A 34-year-old unemployed man from Ohio attempted to set a Guinness World Record over the weekend by fist pumping for 17 hours straight. James Peterson began the attempt on Friday morning, according to the Akron…
Sure, some cities have bus rapid transit (BRT) corridors where buses can reach up to 30 MPH, but in general, buses move pretty slowly. Never has the lowly bus looked so sexy as with this…
Facebook is testing a new feature called Highlight that allows users to pay a nominal fee to promote their posts, making them more prominent in others’ news feeds. Last year Facebook raked in $1.14 billion…
Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won’t be the end of…
So, you dropped food on the floor—to eat or not to eat, that is the question? Audrey Fukuman and Andy Wright of SFoodie created a flowchart—“The 30-Second Rule, A Decision Tree”—to guide you on whether…
Plenty of people have fantasies of joining the ‘Mile High Club’ by cramping themselves into a tiny bathroom to have uncomfortable sex with the danger of being kicked off an airline forever. It doesn’t sound…
[SitM: is this really that surprising?] The average British person is under the influence of alcohol in three-quarters of of his or her tagged Facebook photos, according to a new study. Researchers asked British people…
Web users are constantly judged by how they use the Internet. Embarrassing Facebook photos (no, I don’t want to see you do a keg stand), inane tweets (I don’t care what you ate today), and…
[SitM: don't necessarily agree with this, but it is intriguing food for thought] Intelligent people don’t always do the right thing Published on October 31, 2010 by Satoshi Kanazawa in The Scientific Fundamentalist The human…
