Georgianna Reid, of Kansas City, Mo., was sick and tired of all the work involved maintaining a beautiful yard. Mostly, she had grown to resent having to mow and water her lawn. So she resolved to do what anyone would do in her situation: fill her lawn with 80 tons of sand, for which she paid only $4,000 to do.

Amazon, the Cthulhu of retail, finds itself embroiled in a spat with a major book publisher. It's gotten nasty. And, remarkably, Amazon is losing the PR battle. Why? Perhaps because Amazon—where workers are "ground into a tired heap"—deserves to have a bad reputation.

Us Weekly reports that actress and cotton commercial singer Hayden Panettiere, 24, is expecting her first child with fiancé Wladimir Klitschko, 38, a muscular male torso frequently photographed in close proximity to her. While the couple have yet to comment on whether or not a Babybjörn will soon swing eerily from the broad chest of the nightmarish headless torso, Us Weekly quotes an "insider" as saying that Hayden is "totally pregnant!" Congrats and best wishes to this alarming family.

Nic Cage has gotten a ton of mileage out of his trademark unhinged laugh, and now, thanks to one video editor's bravery, we know exactly how much mileage. This is a supercut of every Nicolas Cage laugh in every live-action Nicolas Cage movie, and it's 20 minutes long.

A sub-Saharan migrant sits on top of a pole set in a metallic fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Wednesday. During a pre-dawn border storming, police from both sides tried to prevent dozens of the sub-Saharan migrants from entering from Morocco. Image via Santi Palacios/AP.

You can't undo social injustice with inaction. Which is why these armed freedom fighters have taken to chain restaurants to plead nonviolently, and counterproductively, for their liberty to eat a quesadilla salad while scaring the fuck out of everybody in the joint.

Last night Lifetime debuted Little Women: LA, another Real Housewives style show that brings together a group of women to fight and occasionally feign compassion. The twist here is that instead of affluence, these women are bound by the fact that they are all little people.

In Pizza Hut's quest to reinvent itself as a restaurant serving food fit for human consumption, no tactic is too radical. Pizzas made by actual humans? You bet. And now the dynamic company is making the boldest innovation of all.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration just confirmed its most important decision yet: the legalization of ferret ownership in New York City.

A Houston, Texas man is accused of beating his 14-year-old daughter after he found out she wanted to dance with a black friend at her upcoming quinceañera celebration.

Have you ever been bowling? Have you ever bowled a strike? Have you ever bowled a strike without using bumpers? Have you ever bowled a strike without using one of those bowling ramps? Have you ever bowled a strike from 120 feet away, which this video's uploader describes as "the longest bowling strike ever?" Do tell.

Maya Angelou, the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, many other books of poetry and memoir, and a prominent figure in the civil rights movement, has reportedly died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86.

The latest theory about what prompted UCSB shooter Elliot Rodger to snap and murder people: his "addiction" to the weightlifting supplement creatine. This can be properly understood as "complete fiction." (Update: and as complete trolling.)

Tea Party candidates had quite the evening in Texas last night, winning a number of GOP nominations from incumbents and continuing the state's tradition of voting for rich morons.

Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's skills include rapping, surviving gunshot wounds, never masturbating , and clowning on Solange and Jay Z . But, as we saw Tuesday night at the Mets-Pirates game, they don't extend to pitching. The announcers generously described 50's ceremonial first pitch as "a little outside."

A woman was taken to the hospital with a cut to her leg after a buzzsaw being used in construction in Midtown Manhattan broke off its machine and came flying down the street.

All long weekends must come to an end, unless you're Madonna.

"Asked if he is innocent of the criminal charges, [Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY)] paused for four seconds, then chuckled softly. 'You know, uh. It depends on what you're asking me of,' he said."

A woman who dressed up like a nurse and stole a 16-hour-old baby from a hospital yesterday was arrested after a group of Canadian youths tracked her down.

Tonight NBC released portions of Edward Snowden's big interview with Brian Williams, and the focus seems to be on Snowden's claim that he was actually a trained spy, not a low-level hacker.