World’s Strangest

A tattoo of someone’s name is such a bad idea for so many reasons, but just because you made a mistake that doesn’t mean you have to get stuck with it forever, or pay a big bill for laser surgery. Cover up tattoos are a great way to hide your mistakes if you can’t erase [...]

When Derick wanted to propose to his girlfriend Emily, he decided to do it in a big way. A really big way: by creating a light writing proposal that covered several blocks in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. It took Derick and his friends 3 nights of shooting and over 800 exposures to make the image. [...]

The people at “Twenty Not Two Thousand” are worried that because people said “two thousand and nine,” this habit may carry over for the present year. Don’t let it happen! It’s easily the most inefficient way to say the name of the year. Say the year “1810″ out loud. Now say the year “1999″ out loud. [...]

This post gives you a crash course in gravity, specifically how gravity affects the way we travel to (or don’t travel to) other planets. The more massive and more compact your planet is, the harder it is to get off of. Something like the Moon, which is only about 1.2% of the mass of the Earth [...]

If you missed Day 1, that can be found right this way while Day 2 is down yonder, Day 3 is right over here and finally, Day 4 is right this way. HDYK unofficial mascot = Talking Carl, my son’s new, favorite iPhone app.

Elves have come a long way from the not-well-liked pranksters of medieval times. Shakespeare gave elves a boost, and Tolkien made them heroes. Cracked examines the split between toy-making elves and fierce video game elves. Toward the end of the European renaissance, it appears the elves diverged into two distinct sub-species. The first consisted of the [...]

(YouTube link) Just another way I can prove to my kids that I am, in fact, a genius. -via reddit

When is it OK to take an open flame on an airplane? When it’s the Olympic flame, ignited in Greece and on it’s way to Vancouver for the winter games. After departing Athens, Greece on October 30th, the Olympic Flame has been traveling across Canada, now about 1/3 of the way into its 106-day, 26,000 km [...]

A bridge can be a way of getting from one place to another. A bridge can also be a work of art, a sight for sore eyes, and a way to enhance the beauty of its surroundings. These bridges are all of these things! Shown is the Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London. Link From [...]

Science has come a long way in the quest to help patients who are in need of replacement body parts but now research has placed us on the verge of…