It's actually called "highlining" and while it may look completely nuts to you and me, it's an extreme sport popular with lots of adrenaline junkies. (You may know it best from the documentary about Philippe Petit called Man on Wire). A woman named Faith Dickey from Texas—pause for WOO-HOO HOME STATE break—holds a…

With the advent (and relentless ubiquity) of CGI, it's easy to imagine that contemporary actors in action movies are little more than children playing pretend on a giant soundstage, waving fake weapons at imaginary opponents and strolling safely off to their trailers until the next big scene. Actors still, however,…

Improv Everywhere, those pranksters who are always trying to appease the god of viral videos, commandeered Katz’s Deli to recreate the scene in When Harry Met Sally where Meg Ryan is all "OOOOH OOOH OMG OMG OMG" and then just eats her salad like her rude-ass didn't just fake a super loud orgasm in the middle of a…

Paul Miller is a tech reporter for a website. But Paul Miller hasn't used the internet in three months. And he plans to stay off of the internet for a year.

Larry Flynt has placed ads in Texas asking, "Have you had a gay or straight sexual encounter with Governor Rick Perry? Can you provide documented evidence of illicit sexual or intimate relations with the governor? Larry Flynt and Hustler magazine will pay you up to $1 million if we choose to publish your verified…

You may not have heard of the late aviatix and all around daredevil Betty Skelton, but after reading this article about her life, you might kind of want to be her.

The latest publicity stunt of the man known as America's Worst Sheriff (he prefers "America's toughest sheriff") is to parade an all-female chain gang at the MLB All-Star game in Phoenix.

Taking stunt-journalism to its nadir, one dude's watching Julie and Julia every day for a year and blogging it. Post-modern marvel or laziest, most cynical gimmick since the Kardashian Kard? You be the judge!

If you're one of the thousands who helped "Frank's Marriage Proposal in Central Park" go viral, we're regret to inform you that your romantic dream is dead. It was all a hoax.

Knoxville explains: "[Our female friend] got hurt doing a stunt once and so we decided no more girls doing stunts. No that they can't — just in Jackass, because we all hated feeling that way."

One of the DJ's of a Saint Louis morning-show had a high-school girlfriend cheat on him. So here's a solution: encourage other dudes to do "drive-by whorings," shouting insults at women's houses! And no, the recordings are NSFW, life.

Michaele Salahi and the rest of The Real Housewives Of D.C. were on The View yesterday; now Team Salahi says Whoopi abused Michaele. What the hell?

According to anecdotal evidence and the New York Times Well Blog teenagers are getting stupid. Who's to blame? The internet, naturally.

"A Chinese kung fu master pulls eight cars by the end of her plait in her last ever stunt before cutting off all her hair to become a nun." [Breitbart]