Cockroaches are bad enough, but just imagine if you found one of these newly-discovered bioluminescent critters crawling on your bathroom floor one late night. We're not ashamed to admit we'd probably shriek and run. The only saving grace for this freaky-looking new species is that they resemble Jawas from 'Star Wars.' So, you know, that's something.
This isn't the first time baseball umpire Jim Joyce has been in the news. Two years ago, a famously blown call that cost Detroit’s Armando Galarraga a perfect game put him in the headlines. This week, however, he's better known as the hero who saved the life of a woman with a heart problem.
Remember Karen Klein, the upstate New York bus monitor who was viciously harassed by her middle school charges in a video that went viral in June? Her story had a happy ending, as an internet fundraising campaign to send the 68-year-old on a "nice vacation" raised over $700,000 from 32,000 people around the world.
That's more than enough money for Klein to retire from the yellow school bus grind. And she plans to. But she is also using a good chunk of the cash -- $100,000 -- to set up the Karen Klein Anti-Bullying Foundation.
When it comes to remixes of TV footage, YouTube user placeboing has really outdone himself. The beats he created from 'Breaking Bad' footage are some of the best we've heard in a long time. Unlike most remixes, it's actually good beyond its novelty value. Not to put down the other guys, but musically this one actually feels like a song instead of an internet joke.
President Barack Obama has always been "down" with the young voters. He knows how to dance, he sings, he knows what these kids are saying these days, and he knows how to text. Turns out the latter will be his most important talent in the upcoming election.
In what surely qualifies as one of the first large-scale examples of political fundraising through texting, Obama's reelection campaign will begin accepting donations via text message this week.
It's hard to say what's most incredible about this post. Is it that somebody made a hand-sized bike strong enough to actually transport a full-grown human, or is it the fact that somebody actually managed to ride the thing? Regardless, here it is -- a full-sized man riding a tiny, tiny bicycle.
Well, we were feeling pretty proud of ourselves for finally looking up that Couch to 5k thing, but it's going to take a little more than that to impress Phillippe Croizon. The quadruple amputee has made history by swimming intercontinental straits linking Oceania, Asia, Europe, America and Africa.
Fans of the hit movie 'The Avengers' will be swooning over this Russian-made miniature S.H.I.E.L.D helicarrier! This replica of one of cinema's most awesome aircraft carriers is no shoddy children's toy though. Like its movie counterpart, it can float comfortably on the water without sinking, and yet fly through the air with the greatest of ease.
Call us nerds, but we've been excitedly following the progress of the Curiosity rover ever since it made a dangerous landing on the surface of Mars on August 6th. And now comes this amazing footage of its descent courtesy of a camera mounted on the side of the rover itself. We're in geek heaven.
Given today's digital storage devices, we can't imagine anyone has much use for floppy disk drives anymore. But YouTube user MrSolidSnake745 has found an exciting new application for the clunky devices by turning them into a musical instrument. And they play the 'Ghostbusters' theme no less. Ingenious!