When a guy told 21-year old Ann Godfrey that she was fat at a party in Lincoln, Nebraska, the woman bit off a chunk of his right ear.

A third of married woman believe that their pets are better listeners than their husbands, according to a recent poll.

The Boy Scouts of America has an official award Cub Scouts can earn for playing video games: Requirements Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts may complete requirements in a… Read the rest of the article: Cub Scouts award for video games

Mental Floss clues us in to a recent study that observed tanaholics — people who are addicted to tanning beds.

Photo via Keoki Seu's Flickr SFist [via @erinbiba]

Vending Machines is a fun book by Christopher Salyers that shows vending machines from around the world. Most of them, not surprisingly, are from Japan — back home we sell… Read the rest of the article: A fun book about vending machines

This 1970s commercial for the IBM5100 is really funny. [via AllThingsD]

I think this person is going to have a very hard time landing a job. [via @jopearl]

Popular Science has a fun gallery of kooky vintage robots from way back in the day that do random tasks. For example, this 1949 robot named Elektro can count to… Read the rest of the article: Pop Sci's kooky vintage robot photo gallery

Israel has lifted its iPad ban after two weeks of confiscating the device at customs for fear it might interfere with existing wireless frequencies.

Bad news from northern Afghanistan: over eighty schoolgirls in the Kunduz province — a region where militants openly oppose the education of women — fell sick after they were exposed… Read the rest of the article: Suspected poisoning at girls' schools in Afghanistan

When laid horizontally, the red part of this sofa is just a headrest; placed upright, it transforms into something you can practice your punches on. This was designed by Tobias… Read the rest of the article: Sofa turns into a punching bag

I love this art series by Belgian artist Ben Heine. He matched creative, detailed hand drawings to photos he took of cityscapes, animals, and statues to come up with these… Read the rest of the article: Ben Heine's pencil drawing-photo hybrids

A couple of weeks ago, I found a bird's nest outside my window. Two eggs laid to brew in the middle of a scatter of slimy brown twigs arranged in… Read the rest of the article: How I displaced a family of pigeons from my roof

The BBC has a great photo of a two-headed bobtail lizard in Perth, Australia. The animal eats from both heads, but the larger head has tried to attack the smaller… Read the rest of the article: A self-destructive two-headed lizard

I got a lovely surprise in my CSA box last week — lemon balm. It's a herb related to mint, and it smells a lot like lemon. Lemon balm is… Read the rest of the article: Taste Test: Lemon balm

This is the page you land on when you try to access Flickr, porn, or any other web sites that are banned in the UAE.

This is Elham Al-Qasimi. She is a 26-year old from Dubai who is currently en route to the North Pole. Elham is on a solo mission to get there over… Read the rest of the article: Elham Al-Qasimi en route to become first Arab woman on solo mission to the North Pole

Xena, the oldest living cloned pig in the world, was euthanized at the age of 9 years and 8 months after becoming unable to stand on her own. The average… Read the rest of the article: World's oldest cloned pig dies

A Spanish optometrist has invented a type of contact lens that fixes farsightedness while you sleep.