What would happen if advertising told you what you could really expect from the product?  How much weight you could expect to lose, how likely the dating service will lead to a wedding? Sit back and find out… In the spirit of this post, I should point out that I am not a lawyer or [...]

Bulgaria claims to be in contact with aliens Recent studies say men are better at shopping than women but women are better with technology Prosthetic for a stork – makes the turtles on coasters seem easy… Baby echidnas – wow, even cuter than baby hedgehogs but the stuffed toy market is still focused on the [...]

If you’re online because there’s just a little too much family and togetherness going on this Thanksgiving, then this video is probably going to hit the spot, that is if you haven’t already seen it posted in ten other places. It’s classic Muppets doing Bohemian Rhapsody although with one slight lyric change on the part [...]

NurdleNet has branched out into nurdly gifts via CafePress just in time for the holidays: http://www.cafepress.com/nurdle So spread the joy to friends and family (which will also put a little something in my stocking!) We’ve started with 3 classic designs; surely you’re life will have more excitement with one of these: A ladybug burying it’s [...]

Apparently there is such a thing as too much cake… You can now play games while conducting NASA science (really) at Be A Martian – is the 21st century cool, or what? (via Neatorama) Santa is claiming ‘at risk’ status for H1N1 but maybe instead of a shot he just needs a suit made out [...]

I was reading something recently about shock advertising – which explained some of the more bizarre ads I’ve seen recently although not why someone thinks it’s going to get me to buy their product.  Yes, they’re memorable but…  Anyway, it got me thinking about other memorable ads recently and how iconic the main characters have [...]

It’s all over the news.  Okay, mostly in the odd and bizarre section but when even NPR reports on it, it’s at least legitimate. It’s the story of the Massachusetts high school that has banned the apparently disruptive word ‘meep’ on school grounds. It doesn’t take much imagination to calculate the annoyance factor of a [...]

A new word, Plutophile, probably the first and only planet(oid) to have a fan club The Vatican weighs in favorably on aliens – maybe not so surprising considering the declining flocks here on Earth You can now buy a pop-up book of the Hadron Collider (the one that some said would end the world) ’cause [...]

Did you know there are Census coffee cups, baseball caps, bumper stickers and other hot government swag out there? I just got off the phone after 25 minutes of pretty much useless questions about the upcoming census.  Questions like “How many conversations have you had about the Census with friends and family in the last [...]

Remember back to July 8th, 2009? Every news reporter on TV and half of the rest of the people were saying “hey, it’s 7,8,9 today!”  Which turned out to have absolutely no significance other than being mildly entertaining for 24 hours.  by 7/9/09 everyone had forgotten all about it. So how come we notice 7/8/09 [...]