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Eat Them Up, Yum!

How Barnes & Barnes’ oddball hit “Fish Heads,” complete with music video directed by Bill Paxton (really), became an unlikely breakout star of novelty music.

Hands-Free Horrible

Inspired by something I saw online, I bought Phone Relief, an “As Seen On TV” product that turns any phone into a hands-free phone—so you don’t have to.

Otis Nixon, the CD-i, and Me

An improbably true story of a baseball star at his career peak pitching a 10-year-old on the unspeakably bad Philips CD-i at an Atlanta mall in 1992.

Things That Make You Go Hmmmm …

The tale of a guy who got fined for singing along to C+C Music Factory’s most famous song. The cops made him sweat alright.

The Seeds Are Better

Pondering the Osage orange, the historically important fruit you probably shouldn’t eat—unless you’re willing to go to the trouble of picking out the seeds.

Modem Madness

Who said they just had to make games? From answering machines to lottery prototypes, Sega and Nintendo tried weird things with modems in the early ’90s.

A Beachside Mystery

A mysterious object pulled from the sand of a Rhode Island beach was even weirder than officials expected. Anyone know what this is?

Seaweed: The Next Kale?

Entrepreneurs are making the case that seaweed, a nutrient-rich but weird food source, should go mainstream. Even if it doesn't, kelp could still prove key.

Rock & Retro

Before there was "Rock Band" or "Guitar Hero," bands didn't really know how to handle making video games. Which meant their games were usually very bad.
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