myths-and-weirdos
Catapults and Jalapeños: The Ingenious Smuggling Tech of the World's Top Drug Kingpin
For a semi-illiterate grammar school dropout, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is a bloody mastermind. Guzmán, 55, sits atop Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, which by all accounts is arguably the richest, most powerful crime syndicate in history. That's him on...
In Praise of the Banana Bunker
I know Christmas is very much old news, but as my A-Team lunchbox, Dawson’s Creek t-shirt, and Different Strokes underpants (HA!) will attest, I’m not a man who moves on easily. As such, I have recently been inspired (more on that in a minute) to...
It's OK to Not Be A Luddite: Thomas Pynchon, Digitized
For all the bombed out, drug adled techno-anxieties that scream across the works of American novelist Thomas Pynchon, news of the reclusive author's e-book foray is, at first glance, the equivalent of a 20-megaton V-2 rocket blast. But, sure enough...
Motherboard TV: The Indestructible Body Armor of Troy Hurtubise
Troy Hurtubise is an extreme human. There’s really no other way of putting it. After surviving a brief bout with a grizzly bear in the backwoods of British Columbia in August 1984, Hurtubise could’ve scampered back to civilization all whimpering...
The Indestructible Body Armor of Troy Hurtubise, Pt. 2
h4. _Part II of III. Be sure to check out "Part I":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/6/11/the-indestructible-body-armor-of-troy-hurtubise-pt-1._ Troy Hurtubise is an extreme human. There’s really no other way of putting it. After surviving a brief...
The Indestructible Body Armor of Troy Hurtubise, Pt. 1
Troy Hurtubise is an extreme human. There's really no other way of putting it. After surviving a brief bout with a grizzly bear in the backwoods of British Columbia in August 1984, Hurtubise could've scampered back to civilization all whimpering...
Here Are 20 Jackasses Who Tweeted about Driving Drunk While Driving Drunk
It’s Friday, which means you’re potentially thinking about finishing off a tough week by sucking back some sweet, sweet booze. (I, for one, am wearing a t-shirt depicting a cartoon 40 passed out in his own malt vomit.) But just because you like to get...
The Black Walls, Train Sets, and Giant Skulls of H.R. Giger: Interview
HR Giger, regardless of how many museum or galleries he fills with volumes of his other work, will almost certainly go down in history as that strange Swiss guy behind the _Alien_ movie. During the '70s Giger produced a book called _Necronomicon...
Are the Dead Baby Pills Bullshit or Not?
Remember that really icky story about South Korean dead baby pill smugglers I wrote about awhile back? It was a quick little bit based off of a Daily Mail report discussing how South Korean customs officials had busted a bunch of people cruising around...
The Reply Girl Subverts YouTube (and Scores Cash) with Boobs
Don't tell me you haven't clicked on a YouTube video just because that little, teeny-weeny video preview image was chock full of some serious cleavage. The "hot bird talking about something or other" has been an attention-grabbing standby since TV...
Buzz Kill: The World Is Not Gonna End This Year
Newly uncovered hieroglyphs support the idea that the Mayans had a recycling calendar, rather than an apocalyptic one.
The Truth about America's Highway Killers: An Interview with Author Ginger Strand
In the special Bicentennial Issue of Life, the nation’s interstate system was described as, “The most grandiose and indelible signature that Americans have ever scratched across the face of their land.” This statement remains truer than the magazine’s...