This Is Not How to Set Up a Tent

Matt Cherette · 08/14/10 02:49PM

The beauty of cell phones is that someone can use one to record people doing stupid things and then share it with the world, like this video of two drunk guys tried to set up a tent at a festival.

I Bet You Wish You Were In Here

Jeff Neumann · 08/14/10 12:59PM

[A girl at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois taunts Hudson the polar bear from inside an air-conditioned viewing room during an "excessive heat warning" for the area. At least he has a swimming pool! Image via Getty]

Rare New Yorker Copy Editing Error Spotted!?

Adrian Chen · 08/14/10 11:21AM

To punctuation expert Lynne Truss, The New Yorker is "that famous punctilious periodical." The last grammar mistake to appear in the New Yorker might have been made by a hungover E.B. White. But has this impeccable record finally been broken?

Power Outage Leaves Woman Bald

Adrian Chen · 08/14/10 10:26AM

A Mississippi salon owner says that an unexpected power outage left a client bald because she was unable to wash out some hair treatment chemicals. Maybe you should not put chemicals in your hair that can burn it off?

Dial M for Monkey - The Banned Episode

Anderson Evans · 08/14/10 09:30AM

Dexter's Laboratory had its moments, but this is one you won't be seeing on television again any time soon. This segment is off limits due to an flamboyant Silver Surfer parody and an intoxicated Hulk derivative calling himself Krunk.

Donald Glover on Being a Black Nerd

Morgan Barry · 08/13/10 08:00PM

In 2003 it was illegal for black people to be nerds. Sad but true. Listen as Donald Glover rejoices for being able to live a life now, free to embrace his nerd-dome thanks to our President.