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You’d expect violent behavior from the Wal-Martians on Black Friday, but not on a random Wednesday.  For whatever reason, 55-year-old Paul Washington was in a punchy mood, and the object that got in the way of his fist was a 72-year-old Wal-Mart greeter.  Washington is accused of punching Thomas Jenkins in the face at a [...]

All Brad Niesluchowski wanted to do was help out a good cause.  In 2000, he installed the SETI@home software program on the computers of the Higley Unified School District in Mesa, Arizona.  After all, he was the school district’s information technology director, so if anyone could do it, it’d be him.  Emphasis on was, because [...]

Well, the rumored deal has become fact.  A few short days after GE cleared the last hurdle by buying out minority partner Vivendi, the parent company of NBC Universal has sold a majority of its stake in NBCU to the nation’s largest cable television provider, Comcast.  The deal will initially be a 51/49 split, with [...]

We’ve all decided that the car of tomorrow is going to end up being an electric car.  After all, given the rising cost of gas, it’s the only thing that makes economic sense.  That’s why gear heads around the world are looking with longing at the Chevy Volt, GM’s latest electric car offering.   Well, [...]

One of the downfalls of cell phone use is the fact that payphones are dying.  They keep charging more and more, and the number of available pay phones shrinks by the day.  When British Telecom wanted to take away the iconic red phone booth in the southern England town of Westbury-sub-Mendip, the locals sprang into [...]

Known by his character handle, Little Gray, an unnamed man in Taiwan has gained infamy by finishing World of Warcraft.  Technically, the game doesn’t have an ending, but when you accomplish all 986 achievements present in the game, you’ve officially done every possible thing in the game universe.  That’s a staggering achievement, and it’s verified [...]

It’s the perfect synthesis between male thinking and female thinking.  Women love scented candles.  I witnessed this today, in fact.  One of the people at my workplace came in with a bunch of scented candles her son was selling through school, and she spent a good 20 minutes this morning not only smelling ALL the [...]

When Michael van Poppel started his Twitter feed two years ago, the 19-year-old Dutchman never expected things to get so big.  After all, his company, BNO News, was started as a hobby way back in May 2007.  Now, with more than 1.5 million subscribers and growing daily, the Breaking News Twitter feed has changed from [...]

While the Green Hanukkah initiative has been more than a little controversial, it has sparked at least one interesting development.  Inspired by the wasted CO2 produced by millions of candles upon millions of menorahs throughout the world, designer Roni Kabessa came up with a great solution that keeps the spirit of the menorah alive.  Using [...]

When Connecting Derby was launched, one of the £36.2 million pound project’s many goals was to revamp Derby, England’s roadways.  This included two new stretches of an inner ring road within Derby.  With every new roadway comes the chance to honor a notable local citizen.  Among the 100 suggestions was the name Lara Croft.  Now, [...]

It’s expensive getting a babysitter these days.  Do you know how much kids are charging to watch your children these days?  It’s downright robbery!  So, when William Farag and Nadia Redoble decided to do some actual robberies, they figured they’d save their money and bring the kids with them on the crime spree. For awhile, [...]

Everyone knows that old traditional Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas.  Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, you know that song because it’s inescapable.  You know, it’s the one with all the lords a-leaping and FIVE GOOLDEN RIIIINGS!  Ahem.  Anyway, if you were wanting to recreate that whole spectacle of pipers and geese, then [...]

To further cement just how crazy people are for social media and social networking and microblogging services and all that kind of thing that people want to use but don’t really understand and soon abandon, the Global Language Monitor has announced the most used word of 2009.  In case you’ve been living under a rock [...]

The project has been going strong since 2005, but finally, Dutch scientists from Eindhoven University have made a break through.   What started with lab-grown goldfish muscle in a New York lab has ended with scientists in The Netherlands constructing a patty of lab-grown meat.  Pork, to be exact.  Mushy, flabby, pork.  However, it’s the [...]