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The punishment usually always fits the crime. In this case, the punishment probably felt like torture for a Hawaii man who broke a protective order and contacted his ex-girlfriend. “For every nasty thing you said about her, you’re going to say a nice thing,” explained 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo to defendant Daren Young. Young, …
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Here’s a story that’s close to my heart, not just because it’s fascinating, but because messages in a bottle and I have a weird connection. For the past 34 years, Wim Kruiswijk has been combing the coasts of Zandvoort, Netherlands, in search of messages-in-bottles. One wonders how many times can one person come across such …
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An old boss of mine had this expression that I find myself repeating from time to time. “I cannot explain people’s stupidity. I can only capitalize on it.” The boss especially loved spitting this wisdom out during this specific time of year — the holiday season — since our website sold merchandise through affiliate marketing …
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This Halloween, we’ve seen 3-story tall AT-AT displays and a zombie car accident but this lawn light show might have won the holiday. It probably also drives the neighbor’s insane. Tom BetGeorge’s over-the-top Halloween light show, perfectly synced to the song, This Is Halloween, from The Nightmare Before Christmas is fun to watch but only …
Pumpkin carving sometimes takes hours, especially if the design is incredibly detailed. These carvers went through “dozens and dozens” of gourds for one purpose – a stop-motion video – that took YEARS to finish. Oh My Gourd is a Halloween stop-motion pumpkin carving experiment of epic proportions. The carving team found hundreds of pumpkins similar …
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In every single major city, space is at a premium. Still, people continue to build monster buildings that take up the little land still available. A company in Helsinki, Finland wants urban planners to rethink the way buildings are constructed and prove that a perfectly livable home can fit into a parking space. Yes, one …
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Earlier this month, we highlighted a UK company that installed over 400 tiles to create a “bent” look in the office. The goal was to keep people from running up and down the hallway. A town in Iceland went the optical illusion route to stop cars from speeding down a business city street. The result …
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In 1922, Albert Einstein traveled to Japan to receive the Noble Prize for physics. The story goes that a messenger visited his room and the physicist didn’t have money for a tip, so instead, he gifted the guy a handwritten note off the desk. Einstein explained to the messenger that “one day the handwritten note …
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With help from author and clown expert Benjamin Radford, Vulture put together this fascinating video about the history of scary clowns and how the painted-face purveyors of joy slowly morphed into nightmare-inducing psychopaths thanks to pop culture and real-life events. They explain… “Clowns have always been represented as tricksters and jokers, from the days of …
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Taylor Lane and his buddy spent the summer picking up cigarette butts from the sand, parking lots and local paths around Santa Cruz. The duo did it partly to help keep the city clean but mainly to construct a contest-winning surfboard made entirely of the discarded debris. The third annual “Creators & Innovators Upcycle Contest”, …
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