World’s Strangest

Every week, I used to wander into the New York Times archives to find the first time the paper covered various topics (like The Walkman). In honor of tonight’s Iowa Caucus, we’re bringing back “The First Time News Was Fit to Print.” Here are the first times The Times mentioned each of the remaining GOP [...]

© IAN LANGSDON/epa/Corbis The head of the International Monetary Fund was recently arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper in New York City. Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK to his friends), head of the IMF since 2007, is a political rival to French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and a well-known seducer of women (seriously, his French nickname roughly [...]

(YouTube link) Make no mistake, I am well and truly over Antoine “Bed Intruder” Dodson. But that doesn’t mean that the Auto-Tune the News kingmakers behind his phenomenon aren’t awesome. They’re back, they’re better than ever, and they brought company! Weezer appears as special guests in the latest video from The Gregory Brothers aka “Auto-Tune the News”. [...]