Poking around the internet for odd or otherwise unusual stories is a guilty pleasure for me. I am tired of mainstream media as a whole, and try to avoid it like the plague - but weird stories you'll never hear Dan Rather report on in a million years if his life depended on it? Those are for me. 

As such, I decided to start a new series of random stories that caught my attention. Here then, dear readers, is the first in the installment. Stories and photo credits go solely to the original reporters, I am only re-hashing.

Enjoy.

1. Hotel without bed, t.p., lights, etc. for $19 a night: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-ap-us-odd-bedless-resort,0,3706000.story

2. Oh you gotta love this. Why donate money to a fly-by-night charity like March of Dimes when you have THESE charities to choose from? http://www.cracked.com/article_17649_8-most-insulting-attempts-raise-money-cause.html 

3. Know how supermarkets add red lighting over their meat department to make the steaks look better, or how jewelry stores use those super high bulbs to make the diamonds sparkle more? How about this now? http://blogs.zdnet.com/home-theater/?p=1338

4. Your mom always told you that vegetables were good for you - little did she know you could kick ass with them, too. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538542,00.html

5. Ahhh...one of my favorite subjects. How corporations will do and say anything to get you to change your mind about their shit, and spend, spend, spend. Love this one: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sun-talk-name-changesaug09,0,3522056.story 

BONUS STORY!

6. This one totally blew my mind. Fantastic picture of object punching out of Saturn's rings... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/09/like-the-fist-of-an-angry-god/