(SPOILER ALERT) On this episode of the Fatman Beyond podcast, Kevin Smith claims that Todd Phillips' Joker originally had a much darker ending written for it. From Hypebeast: While the… Read the rest of the article: Kevin Smith reveals Joker's much darker alternative ending
Many pizza places offer special "deals" if you order two medium pies. You might think that two mediums deliver more cheesy goodness than one large pie, but usually you'd be… Read the rest of the article: Why you should almost always order one large pizza instead of two mediums
In Misère Tic-tac-toe, getting three-in-a-row means you lose. I can't wait to unleash this game on my kids at our next dinner out. Here is a wonderfully-named app version: Notakto… Read the rest of the article: In this tic-tac-toe variant played with all X's, the loser is actually the winner
Two big sea lions kicked back aboard a small, empty anchored boat in Eld Inlet at the southern end of Washington's Puget Sound. Josh Phillips of Spawn Fly Fish captured… Read the rest of the article: Massive sea lions commandeer small boat
Keep fucking that chicken!
Finally, researchers are again exploring the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics to treat the likes of depression, addiction, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. To provide pharmaceutical-quality compounds for clinical trials, scientists are developing… Read the rest of the article: Scientists genetically engineer E. coli to produce the psychedelic psilocybin
Vaughan Oliver, the graphic designer whose work defined the 4AD record label, has died. He was 62. His ethereal, surreal, magnificent album art for The Pixies, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal… Read the rest of the article: Vaughan Oliver — graphic designer for 4AD, Cocteau Twins, Pixies — RIP
Dave Riley, bassist for the influential 1980s Chicago noise-punk band Big Black, has died. He was 59. According to his partner Rachel Brown, he had throat cancer. What a fucking… Read the rest of the article: Dave Riley, bassist for Big Black, RIP
In 1926, Oscar Williams of San Diego, California was granted a patent on a toy turtle operated by houseflies buzzing around inside. From patent number US1591905A, "Artificial Animal": My invention… Read the rest of the article: Patent for a toy turtle operated by houseflies
Yesterday in New York, police spent hours attempting to remove this Honda from the pedestrian lane of the Pulaski Bridge connecting Brooklyn and Queens. Apparently, it was a stolen car… Read the rest of the article: Evidence that a car isn't a pedestrian and probably shouldn't use the pedestrian lane
Embroidery master Rayna created this exquisite hand embroidery of Homer Simpson disappearing into the bushes. This follows on her Lisa Simpson "true crime" embroidery and other fine Simpsons stitchery available… Read the rest of the article: Fantastic Homer Simpson embroidery
Jason Satterlund directed this short film, "Kenobi." Not canon.
On Tuesday, Colorado Springs police arrested David Wayne Oliver, 65, at a Starbucks for allegedly robbing a nearby bank. After departing the bank with the loot, Oliver apparently started tossing… Read the rest of the article: Man robs bank and tosses cash into the air shouting "Merry Christmas"
In 1994, Cynsa, a member of the pioneering online community The WELL, thrilled us with her Rectal Foreign Bodies page all about the weird things people have put in their… Read the rest of the article: What did we get stuck in our rectums in 2019?
MARTY is the name of this 1981 DeLorean that researchers from Stanford's Dynamic Design Lab customized into a self-driving electric car. Now, Jon Goh and Tushar Goel have augmented MARTY… Read the rest of the article: Marvel at this autonomous, drifting DeLorean
In the Galapagos Islands, a shoreside crane toppled over while loading a shipping container onto a barge, capsizing the boat and causing a terrible oil spill of hundreds of gallons… Read the rest of the article: Watch crane collapse onto boat, causing a terrible oil spill in the Galapagos Islands
College student Rino Dubokovic has opened a Museum of Hangovers in Zagreb, Croatia. From CNN: Exhibits include displays of objects people found inexplicably the morning after a boozy night, a… Read the rest of the article: Museum of Hangovers opens in Croatia
Le Creuset offers this Han Solo Carbonite Signature Roaster. It's enameled cast iron and sells for $450. The product description points out that "the lid's interior has been embossed with… Read the rest of the article: Le Creuset's Star Wars roaster features Han Solo in carbonite
On Christmas Eve, 1968, astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the first humans to orbit another world, delivered a Christmas Eve message from above the lunar surface. From… Read the rest of the article: Listen to the Christmas Eve message from the first humans orbiting another world (1968)
Photographer Eric Brummel created this magnificent time-lapse video of the Milky Way in which the sky is stabilized so you can experience the Earth's rotation. He captured the footage at… Read the rest of the article: Astonishing stabilized time-lapse showing the Earth's rotation from the ground
