Offbeat

"Spent" is a free browser-based game that attempts to raise awareness about poverty circumstances in the USA. You can choose a job (server, warehouse worker or temp), and attempt to survive for 30 days of being super-poor.

According to recent data, Americans supposedly play a combined 200 million minutes of Angry Birds every day. When you do the math, that equals $1.5 billion dollars in "lost productivity" per year.

In an embarrassing snafu, Google has the World Trade Center listed under Google Flights, though it says that this destination is "unavailable".

Residents of Idaho have the slowest internet speeds in the entire country. According to an article in the New York Times, bears could be to blame.

Did you know that 5% of Americans believe that they're "allergic" to Wi-Fi? Thankfully, they can all move to a crazy town in West Virginia, where wireless signals (even cell phones) are banned for 13,000 square miles.

This surprisingly detailed LEGO sculpture of Batman was created by a 13 year old kid named Evan. LEGO Batman has won multiple awards, and is easy to transport at only 60 pounds.

Researchers conducted a survey of 3,000 adults, asking them to rank things that "they couldn't live without". Facebook ranked fifth, while having a toilet ranked ninth.

When infected by a baculovirus, a gypsy moth caterpillar's brain is hijacked, causing it to climb. Once at the top of the tree, the virus liquefies the caterpillar, raining virus-ridden goo onto other caterpillars.

If you're one of the 11,600 people who paid $1.99 for "Acne App", we've got some bad news. Flashing red and blue lights at your face doesn't really cure acne.

Did you know that your MacBook Air can double as a kitchen utensil? It can cut apples, peel carrots, dice mushrooms and even de-vein shrimp.