Warlock consult

British police consulted a warlock in regards to mysterious horse mane braiding. Honestly, I don’t know what’s weirder: seemingly random horse braiding, or the fact that the police consulted a warlock.

December 11, 2009 ·

Bike lanes are the devil’s work

Hipsters repaint bike lanes. This made me laugh, it had to have been fun to write.

Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress.

December 8, 2009 ·

More on burgers

A Hamburger Today presents their guide to hamburger and cheeseburger styles. In other news, there were records set for the world’s largest cheeseburger, as well as the greatest number of simultaneous heart-attacks in one location.

October 13, 2009 ·

Soviet electronics

The Soviet Digital Electronics Museum is pure gold for the gadget junkie.

September 22, 2009 ·

Cheesy

What to do when the person you want to marry is allergic to grilled cheese. Euphemisms galore.

June 7, 2009 ·

Flood shuts Canadian archives

Flood shuts Canada’s national archives. The article states that the building has had 116 environmental incidents since 1988. Could just be me, but it seems like a stupid place to be storing important documents.

May 21, 2008 ·

Electrocuting an Elephant

Topsy the Elephant was electrocuted by Thomas Edison in 1903. He also happened to document the moment on film, which he obviously titled Electrocuting an Elephant.

April 10, 2008 ·

It’s all about the character widths

Forensic typography or how Jonathan Hoefler stopped the next hip-hop war.

March 28, 2008 ·

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