Fresh dispatches from the internet's junk drawer.
Games & GamingIn 1994 the least likely gaming platform on earth had the most advanced shooter anyone had seen. Thirty years later Bungie revived the name, aimed it at the wrong target, and killed it in public.
Games & GamingFive years in Early Access, a full release this March, and a review count a fifth of the game that copied its homework. We have been playing since 2021 and we have complaints about your priorities.
Games & GamingThirteen years, five expansions, 245,000 reviews at 98 percent, and 58,000 mods. The colony sim every other colony sim gets measured against, reviewed by people who have lost years to it.
FunnyNinety-six spoons, thirty-five thousand Big Macs and five hours standing in a box of ice. Ten Guinness World Records that got ratified anyway.
FunnyEight sports with founding dates, written rulebooks and referees with job titles. One of them has an official called the Stickler. Another bans importing your own worms.
Art & CultureTen institutions built around one very specific obsession each, from 16,000 locks of human hair in a Turkish cave to a nine-metre tapeworm in Tokyo. All of them open. All of them checked.
FunnyWikipedia keeps an internal list of its own weirdest pages. We checked the sources under eleven of them, and the headless chicken was pulling in $4,500 a month.
FunnyTen food pairings the internet calls cursed, sorted into genuine regional traditions and marketing stunts. Exactly one of them turned out to be indefensible.
Art & CultureNine places people walked out of and never went back to, with the dates, the reasons, and whether you can legally get anywhere near them today.
We reviewed the weird internet in 2015. It got weirder. We kept notes.
Geek ToysA battery-powered pickle that yodels. Archie McPhee has a lot to answer for.
Geek ToysTiny tighty-whities for your hands. Fingerless. Elastic waistband. We have so many questions and zero regrets.
Geek ToysLittle rubber hands that fit on your fingertips. Wave with ten tiny hands. Ascend.
Geek ToysA tiny goat on a tiny log. Press it and it screams. That's the product. That's the review.
Geek Toys87 implements. 141 functions. Over two pounds. The Swiss finally went too far, and it's magnificent.
Geek ToysAn inflatable horn that turns your cat into a unicorn for up to four seconds. Archie McPhee strikes again.
WTFOne piece of plastic. One fruit. One of the greatest review sections ever written.
WTFSwipe the sequins one way: Nicolas Cage. Swipe them the other way: also Nicolas Cage.
WTFA giant plastic nose for your shower wall. It dispenses gel. From the nostril. You knew that already.
WTFA sardine-style tin containing one pair of unisex underpants. For emergencies. Define emergency yourself.
WTFA can of air from a mountain, sold to people at sea level. The invisible hand has outdone itself.
WTFA putting green for around your toilet, complete with mini putter and a Do Not Disturb sign. Fore.
Fashion, tech, travel, and the occasionally useful. Filed under: the rest.
FashionThree wolves. One moon. The t-shirt that broke Amazon reviews in 2009 and never apologized.
FashionA round blanket printed like a flour tortilla. Wrap yourself. Become the burrito. Achieve peace.
Temu SlopA 71-inch faux fur dog bed sized for adult humans. Six hundred people have reviewed it. None of them are dogs.
Temu SlopA shirt printed with a photograph of a better torso than yours. Official use case, per Temu: pretend fitness.
Temu SlopLeggings printed with a photo of jeans, titled 'Not Denim' three times, like a legal settlement.
Temu SlopA flat PVC poster of an open window onto the Mediterranean, sold as a '3D effect' for windowless rooms.
