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By the age most of us settled into boring office jobs, Stanley Clifford Weyman was faking the part of a doctor in Lima, Peru where he threw parties that made Hugh Hefner seem like a Mormon. There are no movies starring Leonardo DiCaprio about him but he was one of the most amazing impostors in history. Why did he do it? Screw the money, he just didn’t want to get bored: “One man’s life is a boring thing. I lived many lives. I’m never bored.” This is a look at four things that he did that not even the ballsiest of con artists would dare attempt. Read the rest of this entry »

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) was huge in the early ’90s. It came right after Transformers degenerated into Rodimus needing a Prozac and right before Mighty Morphin Power Rangers taught us all how to color match. Everyone had a favorite TMNT character, mine was Donatello, and most will still defend that character to the death. I’ve always felt that identifying with these characters at a young age made us into the people we are today. So, this is a look back at 10 popular characters, who the fans that loved them became, and an example through a famous internet personality – call it “Turtle Theory”.

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Wooo, time for the soft-launch! To match this double entendre my first big update will be about sex.

These days the word “pervert” is mostly used to talk about sex, but it has more to do with taking a social norm and twisting it until it is something completely different. The following five authors managed to pervert social norms of their day. As an added bonus I’ll include a web community that the author would probably be a member of if they were alive today…

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Just a friendly reminder that the site will soft-launch tomorrow (Thursday). I will be doing one major update every week and smaller updates until we get some decent content up to push for a major launch.

When the launch is finalized I plan on giving away a Nintendo Wii, shirts, and other stuff.

I’m excited, I’ve been working on this site for close to a year now and have spent almost $2K to get the idea I sketched out on a pad while in a meeting transfered into a website. But this is a work of love and money isn’t an object when you love something.

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