Odds and sods I look at regularly, just because they amuse me. I hope they do the same for you. Incidentally, I found this page’s title on Greg Ross’s Futility Closet (it’s somewhere on this page) in a mini-article which also includes the delightful sentence in Icelandic: Barbara Ara bar Ara araba bara rabbabara. Ross points out that this, “besides being fun to say, is spelled with only three letters. It means “Barbara, daughter of Ari, brought only rhubarb to Ari the Arab.”
Fark.com RSS » Atlanta Journal Constitution: Here are answers to your questions about the I-85 bridge collapse. Why did the bridge collapse? We don't know [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » Netflix Wants to Pay You to Translate Its Subtitles
No more botched pop culture references. [Link]
Mental Floss » Match the Definition With the Word
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Mental Floss » Which Movie Does Not Belong to Each Trilogy?
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Fark.com RSS » New principal suspends half of high school after unexcused repeat absences. Joe Clark approves [Hero]
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Mental Floss » 5 Facts About Aurora Australis, the Southern Lights
The Aurora Borealis has a down under sibling, the Aurora Australis. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you haven't scored Valium or an elf cutout from your Uber yet, you're not trying hard enough [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Government offers student loan forgiveness program to convince workers to spend 10 years in government service jobs, neglects to mention that there's no actual loan forgiveness at the other end of the tunnel [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » 92 Years of New Yorker Covers Visualized by Color
Designer Nicholas Rougeux has created a color palette timeline from every issue of The New Yorker since 1925. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » That time I hung out with Carlos The Jackal while wearing my yarmulke [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » Netflix Introduces a New Translation Test for Subtitlers
No more botched pop culture references. [Link]
Weird Universe » 7 Clicks (March 31, 2017)
7 Clicks
A Weird Universe News Service
March 31, 2017
Problem Solved: The U.S. can look to New Zealand when our new EPA Administrator gets nasty. We get a Greenpeace thug to fistfight ("Queensbury Rules") Scott Pruitt, and the loser has to go wallow in a Superfund pool (say, the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont.). [Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio]
One … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » World's worst thief gets locked in vault during attempted heist [Florida]
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Mental Floss » 'The X-Files' Is Getting Turned Into a Children’s Book
Mulder and Scully have gotten a lot cuter in 'The X Files: Earth Children Are Weird.' [Link]
Mental Floss » 11 Life Lessons From Alexander Hamilton
"Don't duel" is a given. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Anywhere else, if you plan an armed robbery, you'd usually have at least one whole gun. Of course, this is Florida [Florida]
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Weird Universe » April Fool’s Day Radio Interview
If you happen to be up really late on Saturday night (Apr 1), you can listen to me discuss the history of April Fool's Day on Coast to Coast AM. I'll be on from 11 pm to 1 am, west coast time. So 2-4 am east coast.
I used to be a nightowl, but those days are long in the … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these vagabonds on a van [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » If you ever said to yourself, "Self, I wish someone would have the decency, courage, and creativity to finally create a statue of pregnant Beyonce made out of brie cheese, and call it 'Brie-Once'," then today's your lucky day [Amu
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Mental Floss » Why Can’t You Eat Grapefruit While Taking Certain Medications?
