World’s Strangest

Everybody knows who Manson, Koresh, and Jones are.  These are a few cult leaders that didn’t reach the same level in the media.  But their behavior and actions were equally disturbing. Pictured is Wayne Bent (or Michael Travesser), who founded the Lord of our Righteousness Church. Wayne, now calling himself Michael Travesser, decided that October 31, [...]

This list isn’t about the Michael Jacksons and Ted Kennedys, the Farrah Fawcetts or the Walter Cronkites. It’s about 10 less-celebrated people who passed away in 2009, and we felt deserved a little more spotlight than the media gave them. 1. Crystal Lee Sutton: Labor Hero Crystal Lee Sutton had been a textile worker for the J.P [...]

[YouTube Video Clip] – via reddit If you only saw one YouTube clip today, make it this one. Here’s The Golden Age of Video by Ricardo Autobahn, made from movie clips (which ones? David Glover got them all figured out). We Came, We Saw, We Kicked Its Ass. Indeed. Lyrics, from YouTube submitter slipknotskate1: 1,2,1,2,3,4 We accept [...]

After Michael Jackson passed away, his family decided to bury him inside Forest Lawn Memorial Park, a private, gated cemetery where many musicians, actors, and other celebrities are buried. As odd as it might sound, one of the main reasons the family chose the private cemetery was to ensure that Michael’s body could not be [...]

Media designer Shahee Ilyas has created pie charts showing the colors of the flags of over 200 nations. Using a list of countries generated by The World Factbook database, flags of countries fetched from Wikipedia are analysed by a custom made python script to calculate the proportions of colours on each of them. That is then [...]

LinkScroll down for today’s pictures & links. The Triangle: Jaw-Dropping Juggling This mesmerizing performance by Michael Moschen demonstrates his amazing dexterity and fluid, almost magical movements. You may have also seen Michael juggling crystal balls in the “Labyrinth” movie (with David Bowie). url Today’s pictures & links: Now in Black and White The famous Snow White MacBook cover – click here [...]

I grew up watching 120 Minutes, an MTV show that aired starting at midnight on Sunday night. This made waking up for school on Monday morning hard, but at least I got to catch the newest “alternative” videos (The Cure, The Replacements, The Breeders, that sort of thing) which rarely aired in the normal MTV [...]

This year’s U.S. Open featured a number of highs and lows, including overzealous fans, unexpected outbursts and a huge upset to cap it all off. But one of the craziest moments for me was the through-the-legs winner Roger Federer hit against Novak Djokovic in the semis. Sure, I’ve seen the chase-the-lob-hit-it-through-the-legs thing before, but never [...]

There’s probably a special place in Hell reserved for those of us who watch Jerry Lewis’s annual Labor Day Telethon strictly for laughs. After all, Jerry’s humanitarian efforts over the years have raised over a billion dollars for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, money which not only pays for research but also medical equipment and recreational [...]

Photo: Michael Yon Reporter and former Green Beret Michael Yon took a series of intriguing photos of glowing rotor blades as a helicopter lands in a military base in Afghanistan. The eerie “halo” is caused by static electricity generated as the titanium/nickel blades move through a field of dust (which is kicked up from the ground [...]