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It wasn’t long after Joseph Andrew Stack III’s horrible act of cowardice, crashing a plane into an Austin, Texas, office building containing over 200 IRS employees, for first responders to arrive on the scene.  When they got there, they found a guy who, by day, replaces broken windows.  Robin Dehaven,  a veteran of the Iraq […]

Hey you!  Yeah, you!  C’mere, kid.  I know what you want.  You want what everybody wants, a shot at immortality.  You want to be in the Guinness World Records annals, right?  Sure, we all do.  If I might suggest an easy way to get in Guinness without having to learn how to swallow swords, blow […]

Have you always wanted to try a delicious insect snack without having to buy it yourself?  Are you looking to go to Chessington World of Adventures in Surrey, Great Britain any time soon?  Well, if you’re in that very small demographic, you’re in luck.  This Friday, Chessington will be giving away free edible insect pic […]

A lot of people love geocaching websites.  For example, there are apps for Twitter and Foursquare that, under the guise of awarding badges for visiting certain locations repeatedly (and becoming mayor of whatever), are actually dangerous resources for potential criminals.  I mean, you wouldn’t put up a sign that says, “I am not home, please […]

Beppe Bigazzi is a very popular and very experienced chef.  The 77-year-old is the host of the Italian version of the show Ready Steady Cook, called La Prova del Cuoco.  Or rather, he was the host and was very popular.  When people started complaining about a recipe for cat casserole he gave out on the […]

Another day, another miracle escape from a bullet.  We’ve had belts stop bullets, and Blackberries have stopped bullets, and now we’ve got badges stopping bullets.  A police officer on patrol in the northern section of Las Vegas, Nevada, heard shooting coming from a nearby apartment complex.  Of course, since it’s his job, he went to […]

I have to confess that I’m a huge fan of Betty White.  It seems like the older she gets, the funnier she becomes, and it’s not like she wasn’t funny when she was in her heyday on programs like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but starting with The Golden Girls and running through her appearances […]

When you think of an Egyptian pharaoh, you probably think of some golden man astride a mighty chariot, wearing a big gold headdress and carrying some curly scepter while he supervises a field of slaves building one of his many great monuments.  Well, according to the first-ever series of genetic tests allowed on a royal […]

It was only a few months ago that an Anglican Church leader in London spent his time blessing iPods, laptops, netbooks, and various other electronics, but now it’s time for sacrifice.  For Lent, a period in which Christians traditionally give up something or another in the name of penance and reflection, the Bishop of London, […]

It’s kind of a shame to see one of the greatest, most distinctive voices silenced forever, but whatever you do, don’t feel bad for Roger Ebert (except for when he has to screen a Uwe Boll movie).  While he is no longer able to eat or drink or speak, he’s still able to write, and […]

Those first responders are cool under fire, aren’t they?  I mean, they can handle any sort of call, from a robbery to a homicide, without skipping a beat.   We’ve seen a 911 dispatcher fight a fire at his own house, but there’s never been anything quite as amazing as the story of Chris Scott.  This […]

A group of Czech doctors in the town of Ivancice are left with egg on their faces.  Not because of something they did, but more something they didn’t do.  After performing surgery on 66-year-old Zdenka Kopeckova, the doctors closed her up and sent her on her way having left a foot-long spatula-like object inside her […]

You know, when I was a kid, we were lucky when we had a school bus that had the radio on board.  If you wanted to listen to music or play games or keep yourself entertained, you had to provide all that stuff yourself.  However, if an experiment in Vail, Arizona (a suburb of Tuscon) […]