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In a secret tape obtained by Deadspin, this college football coach said his team’s fan are “a bunch of fucking fair-weather fucking—they can all kiss my ass out the fucking door” and wanted to tell them “Fuck you, fans. Fuck all of you.” Photo by AP Images https://deadspin.com/bo-pelini-on-nebraska-fans-fuck-you-fans-fuck-all-o-1327398903
Is there anything more amazeballs than seeing Uma Thurman taking on the assassins who killed her fiancé and a hundred ninja dudes in between? No. There’s not. Which is why the world needs less Wolverines and more Black Widows. https://gizmodo.com/the-long-list-of-successful-action-movies-starring-wome-1298632309
A company called Terra Vivos is building underground timeshare communities “built to withstand a 50-megaton nuclear blast 10 miles away, 450mph winds, a magnitude-10 earthquake, 10 days of 1,250°F surface fires, and three weeks beneath any flood.” Asteroids, nuclear war or angels with trumpets—you’ll survive them all trapped with neighbors under a mountain. Photos by…
Astrophysicist Niayesh Afshordi says that our universe may be the byproduct of a dead star in another universe, an expanding 3D membrane of a black hole that floats through a 4D bulk universe. Like your brain after Saturday night. His model explains many of the mysteries that science hasn’t solved yet, like the uniform temperature…
The latest processed food craze in America is “gluten-free.” Everyone believes that eating stuff without gluten will benefit them—because gluten poisons you! This is false. Only people with celiac disease need to avoid it. The rest are dumb people paying extra. http://gawker.com/americans-who-are-all-doctors-embrace-gluten-free-c-1324809055
One year ago, Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond raped a 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio. A horrified America watched as mass media echoed internet vigilantes’ evidence of a town-wide conspiracy to cover the case. The evidence was false, but the city is still suffering the terrible consequences of those accusations. https://jezebel.com/a-town-destroyed-for-what-two-people-did-dispatch-fr-1298509440
Finally, Grand Theft Auto V is here. The Kotaku review says that this crime simulation game set in a fictionalized Los Angeles is truly amazing. The realism is exquisitely gritty, the attention to detail staggering, and the story is a roller coaster. Kids, remember that pretending to be a criminal is a lot of fun…
Google and the Department of Defense signed a weird deal in 2007: the former would let the latter use a federal airfield and buy government jet fuel at half the normal price—for scientific and official purposes. However, Google’s top brass used tons of this fuel to travel to these hot playgrounds. Fort-de-France, Martinique, Caribbean San…
Yesternight, this former Pittsburg Steelers quarterback and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday said he “wouldn’t have fucked his old, ugly-ass mother. God dang. I got more pride than that” on live TV. Whose mother was that will probably remain a mystery forever. https://deadspin.com/terry-bradshaw-i-wouldnt-have-fucked-his-old-ugly-a-1313217518
Sexual vampires. Sex in the woods. Caught in the act. Condoms left on for too long. Beer lady. Blue vibrators. Closets in Christian camps. Tom Hanks. Dead heads. Swiss lube. The Big Lebowski. Threesomes. All that and much more in The Best Stories About the First Time [Jezebel Readers] Had Sex.” https://jezebel.com/the-10-best-stories-about-the-first-time-you-had-sex-1307061147
Tesla was a genius but supported eugenics. Ford created the car industry but viciously hated jews. Gandhi promoted peace but shared his bed with underaged naked girls. Lennon made incredible music but violently abused his wives. Von Braun was a Nazi who took us to the Moon. And yet, some insist in turning them into…
“The new Chipotle ad is amazing,” says Gawker’s Neetzan Zimmerman. When asked about the ad, Wired writer, self-professed burrito connoisseur and dedicated Chipotle hater Mat Honan replied: “I’m going straight to Godwin here, because you know who else had good ads?” He echoes the thoughts of billions who hate Chipotle, Coldplay and other things that…
Sources close to the development of games for the PS4 and the Xbox One—Sony and Microsoft’s next generation consoles—say that the former is about 50% faster than the latter. But is it 50% more fun to play with it? (The answer is no, which is why normals consumers don’t care about these things at all.)…
Voyager I is now officially flying into interstellar space. In the future, an alien spaceship may come across it. When they do, they will find two things: a golden disc and a record player. These are the contents of that disc and how to interpret it. The original version of this post was published in…
It’s hard to believe, but this deformed hairy thing is a dog. Her name is Ginger, a “4-pound, 14-year-old poodle who had been the victim of a hoarding situation.” Her hair was so matted that some of her body parts were trapped by it. So much that the poor thing had to learn to walk…
Fact: the faster your drive, the shorter your reaction time is, the less probability to avoid an accident. Fact: the faster you drive, the more kinetic energy, the less probability of surviving an impact. Fact: some low speed limits are dumb—but not as dumb as people who drive recklessly around Manhattan. https://gizmodo.com/police-arrests-man-who-broke-the-drive-around-manhattan-1263160070 https://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-best-takedown-of-the-speed-kills-myth-you-1302382244
Despite the fact that all NASA’s launch sites are natural paradises thanks to the agency’s conservationists efforts, sometimes accidents happen when frogs, bats, pelicans or turkey vultures cross the path of rockets as they soar into space. Here are some sad examples. Of course, there were other lucky ones who survive. In fact, the norm…
It seems that there’s enough circumstantial evidence to suspect that Kerry Rhodes—a good NFL player who was photographed being physically affectionate to another man—has been secretly blacklisted by the National Football League. Drew Magary builds the case at Deadspin. Photo by AP Images https://deadspin.com/is-the-nfl-blacklisting-kerry-rhodes-1300128496
For the first time in history, a man-made object has left the solar system. Voyager I is officially out of here. After one stormy year traveling through plasma on the edge of the heliosphere, the 36-year-old spaceship is now 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from the Sun. Today, more than ever, Humanity is on…
Some heinous American companies think they can promote their brands with shameless 9/11 tributes. But there’s worse. Much worse—these extraordinary imbeciles threw a 9/11 commemorative party using Muslim and US military costumes. https://gizmodo.com/american-companies-shameless-9-11-tributes-are-disgus-1294379432 https://kotaku.com/a-counter-strike-party-on-9-11-its-actually-worse-tha-1299435365
