Ben Siegel Reptiles of Deerfield Beach, Florida, recently held a variety of bug-eating contests, with the winner of each getting a different variety of pet ball python. And apparently Edward Archibald swept the cockroach and one of worm eating competitions, eating dozens of ea... / Continue →

A man believed to be drunk and dressed in a Ghillie camouflage suit to look like Bigfoot or a forest monster was struck by two cars while OOGA BOOGA-ing on the side of a dark Montana highway Sunday night and killed. I'M TRYING REALLY HARD TO FEEL BAD. [State Trooper Jim] Schn... / Continue →

EDIT: Pint glasses, not shot glasses. Because there's absolutely nothing on the internet today but the heartbreaking story of a disturbed twenty-something who open fired on a theater full of Batman fans (my thoughts and prayers are with you, friends/family/Aurora community), h... / Continue →

An 18-year old in Taiwan passed away after playing Diablo III for 40 hours straight with no food or rest (just like the title says!). That is just too long. You should take a break at LEAST every 20 hours. You don't jump off the high-dive right after pounding a hotdog, do yo... / Continue →

Seen here with Fausto Llerena, his caretaker of 40 years, Lonesome George, the last remaining Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni (Pinta Island Giant Tortoise, a subspecies of the Galapagos Tortoise), passed away on Sunday, June 24th. He was around 100. Scientists had expected him ... / Continue →

Fantasy and speculative fiction author Ray Bradbury passed away yesterday at the age of 91. Best known for his dystopian classic Farheinheit 451, Ray never obtained a driver's license in his life. I admire him for that. Especially if he still drove anyways. Despite the nume... / Continue →

Eduard Khil, the man with the God-given talent to tro the lololo so f***ing hard Russian grandma's faces would melt off, has died from complications resulting from a stroke he suffered last month. He was 77. Please, a moment of silence. Now, a moment of trololing. RIP, Edua... / Continue →

Burger King in Japan is currently running a promotion where you can add 15 strips of bacon to a burger for an extra ¥100 (~$1.25). So what did some reporter do? Went ALL IN and ordered 1,050 extra slices, creating this $90 monstrosity. In related news, I assume you could get... / Continue →

In news that may blow some people's minds (and to commemorate the the 100 year anniversary of the disaster), authorities re-released these photos they believe depict the remains of one unfortunate Titanic passenger who came to rest near the stern. Wow, really hard to believe c... / Continue →

BAM -- hello, world. Dennis Ritchie, father of the Unix operating system and C programming language, has passed away. He was 70 (1000110) years young. Unix's influence has been felt in many ways. It established many software engineering principles that persist until today;... / Continue →