Evel Knievel, the high flying daredevil, died today at the age of 69 in Clearwater, FL. Since we call ourselves dudes, I figured it would only be right to salute the great life of the ultimate dude, Mr. Evel Knievel. (more…)

A Chilean prostitute has auctioned off 27 hours of lovin’ in order to raise money for the country’s largest charity. The charity aims to raise funds for poor and disabled children. According to her, she’s already raised about $4,000. That’s great and all, but maybe she should also focus on raising some money for charities like “Until There’s a Cure“. You know…to counteract some of the negative aspects of legal prostitution. Just sayin’…

[Reuters]

My prediction about the frightening future of Father Christmas is rapidly becoming true. U.S. Surgeon General Rear Adm. Steven K. Galson (try saying that 5 times fast) said in an interview:

“It is really important that the people who kids look up to as role models are in good shape, eating well and getting exercise. It is absolutely critical.”

It’s a slippery slope, my friends.

[Boston Herald via Fark]

An interesting follow up to the story I wrote about a couple of days ago about the Korean man that died from his ‘exploding cell phone’. It appears after further investigation, a fellow co-worker, Kwan, backed over the man, Seo, with a gigantic excavator. Kwan was freaked out about the whole incident after looking back and seeing Seo laying on the ground bleeding and on fire that he made up the story about the cell phone exploding. Seo’s cellphone did catch on fire but did not spontaneously explode.

After all of this, it looks like Kwan is a douche and the ban on LG cell phones can be lifted.

[Yahoo! News]

Butch Walker is one of my favorite musicians. Not only does he have an extensive and amazing catalog of his own songs, he’s also written hits for almost every artist you’ve ever heard of. Unfortunately, his house in Malibu just burned to the ground. It’s sad enough that he lost his home, but to add to it, he lost pretty much everything else too. (more…)

Jennifer Love Hewitt is officially further out of your league than ever. She’s now engaged to Ross McCall, whose resumé proudly includes roles in “CSI: New York”, “Bones”, “Ghost Whisperer” (duh..) and….Call of Duty 2. Well at least it’s not Carson Daly.

[E! News]

After reading Dyna’s awesome and scarily in-depth analysis of College Football, you may need to cool down your circuits and take a minute to reboot. Please, enjoy this video of a kitten eating corn on the cob. (more…)

As another college football season winds down to a close, we have yet another year of playoff talks. I usually don’t really care, but this year I felt more compelled than usual. Instead of just joining the usual crowd screaming, “Yes there should be a playoff!”, I put some thought into how it could actually work. So hear me out… (more…)

Nothing says “Ho Ho Ho” (or “Ha Ha Ha” if you live in Australia) like a festive USB-powered Christmas tree. For only $12.99 you can tell your whole office that being chained to your desk doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy the Holidays. Now get back to work.

[Think Geek]

Yes. This is not the plot of this years 24 but a real story from Korea. A man was found dead at work with his cellphone in his shirt pocket exploded.

“When I was going up the stony hill to set dynamite, I found a man lying down beside an electronic shovel,” said a coworker identified as Kwon. “He was already bleeding from the nose. He had a mobile phone with a melted battery in his left shirt pocket. His shirt had soot on it in the shape of the phone.” Prof. Kim Hoon at Chungbuk National University, who examined the body, presumed the death was caused by a phone battery explosion.

Yes, dying from a cellphone is a tragic thing, but I’m more impressed with the electric shovel. We, Americans, have to slave away digging ditches with stupid manual shovels while Korea has handy-dandy electric shovels.

A crying shame.

PS. Don’t buy an LG phone.

[Telecoms Korea]