Culture Buzz According to redditor Hollyholidayz a woman brought a dead baby, carried in a stroller, onto the Brooklyn bound L train last night. The train was subsequently stopped around 6:45 p.m. at the 1st Avenue station where police took over the investigation. No official reports have been released at this time. (via reddit.com)
Culture Buzz Or perhaps is doing the trolling? This eye chart was shown during a segment about eyesight treatment for elders.
TV Buzz Three times! Plus an “LOL” from John King for good measure. Let me know what your reaction to Blitzer's reaction is down in the comments.
Culture Buzz I don’t know about you guys, but this is kind of the cutest. Cuter than any babies doing this, at least.
Culture Buzz This year you need to remember that resolutions are meant to be carried through, no matter how absurd they seem now.
Celebrity Buzz If I had ovaries, they would have just exploded. I can't even take it.
Culture Buzz Graphic photos of the slain dictator in a Misrata morgue. Not for the squeamish.
Culture Buzz Cell phone footage of the moment Libyan revolutionaries found a bloodied Muammar Gaddafi cowering in a drainage pipe. According to The Global Post, the rebels are screaming “Don't kill him! We need him alive!” Officials with LIbya's National Transitional Council claim the dictator later died of wounds sustained in a gun battle.
Culture Buzz Agustina Woodgate has constructed 3,000 tightly wound bricks of hair into Tower, two four-foot, six-inch tall Medieval castle sculptures. I think I'm going to be sick. (via)
Food Buzz At two feet long, this giant Hungarian sausage is wrapped in bacon, covered in cheddar cheese, and blanketed with crescent rolls. If that's not enough for you, it came along with a “side” of macaroni and cheese as well. I don't have to tell anyone to commence penis jokes; I know it's going to happen. (via helablog.com)
Tech Buzz Pun definitely intended. Wonder Woman must be pretty upset that we're all going to have access to invisible planes by 2050. (via digg.com)
This, in fact, will not blend. The Physics department at The University of New Mexico devised this contraption, called a Couette Cell, to demonstrate the laminar flow of liquids with a sufficiently low Reynolds number. I'm not going to pretend that I understand what that means. But what I do understand is this: I've seen this video three times and my mind still = blown. (Via io9)
Culture Buzz I'd certainly shell out all the rupees in my Giant's Wallet for this. (via reddit.com)
If aliens came down unto Earth and demanded I explain the Internet to them in five minutes, I would just show them this video. And then they would vaporize us. (via neatorama.com)
Staysha Randall has attempted to break the world record of 3,100 piercings for the title of “Most Body Piercings in a Single Sitting.” The piercings took place at Inktoxicated Tattoos in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the record is still awaiting verification by Guinness to be official. (More pictures here)
Culture Buzz At least 115 are dead in Joplin, Missouri following a massive EF4 tornado, one of many twisters that tore through the Midwest last night. As can be seen in these awful images of destruction, the death toll in Joplin is expected to rise.
Celebrity Buzz Yes, she's 18. Taken at something called Wango Tango. For all you precocious little Justin Biebers out there, “Wango Tango” is also the name of a Ted Nugent song about schtupping. The hoary wisdom of elders. More at Egotastic.
Culture Buzz Photos taken shortly after the emergency landing of a Cathay Pacific plane, which burst into flames mid-flight. Fortunately no one was injured.
GED? This beat down is advanced placement. Our future, ladies and gentlemen, is brighter than ever. And try to forgive the mouse permanently hovering in the center of the screen. The video was made by a GED student, after all.
Culture Buzz Judge Philip Kirk, while sentencing a pedophile in his Waupaca County Wisconsin courtroom, used some colorful language that's gotten him into trouble with gay rights groups. Are putrid-smelling jock straps heterosexual? Full story here.
Culture Buzz Located in Wichita, Kansas, Joyland is an amusement park that's been shuttered since 2006. Here are a bunch of creepy/beautiful images documenting nature's reclamation of the site. This is the stuff that Stephen King novels and awesome roman candle fights are born of.
Culture Buzz Gorgeously macabre anatomical illustrations by Andrea Sparacio from the new book The Zombie Autopsies. Better know the inner workings of the undead!
How did police in Brazil identify this wanted drug trafficker? Painstaking detective work. Oh, and he was THE GUY WITH TWELVE FINGERS! Six digits on each hand, as seen in this photo. You might say (puts on sunglasses) he was fingered. YEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
Celebrity Buzz In what was surely just a camera flash away from a gory trampling rampage, resulting in Robert Pattinson's face being even flatter and weirder than usual, here's RPat and ReSpoon (that's your new tabloid nickname, Reese Witherspoon) posing with a weeping pachyderm. A ham-fisted photo-op promoting “Water for Elephants” in Sydney. More over at Celebuzz. Use our Photo Editor at the bottom of the page to put the Crying Elephant in a sad photo of your choosing!
A collaboration with his protege, Hot Rod, cleverly/subtly/allegorically/poetically titled “Osama bin Laden is Dead.” It's got a sick beat for dancing away your humanity. Just wait for the awesome Charlie Sheen break down. Trust me, you'll be humming this as it drives you to stick your head in the oven.
Culture Buzz You're kidding, right? No I am not kidding. Rabbit dressage is all the rage in Europe. Next step: tiny saddles with mouse jockeys. More over at Daily Mail. Use our handy Photo Editor at the bottom of the page to add a leaping lepus to the photo of your choosing!
Celebrity Buzz As went Howard Hughes with immense wealth and fame, Katy Perry is slowly going mad. Hopefully, continuing with the Howard Hughes allusion, that's only yellow Powerade in the bottle. More at Celebuzz.
Culture Buzz An amazing series of photos from the annual running of the goats in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Goats and humans fall by the wayside in what appears to be an ungulate death race. And who ended up winning the Sly Fox Bock Fest and Goat Race? Peggy, the three-legged goat! More photos at the Phoenixville Patch.
Culture Buzz Another in our Pulitzer-winning series, Hilariously Understated Police Report Theater. Meet Gloria Perez. Gloria and her friend were arrested in Florida for possession of a controlled substance without a prescription (among many other charges). Police found a Walgreens' worth of pain killers on the duo after they were pulled over by Deputy John Poole. Now take it away, police report!
Culture Buzz What horrors lurk beneath this grill cover? Well, as you've probably assumed from the horrid pun, bees. A guy noticed a few of them flying around his barbecue and set off a bug bomb. This is what he found in the aftermath. Read his whole story here.