Note: Some appropriately colorful language from the people filming. This is a video of a pilot ejecting from an F-35B Lightning II fighter jet at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth in Texas after a failed attempted at a vertical landing. Thankfully, the pilot is fine, but
LEGO has announced the release of it’s largest traditional building set to date — the 9,090 piece Titanic (previously: its 9,036-piece Roman Colosseum). The 1:200 scale ship measures a respectable 54″ long, 7″ wide, 18″ tall and breaks into three cross sections so you can see the various and inner
This is a video of Brooks Weisblat of Youtube channel DragTimes speeding a ~$2-million windshield-less McLaren Elva around the Tail Of The Dragon (aka Deals Gap) along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line. The road, bordering The Great Smokey Mountains National Park and nearby Little Tennessee River, is famous for packing
Looking for the Guinness World Record Holder for most expensive French fries? Well then look no further than the ‘Creme de la Creme Pommes Frites’ from Serendipity3 in New York City (also home to the most expensive milkshake, sandwich, and dessert — because having a shtick is important). What makes
In news that makes me sick to my stomach I didn’t spend all my newspaper route and lawn mowing profits as a kid stockpiling Nintendo games and keeping them mint in their packaging, a 9.8 graded copy of Super Mario 64 just sold for a staggering $1.5 million at auction,
This is the Sotheby’s listing for the colloquially known ‘Darth Vader House’ for sale in Houston, Texas. The house was built in 1992 for Dr. Jean Cukier, who, when deciding to have a custom home built “grabbed a piece of paper and drew it himself. Cukier loved Star Wars so
Because fashion knows no bounds (or decency), these are the unevenly stitched jeans created by Paris-based fashion house Leje. The Slash Jean ($417 – $441) has a single off-centered stitching diagonally across the knees, as if the jeans were slashed and sewn back together unevenly. The L Jean ($528) has
Because rich people have nothing better to spend their money on, a bottle of 2000 Pétrus merlot is expected to fetch around a cool million from the Private Sales auction website operated by Christie’s. The bottle (which typically sells for around $6,000) was among 11 others that spent 14 months