OK, I openly admit that I stole the title from Gizmodo, because frankly I don't think there's a better one.

In offering this fan-effing-tastic yellow caution sign, ThinkGeek has made me rap myself in the head repeatedly, chanting "I totally should've thought of that!" As a fan of roads, signs and road signs, I think this little guy is just brilliant.

The little stickman is infinitely posable, allowing you to warn those around you of imminent relaxing, breakdancing or standing akimbo. I just need to think of a little "gift-giving" pose, because someone's definitely getting one of these for Christmas.

Thirty years ago today, more than 900 people, under the instruction of religious leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by ingesting poison-laden punch. The event, known as the Jonestown Massacre, marked the largest loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster up until the attacks on September 11, 2001.

Read the whole story in Attractions & Other Oddities: The Jonestown Massacre.

2008 marks the centennial of one of the most mysterious and startling events to occur on planet Earth. OK, to be more accurate, it was June 30, but give me a break. I've had a cold.

It occurred in a remote region of Russia near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia. Just after 7 a.m., an unidentified object screamed through the atmosphere and created an explosion that leveled 800 square miles of forest and broke windows several hundred miles away. Read More »

Roadside Resort fan Fran sent me an e-mail a couple of days ago asking that I set up an RSS feed so she could keep up to date on everything going on here.

Well, as the manager, I was more than happy to oblige. It's something that's been on my lengthy to-do list for quite some time, anyway; I just needed the kick in the groin to make me crawl into the duct work and hook things up.

I'll be adding a more convenient link on here as soon as I've iced myself down, but in the meantime, you can access the feed at www.roadsideresort.com/rss.xml.

And if there's anything else you'd like to see here, don't hesitate to let me know.

As the Roadside Resort reported a few days ago, a gigantic piñata was constructed in downtown Philadelphia as part of an ad campaign organized by Carnival Cruise Lines. The 62-foot-tall burro, the centerpiece of a TV commercial being filmed for Carnival, was reportedly to be busted open with a wrecking ball, but the event was postponed due to a "technical difficulty."

According to new reports coming in, said difficulty was an objection by Philadelphia police who had fears, not of the danger of a wrecking ball swinging over a giant crowd of people, but of how that crowd of people would behave when the 4 tons of candy came flying out. Read More »