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New on the Internet are what are now known as Epic Rap Battles, where the humorists take two figures of (some) importance and have them duke it out in a battle of the wits, over rap music. I have to admit having toyed with this idea myself but never...

Angry Birds… in case you haven’t heard of it, it’s the iPhone app that’s become one of the most popular games out there. Talkshow host Connan O’Brian made a life size version of the game and now it’s been given the movie treatment… of sorts… Rooster Teeth Shorts has...

It seems a movement is underway in the United Kingdom. A bunch of cheeky shoppers have taken to rearranging common items in supermarkets and department stores to create rude, offensive and funny words. The spices are obvious, but there are a few other examples where people have gotten creative...

When you gotta sneeze you gotta sneeze. Usually it’s an uneventful thing- a tiny little “ah-choo” that might get a “bless you,” if you’re lucky. For TV host Peter Simon it was a downright embarrassing turn of events when his sneeze turned into a huge bubble of snot and...

In prison, there is something of a hierarchy of crimes. From what I have heard, bank robbery is something of a respectable crime. But something tells me that 49-year-old Nathan Wayne Pugh won’t be getting a whole lot of respect. It was not so much what Pugh did as...

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...

If you’ve not seen any of the earlier Werner Herzog Reads videos by YouTuber RyanIverson, you really should. He sounds more like hard-boiled German director Werner Herzog than Werner Herzog. Take this description of jolly old St Nick: …He is short – even dwarvish in size, fat and old...

To the best of our knowledge this uranium-themed soap does not contain any potentially hazardous heavy metals, or animal products for that matter. It does, however, glow in the dark and smell like the ocean. Unfortunately, the uranium soap is currently sold out, but you can still add it...

A compelling argument has been put forward that modern humans first started farming to cultivate grains that could be used to produce alcohol. Given this theory, there is little wonder that so many of us find the lure of the bottle a little too hard to resist… humanity has...