And so you may remember a previous post of mine where I told you about The Oatmeal‘s love affair with Nikola Tesla? Yeah, this post. Well, keeping with what the public knows of his manic, obsessive personality, Matthew Inman has thrown...
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It’s well known–much to the chagrin of my friend and compatriot, radio DJ Rob Levy–that I don’t listen to the radio. If I do manage to know something about what’s “new and hip” (or whatever the hell...
Oh for the love of–! Yes, another one. It’s Weekend Justice: the podcast that will crank call you at three in the morning despite the restraining order. This podcast was engineered–some might say over-engineered–by...
On our recent road trip, we made lots of interesting discoveries. One of my favorites was this gem: Carter’s Antique Toy Museum in Zionsville, Indiana. About seventeen miles from Indianapolis, it’s a building with three floors...
And we’re back. Please note: this podcast, if you haven’t figured it out, is profane and not safe for consumption by children or animals. Or sentient creatures of any sort. Or even cardboard boxes. Nothing. Nobody. Got it...
For today’s kickoff, a bit of what I did while in Baltimore for the Poe Bicentennial as part of my 32 Days of Halloween special trip. Here’s a walkthrough of the Poe House there in Baltimore, which was open for a viewing of...
The Lara Museum is located in Ronda, Spain. It looks like the kind of place that would have Curious Expeditions (one of my favorite sites for whacked out locales) in there in a heartbeat, but searching their site gives me nothing. Knowing...
In what is quite possibly the coolest video you will see this week, a live action dinosaur, worked by actors and puppeteers, stalks through the Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles, entertaining adults and freaking the hell out of kids...
The Bowes Museum is in North East England and has, among its collection, a silver swan automaton that dates back to 1773. It was purchased for £200 in 1872. Not a bad price–they should have bought two, it might have been cheaper...
Gizmodo, lucky bastages that they are, got to enter the legendary Lego Vault, which contains almost every single Lego set ever produced, totalling 4720 of the things. And every single one of them was unopened. Sheer madness. And I can relate...