Just like it says, Popcorn Shorts is about the kind of things we think are really interesting, but don’t really need a large article to explain them. From the sublime to the ridiculous, check in here for crunchy bits of info you’ll love to munch. By the way, much (but not all) of our delicious Popcorn comes from articles we’ve posted on our Facebook page. If you’re on Facebook, please stop by and “Like” us and we’ll keep a fairly-constant-but-not-frequent-enough-to-be-annoying stream of these coming to your virtual door!
The most evil App you’ll ever encounter
When we say “cool stuff that’s too small for a big article”, this is exactly what we mean. This story will terrify you in just one sentence… “Peeple is a new app will be like Yelp for individuals, allowing people you know to rate YOU.” AAAAHHHHH! Believe it or not, the Intertubes have stood firm against this horror, and the backlash has forced founder Julia Cordray to “rethink the app”. Check out Julia’s cringeworthy defense here and her equally cringeworthy YouTube monologue here, but don’t miss satire apps Sheeple or Meet Peeple that popped so quickly. And remember, it’s all just a dream, it’s all just a dream…
Poisonous Troll UNMASKED!
Wayne Simmons has been FOX News’ go-to guy for terrorism and intelligence commentary for many years, based on his claims that he helped run clandestine operations for the CIA for nearly three decades. “Nobody knew who I was,” Simmons said at one event. “Nobody was allowed to know who I was.” As it happens, the CIA was one of the people not allowed to know him because on October 15 federal authorities arrested Simmons and charged him with making false statements, major fraud against the United States and wire fraud. He apparently made the whole thing up. FOX news did not have any comment on their website by our press time.
Alien Invader dooms civilization
Another Columbus Day has come and gone, but despite what you hear from FOX News and your grade school history books, the real Columbus wasn’t a plastic superhero striding bravely across the waters to open up a new world for Europeans. Whatever his contribution to charting the New World, it wasn’t pretty from the point of view of the people he met when he got here. From rape and murder to slavery and pedophilia, this article from our Oct 2014 “News To Make You Furious” will introduce you to the man who, far from deserving his own holiday, fits in just perfectly with the horror show of Halloween…
Time Travel Terror
13.8 billion years is a lot to take it all at once, but designer Matan Satuber of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design has taken a big step to make it easier. He created an interactive timeline that covers not just recent history, not just written history, not just Earth’s history, but ALL history back to the Big Bang. Each dot on the timeline represents a discrete historical event with deeper links, and it’s constantly updatable as new history is added.
