Alan Van
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Japan hit with its steepest population decline ever
Japan experienced its sharpest population decline ever in 2023, dropping 861,000 (0.7%) to 121,561,801 total, according to an annual report released by Japan’s ministry of internal affairs on…
2 Sacramento children missing after mother found dead in her home
Four-year-old Athena Lee and her 2-year-old brother Mateo Lee are missing after their mother, 28-year-old Angelica Bravo, was found dead on July 8 in her north Sacramento home along Didcot Circle by…
UCLA women’s soccer coach makes history as Bruins win NCAA championship
The UCLA women’s soccer team and rookie head coach Margueritte Aozasa made history on Monday in more ways than one after the Bruins defeated UNC 3-2 to win the 2022 Women’s College Cup. The NCAA…
Meet Camryn Bynum, the NFL star proudly repping his Filipino heritage
Minnesota Vikings safety Camryn Bynum is proud of his Filipino heritage, and he wants everyone to know it. After Bynum’s fourth-quarter interception helped seal his team’s 27-22 victory over the New…
South Korea knocked out of World Cup by Brazil after 4-1 thrashing
There will still be no Asian national team World Cup winners after South Korea was knocked out of contention by Brazil on Monday. Brazil’s “Canary Squad” came into the faceoff as heavy favorites and…
Couple’s Horrifying Video Reveals Every Hotel Guest’s Worst Nightmare
It’s a nightmare come true: waking up in your hotel bed to see an endless stream of bed bugs scurrying away to hide and rashes all over your body left from their bites. A new video shows that the…
HOAX: Woman’s Heartwarming Walmart Story of Cashier’s Mom Committing Suicide is Fake
// My Friday experience….. This will hit home…. You never know who’s fighting what battle. Watch what you say…..
PC Gamers Are Better at Sex Than Console Gamers, Study Claims
PC gamers are better in bed than gamers who play on Playstation and Xbox consoles, claims a new study. For their unusual study, discount website MyVoucherCodes — which, strangely, has little to…
Self-Driving Google Car Gets Pulled Over By Police For Driving Too Slow
Self-driving cars of the future might rack up tickets for going too fast, but a self-driving car pulled over yesterday was ticketed for driving too slow. A Mountain View Police Department officer saw…
Why This Luxurious Wooden iPhone Case Will Set You Back $243
If you are in the market for a tasteful, ultra-luxe case for your iPhone, a Japanese company has you covered. From Matsuba Factory comes carved and lacquered wooden pieces of art to enclose your…
Man Poses as Target Rep, Epically Trolls Customers on Facebook
Last week, Target Corporation announced that its stores would be eliminating gender-based signs for their bedding and toy sections because of customer complaints that “raised important questions.” At…
Woman Wears Wrong Shoes For Graduation, Breaks Record For Longest, Most Humiliating Fall
“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world,” Marilyn Monroe is often attributed as saying.
How Youtube Built a 1-Billion Monthly Viewer Empire
Just in time for the news that Youtube will be, in a smart marketing move, funding its own “premium” content starring its homegrown stars, is an infographic illustrating the marketing side of the…
Jerry Seinfeld Just Threw Major Shade at The Entire YouTube Community
While Jerry Seinfeld’s latest rant won’t have many Youtubers laughing, is he only speaking a truth most of us already believe? Or is he just generationally out of touch and exhibiting a lack of…
Chinese Father Offers $1 Rides to Strangers to Pay for Son’s Leukemia Treatment
What would you do if a loved one was dangerously ill but there wasn’t enough money to treat them? How far would you go? A man from the capital city of China’s Anhui province hit the streets to beg…
This One Adidas Mistake May Have Cost Them the Chance to Be Bigger Than Nike
You never, ever doubt Michael Jordan. OK, maybe as an NBA team owner, but as a basketball player or a brand pitchman? Never. (OK, fine! … You doubt him if he’s sporting a Hitler ‘stache.) Adidas made…
8 CEOs Who Became Self-Made Millionaires Before Turning 30 [Infographic]
A recent poll found that 70% of millennials expect to be millionaires one day — this, despite the fact that millennials have a poor reputation among hiring managers and are, on average, broke. But…
Old Sweater Purchased For 58 Cents at Goodwill Sells for Over $43,000 At Auction
Who needs lottery tickets these days when Goodwill stores exist? Sean and Rikki McEvoy, a couple hailing from Knoxville, Tennessee, were looking for resalable vintage clothing at an Asheville, North…
