File this under the tiny and truly bizarre. A couple in Taunton, Sumerset have enthusiastically informed the Telegraph newspaper that they were settling in to enjoy a jar of sweets from The Jelly Bean Factory and found…

Let’s be honest: your life isn’t perfect. In fact, if we’re being brutally honest, your life might well be some cruel antipodean mockery of perfect. But cheer up–at least you’re not such an abject, pathetic wretch of a…

I’m one of the three or four people in the world who will publicly admit to liking Atlas Shrugged, so I’m looking forward with interest and some trepidation to the release of the long, long awaited movie on…

Let’s cut to the chase here: KFC is a criminal organization with many, many atrocities on its rap sheet. The Sadness Bowl, the Double Down—and, of course, slaughtering billions of chickens and then cooking them in…

Some superfan created an Iron Man pizza with the requisite suit made of pepperoni. While I will admit that there’s much more of a likeness here than the imitation bacon version of Kevin Bacon, this could have…

Taco Bell deserves some points for pulling its ads from MTV’s awful Skins. The fast-food giant didn’t want to be too closely associated with a bunch of drunken, drug-addled teens swapping STDs, preferring that the kids just…

Nicole “Don’t Call Me Snooki” Polizzi has earned her place as the Dr. Evil of pop culture, if you expand “Doctor” to include someone who might barely qualify for a learner’s permit in cosmetology, so it was…

Once upon a time, Scientific American was a fairly scholarly publication with contributors like Martin Gardner and Richard Feynman. But that was a long, long time ago. Now we’re in the final laps of the Race for Ow…

Falling squarely into the “Who asked for it?” column is Benjamin Marra’s The Incredibly Fantastic Adventures of Maureen Dowd, a comic (or graphic novel, if you’re the kind of person who calls dolls “action figures”) without which…

Too cute for words, and it just might even win over this vampire heart.