SKIRMISHER

Amazing what laser pointers can do to a bunch of impressionable kittens.
{Intriguing: Invasion of alien cat overlords}

But here’s the most important thing the drug does: it makes you shit oil. Worse, it makes you shit your pants. With oil. This is not the ravings of some fringe conspiracy group, this is what the company tells you itself on its website. Buy our drug if you want to lose weight. Oh, by [...]

Human freedom. Or why ignorance is always, always bliss.

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Jim Killeen googles his name and finds lotsa other Jim Killeens and thinks, hey, if people paid to see this movie, what’s stopping me from making the most awesomest movie for all the Jim Killeens of the world?”

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{Intriguing: Angela Shelton, googleganger}

He tilts his head, he smiles, he moves his eyes, he puffs up his cheeks and chest, he freaks you out when there’s only you and him in a dark smelly room. Gakutensoku, considered as Asia’s oldest “modern” robot, has recently been revived by replacing its old inflatable rubber tubes with computer-controlled pneumatic servo system [...]

A local man is actively trying to take possession of hurricane-ravaged houses – and deputies are actively trying to stop him, police said.
According to the St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office, Jesse Bryant, 47, was booked with burglary and criminal trespassing after posting signs in yards of damaged houses reading “I, Jesse Bryant, take possession of this [...]

In 1862, Charles Darwin examined this orchid from Madagascar — a flower whose nectar is at the bottom of a long narrow tube. So Darwin predicted there must be a moth with a 12-inch tongue that fits exactly the orchid. But Darwin merely got ridiculed for the prediction — among many others things he did [...]

We bet ten dollars this guy is the life of the party, the center of attention, the fabulous dude with the impeccable taste that makes every girl simply drop dead upon seeing him. Or bet a fifillion dollars he’s just a modern manifestation of the two well-respected Latin terms “douche” and “bag.”
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{Mad: It’s no longer [...]