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Katie Holmes to Guest Star as Pumpkin on ‘How I Met Your Mother’
Katie Holmes will appear on a special Halloween edition of ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ joining a long list of female personalities who have guest starred on the CBS sitcom.
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Children’s Game Musical Chairs Is Being Made Into a Reality Show
The CW is currently developing a reality show based on musical chairs.
They’re calling it ‘Extreme Musical Chairs’ and, according to Variety, it “would transform the popular children’s game into a physically demanding competition with multiple rounds of elimination set in an indoor obstacle course.”
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Acrobat Climbs 15 Stairs on His Head [VIDEO]
Appearing on the TV show ‘Guinness World Records Japan,’ Chinese acrobat Sun Xi Zhong set the world record for Most Stairs Climbed on the Head by scaling an incredible 15 steps using only his noggin.
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Facebook Announces New Timeline Feature for Profiles [VIDEO]
Despite the whining about the launch of their “top stories” feature this week, Facebook unveiled and even bigger change at the company’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco: Timeline.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that profile pages will soon automatically put photos, videos, status updates and status changes in chronological order. The timeline will also feature a “way back” section, which allows users to insert material from their pre-Facebook days.
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Typewriter Drink Mixer Lets You Taste Your Own Words [VIDEO]
What started as a wild idea became an actual invention when the blogger Morskoiboy built an elaborate drink mixing machine based on a typewriter model.
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Man Rides Unicycle While Playing ‘Star Wars’ Theme on Bagpipes [VIDEO]
In what will surely be the quirkiest thing you see today, a man in a kilt rides a unicycle down the street while playing the the theme to ‘Star Wars‘ on bagpipes.
The sight was so unusual that multiple passengers in a passing car began recording it, creating a video-in-video effect. Check it all out below:
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Did Hugh Jackman Break a WWE Wrestler’s Jaw? [VIDEO]
Hugh Jackman appeared on WWE Raw earlier this week to promote his robot boxing film, ‘Real Steel.’ As is tradition when celebrities find themselves in the wrestler-verse, Jackman mixed it up with the grapples, and ended up hitting Dolph Ziggler with a sneak attack punch.
While the punch was obviously staged, Jackman may have put a bit too much of his real steel behind it because the next day Ziggler was tweeting from the hospital, where he confirmed Jackman’s blow had resulted in a hairline mandibular fracture of his jaw.
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Teen Bride Courtney Stodden to Get Reality Show
Yup,we all saw this one coming.
Courtney Stodden, who burst into the public’s consciousness in May when the then-16-year-old married 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison, is getting a reality show.
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Man Climbs to Top of Skyscraper Without Safety Gear [VIDEO]
The latest craziness from our friends in Russia comes courtesy of this fellow, who climbed to the top of one of Stalin’s skyscrapers in Moscow without the use of any safety gear.
He did bring along a helmet cam, so you can experience his stunt from the safety of your desk chair.
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Nelson Mandela and Roger Federer Are the Two Most Respected People in the World
It should come as no huge surprise that a poll of more than 50,000 people in 25 different countries would find Nelson Mandela the most respected and trusted person in the world.
But the next spot may be a bit more surprising.
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Borders Employees Diss Customers in Hilarious Farewell Note
Borders bookstores will shut their doors forever at the end of this month, and in a final kiss-off to those who patronized the once-popular chain, employees at one of Borders’ franchises hung in their display window a bitter note which listed all the things customers had done to piss them off over the years.
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‘Back to the Future’ Audio Replaced by One-Man A Cappella Performance [VIDEO]
Musician/comedian Matt “The Mouth” Mulholland was able to recreate the entire audio track from the famous skateboard chase scene in ‘Back to the Future’ using only the power of his own voice.
Mulholland voiced the dialogue, the sound effects and the background music from the scene on different tracks and synced them to the video. As you can see (and hear) below, the results are very impressive: