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How to Ensure No one Steals Your Favorite Mug

If you're the sort of person who resents when your roommates and friends repeatedly steal your favorite mug, boy do we have the solution for you. Meet the Lock Cup, the ingenious invention from industrial designer Efrat Gommeh. Simply insert the key when you want to fill up on your favorite beverage, and remove it when you want to make sure no one else can drink from it. Sure, the invention seems a little "dog in the manger-ish", but on the other hand, it looks like a hole lot of fun. Click here to view... READ ON

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A truly amazing post (if you're a tricycle enthusiast)

I was milling about the Museum of Unusual Transport when I stumbled into a page full of crazy three-wheelers. Check 'em out! a) the Police Bondage Tricycle-- If you were watching "COPS! The 1898 Edition" you might be familiar with one of these. While it sounds kinkier than it actually is, the bondage tricycle simply allowed for the quick and easy transport of criminals. Unlike the Big Wheels of your youth, though, this trike also came equipped with arm and leg restraints to lock offenders... READ ON

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Tallest Men in the World

Check out these photos of the two tallest men in the world from damncoolpics. According to the site, the guy in Mongolia measures in at 236.1 cm (about 7' 9'') and is the current Guinness book champ, while the other, a 253 cm tall Ukranian (about 8' 4''), hasn't registered with Guinness just yet. I've posted a couple of pics here, but you should definitely check out the link, via... READ ON

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How to be a First Aid Hero (aka 10 Things to Avoid)

Apparently, helping the sick means not taking your med school cues from the movies. In fact, the Ririan Project has compiled a pretty great list of the Top 10 things you ought not to do, including peeing on jellyfish stings and sucking on snakebites. Of course, my favorite of the group is this one: 5. Slapping a Raw Steak on a Black Eye In the movies, you always see someone put a raw steak over their black eye. While it may feel good, the grease from the steak might get into the eye, causing more... READ ON

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Crazy uses for everyday things

I don't know why you'd want to make a pacifier out of a cactus, earmuffs out of tennis balls, or fake fingernails out of postage stamps, but this sort of stuff always makes me smile. Check out the link, via... READ ON

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4 Dictators with Infamous Sweet Tooths

There's no way to justify what these guys did. Or ate. 1. Adolf Hitler Favorite Dessert: Eclairs, decorated with little frosted swastikas. Additionally: Hitler reportedly put seven teaspoons of sugar in each cup of tea, and even added the stuff to wine. He found it too bitter otherwise. 2. Saddam Hussein Favorite Dessert: Mars and Bounty bars, and 7-Up. Additionally: Saddam might have hated America, but he certainly didn't hate its junk food. When he was apprehended in his spider hole, soldiers... READ ON

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Time-waster of the day: Carve a cyber-pumpkin!

For anyone who needs help slicing and dicing their orange gourds this Halloween season, you can get all the jack-o-lantern practice you need at the game garage. Just use your mouse to plan out your perfect pumpkin, slashing through the mock-up in freehand or straight lines. And don't be scared to experiment! The game also comes with an "undo" button which, after witnessing some of my previous Halloween carvings, would be pretty helpful in real life. Since I didn't actually log-in, I'm not sure if you can... READ ON

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"Iron" Mike ready to fight women?

Despite years of perfecting my Nintendo jabs and uppercuts on Mike Tyson's Punchout!, I never made it to the level where you get to box a woman. The real Mike Tyson however, who seems to be operating on a different level than all of us, has. Following in the footsteps of comedy legend Andy Kauffman, "Iron" Mike has begun challenging women to join him in the ring. He's even been dropping names, touting bouts with women like professional boxer Ann Wolfe (21-1, with 15 knockouts). And while Mike claims, "I'm... READ ON

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Should someone report this to the Humane Society?

Man. As if figuring out your own stellar Halloween costume wasn't difficult enough, apparently there's a lot of pressure now to help man's best friend(s) get into the act. Yahoo News is reporting Americans are spending more and more dough on Halloween accessories for their pets-- from catnip pumpkins to rawhide greetings cards. But the brunt of the money seems to be coming from costumes. This year PetSmart is reportedly rolling out 6 styles of "cat hats" for the less finicky of your felines, as well as 12... READ ON

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Figure this one out"¦

Reuters is reporting that a death-row inmate, who's been held in solitary confinement in Vietnam for the last year, is pregnant?! Vietnamese authorities are completely baffled, particularly because the inmate's husband is being held under similar conditions in a jail cell in a different province. Theories of immaculate conception aren't exactly surfacing, though. Maybe that's because she's been charged with trafficking over a billion dong (over 600 grams) of heroin. In... READ ON