The New Beetle, Mon

[youtube width=”640″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H0xPWAtaa8[/youtube] Not everyone is irie about this ad, but we suspect that people calling it “racist” just needed a more powerful way of saying that it “sucks”.

Alone in Siberia

In 1978, a helicopter full of Soviet geologists encountered a family living alone in Siberia, 150 miles from any other human settlement, and had been since 1936. Apparently life in a frozen wooden cabin was preferable to life under the Soviets. Who knew? [For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was … Read More

The Life and Times of Danny DeVito

Danny DeVito is sort of the drunken, hilarious uncle we wish we had… then again, we may just be confusing him with his best character, Frank. Unsurprisingly, the five-foot-nothing actor best known for his turns in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Batman Returns and L.A. Confidential (and who could forget Twins?) admits his … Read More

A Dame to Compute For

That’s right: using a $238 million military computer, an IBM employee rendered an Esquire pin-up girl on a cathode ray tube screen. God bless a runaway American military budget. [The Never Before Told Story Of the World’s First Computer Art – The Atlantic]

Goalie Mask Showdown

Henrik Lundqvist, you’re an awesome goalie and we love watching you (despite our low opinion of the Ranger’s organization), but who told you that your mask would look great with Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman and Ingmar Bergman plastered on it? Is the Ranger’s fan base now composed exclusively of film … Read More

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