World’s Strangest

Today is a sad day for enterprising cooks, for the greatest possible food has now been invented. What could possibly surpass this invention by Smoking Meat Forums user Fire it up? Link via Geekologie

Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will test your familiarity with city nicknames. If you’re lucky, your city will be one of the ten! If you’re unlucky, you’ll score 30% like I did. Link

From the blog Today I Found Out, here’s something I bet you didn’t know about 7-11’s Double Big Gulp: Today I found out that the 7-11 Double Big Gulp holds about twice the amount of fluid than the average adult human’s stomach. The average adult human’s stomach can hold reasonably comfortably approximately 32 ounces at any [...]

How well do you know US National Parks? Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will be easier if you’ve traveled a bit. You’ll be given a park name, and you identify where it is. Good luck; I only scored 50%. Link

Today in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born. As a poet of the macabre, Poe has left a lasting mark on American letters, most famously with The Raven, one poem which most of us know, despite most of us not being huge poetry fans. Today marks a sad end to a mysterious tradition. For 60 years, [...]

Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss is a lot of fun, especially for someone like me who spent decades connecting audio-video equipment professionally. I’m sure you will enjoy it, too! Can you identify ten different types of connecting cables, both old and new? Good luck; I scored 80%. Link

You might have noticed that Neatorama went away for a while today and came back minus a few posts. The site suffered a system crash, at the worst possible time -when Alex is out of town and has no computer access. Luckily, our talented staff of tech wizards were able to restore the site using [...]

(YouTube Link) Today, Darth Vader rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. He was accompanied by stormtroopers as R2-D2 worked the floor. via io9

The new issue’s almost here (stay tuned for the big cover unveiling later today!), but we can’t stop the show and tell just yet! Here’s a sneak peek at our Spinning the Globe tour of Sweden. The story covers so many things, from how Sweden’s socialism actually works, to why Swedes don’t really like ABBA, [...]

Today marks the 109th anniversary of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s historic flight at Kitty Hawk. Tonight’s installment of the Late Movies takes a (light-hearted) look at some famous pop culture scenes inspired by leaving the bonds of Earth for the heavens above. To lead us off this evening, here is the very famous cockpit scene from [...]