...”
“A childhood full of Gator Golf left Mark Derris, 26, completely unprepared for...”
June 2009
31 posts
“In a given day, over 13,000 Americans have their hackles raised, cockles warmed,...”
“The metal memoir Eats Shits, and Grieves charts the rapid rise and fall of early...”
“Perez Hilton has refused any further coverage of Thomas Pynchon, claiming the...”
“Occultist Aleister Crowley’s claims of contact with an magickal...”
“During their first week on the set, new Muppeteers may not remove their puppets...”
“General Secretary Gorbachev, a fanatical film buff, was determined to slip movie...”
“Benedict Arnold, in a final act of deathbed defiance, unleashed the treasonous...”
“Members of the Global Transhumanist Clique, as part of their efforts to free up...”
“Ronnie Van Zandt’s experiments with an operant conditioning chamber,...”
“Brian Wilson discovered the intro to “California Girls” embedded,...”
“At the annual meetings of the seclusive Bilderberg Group, global elites must...”
“Irkandji Syndrome, caused by the sting of some species of tiny Australian...”
“The Unbearable Lightness of Peeing (Nesnesitelná lehkost močení) tells the tale...”
“Koalas without access to eucalyptus leaves will often take to smoking...”
“In 2008, as a response to consumer backlash, Rose’s Lyme Juice switched...”
““The More You Know”, September 14, 2007, NBC — Fergie, flanked by a...”
“Tai Shan (or “Butterstick”) was the first healthy panda to be born...”
“In 1996, a corrupt installation of Mac OS System 7 left Wes Anderson’s...”
“Costa Rica’s Selvatura Park possesses the largest Zhuangzi garden in...”
“Game pieces do not actually talk, though they may emit soothing tones at random...”
“Listen to this, Tin Man,” begins Oz in the unexpurgated climax of The...”
“If you believe that you can truly “set and forget” the Ronco...”
“Salon Selectives labels its assorted hair products with numbers for shampoos,...”
“E pluribus unum, or “Out of many, one” was incorrectly translated as...”
“Michael Collins was not the first man to not walk on the moon, but it sure felt...”
“The White House Cabaret Players’ 2007 production of Rent was marked with...”
“The blowhole of the bottlenose dolphin can produce extraordinary amounts of air...”
“On June 3rd, 2002, after years of wondering where the yellow went, the NOAA...”
“The oft-claimed title of “5th Beatle” is more than just an exercise...”
“Paleontologist Rolf Hasenpfeffer’s lifetime of research on shortened...”
“Mort Neswick, the Robo-American actor who portrayed Johnny 5 in the popular...”
May 2009
31 posts
“Andrew Jackson not only discovered the Higgs Boson, but also soundly thrashed it...”
“The bulk of defense attorney Per E. Samuelson’s argument in the 2009...”
“Double guitars are the result of a rare fluke in the chordophonic reproduction...”
“The film Love Actually, though it claims to portray love in all its myriad...”
“The megaliths found at the Stonehenge archeological site required over...”
“The much-ballyhooed Hedgehog/Nestle merger fell through because one partner was...”
“When historians reflect upon President Obama’s first State of the Union...”
“Ripper the Raptor was a minor celebrity in his Palm Springs neighborhood; no one...”
“Edelweiss Grippe, of FOX’s So You Think You Can Yodel 3, won the honor of...”
“Hanna-Barbera’s Megillah Gorilla may never have escaped his pet store home...”
“In Dickens’ Nicholas NCLB, the callous schoolmaster Wackford Squeers...”
“Schizoid catman Louis Wain was tapped to paint the murals for Denver...”
“The idiomatic “college try” is actually a corruption of the...”
“In the summer of 1982, a Naugahyde factory error in Milwaukee temporarily caused...”
“The spread of the Internet in the last decade has enabled the proliferation of...”
“Climbing is no longer allowed on Chichen Itza’s Temple of Kukulkan because...”