E. Thomas Drakes

  • sneeze

    Man shot in head, sneezes out bullet

    You might’ve seen a magician ‘catch’ a bullet between their teeth, but you probably haven’t seen one do the same with their nose. That’s exactly what Darco Sangermano accomplished on New Years Eve in Naples, Italy.  The stray .22 caliber round entered his right temple and lodged in his...
  • lint

    For my next miracle, I will turn lint into art

    A Michigan woman has discovered a clever way to recycle the lint from her dryer. The 14′ x 4′ reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper was meticulously crafted by drying towels of all the necessary colors, including the brilliant orange seen on Phillip the apostle.  That’s right...
  • outfoxed

    Belarus man outfoxed, shot by his prey

    As the Yakov Smirnoff joke would go, in Soviet Belarus, you don’t shoot a fox; a fox shoots you. That seems to have been the case when an unnamed hunter approached his wounded prey, hoping to finish the job with the butt of his rifle.  Instead, in the ensuing...
  • pitchford

    Trailer resident sues WikiLeaks, has fool for attorney

    While the US government is scrambling to assemble a criminal case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, David Pitchford is doing his part, claiming $150 million worth of damages in a lawsuit against WikiLeaks and its founder. The Florida resident, whose legal papers indicate a less-than-perfect grasp of English grammar...
  • webcam

    Cameras? In your bedroom? It’s more likely than you think.

    Have you ever felt like you were being watched, but kept your mouth shut for fear of being committed to a psychiatric hospital? Chinemerem Eze suspected that she was being spied upon and reported this to her school, Brooklyn College, in December of 2008.  Instead of investigating, the school’s...
  • The Next Big Thing from Japan: Portable bidets

    A Japanese company has recently developed The Next Big Thing in personal hygiene: The portable bidet. For the working man or woman on the go, the washlet delivers a steady stream of water for twenty-three seconds and fits in your overnight bag.  It features a nifty wristband, preventing the...
  • Interplanetary colonization just got kinkier

    Not at all impeded by budget cuts in the aftermath of the recession, NASA is now asked to address how babies are made in space. On the front line of this issue is Dr. Rhawn Joseph, putting the ‘O’ back in zero gravity for the Journal of Cosmology in...
  • Astrology has it all wrong, but not for obvious reasons

    Astrology skeptics rejoice: As it turns out, all those stereotypes regarding your personality gleaned from new-age cosmos fanatics are probably wrong, but not for the obvious reasons. According to the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Star Tribune: The ancient Babylonians based zodiac signs on the constellation the sun was “in” on the day...