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.

  • Mirror sticker will make you feel like a winner

    January 25, 2011
    I’ve got this thing that I do to occupy myself during my mind numbing commute sometimes – I pick some random car that is slowly fighting its way through peak hour traffic… and I race it. My races don’t involve dangerous speeds or anything like that – just deft...

  • How to spend less time doing jobs that suck [video]

    January 25, 2011
    The video that you see above is actually a collection of a lot of other shorter videos – time saving tips from around the Internets. If you have ever wondered how to cool a soda (or better yet beer) to a pleasant level of coldness in just two minutes,...

  • Man killed by well-trained cock

    January 20, 2011
    An Indian man is believed to have been killed by a reluctant fighting cock. According to witnesses Singrai Soren was killed by his cockfighting rooster after it emerged victorious from the ring. In the brutal sport of cockfighting, attach razor blades to the legs of their birds – and...

  • Report issues to make We Interrupt a safer, happier place

    January 19, 2011
    Regular users of We Interrupt will be aware that this site runs ads – quite a lot of them in fact. While we would love to keep this site ad free, simple economics makes that impossible. It costs money to rent servers, pay our excellent team and purchase the...

  • Man turns himself in after brother gets life for toll evasion

    January 17, 2011
    The limits of brotherly loyalty were tested in in China this week when a man was sentenced to life in prison for a crime that it seems he did not commit. In most countries you have to commit some sort of heinous, unspeakable act – in China you can...

  • Balancing pig, a two-legged model of porcine determination [video]

    January 17, 2011
    The owner of the pig that you see in the image to your left calls her Zhu Janqiang (strong-willed) – a look at the video below explains why. Had Wang Xihai let nature take its course with his little piglet, her missing hind legs might have been a death...

  • North Korean hamburger restaurant kicks ass and takes reservations

    January 16, 2011
    Apparently the humble hamburger has become something of a delicacy in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. To avoid any awkward hat tipping, Samtaesung (Food) and Cool Beverages calls their hamburgers “minced meat and bread”. Whatever they call them, they are selling like hotcakes. The lines at the eatery...

  • Jeopardy champions no match for IBM’s Watson [video]

    January 16, 2011
    So how do you think a couple of sharp human minds would stack up against IBM’s Watson in a game of Jeopardy? Former Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter find out when they taste bitter defeat in this rather one-sided three-minute practice session. To be fair, Ken scores...

  • Death wears bunny slippers… and a Snuggie, no longer plays Wii

    January 16, 2011
    Word on the Interwebs is that the patch that you see to your left is one that is actually worn by a number of USAF missile crews. In real life, sitting at a nuclear missile console waiting for an order to push a bunch of buttons and rain nuclear...