You won’t find any of these items in eBay’s motors section or in collectibles. Instead, the strangest eBay auctions are to be found by trawling through the thousands of items in the “everything else”. Here, we run through the 10 most bizarre. A “dead fairy”, a “mutant cucumber”, or a pint of sun-dried bees are [...]
September 23, 2009
A feature from Google Labs gives you real-time suggestions for search queries as you type them. Some of the results are hilarious. The suggestions are influenced by the number of previous searches using those words and the searches it turns up can be funny, touching, puzzling and scary. 1. What would a… Never mind what [...]
September 23, 2009
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. In this context, “almost surely” is a mathematical term with a precise meaning, and the “monkey” is not [...]
September 23, 2009
Witzelsucht, from the German witzeln, meaning to joke or wisecrack, and sucht meaning addiction or yearning (sucht means searching), is a set of rare neurological symptoms characterized by the patient’s uncontrollable tendency to pun, or tell inappropriate jokes and pointless or irrelevant stories at inconvenient moments. The patient nevertheless finds these utterances intensely amusing. It [...]
September 22, 2009
Reviews posted by Amazon customers have become one of the online retailer’s most useful and popular features. But they are open to abuse by mischievous commenters. This T-shirt attracted more than 1,400 reviews on Amazon. Here are ten items that have had their review threads hijacked and taken in bizarre directions by playful web users. [...]
September 22, 2009
Exploding head syndrome is a condition that causes the sufferer to occasionally experience a tremendously loud noise as originating from within his or her own head, usually described as the sound of an explosion, roar, waves crashing against rocks, loud voices or screams or a ringing noise. This noise usually occurs within an hour or [...]
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