Half Mag / Half Zine
Half Mag / Half Zine
A Georgia judge issued a tongue-in-cheek order banishing the Elf on the Shelf — a recent Christmas tradition — from his county. Cobb County Superior Court Judge Robert Leonard tweeted the text of an order banishing the Elf on a Shelf, a small toy elf that reports the actions of children to Santa Claus in […]
An Idaho man who broke a Guinness World Record by catching 49 apples with his teeth in one minute said the attempt was a surprisingly bloody affair. David Rush, who has broken more than 200 Guinness records to promote STEM education, said the apples were thrown from 15 feet away by frequent collaborator Jonathan Hannon. […]
Firefighters in California rescued a deer that became stranded in a canal and “had completely given up.” The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said a member of the public reported a deer in the Folsom South Canal at 12:29 p.m. Sunday. Crews responded to the canal near Tributary Crossing Drive and determined the exhausted deer was […]
A Dartmouth University professor’s 10-foot-high version of a classic Atari 2600 video game joystick has been dubbed the largest video game joystick in the world by Guinness World Records. Mary Flanagan, who is a game designer and artist in addition to being Dartmouth’s Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, said she built the scaled-up […]
A moose on the loose made a stop at South Dakota State University to take a run on the school’s football field. The South Dakota State University Police issued an alert on Facebook warning of a moose on the loose in Brookings, and the animal eventually made its way to the school’s campus. The moose […]
A North Carolina woman said a gas station being out of her preferred scratch-off lottery ticket — and her backup choice — led to her winning a $200,000 jackpot. Veronica Burt, of Raleigh, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials she stopped at the Murphy USA station in Apex after work to gas up her vehicle […]
A British Columbia woman having a cigarette on her front porch was approached by a wandering bear that licked her on the hand. Melanie Porter said she was smoking and sitting in a chair on her front porch Thursday night in Quesnel when she spotted movement in her front yard that she initially thought was […]