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While working late at night, Reginald Ganther wanted a snack.  When you’re up late and doing stressful work, there’s nothing quite as good for you as a big old bar of chocolate, so Reginald picked up a Hershey’s bar with a surprise inside.  He wanted a chocolate bar with almonds, but instead he got a […]

Pity poor Lionel the lobster.  Not only do people routinely capture and eat his clawed lobster brethren, just when he thought he found a perfect home, the Royal Navy tried to take it from him.  Lionel gave one of the brutes a nasty nip, but it was to no avail.  Divers rigged explosives to Lionel’s […]

President Barack Obama overcame a very crowded field of potential finalists to win the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.  Obama took home the award, and the big cash prize, for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”  Given that he faced some pretty fierce competition, it’s kind of surprising that he won.  […]

Brazen Somalian pirates got a little more than they bargained for the other day.  A ship that they believed to be a big, fat oil tanker just waiting to be taken over was an oil tanker, in a way.  The ship, La Somme, was actually a refueling ship for the French Navy.  Once they realized […]

Going to the Olympics is a very expensive thing.  For guys in lesser-known sports, like New Zealand Olympian and taekwondo practitioner Logan Campbell, the cost of going to the Olympics will work out to be about $150,000.  To go to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Campbell depended mostly on his parents.  For the 2012 Olympics, his […]

One of mankind’s most enduring mysteries is the ancient stone circle known as Stonehenge.  One popular theory about its purpose is that it was an ancient burial ground.  Now, thanks to the recent discovery of a second stone circle by the Stonehenge Riverside Project, the latest theory on Stonehenge is that it was part of […]

To say that Christy Harp has a green thumb is an understatement.  After all, her latest entry into the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers Weigh-In was a spectacular 1,725-pound pumpkin.  Not only does that give her supremacy over her husband Nick in their friendly pumpkin-growing rivalry, it might also be the biggest pumpkin in the […]

The first thing I wondered when I saw Google’s bar code doodle this morning wasn’t, “I wonder what they’re celebrating the bar code for.”  While that is a good question, the first thing I wanted to know was, “What’s going to happen if you scan that bar code?  What does it say?”  Well, fortunately for […]

One of my favorite bands ever, Alice in Chains, are making a comeback.  However, their new album, Black Gives Way to Blue, is kind of a bittersweet one for me since the band’s legendary original lead singer, Layne Staley, passed away as a result of a drug overdose in 2002.  In his place is new […]

When it comes to the gadget race, every developmental dollar is spent getting things smaller and smaller.  Tiny phones, tiny MP3 players, netbooks… everything is shrinking down to spy-sized.  However, what about building things larger?  I’m not just talking about televisions or home theaters, I’m talking about the gigantic diesel engines, extra-jumbo jets, and Wired’s […]

Ralph Needs is either having the luckiest week or the unluckiest week ever.  I’ll let you decide.  On the surface, his week was horrible.  Not only was he robbed at gunpoint, he was pistol-whipped and his nose was broken after the three assailants tied him up.  Four days later, while getting a self-defense lesson from […]