Lay's is looking for the next great potato chip flavor, but some contest entries are less tasty, more tongue-in-cheek.

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There's a certain satisfaction in watching Microsoft pioneer and billionaire Bill Gates spend just over a minute losing a game of chess to a boyish 23-year-old. (Granted, he is the reigning world champion.)

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Could a world in which Tom Hiddleston played Thor, not Loki, ever be the same?

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In 1976, a young Neil deGrasse Tyson sent Carl Sagan a rejection letter.

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Candy hearts are great, but not everyone is so flush with romance on Valentine's Day. How about a little more ambivalence in those pink cardboard boxes?

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Sir Paul McCartney was easily the happiest guy at the Grammys.

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If it doesn't become immediately obvious, here are some ways to determine whether or not you are in an Ernest Hemingway novel.