It’s all about your enzymes. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » California legalizes weed, then raises cigarette tax $2. Man, it's like a conspiracy, man, because the corporations are like milking the, uh, milking…you got any Oreos, man? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Your dog wants steak but your cow gets amnesty [Sappy]
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Mental Floss » This 'Abbey Road' Watch Will Send You Back in Time
We're all living on Ringo time. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Falkland Islands prepare for another in a long string of Blue Mondays as Argentina uses the Brexit threat to stage a new coup on the island [Followup]
[link] [208 comments] [Link]
Mental Floss » Don't Worry, Whopper Toothpaste Probably Isn't Real
Happy early April Fool's Day. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Seattle's bikeshare program, Pronto, closes down after millions spent to acquire bikes and install stations. It seems the general public never got stoked about bicycling around a rainy, hilly city to do stuff [Strange]
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Mental Floss » Giant Seven-Arm Octopus Might Use Jellyfish as a (Tasty) Weapon
Researchers observed the deep-sea cephalopods in the act of eating dinner. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Georgia governor declares a state of emergency as Atlanta traffic becomes slightly worse [Followup]
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Fark.com RSS » Fark Food Thread: What's your favorite way to present seafood when you're trying to impress? Show us the good stuff, don't be stingy and shellfish [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » How 7 Richmond Neighborhoods Got Their Names
Here’s how seven of the most memorable districts in Virginia’s capital city got their names. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » California may yet destroy the world [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Which Cities Are Within Five Hours of New York City?
Take the quiz! [Link]
Futility Closet » The Lonely Runner
Image: Wikimedia Commons Suppose k runners are running around a circular track that’s 1 unit long. All the runners start at the same point, but they run at different speeds. A runner is said to be “lonely” if he’s at least distance 1/k along the track from every other runner. The lonely runner conjecture states that each of the runners will … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » South Carolina golfers stunned to see massive alligator "the size of a dinosaur" casually saunter across the course as if it were Florida [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Has the world seemed darker and gloomier than ever lately? If you're in Seattle, you're not just imagining things [Interesting]
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Mental Floss » 5 Questions: Nostalgic Road Trip
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Mental Floss » The Best Bakery in All 50 States
Baguettes and brioche and biscotti and bagels. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Manatees now classified as 'threatened,' which is less dire. To be fair, a dire manatee sounds like a pretty bad random encounter in Dungeons and Dragons [Interesting]
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Weird Universe » Helmet Law Suicide
In 1992 California began requiring that motorcycle riders wear a helmet. Despondent, Gerald Marotta, 48, put on his helmet and shot himself. He left behind a note, "Now I can't ever ride again."
Attorney Wendy Lascher, who had challenged the law, said, "from what I heard about his note, I think the law did have something to do with his … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you're old and driving, experts say that wearing a seatbelt will yield the same results as if you were not wearing a seatbelt [Weird]
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Overheard In The Office » What About the Language Of the People Who Won the Revolution?
British coworker on cell: You mean the gar-age? I know you people say “gar-age.” And also “al-um-min-I-um.” That's how we should be pronouncing it. The language of Shakespeare. Washington, DC [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Turkeys are apparently now the kamikazes of Indiana [Scary]
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Fark.com RSS » Eiffel Tower opens this day in 1889, is immediately voted "most disappointing tourist attraction" [Cool]
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Mental Floss » So Long, Dandelion! Crayola Is Killing Off One of Its Colors
Color us intrigued. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Finally, the most important question plaguing the country has been answered: Is it legal to own a sloth as a pet in the U.S.? [PSA]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these balls getting cold [Photoshop]
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Fark.com RSS » In proof that good things come to those who wait, this man gets to keep his $15,200 he found on the street one year ago after nobody claimed it [Spiffy]
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Mental Floss » 14 Ways of Saying 'Drunk' Across the United States
Three sheets to the wind, seeing double, and tanked are just the beginning. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Oklahoma Dept. of Agriculture gives away free hog traps to curb state's free-range bacon problem [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Do not spit on a 7-year-old boy while hurling "vile" abuse at passers-by. That and don't be homeless with $25,000 on you. People frown upon that [Dumbass]
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Mental Floss » Nostalgic Road Trip
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Mental Floss » Enjoy More Than 400 of Bob Ross's Happy Little Paintings in One Place
The unofficial database of your dreams. [Link]
Weird Universe » Follies of the Madmen #309
Original ad here. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » And the BREXIT triggered brain drain commences [Followup]
[link] [158 comments] [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Dead whale on the beach? "Blow it up." Big boulder blocking highway? "Blow it up." Dynamite is Oregon's answer to everything. With "it blowed up real good" video [Cool]
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Mental Floss » Morning Cup of Links: Did Billy the Kid Live Until 1950?
