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Two friends from Golden Hive Meadery decided to push fermentation to its weirdest limit by turning hot dogs into alcohol. Yes, actual hot dogs. Their now-viral clip, captioned simply “Making alcohol from hot dogs,” shows the pair dropping frankfurters into a stainless-steel fermenter like mad scientists. The internet immediately demanded answers, and, surprisingly, the duo […]
Picture it: Halloween night, 8:15 p.m. The doorbell rings again. You peek into the bowl: EMPTY!!! You’ve become that house. But fear not, sugar soldier, the M&M’s Halloween Rescue Squad is riding to the rescue once again! Starting at 5 p.m. on Oct. 31, M&M’s will team up with Gopuff to deliver emergency candy refills […]
Halloween is getting weird this year, and Airheads candy is leading the charge. The candy brand is offering adults a chance to win their very own “Decoy Boy”. A robotic “kid” designed to give grown-ups an excuse to hit the streets for trick-or-treating without getting side-eyed for being too old. Here’s how it works: Instead […]
As we’ve come to understand year after year, death is unfortunately an inevitable part of life. Still, as much of a fact as that may be, the blow of experiencing loss never gets any easier, nor does reporting on the subject when it comes to the rock icons and legendary musicians. RELATED: Remembering the Rockers […]
The Ig Nobel Prizes are back—basically the goofy cousins of the real Nobel Prizes. Instead of rewarding breakthroughs that change the world, these honor discoveries that make you laugh first . . . and maybe scratch your head later. Here are the highlights from 2025’s winners: Literature Prize: Awarded (posthumously) to a guy who tracked […]
Robert Redford, Oscar-Winning Actor and Director, Dies at 89 Robert Redford, the legendary actor, director, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival, has died at the age of 89. According to The New York Times, Redford passed away in his sleep on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at his home in the mountains near Provo, Utah. […]
September 8th is no ordinary day, it’s Star Trek Day, the anniversary of the show’s original premiere in 1966. When NBC aired “The Man Trap,” no one realized they were launching a pop-culture juggernaut. Back then, the series struggled with ratings and only lasted three short seasons. But in true Captain Kirk fashion, it refused […]
Happy 27th Anniversary to Google, though if history had gone differently, we might all be saying, “Let me Backrub that for you.” When Stanford PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin first cooked up their search project in 1996, they called it Backrub, because it analyzed the web’s “backlinks” to measure a site’s importance. Smart […]
In 1995, computer programmer Pierre Omidyar was just trying to solve a quirky problem at home. His girlfriend collected PEZ dispensers but couldn’t trade them easily online. So, Pierre did what any good coder in Silicon Valley would do: he built her a simple website. He called it AuctionWeb. What began as a personal project […]
Ozzy Osbourne died a little over a month ago, but that didn’t stop Roger Waters from stirring up controversy related to the “Prince of Darkness.” The former Pink Floyd bassist and co-founder blasted the late Black Sabbath frontman in an interview with The Independent Ink, prompting Jack Osbourne, Ozzy’s son, to respond. Waters took part […]
Long before Schoolhouse Rock! became a Saturday morning staple, it started with a frustrated dad and his Rolling Stones–loving kid. David McCall, an ad executive, noticed his son could belt out rock lyrics with no problem, but couldn’t remember multiplication tables. His idea? Put math to music. McCall enlisted jazz pianist Bob Dorough to give […]
AOL is shutting down its dial-up internet next month. Wait a minute. Let me back up. Yes, AOL was still offering dial-up in 2025. The same service that made your 90s-bedroom sound like R2-D2 having a meltdown, SCREEEECH–BEEP–BWAAA–KSSSHHHH, and just like that, we were “online.” Back in the day, AOL was the portal to the […]