C. S. Magor

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.

  • Melting gallium spoon trick provides expensive (but reusable) scientific entertainment

    February 25, 2011
    Gallium does not exist elementally in nature, it has to be made. Part of the reason why you cannot just dig the stuff out of the ground is that it has an extremely low melting point (~86°F, 30°C). A hot sunny day reduce a piece of the stuff into...

  • Angry Birds cake is edible and playable

    February 25, 2011
    Mike Cooper has a family tradition of creating “increasingly ridiculous” birthday cakes for his family members. His latest, a playable Angry Birds cake was made in honor of his son’s sixth birthday. Cooper spent 10 hours putting it together and his son spent two minutes destroying it, but memories...

  • Man saved by bulletproof teeth

    February 25, 2011
    A New Orleans man who was accidentally shot in the mouth survived when the bullet ricocheted off one of his gold teeth. The accidental shooting occurred following a weed-related dispute between the victim and his brother. The victim was smoking his brother’s weed, so the brother, one Waltdell Davis,...

  • Chinese man felled by three-day game-a-thon

    February 23, 2011
    A Chinese gamer is reported to have died after embarking on a a three-day gaming marathon at an Internet cafe, during which time he went without sleep, and consumed very little food or water. Details are scant but it appears that the man, who has not been identified) was...

  • My other car is a time machine [DeLorean key chain]

    February 11, 2011
    It doesn’t really matter what you drive, thanks to the Back to the Future trilogy, no car will ever be as awesome as the DeLorean. Unfortunately, the car buying public didn’t realize this until it was too late and the DeLorean Motor Company never found much of a market...

  • Gentleman’s Fight Club provides brutal stress relief for the cubicle workers of Silicon Valley

    February 10, 2011
    An underground fight club is not normally the sort of thing that you would associate with the types that earn their crust mashing code and founding start-ups – but a bunch of them have gotten together to relieve stress by punching and kicking the snot out of each other...

  • Eleven-year-old racks up $1,700 Xbox Live bill, mom begs forgiveness

    February 8, 2011
    I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Brendan’s mom Dawn is probably not in the running for mother of the year. Dawn is complaining that her son managed to accrue around $1,700 in debt after she used her debit card to pay for a...

  • Multi-tasker gets accidental knife through face

    February 8, 2011
    Perhaps the title is a little mean, but the fact is that there are some things that deserve a little care and attention – peeling an apple with a sharp knife is one of them. On its own, peeling an apple is safe enough but you have a sharp...

  • Oh, the humanity! Wine shelf collapse caught on CCTV [video]

    February 8, 2011
    Watching a video like this you can’t help but feel for the hapless fellow that had the misfortune to be filling the wine shelf at a liquor store at 5:06 p.m. two Sundays ago. Fortunately for him, there was a camera recording the whole time… both for our enjoyment...