Great morning links for everyone! [Link]
Mental Floss » The Greatest Musical That Was Never Made
Any rock opera written by David Bowie would have been great. But Bowie + this classic novel would have been mindblowing. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » If you shoot at a drone in Connecticut, it might just shoot back [Asinine]
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Mental Floss » Watch Candy Melt—in Reverse—to Vivaldi
Erwin Trummer's short film is equal parts culinary science experiment and college art film. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Man gets covered in insects escaping floodwaters in, you guessed it, Australia [Scary]
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Mental Floss » Dutch Designer Rolls Out Lamps to Help Reset Your Circadian Rhythm
Sleep soundly in style with the Day&Night lights. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Penis seat goes where? [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » So, what does selling your internet history really mean? [Interesting]
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Fark.com RSS » Nothing to see here, just an alligator in a furniture store, presumably visiting dead relatives [Florida]
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Mental Floss » Author Jade Chang On Writing New Kinds of Immigrant Stories
In her debut novel, "The Wangs vs. the World," Jade Chang takes on the American Dream. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Flush with the success of Flamin Hot Cheetos, a Frito Lay plant is trying new Artillery Shell and Mortars flavor [Strange]
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Fark.com RSS » Lonely people report more cold symptoms, mostly with shoulders [Sad]
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Mental Floss » From Gross to Gold Mine: How Bird Poop Became a Valuable Commodity
In the mid-19th century, a European explorer noticed that the stinky stuff made great fertilizer. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » Woman OK after suspect flees police, crashes into her car. Man, I certainly wouldn't be OK with that [Florida]
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Futility Closet » Good Night Lights
Six years ago, Providence restaurant The Hot Club started the custom of flashing its lights each night at 8:30, as a way to say good night to the children in the six-story Hasbro Children’s Hospital across the Providence River. The club would flash its neon sign, and patrons would gather on the waterfront deck to wave flashlights and cell phones. … [Link]
Fark.com RSS » One reason your health care costs so much? Indecipherable medical bills [Obvious]
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Fark.com RSS » ♪ Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down the line of cocaine ♪ [Florida]
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Fark.com RSS » IRS wastes 22% of its budget ($2.76 billion) on information technology [Asinine]
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Fark.com RSS » Police find $30,000 cannabis stash at stoners' apartment after being called to 7am disturbance. If these stoners have been fighting AND waking up at 7am, it's not a great advert for their weed [Fail]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's random dude duct taped to a yield sign is brought to you by the city of Houston, Texas [Amusing]
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Fark.com RSS » Chinese government spokesman says "there is no such thing" as man-made island created by China in the South China Sea, and besides, all the building they are putting up on them are for civilian, not military purposes [Facepalm]
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Mental Floss » 5 Things You Should Know About Congress's ISP Vote
On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to eliminate rules blocking Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from selling personal information about their customers. Here's what you need to know about the vote, the rules, and what happens next. [Link]
Mental Floss » Neuroscientists Explain How Deep Breathing May Calm the Mind
Look to the brainstem, they say. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » The customer is always right, except when they try to buy stuff with a mound of pennies. Or when they wave guns around and threaten to kill you for not accepting them, that's not right either but it's certainly Florida [Florida]
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Mental Floss » The Chicago River Flows Backwards
Until 1900, the Chicago River flowed into Lake Michigan—but it didn't work out well for Chicagoans. [Link]
Fark.com RSS » A newly-engaged man is facing charges after he confessed to painting his marriage proposal on the side of a Sheffield Lake building [Dumbass]
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Fark.com RSS » Today's outrage is brought to you by ***spins wheel*** the 'Pig Scramble' [Murica]
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Fark.com RSS » Photoshop these big stones [Photoshop]
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