Category Archives: Austin
Win $5k from Laffy Taffy for your dad jokes. Also, watch Will Ferrell tell dad jokes on vid in blog.
Win $5k just for sending a joke to Laffy Taffy! They've launched a contest called "Your Jokes Our Wrapper". Also, rapper T-Pain is involved somehow. It's a play on the word "wrapper". Anyhoo, just go ...
Aug 29, 2022 chunkysalsa / CC
New type of toilet.
Bill Gates has been trying to reinvent the toilet for 11 years now. He launched one of those initiatives where his foundation gives money to companies to make something new. Samsung, the people who ma...
Aug 29, 2022 PickComfort / CC
Post Malone selling beer pong kits in Wal-Mart.
Post Malone has his very own new drinking game that's selling on Amazon and in Wal-Mart. It's called "Post Malone's World Pong League Party Game". It's basically beer pong with plastic cups. The set c...
Aug 25, 2022 Ken Teegardin / CC
Psychedelic from mushrooms helps beat alcoholism in half of patients.
Eating psychedelic mushrooms is helping alcoholics get sober. That's a medical treatment I never saw coming. Psilocybin is the substance in mushrooms that make people trip. It was used in a recent stu...
Aug 25, 2022 Aleksey Gnilenkov / CC
Futuristic homes floating on the ocean for sale. Video in blog.
A house that floats on ocean water. Does that sound like it could be home for you? A company called Ocean Builders, is promoting Sea Pods, basically little dwellings floating on the ocean, as homes. T...
Aug 25, 2022 Magnus Bråth / CC
Lettuce on burgers? Nope.
Lettuce does not belong on hamburgers! I was reading about how Wendy's is removing lettuce from their burgers because of potential E-Coli. Why was it on there in the first place? A hamburger, by its v...
Aug 24, 2022 pointnshoot / CC
Dorm flooded during move in. Vid in blog.
Welcome to all the students moving in for the Fall semester! I remember it as being really exciting. What's my roommate going to be like? Did he bring carpet or will I have to buy some at the auction ...
Aug 24, 2022 Marcus Loke / Unsplash
Kids' Sports = Success as adults. Study details in blog.
Sports help your kids succeed now and later in life. A recent Ohio State University study questioned thousands of adults about their lives and whether they participated in sports as kids. The study fo...
Aug 24, 2022 Paul A. Hernandez / CC
Seal steals home from cat.
This sounds l like it could be part of a Disney movie. A seal, not a bear, not a mountain lion or a cougar or even a dog, but a SEAL, broke into a home in New Zealand. Well, not exactly broke into. He...
Aug 23, 2022 Northwest Power and Conservation Council / CC
My Frankenstein like baking experiment turned out awesome.
The idea of mixing cream cheese into corn bread got in my head last week. So, Sunday, I did some experimenting with baking. I pulled out three bowls. I made corn bread batter in one, yellow cake batte...
Aug 23, 2022