There are museums with weird stuff, and then there are museums of weird stuff. The folks over at Mental Floss have a great list of “12 Oddly Specific Museums Preserving Our History” (here). Here are a few weirder of the weird museums: National Museum of Funeral History It’s pretty hard to argue with the motto “Any Day Above Ground is a Good One.” So goes the backhanded optimism of the National Museum of Funeral... 

How about a little white trash for your Sunday afternoon? DELTONA, Fla. (AP)—An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter’s boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter’s room. Authorities say the father, 45, didn’t even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year. When he heard noises coming from his daughter’s... 

Which is worse…. A man being awarded a wimpy $4,100 in damages stemming from a botched brain surgery…Man loses top of his head in brain operation? OR A judge suing a mom and pop dry cleaners for $54 million because they lost his pants…DC judge loses $54 mln lawsuit over trousers...and then taking his loss to the appeals court…Judge presses $54 mln suit over pants? Hmmmm…..........a skull or pants…...skull... 

For shame! For shame! So not cool man. There are unspoken rules at things like this. And you go stepping over the line! For shame! That’s what I would have said to Paul Addis, the 35 year old (mellow harsher) from San Francisco, if I were there when he set the man of Burning Man on fire four days too early. Many festival-goers who were awake watching Tuesday’s lunar eclipse said they saw a man deliberately ignite the figure... 

So thinks true-crime writer Arthur Jay Harris anyway… The abduction and murder of 6 ½-year-old Adam Walsh, who disappeared in 1981 from a Florida mall, is one of the most famous missing children cases in America. It was a crime that outraged a nation and propelled Adam’s father, John Walsh, to devote his life to fighting crime on the television program “America’s Most Wanted.” John Walsh remains convinced... 

If you tried complaining about your sore feet to this woman, she’d probably tell you that you have no idea what having sore feet really means. And you thought your shoes were uncomfortable… The practice of foot binding may have started during the Song Dynasty (960–1279). According to legend, women’s feet were bound in this way in order to impress the emperor. By the 12th century, the practice had become widespread... 

I’m a virgin, are you? A Burning Man virgin, I mean. Because lord knows, I’m no virgin… Eight days in Black Rock City – a temporary city in Black Rock Desert of Nevada, 90 miles north-northeast of Reno – culminating in the burning of the Man on Labor Day weekend. My boyfriend has been, but I have not. From what I hear, it’s pretty darn crazy. We’ve been trying to go for years, but just haven’t... 

I had a totally weird dream last night… It was a few years into the future, but I’m not sure how many. Britney Spears made her comeback and was actually successful at it. Her hair was shoulder length and a natural brown color. She was in shape, but not too skinny. Here’s the crazy part… While not in the public eye, Britney Spears had taken singing lessons, unbeknownst to pretty much everyone. And they were very helpful,... 

My goodness it’s been a crazy week for me. As I mentioned on Tuesday, the water heater at my office blew up. The blast was so strong, a part of the water heater flew through a wall. Now the office is being ripped up, from the carpeting to the baseboards, and beyond. Quite a mess, I must say. While the repairs are being done, we’re hunkering down at our other office. A MUCH smaller office, where we have to share desks and there... 

Ever have one of those days when the universe throws you a curve ball and you’re not quite sure how to handle it? Today is one of those days. It started off okay – I woke early and straightened my hair (something I haven’t done in a while), took a nice shower, and put on a brand new outfit. I left my house at the normal time and had an average drive to work. And that’s pretty much where the humdrum ends. I arrived... 

Okay, so this story doesn’t quite fall into the crazy animal story category. It’s more of an endearing tale of two birds in love—two gay flamingos in Slimbridge, England, to be exact. After six years as a couple, the duo has been given the opportunity to be parents to an abandoned baby flamingo. Fernando and Carlos have wanted a baby for so long; they’ve even tried chasing fellow flamingos at the Wildfowl and Wetlands... 

Ok, so I seriously don’t know what’s going on anymore. Is it just me, or are farm animals getting freaky? I found it amusing in the beginning, but now it’s just weirding me out. First there was the calf born with two faces, who sadly died. Then there was the baby chick with four legs. Now there is a cow with six legs, and another one with two noses. Don’t believe me? Picture proof… But the craziness doesn’t... 

I believe that if you can’t laugh at yourself, you can’t laugh at anything. Fortunately I find myself laughing at me often. Last night was no exception. Imagine if you will, a subdivision in the middle of basically nothing, where all the houses look the same. There is no on street parking, but one particular BMW with a custom plate doesn’t seem to know this rule. If you were to look at this place from above, it would look... 

Stumpy is special. Extra special. Stumpy has webbed feet, which he should seeing how he’s a duck, but Stumpy has FOUR. Because of rare mutation, Stumpy has two nearly full-sized legs behind the two he uses. Duck farmer Nicky Janaway, from New Forest, Hampshire (about 95 miles southwest of London) said, “It was absolutely bizarre. I was thinking ‘he’s got too many legs’ and I kept counting ‘one, two, three,... 

Some sad news to report from the increasingly chaotic and odd world of animals – the calf born with two faces in Virginia, has died. “She was just laying there like she was sound asleep,” said Dairyman Kirk Heldreth. “It broke our hearts.” The unique calf was found on the morning of Friday, February 2nd. Heldreth assumes that Star died from complications due to the deformity. No one really expected the baby... 

Antonio Vasconcelos weighs 14.5 pounds and drinks 5 ounces of milk every three hours. But here’s the catch…Antonio is a newborn – a newborn human. Born this past Monday in Cancun, Mexico to parents Teresa Alejandra Cruz, 23, and Luis Vasconcelos, 38, “Super Tonio” was born by Caesarean section (thank goodness!), and is 22 inches long. On Wednesday, Narciso Perez Bravo, the hospital’s director, said, “We... 

Garden moles have now joined the animal revolution. It is being reported that a 63-year-old man in Zingst, Germany was killed last Thursday after electrocuting himself on a high-voltage cable meant to rid his garden of moles. But I think that’s just the cover story. I think the man, a retired construction foreman, was indeed trying to install the 380-volt cable and metal ground spikes in order to kill the moles, however, I think the... 

Well, the revolting pigs are at it again. The swine soldiers of the animal revolution have moved from Norfolk, England to Belgrade, Serbia. This time, they burned down a house! Talk about pissed off piggies. The three pigs, obviously angry with man and ready to fight, broke out of their pen and headed towards the house. They strolled into the living room and knocked the TV over, which then burst into flames; the fire quickly spread through... 

A couple of years ago, I found a picture of the coolest bathroom sink I had ever seen. And now there’s a toilet to go with it! I’m so excited. I love bathrooms. I used to make my mom take me to the bathroom when we’d go somewhere, whether I had to use it or not. Sometimes I would walk in, look around, and leave. Sometimes I still do. A clear two-piece toilet tank, the Fish ‘n Flush is a see-through aquarium wrapped... 

Residents of St. Bernard Parish, a flood-damaged area of Louisiana survived Hurricane Katrina but now they’re facing the danger of a different kind of storm: killer bees. Late last December Louisiana state agriculture authorities confirmed that a house ruined by the violent hurricane was the new squatting place of a dangerous strain of Africanized honeybees. The contractors tearing down the house were first to find them, and the first...