While many over-the-counter and prescription drugs are made out of nice, normal ingredients like willow bark (aspirin), burnt seaweed (iodine) and poppy sap (morphine), we found some others made out of the most disgusting, awful crap on earth. Take your standard blood thinner, for example. It's a little cocktail the docs call heparin. And what's heparin made out of? Pig bowels. OK, let's ...

Going to that desert oasis for the spiritual energies reportedly found there? Visiting some jungle ruin purportedly built by aliens? You wouldn't be the first. Spiritual tourism has been big business ever since Enoch, son of Japheth, built Edenworld a few hundred cubits east of the former residence of Adam and Eve -- and charged 30 shekels a head to get in. They call it the pilgrim trade, ...

When the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was founded in 1958, its primary mission was to make the Commies stain their Party-issued boxers. The Soviet Union has since fallen, but DARPA has grown. It has matured. And, like anyone poised on the brink of manhood, it's read a lot of graphic novels. The proof is on DARPA's Web site, where (in and amongst the parallel-computing ...

Every holiday season, while we yawn through "It's a Wonderful Life" and hose down Uncle Dom after he passes out in the Lay-Z-Boy, Iceland's ex-berserkers make us all look like pencil necks with an annual festival called the Thorrablót. It's sort of the Icelandic equivalent of an American food fair, except that an American fair serves greasy food that could kill you, while a ...

There's a new fetish every day, but only a few make it to the Bigs. For every plushy or WAM fetish that breaks from the pack, there's a thousand formicophilias that never make the cut. Never fear -- we're going to show you the kinks to watch in 2010. The rules: I. If there's no Internet presence, it's just fail. Is there such a thing as an explosion fetish? Of course there is. (See: Bay, ...

What Would Jesus Do? He'd shop, of course. There's a big birthday celebration comin' up! But not just anything off the shelf from Spencer's will do. To make our list of truly God-funked merch, a gift had to either trivialize the faith it celebrates OR just be completely whacked out. See if you can guess which is which: "Shoes of the Fisherman" Flip-Flops Shipped to you wrapped in a fisherman's ...

What happens when you combine crazed bargain hunters, the busiest shopping day of the year, and $8 Wrangler jeans? Death by trampling, of course. That's why this year we're sitting out Black Friday with a couple of PBRs and the complete first season of "Battlestar Galactica." But if your nephew won't love you without a new Nintendo DS and you have no choice but to go shopping this weekend, here ...