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The BBC Is Putting Your Life In Perspective

They say (they being, you know, those guys) you should learn something new every day. Today that something new is brought you by the BBC.  With the upcoming birth of the worlds 7 billionth person, the BBC is taking a look back and making you feel either significant, or really really ...

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7.3 Earthquake Hit Turkey

An earthquake hit Turkey today around 1:40pm local time. The earthquake is somewhere between 6.4 and 7.3 in magnitude.  According to CNN, the area is very familiar with strong quakes, however this one is still considered major. There are also reports of nearly 1,000 injured or killed....

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Help These Adorable Chilly Penguins

Today, in absolutely-effing-adorable news, penguins in New Zealand are in need if your help.  After a massive oil spill, the penguins are left in serious risk of freezing this winter from the oil damage to their coats.  Where do you come in?  With some yarn and free time....

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Moammar Gadhafi is Dead

Well the inevitable has finally happened: Moammar Gadhafi, the former Libyan dictator, has been killed.  After weeks of being on the run, Gadhafi was shot and killed by insurgents in the town of Sirte, the terrorist's birthplace. Much can be said of his reign over Libya, which began in 1969...

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FYI The World Is Still Ending Tomorrow

Well, it's time to get your shit together people, cause the world is still going to end tomorrow. Remember a few months back when Harold Camping told everyone the world was going to end some time in May? Well, it was actually that the start to the end of the world was going to happen in May and all...

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Earth Welcomes Its 7 Billionth Baby On Halloween

I'm not sure if I should be saying congratulations, or WTF. This Halloween some spooky shit will be going on around the world. We will be welcoming our 7 billionth resident.  According to The United Nations Populations Fund, "The world’s population didn’t reach 1 billion until 1804, and it...

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Serbian Scientists Say Bigfoot Is Real: I Believe Them

When I think of scientific know-how, I immediately think of the tundra, 2,000 miles east of Moscow. I mean that is a hot bed of scientific discovery. Take for example, their recent discovery that that are in fact 95% certain that big foot lives there.  "A team of a dozen-plus experts from as...

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Berlusconi Wants His Italian Political Party to Be Renamed "Go Pussy"

For those of you unfamiliar with Berlusconi, he is the playboy Italian Prime Minister who loves young prostitutes and saying insanely outlandish things. Basically the dude just DGAF.  Now Berlusconi is at it again, this time he wants to rename his political party because he...

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Venezuela Hires Mimes as Traffic Cops

Dios mio! Venezuela is going loco.  In what sounds like one of the most annoying, road rage inducing moves of all time, the capital city of Venezuela hired a whole bunch of mimes to act as human traffic lights.  According to Fox News, "A part of Venezuela's capital is using the services...

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Check Out This Porn Company's Apocalypse Bunker

Is it too late for me to get in this business? In a rather responsible move for a porn company, Pink Visual is in the middle of building a massive bunker, if the apocalypse should hit in 2012.  Here are the blueprints: Very elaborate. So why are they building it? We will let them...

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