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31st, January 2014 Celebrities 2

In 1964 Isaac Asimov Made These Predictions On The World In 2014

On August 16, 1964, Asimov shared with NY Times' readers his reactions to a visit to the World's Fair 0f 2014. The Worlds;' Fair had opened in New York. His writing was on a theme... More »

31st, January 2014 Flashback

In 1934 Northwestern University Predicted Learning Via The Internet

The university of twenty-five years from now will be a different looking place, says President Scott of Northwestern.... More »

31st, January 2014 Reviews

Amanda Knox: The Book Sequel And Celebrity Are In The Bag

As one wag put it: “Look, the only thing that girl’s guilty of is being beautiful and maybe murder”... More »

31st, January 2014 Celebrities

Back To The Future: Once An Awful Film, Now Set To Be An Awful Musical

HATE to break it to you '80s nostalgiaists, but Back To The Future sucks. Basically, the whole story is about a boy who looks like he's thirty, getting his own way like some brat, nearly getting off with his mum, stealing the invention of rock 'n' roll from the true innovators and gave birth to irritating people demanding hoverboards because we now live in the future... More »

31st, January 2014 Money

Forgotify, The Website That Plans To Kill Itself

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31st, January 2014 Money 1

You Don't Own Your Amazon And iTunes Stuff

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31st, January 2014 Music

What's New at The Brit Awards This Year?

THE Brit Awards - the British recording industry's lavish work's do - is less than 3 weeks away and a slurry of famous faces will be trudging through the doors of the O2 Arena... More »

30th, January 2014 Key Posts 5

She Devil Amanda Knox Murdered Like Eichmann: Third Time Lucky For Meredith Kercher

AMANDA Knox and Raffaele Sollecito did murder British student Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy. Today an appeals court in Florence upheld the convictions of U.S. student Knox and her ex-boyfriend for the November 2007 murder of her British roommate... More »

30th, January 2014 Reviews

Red Hot Chilli Peppers To Be Most Hateful Super Bowl Halftime Ever?

THE Super Bowl halftime show is a mixed bag. Highlights have included Prince, The Rolling Stones, Chubby Checker (and 88 grand pianos), Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney and Beyonce.. More »

30th, January 2014 Flashback 1

All Aboard The Martin Mars Flying Hotel

THERE was Luxury Aloft the Martin Mars Flying Hotel. What was once a US Navy flying boat was now swanky. In 1945, air travel was a thing of wonder.... More »

30th, January 2014 Flashback 1

10 Dream Jobs For 1970s Men

WE'RE smack dab in the Twilight Zone (AKA the 70s) when the Baby Boomers are breaking out on their own, the sexual revolution is in full swing, drugs are highly encouraged, and blue collar is king. If you’re a man and want to enjoy the 1970s to their fullest extent, take heed of my advice. Choose one of these career paths, and all will be groovy... More »

30th, January 2014 Fashion

These 3D Printed Nail Sets Are Fantastically Cool

NEW York City-based designers Sarah C. Awad and Dhemerae Ford of the Laser Girls are using technology for the awesome by kicking out 3D printed nail art... More »

30th, January 2014 Technology 3

Dr Who: This TARDIS Really IS Bigger On The Inside

DOCTOR Who fans all know that the TARDIS is bigger on the inside than it appears on the outside. In late 2012, to prove it, Greg Kumparak built a tiny TARDIS that fits on a desk which uses augmented reality to expand its inner dimensions... More »

30th, January 2014 Celebrities 2

Checking The Daily Mail: I Heard It Through The Hate Vine

WOMEN don’t have any agency. They don’t choose to have children nor are they capable of rejecting the advances of rich men. Women are wombs to be squirted in to and then used. Women are basically cattle. Welcome to the world of the Daily Mail as most recently articulated by the paper’s newest woman-who-hates-woman, Sarah Vine... More »

29th, January 2014 TV & Radio

The Best LIVE! News Bloopers Of January 2014

WE'RE going LIVE to the scene of some desperate reporting... More »

29th, January 2014 Reviews

The New York Post's Masahiro Tanaka Gag Bombs

GET a load of the New York Post's front page, created in tribute (not fear) to new New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka. He's Japanese. And he's riding on a divine wind of change in the cockpit of a Japanese warplane. He is the “$155m Bronx Bomber”. He is the new “Japanese ace”... More »

29th, January 2014 Sports

Flamboyant Skier To Don A Skin-Tight Mariachi Suit To Race In The Sochi Olympics

ALPINE skier Prince Hubertus von Hohenlohe, who turns 55 on February 2nd, qualified to represent Mexico in the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi but knows that it's unlikely that he'll win a medal. Instead, for his sixth and probably last chance to compete in the Olympic games, he is attempting to win big style points... More »

29th, January 2014 Money

Women's Lib Caused Rising Inequality!

YOU may think this is absurd but nevertheless it's is actually true. From somewhere around a lot to all of rising household inequality has been caused by womens' lib. Which is, of course, an exciting finding... More »

29th, January 2014 Flashback

How The Beatles Hypnotized Western Youth To Fight For Russia In The Cold War

IN 1974 the Reverend David A. Noebel put own in words his thought on The Beatles. These thoughts were deep enough to form an entire book, The Marxist Minstrels: A Handbook on Communist Subversion of Music... More »

29th, January 2014 Reviews

Jesus Appears On Woman's Foot To Remind Her To Wears Sandals

SANDALS. Had Paula Osuna been wearing the godly shoes in her Albuquerque, NM, home she would have not hurt her foot. And Jesus would have have shown up on her metatarsals to remind her... More »

29th, January 2014 Flashback

Epic Cars: The 1972 Toyota RV Passion Wagon

IN 1972, Toyota unveiled the greatest RV never made... More »

29th, January 2014 Flashback

Flashback: Feeding Soup To The Orphans In Canning Town Soup 1931

1931, London... More »

29th, January 2014 Sports

Robbie Savage Watch: How Spurs Can Play Like Every Other Team Against Manchester City

ROBBIE Savage Watch: a look at the world's favourite pundit. This week, Savage tells BBC viewers "How Spurs can beat Man City"... More »

29th, January 2014 Reviews 10

Maxim Martsinkevich Might Be Putin's Chief Anti-Gay Enforcer

MAXIM Martsinkevich is the head of Occupy Pedophilia, an anti-gay group. He used to be a leading light in the neo-Nazi groups Format18. He's just been deported from Cuba, accused of kidnapping an torturing Russian LGBT teens. It's alleged that he lured his victims through fake social media profiles... More »

29th, January 2014 The Consumer 3

The Radically Invasive Projectile (RIP): The Last Round You'll Ever Need

CUE the husky voice. Cue the thumping backtrack. Cue the man in combat fatigues shooting at melons. This is an advert for the Radically Invasive Projectile - The Last Round You'll Ever Need. It is the RIP Cartridge... More »