Journalist Matthew Power reportedly died of heatstroke on Monday while reporting on a story in Uganda.
Rapper Collects Photos of Asscracks at Magic: The Gathering Tournament
The biggest Magic: The Gathering tournament of the year featured more than 4,000 players and at least 15 exposed buttcracks.
Man Calls 911 After "Hostile" 22-Pound Cat Traps Family in Bedroom
Sunday night, a man called 911 after his 22-pound cat attacked his baby and trapped his family—including their dog—inside a bedroom.
Sorry, It Looks Like Lobsters and Crabs Feel Pain
David Foster Wallace's famous essay "Consider The Lobster" explores unsettling questions about how much pain lobsters feel when we cook them. By law, that introductory sentence must be on this blog post, which is about new research into whether lobsters and crabs feel pain.
Strangers Making Out For the First Time Is Less Awkward Than Expected
From filmmaker Tatia Pilieva comes something of a chemistry experiment: Pairing up attractive strangers and asking them to kiss on camera.
Zach Galifianakis Interviewed President Obama on Between Two Ferns
For the latest episode of Between Two Ferns, Zach Galifianakis interviewed President Obama. First question: "In 2013, you pardoned a turkey. What do you have planned for 2014?"
Flight 370 Passenger With Stolen Passport Was Seeking Asylum
Malaysian police announced on Tuesday that one of the two men traveling on missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 with a stolen passport was a 19-year-old Iranian trying to migrate to Germany, where his mother lives. The second man using a fake passport was later identified as Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza, a 29-year-old Iranian.
Zach Galifianakis' Funny or Die series Between Two Ferns just got real serious: two weeks ago, Barack Obama taped an episode that's scheduled to be released early tomorrow morning. The interview was part of an ongoing attempt to promote Obama's policies through fun, viral appearances.
Congressman Ended CPAC Drinking with Young Republicans in a Bathtub
How do Texas congressmen party? For Rep. Steve Stockman this weekend, it involved a 300-person party, college kids, a bathtub, and a ton of alcohol.
Joe McGinniss, Bestselling Author and Intrepid Reporter, Has Died
Bestselling author and political gadfly Joe McGinniss died today after a year-long battle against inoperable prostate cancer. He was 71.
[Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius, on trial for killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, reportedly cried and vomited into a bucket today during a pathologist's graphic testimony about Steenkamp's death. Pistorius claims he shot Steenkamp thinking she was an intruder. Image by Siphiwe Sibeko via AP.]
Stoners May Revitalize the Economy Yet
The only thing higher than Colorado's stoners right now are the state's tax revenues.
Taran Killam Just Set the Bar For Matthew McConaughey Impressions
Matthew McConaughey is everywhere these days—even on this weekend's SNL, if you squinted hard enough.
Frank Ocean Gave Chipotle $200,000 to "Fuck Off"
Chipotle says it paid singer Frank Ocean $212,500 for a song he never delivered. Frank Ocean says "Fuck off."
Is San Francisco America's New Worst Place?
There are bad people in every town, but New York has long managed to stay at the top of the prick-heap, despite steep competition from L.A and Portland. But the latest issue of New York mag raises the possibility of a Silicon Valley usurper.
Dan Harmon and Mitch Hurwitz Are Cooking Up a Secret Project
The creators of two of TV's most beloved canceled-then-uncanceled comedies are collaborating on a secret project, and they don't want anyone else telling them what to do.
"One-quarter of [American] Indian children live in poverty, versus 13 percent in the United States. They graduate high school at a rate 17 percent lower than the national average...Their experience with post-traumatic stress disorder rivals the rates of returning veterans from Afghanistan."
Julian Assange and Edward Snowden Speak to SXSW: A Tale of Two Rebels
Julian Assange appeared, as we told you before, by Skype at SXSW over the weekend. Set against a green-screened Wikileaks logo, wearing a scarf straight from the Doctor Who wardrobe department and an actually respectable showing of facial hair, he gave his usual kind of speech. That's to say, one grounded in a lot of…
[Claudia Breidbach, right, demonstrates a bionic hand that is steerable by a mobile phone to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron during the opening day of the computer fair CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, on Monday. Image via Frank Augstein/AP.]
