Those cheap earphones you keep buying year after year? The ones with the cool designs? They all kinda sound the same, huh? There’s a pretty good reason for that: They actually are all the same earphones.
When I first saw this photograph of a man’s hand submerged in liquid nitrogen at somewhere below -320° F, my immediate thought was, “That guy must be crazy! One second in that stuff, and you’re shopping for new skin!” My shock was tempered only slightly by the fact that it was my hand, and we’d taken the picture just a minute earlier.
A video gallery of top female tennis players — in slow motion.
Stephen Hawking on the possibility of contact with alien life:
“I think it would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.”
A man from West Virginia was banned from Xbox Live for listing “Fort Gay” as his home town. It took a while to sort out but everything is back to normal and the man’s account has been restored.
“Someone took the phrase ‘fort gay WV’ and believed that the individual who had that was trying to offend, or trying to use it in a pejorative manner,” Toulouse said. “Unfortunately, one of my people agreed with that. … When it was brought to my attention, we did revoke the suspension.”
John Kellas went to a car mechanic complaining that his car’s engine was making a squeaking noise. The culprit turned out to be a trapped kitten:
“I said no, no, it must be some engine part – as I could not see any cat. But when I went into town in the afternoon, I was convinced too that I heard something. But every time I stopped the car, I could not hear or see anything.
“I decided to take the vehicle to Farmer Autocare in Perth, but the mechanics couldn’t find it either. They were thinking I was taking the mickey out of them, that I was referring to a catalytic converter or something
“Just when they were about to give up, we all heard the kitten. At that point two of the mechanics stripped out the bottom of the car. That was when we saw a couple of little eyes peeking out from the dark corner, looking very terrified.
