Admittedly, I am late to the proverbial party on this one, but unless you’re the type of person who browses io9 all day, chances are you probably missed this unintentionally hilarious news nugget too.

After 16 years, the NBC Universal-owned Sci Fi Channel has decided to change its name to “SyFy.” Why? Well, they very well can’t keep calling it...

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I am perfectly aware that everything Disney touches turns into box office gold. However, there’s something very wrong with “Race to Witch Mountain,” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Dakota Fanning, taking the top spot from Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen” this past weekend.

For one, “Watchmen” is the hotly anticipated film adaptation of Alan Moo...

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You Have To Be A Real Douchebag To Hurt Something This Cute

After giving birth to a baby boy last Monday, Sarah Tatum, 19, reportedly placed him in a large bag, along with her dirty laundry, and left him to die. When later questioned as to why she was a soulless human being, she told police that she thought she had had a miscarriage.

Howeve...

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When I was thirteen years old, the last thing on my mind was having children. In fact, I’m pretty sure that sex wasn’t on my mind at all at that point, because I considered girls to be festering pools of cooties that, when touched, required immediate medical attention in the form of crossing my fingers and reciting an old nursery rhyme out loud....

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It’s official; Barack Obama’s popularity extends beyond planet Earth.

According to the tin-foil brigade, an interplanetary spacecraft filled with Obama-lovin’ aliens zoomed past the Inauguration proceedings on Tuesday, and CNN’s cameras accidentally caught it on film.

The unedited footage from CNN’s homepage does show a plane of some sort zi...

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