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Good news for actress, model and recording artist* Lindsay Lohan: she’s getting two million dollars to star in an 8-part docuseries in which Oprah will life coach her. The deal sends a good message to kids: wrecking and making a public joke out of your life pays. *Source: Wikipedia.
Edward Snowden can’t stay in Moscow’s airport forever. The American whistleblower hero needs to get to a safe haven in Bolivia or Iceland or wherever, before he is assassinated by Barack Obama’s drones. Why not dress like Vladimir Putin dressed as a horseman warrior and just ride into the forest? Summer is way too hot…
This skeleton of a dead (?) basement monster was found by a worker installing cable beneath a house, leaving the terrified resident to wonder what kind of goblin lair lies just beneath the floorboards. Is the creature a wild animal? A lost pet? Or is this something science cannot (or will not) explain? The resident…
The alleged “Native American designer” responsible for Disney’s The Lone Ranger fashion merchandise is not a Native American, despite his (fake) American Indian name. Turns out that Gabriel GoodBuffalo and Disney are breaking federal law by selling phony American Indian arts and crafts.
This is Matthew Zeno, the 30-year-old man who allegedly died today in New York City’s subway after peeing on the electrified third rail. He was instantly electrocuted. Update: police has confirmedthe man died electrocuted after he fell on the third rail. His Facebook friends have started to post farewell messages on his wall. According to…
In a summer filled with painfully stupid, joyless blockbusters, Disney’s The Lone Ranger offers a very special brand of insultingly terrible boring nonsense. But is it the year’s stupidest movie, or just in the Top 10? At least the western’s “accessories collection is made by a Lakota Sioux leatherworker named Gabriel GoodBuffalo.” “A Pirates of…
An incredible image of the Chrysler Building shot by Jason Hawkes. Jason is a professional aerial photographer. His photos are always so perfect they look almost unreal. Here’s a video too, showing New York City’s always impressive architecture. Have a great day! You’re reading Kinja’s front page, the showcase of the very best, must-see stories…
On the first anniversary of President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood regime, millions of Egyptians took to the streets, burned his political headquarters, showed both bravery and thuggery, and demanded new leadership. These eight stunning pictures from AFP/Getty Images tell the story so far.
Adding greatly to the usual mayhem of the video game Grand Theft Auto, a player modified GTA IV to include a crazily realistic Incredible Hulk. This video of the Hulk is just nuts. Watch him take out whole squads of cops and throw cars at helicopters.
A bad batch of MDMA powder is blamed for the death of one concertgoer in Washington state, while more than a hundred others reportedly overdosed on what turned out to be a potent cocktail of LSD, cocaine, methamphetamine and MDMA—the same mix that made Ecstasy popular 20 years ago.
Every now and then you realize that one of your family friends is an awful person. It may have been the Paula Deen case bringing some secret racists into the open. Or the Supreme Court’s recognition of gay marriage getting the homophobes out of their closet. Here are some tips to cut them out of…
When the humongous Galápagos tortoise known as “Lonesome George” died in 2012, the last of his particular species died too. Now the American Museum of Natural History has the chance to display the taxidermied tortoise so kids can learn about creatures forever lost to time.
A blogger for the New York Times wanted $10,000 per day from businesses for his “time and focus to learn about these companies,” according to email from NYT blogger Cliff Oxford provided to Gawker.com. The former UPS executive writes for the Times’ “You’re the Boss” blog. [Photo via Shutterstock.]
The Edward Snowden revelations, WikiLeaks drops, FBI admissions of drones over the U.S. and the constant security breaches at commercial websites show that many of us just don’t like this whole spying culture. And yet we allow it. Why?
According to a New York Times survey conducted by Truven Health Analytics, America is the most expensive place on Earth to give birth to a baby. In fact, the price for a delivery has “about tripled in the U.S. since 1996.” Image by Shutterstock
Moving can be a horror, but it’s also a wonderful opportunity to get rid of all your crap. The boxed stuff that goes from apartment to garage to storage to house? Dump it. The furniture you don’t even like? Sell it. Start fresh, live clean.
A Cirque du Soleil acrobat fell to her death while performing with the troupe in Las Vegas on Saturday. It was during the finale of the Kà show when the 31-year-old woman dropped more than 50 feet before a horrified audience.
Five men raped a Dutch journalist in Cairo during Friday’s Tahir Square protest. The attack was so brutal that she had to be hospitalized for surgery. While the government claims this “behavior isn’t characteristic of Egyptians,” the UN says that 99 percent of Egyptian women have been sexually assaulted or harassed.
Larry Principe of Johns Hopkins University is a modern-day alchemist, following the arcane texts of 16th and 17th Century scientists who used what was then the latest technology in attempts to change base metals into precious gold. From these methods, we learn about how chemists worked hundreds of years ago.
The undercover vice cops wear a “superthin shroudlike membrane” to cloud their appearance in Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. An information magician in William Gibson’s Neuromancer wears “a polycarbon suit with a recording feature that allowed him to replay backgrounds at will.” Now that these science-fiction technologies from these 1977 and 1984 novels are…
