In high school, every dude's primary goal was to become a sports superstar. Besides figuring out a way to get Becky Madison out of her sweater, that is. Our relentless pursuit for athletic perfection was hindered, of course, by the sad fact that we were actually quite a nerd. To have any chance at being good at sports, we had to rely on our brain to give us an edge. Now that we're older, we ...

The goal of most inventors is to create things that will revolutionize the world -- and set themselves up financially for life in the process. It turns out that the whole "revolutionizing the world" part is completely optional, as inventors like Rich Bailey and Jonah White have shown. The pair has made millions of dollars from a line of novelty products known as Billy-Bob Teeth. The concept ...

Anyone who has ventured into an arcade or supermarket knows the thrilling crane-game objective of "drop the claw into a batch of stuffed animals / jewelry / live lobsters." Rumor has it these games date back to the Renaissance, when serfs would run out into a bog until their lord yelled, "Stop!" then the serfs would drop their nets and announce if they had caught any quality oak. Players ...

In an ingenious and totally gangsta move, Matt Moody has concocted Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda, an "herbal soda" that uses the allegedly super-stoney powers of Kava plus Passion Flower to produce a beverage that has sold out online. The Web site promises that after drinking the syrupy soda, a "calming sensation can be felt throughout the body and mind," and recommends drinking it on an empty ...

Prev Next For a horrific, toilet-seat-grabbing second, it appeared that the black hole of crap-rap would suck in actually good, actually urban acts: Fortunately, Russell Simmons sat everyone down for a def mission-statement-review jam, and it was agreed that horrible rapping should be left to the professionals at being awkward, like Bronson Pinchot as "Balki B" and David Faustino: ...

Prev Next The late 1980s soon featured rapping in everything, from movies like "Teen Witch" with it's notorious "Top That" rap: to the Super Mario Bros. cartoon episode entitled "Bad Rap": to bizarre straight-to-VHS kids productions that could only be the product of bad acid trips: Like a transplanted kidney, rap music had been firmly excised from the hearts of the ...

Once upon a time, rap music was all about legitimacy, beginning with the poet activists of the '60s and the inner-city residents rhyming about life on the streets of the Bronx in the '70s and '80s. Then something happened. Something horrible. The mainstream media began using rap to push everything on consumers, from rapping Chicken Nuggets to video games. Even white-bread celebs like David ...

As a society, we love blaming our problems on the random unpredictability of modern life, but new experiments are being conducted which conclude that many things we view as random really aren't. This is bad news for people who like to rationalize and good news for people who get paid to conduct silly mathematical experiments. Join us on a trip down the rabbit hole of probability. However, in ...