A seven-year-old girl left this note on her parents’ computer desk. They are considering password-protecting the computer. I can laugh because this is not my child, but if it were, she’d find out what a nightmare life can really be! Link -…

Photo: Bo Barker Jørgensen It may sound like the plot of a Syfy movie, but it’s real: scientists have discovered that bacteria can survive being buried for 86-million-years in deep-sea mud. The scientists jammed a large metal pipe 30 meters into the sea bottom and used a piston to suck out a long column of [...]

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Screen Junkies brings us a painfully honest trailer for the movie Transformers, telling you all the revelations the real trailer ignored. Language slightly NSFW. -via The Daily What Geek

The Grill Sergeant BBQ Apron – $19.95 Do you consider grilling to be a combat sport? You need the Grill Sergeant BBQ Apron from the NeatoShop. This medal worthy apron includes: Artillery belt shaped beverage holder Built-in bottle opener Sauce pocket Tool pocket And spice pocket. Winning the war against the grill just became a [...]

Well, who among us hasn’t tried this approach? Unfortunately for this Russian man, he got stuck three floors down: “An eyewitness reported to the regional rescue service that there was a man in the chute … The rescuers’ crew found a man, who was stuck at the fifth floor, in the garbage disposal,” a spokeswoman [...]

Stealing from shops by stuffing things in pockets is easy for thieves, but stealing guitars by stuffing them down your pants? Now that takes skillz: Authorities say two men entered the Spencer’s Music Store at 1717 S. Mur-Len Rd. in Olathe about 2:30 p.m. April 12. One suspect distracted the salesperson while the other suspect [...]

I love this! A bath towel that pixelates your body in real life! The Censorship Towel is an art project from the Carmichael Collective, the folks who brought us Piñata Anatomy, but we can hope that this idea makes it into stores sometime. See more pi…

(Video Link) On a Brazilian beach, the ad agency Ogilvy a shower that looks like a giant soda fountain. Would you like to get drenched in Sprite? This is your chance. Or it’s water. The ad is kind of vague about what’s coming out of the shower. Content warning: NSFWish swimwear images. Link -via That’s [...]

Oh, Arby’s. When Ryan Hart, 14, bit into an Arby’s roast beef sandwich last week, he got a bit more than he bargained for. The "bonus" meat was a severed finger! Steve Hall, environmental health director for the Jackson County Health Department, tells the Citizen Patriot an Arby’s employee had sliced her finger while operating [...]

What is so awesome that it merits pumping your fist victoriously for 16 hours? That would be pumping your fist victoriously for 16 hours. So James Peterson of Akron, Ohio superglued his hand closed and then pumped his arm continuously in an effort to get into the Guinness Book of World Records: Fist pumping to [...]

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Now imagine Luke training on Dagobah under the Incredible Hulk. Or Kermit the frog. Or, worst of all, Gary Coleman. Scratch that last one. I suspect that Gary Coleman would have been strong in the Force. Link -via reddit | Image: Stephen Wildish

Photo: @Grace_White/Twitpic Teenager Patrick Gonzalez is a Spurs fan, so he wanted to show his love for his favorite player Matt Bonner by getting a unique haircut. Problem is, the school said "don’t" to the "do": Link  

In a long-awaited decision, the U.S. Commerce Department has issued a preliminary decision to apply tariffs to Chinese-made solar modules being imported into the U.S. The tariffs range from 31 percent to 250 percent. The preliminary tariffs were issued after a lengthy investigation by the Commerce Department into whether Chinese companies are “dumping” solar panels [...]

A woman in Orange County, California discovered that rock collecting can be a dangerous hobby, when the rocks she’d collected from the beach earlier that day suddenly ignited in her pocket! Here’s the scoop: Orange County Fire Authority officials tell the newspaper that the woman collected the rocks on a nearby beach, returned home and [...]

Ed Klein, the author of a new, thinly-sourced book attacking President Obama and Michelle Obama with gossip and innuendo, went on far-right talk show host Dana Loesch’s radio show today to suggest to listeners that the president is a secret Muslim. The comments came during a discussion about Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose inflammatory rhetoric and [...]

The Environment Protection Agency’s landmark mercury and air toxics standards, announced in December, would reduce pollutants from coal power plants, saving 11,000 lives, prevent 130,000 asthma attacks and avoid 4,700 heart attacks. But Sen. James Inhofe has found the required 30 Senators to bring the rule to a Senate vote. In an event with FreedomWorks, [...]

Remember the Harvard men’s baseball team that danced to Carly Rae Jepsen’s "Call Me Maybe" while on a road trip? Well, the Southern Methodist University Women’s rowing team did one better. They wrote on their YouTube page: “Ball’s in your court, Harvard Baseball” Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] As a parent, all I [...]

Congressional Republicans have promised to “repeal and replace” President Obama’s health care reform law, but they still have not agreed on what that should look like. Today, Speaker John Boehner said every part of Obamacare needs to be removed: “We voted to fully repeal the president’s healthcare law as one of our first acts as [...]

If you’ve wondered where rock god Prince has been hiding out for the last few years, it appears that he has been undergoing some radical anti-aging treatments. But now he’s back and looking even more youthful than when he started his career in the late 70s, ready to hit the stage complete with scooter and [...]

Patrick Gonzalez, a student at Woodlake Hills Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, really likes the San Antonio Spurs. Indeed, he likes them so much that he shaved Spurs’ player Matt Bonner’s image into the back of his head. Seriously: Unfortunately for Gonzalez, his school principal apparently does not share his love for Mr. Bonner, [...]

As ThinkProgress has reported, American income inequality has skyrocketed over the last three decades. The wealthiest Americans have captured a large share of the nation’s economic prosperity, and their incomes continue to rise even as middle class wages remain stagnant. This income inequality has serious repercussions for the middle class, jeopardizing their economic ability and [...]

[YouTube Clip] If you think completing the triathlon is hard, try doing it while juggling the entire way (yes, even while swimming). That’s what Joe Salter did* last month. This 31-year-old public school counselor from Pensacola, Fla., pulled off the incredible achievement on April 21 when he swam a quarter-mile while juggling three balls, then [...]

Student loan debt is the cause of plenty of headaches in this country, from aspiring nuns to the families of those straddled with a deceased loved one’s payments. So it’s a bit unsettling that a new study says many students are underestimating how much they owe — and some don’t even know they have debt in the first place. Shudder. A financial literary study conducted by Iowa State University faculty and staff found that almost 40% of their students underestimated how much they owed, and one in eight didn’t even realize they had debt, reports the Des Moines Register. The…

by Michael D. Lemonick, via Climate Central The sea ice that blankets the Arctic Ocean each winter peaked in early March this year, as usual, and is now in retreat, en route to its annual minimum extent in September. How low it will go is something scientists worry: Ice reflects lots of sunlight back into [...]

Today, the Pan American Health Organization, the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization, condemned ex-gay therapy in a new position statement, calling it a “serious threat to the health and well-being — even the lives — of affected people.” Not only does the PAHO statement identify the therapies as ineffective and a threat [...]

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) — who is rumored to be on Mitt Romney’s vice presidential short list — told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto Thursday afternoon that he disagrees with the former Massachusetts governor’s support for a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as union between one man and one woman. “Ultimately marriage is regulated by [...]

A Louisiana Senate committee approved two anti-choice bills yesterday. One bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks based on the disputed claim that a fetus can feel pain at that point. That bill would make an exception for instances where the mother’s life was at risk, but doctors who violate the measure could face two [...]