Just what the title says.

Friday, June 30, 2006

57% of digital video recorder (DVR) users report a feeling of moral superiority with using the device. The general feeling is that watching TV shows time-shifted shows that they are not glued to the TV and have a more fulfilling life.

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison always makes sure that he owns the largest and heaviest cell phone on the market. He finds that it is much more satisfying to throw at people when he is angry.

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Actress Winona Ryder has a liver that is almost 2 times larger than normal. This is normal for her and has been the case since she was a child. There are plusses and minuses to this. On the plus side, having such a large liver makes it virtually impossible for her to get drunk. On the negative side, the liver is so large that it has crowded some of her other interal organs, specifically her kidneys. Her kidneys are roughly the same size as that of a ten-month-old child. This causes her to pee a lot. In fact, if she is in a hot climate and has been drinking a great deal, sometimes her kidneys are overwhelmed and start sending liquids to her bladder almost unchanged. One time on a hot movie set she started peeing orange juice.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Although he was well aware of the existence of mirrors, Henry the VII of England had been dressed by others since childhood and had never looked in one. The first time he saw himself in the mirror he was so shocked that he pushed the person who gave it to him down the stairs.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Angelina Jolie has started to use artificial tanning products on her new baby Shiloh. She says that there are two reasons for this: 1) she wants to try and minimize frictions between Shiloh and her adopted children by minimizing differences in skin color, and 2) it's never too early to have a good tan.

Friday, June 23, 2006

45% of IT professionals in the United States believe that computers are very likely to be subject to malign supernatural forces.

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Human placenta is the seventh-most popular cooking meat in the world.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Actress Eva Longoria has spent the last two years in an attempt to buy every copy of her high school year book so that she can more easily lie about her age. She has succeeded in buying all but five. Three of the remaining books belong to members of the class reunion committee, one belongs to a former classmate in prison, and one belongs to the first person she ever had sex with.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

There is more human breast milk produced each day on the Earth than there is cow milk.

Monday, June 19, 2006

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a yoga enthusiast, practicing at least 1 hour of bikram yoga each day. He started it because he read that it would give him a "great butt". He is now working towards being able to crack walnuts with his butt muscles, but he has only been able to work up to pecans so far.

Friday, June 16, 2006

Actor Donald Sutherland is terrified of spontaneous human combustion. He always wears flame retardant clothing and has a fire extinguisher in every room of his house, and requires that all his children have a fire extinguisher in every room of their houses as well. His son, Keifer Sutherland, remembers being taught how to stop, drop, and roll before his second birthday, and that his father still requires him to perform this drill whenever he hears two sharps whistles.

Thursday, June 15, 2006

King Edward VII of England had erotic photographic calling cards of himself made up so that he could given them to young women that he hoped to take as mistresses. These cards are unbelievably rare as almost all were destroyed by court officials after he became king in 1901. There is known to be at least one in the British Museum's sealed stacks, and there are rumors of one held by the descendents of Alice Keppel, one of the king's last mistresses. Rumor has it that the Keppel copy has both tear stains and lipstick on it. It is claimed that Edward had the Prince Albert modification of his genitalia, but that is a matter of dispute as some claim that it is just a scratch on the photo plate.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

There are more incidents of cannibalism in Antarctica than any other continent. The incidents are rarely reported due to the international profile of many of the researchers posted there. A distrubingly large segment of these incidents are self-cannibalization, in which someone eats one of their own fingers in isolation-induced delirium.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Putting superballs in the tires of a car will increase its gas mileage by up to 5 miles per gallon. Unfortunately, due to sympathetic vibrations set up by the balls, there is a 5% chance that one of the tires will explode.

Monday, June 12, 2006

Senator Arlen Spector loves to play poker, but doesn't play for money believing it to be immoral. He plays for animals. Each of his chips represents a different small animal and he scrupulously honors all of his bets. People at one of his games must buy in for at least 10 kittens. Smaller chips equal frogs and crickets respectively. At the end of the night players must deal with the animals that they have won. One of his staffers once had to somehow deal with a box of 890 crickets.

Friday, June 09, 2006

During training sessions, golfer Tiger Woods puts live ants in his left ear and seals them in with earplugs. This is done as an aide to concentration. Woods feels that he needs to be able to filter out all distractions and concentrate solely on the ball. His hearing on the left side is significantly worse than on the right.

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Actor/writer/blogger Wil Wheaton has played so much of the video game Guitar Hero that he has damaged his fingertips to the point that he can't be fingerprinted.