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Get Ready for the Stink Bug Plague!
Lauri Apple · 08/07/11 11:28PMThis Is the Tornado that Struck Massachusetts Wednesday
Matt Cherette · 06/03/11 01:05AMResidents of Springfield, Massachusetts were left dumbfounded Wednesday after a tornado ripped through the area, leaving four dead. After watching this video—taken from atop a building as the giant storm formed in the water below—it's not hard to understand why those in the twister's wake were so frightened. [via Doobybrain]
Is This the Most Terrifying Japanese Tsunami Footage Yet?
Matt Cherette · 03/18/11 12:33AMThat time Odd Job Went on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show and Destroyed his Set
Christopher Han · 12/26/10 05:00PMRandom Filming of Snowman in the Middle of the Street Gets Bus Driver Fired
Christopher Han · 12/15/10 04:12PMEnjoy This Color Footage of the London Blitz
Hamilton Nolan · 09/07/10 09:11AM10 Videos of Reporters Destroying Things
Jordan Breindel · 08/07/10 10:00AMYou can't trust reporters. Not with the facts, not with the news, not with the politics. Well BREAKING NEWS guys, THIS JUST IN: Apparently you can't trust them with your valuables either.
See How Things Break In Slow Motion
nightintern · 08/06/10 09:05AMEver wanted to know what breaking a stack of bricks in half really looks like? What about television being hit with a hammer? The dramatic truths are revealed inside.
American Apparel Store Destroyed by Unfashionable Teens
Hamilton Nolan · 06/28/10 10:01AMIncredible Up Close Footage of Montana Tornado
Matt Cherette · 06/20/10 11:10PMScience Fact Is Stranger than Science Fiction (Today, at Least)
Hamilton Nolan · 02/25/10 12:37PMDaniel Tosh Takes a Golf Club to an iPad
Mike Byhoff · 02/10/10 09:35AMAndrea Peyser Is Not Turned on By Hot Lesbian Teachers. Not One Bit.
Hamilton Nolan · 12/14/09 10:06AMThe Three Stages of Madoff Victimhood
Hamilton Nolan · 06/30/09 09:36AMNorth Korea Launches Crazy Music Missile
Hamilton Nolan · 04/05/09 09:00AMAmnesty International and the Art of War
Hamilton Nolan · 03/29/09 10:00AMYes You Can Die on the Weekend
ian spiegelman · 06/07/08 05:28PMWell, so, I got a little tiny bit pissed off earlier today. And while I was sinking into bleakly brooding, instead of swimming and frolicking, I pondered what on earth I could do about it. Almost everyone here is totally cool and funny, and we all appreciate that. But for those of you who seriously just cannot chill, I've come up with a new, special death for you. I call it, Weekend Death.
Saving Starbucks Through Micromanagement
Hamilton Nolan · 05/19/08 09:04AMHoward Schultz, the founder of Death Star coffee chain and religious icon Starbucks, built the company up from nothing with pure grit, energy, and a visionary outlook. Then he went too far, aiming to open 40-freaking-thousand stores (more than McDonald's), and the company's stock price cratered over the past year. Schultz brought himself back as CEO earlier this year, and the dynamic caffeine pusher has now revealed how he plans to revive his floundering company: by micromanaging the shit out of every god damn thing:
Blogger Wrestles World Champion Fighter: Find Out What Happens!
Hamilton Nolan · 03/27/08 12:47PMAlex "Blue States Lose" Blagg is a pretty prototypical New York blogger, except for the fact that he used to wrestle in high school. That bit of athletic glory in his past somehow inspired him to arrange an actual, physical wrestling match with Quentin "Rampage" Jackson, the current Ultimate Fighting Championship champion and honest-to-god badass of the first order [Best Week Ever]. We won't give away who won this battle of equals! The full video is after the jump. Keep in mind that Rampage's favorite technique is called the "Power Bomb":