Man Becomes Cyborg After Fusing Antenna Into His Skull to Hear Sound
I predicted the cyborg-human war in as early as October — because the prediction is unique and I want credit for it — and it now looks like we’re at the brink. I’ll fire up the chainsaw. According to…
Wife Forces Husband to Kneel Outside For Hours After He Didn’t Hand Over His Paycheck in Time
Breaking news: Chinese wives are on an epic rampage, Chinese men’s penises to never recover. In yet another case of a Chinese man being castrated in the name of love (or psychosis) for a woman, a…
Billionaire Wal-Mart Heiress is Demanding $90,000 From the Person Who Damaged Her ‘Cherished’ Tree
What’s a single tree worth to a billionaire? Too much, because billionaires are goddamn insane. Nancy Walton Laurie, who is worth nearly $5 billion because she won the birth lottery by being born to…
Rapping Venture Capitalist Gives Iggy Azalea a Run For Her Money
It looks like David Rubenstein has some serious competition in the “white male investor” rap game. Internet entrepreneur, blogger and investor (and NextShark friend!) Jason Calacanis spit out some…
This 8-Year-Old Boy Skips Breakfast Everyday to Buy Lottery Tickets So That His Sick Father May Live
“Happiness is a state of mind” may be a cliche, but damned if it isn’t true. Our happiness is strongly tied to our thankfulness, and no matter what you’re going through, after reading this story, you…
Gucci Blasted For Chinese Workers on 14-Hour Shifts Making Handbags
Apparently, Gucci has way bigger problems than their tacky, over-conspicuous monogrammed designs. The Italian fashion house announced it would be strengthening controls on its suppliers after a…
Harvard Business Professor Apologizes For Bullying Mom and Pop Asian Restaurant
[Updated 12-10-14 11:01 p.m. PST: Apparently, this is NOT the first time Professor Edelman has bullied a restaurant]
Harvard Business Professor Declares War on Family-Run Chinese Restaurant That Overcharged Him $4
[Updated 12-10-14 11:01 p.m. PST] This is not the first time Professor Edelman has done this! [Updated 12-10-14 4:59 p.m. PST Harvard Business Professor Apologizes For Bullying Mom and Pop Asian…
iPhone 6 Scammers Preying on Tourists Continue to Give Singapore a Bad Name
Goddamnit, Asians and their iPhone troubles never end. The story of a 19-year-old international student from India being bilked by another suspect store at Sim Lim Square in Sinagpore has just…
Jover Chew: The Saga of the Notorious iPhone 6 Scammer Who Made His Customers Cry
In Tarantino’s bloodbath masterpiece “Kill Bill,” the mythical Hattori Hanzo sagely tells the Bride, “Revenge is never a straight line. It’s a forest, and like a forest, it’s easy to lose your way ……
Science Reveals How Far Your Germs Travel Every Time You Sneeze
As if you needed any more reasons to not fly on an airplane these days, a video showing exactly how potentially SARS/measles/cooties-infected sneeze particles travel everywhere inside a plane is…
A Former Spice Girl is Named Top Entrepreneur in Britain
Britain’s top entrepreneur has been crowned, and it’s none other than … get ready for it … Posh Spice?
‘Wasting Time on the Internet’ is Now a Legitimate Class at This Ivy League University
Oh, college. Stories like these make you seem like more of a waste of time everyday — literally.
Everyone is Freaking Out Because Kim Kardashian Went to a Tech Conference
“Why is Kim Kardashian at a tech conference?!” TechCrunch blared out in headline form today. It’s a good question, but a rhetorical one. Why is there world hunger when so much food is wasted? Why…
IRS Takes $33,000 Cash From an Elderly Mexican Restaurant Owner’s Savings
There are a lot of don’ts in the business world. If you’re a business owner, don’t do this, this or this, for example, because doing those things will be absolutely terrible for your reputation, and…
Christian Bale Cast as This Tech Legend and He Didn’t Even Have to Audition For It
Oh god, I hope Christian Bale doesn’t bring any weird voices to the Steve Jobs biopic. So, Christian, while I understand the temptation to make Jobs sound like Screech from “Saved By the Bell,”…
Microsoft Co-Founder Is Just as Overly Scared of Ebola as Everyone Else … Actually, He’s $100-Million Scared
Nearly two weeks after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $25 million to help fight Ebola, Microsoft founder and fellow billionaire Paul Allen has now upped the ante by donating $100 million to…
This is the Halloween Costume For Those With $1.6 Million to Spare
One year, a long, long time ago when I was but a tender, young beast, my mom decided to save a little extra money and time by having me go out trick-or-treating without a costume.
