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Recently, a sub-sea research company encountered a stowaway.  A creepy, many-legged, horrifying stowaway.  On board their remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, was the little fellow you see above, a giant isopod known as the Bathynomus giganteus.  The 2.5-foot-long critter is believed to have attached himself to the sub at about 8,500 feet.  It’s basically a […]

In what is widely considered a huge victory for common sense versus corporate greed, Judge Robert Sweet of New York City’s federal court district has struck down a pair of patents by Myriad Genetics.  Here’s the kicker:  the patents were for the breast cancer genes.  BRCA1 and BRCA2, the two genes that serve as markers […]

In life, User was the vizier to Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt’s longest-reigning queen.  He was a man with great power and great responsibility, a trusted adviser to the Pharaoh herself.  That earned him a place of honor in death, including burial in an ornate tomb located near Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt’s famous valley of monuments.  […]

I can’t tell you how many times this has happened to me:  I get in a fight with my old lady over the last vial of crack rock, things get out of hand, and I end up shooting at her 15 times.  Birmingham, Alabama’s Stephen Gafford can feel that pain, because that’s what authorities say […]

Two little kids from Epworth, Great Britain, have been blessed with what is the coolest middle name ever.  You know the old expression, “Danger is my middle name,” that spies and action heroes use?  Well, Danger is their middle name, for real.  Billie Danger Lampard and Ridley Danger Lampard were born 6 weeks early at […]

There’ve been Christmas robbers and other unusual disguises, but by far the most common mask for lawbreakers to don these days is Spider-Man.  Moreso than any other superhero, Spider-Man is the go-to mask for all manner of criminal, both the armed and dangerous type and the confused, nervous, not-really-a-bad-kid type.  One happened just yesterday in […]

China is the world center for malicious computer use.  Computer security experts have exposed  China as the base of operations for 30% of the world’s malicious email, making China a haven for hackers, crackers, spy ware nuts, and general bad apples.  However, within China, there is the city called the cybercrime capital of the world, […]

It’s not every day you create a car that eventually becomes its own cult, but that’s what Ford has done with its iconic Mustang.  They’ve even named giant sheep after the Mustang!  It’s so beloved that it spawned one of the oldest enthusiast groups in the United States, the Mustang Club of America.  Founded in […]

Ricky Martin, the singer who rocketed to fame as part of the Latin Explosion in the late 90’s, has finally admitted to the world what we’ve all basically known all along.  As it turns out, he’s gay.  Now he’s basically admitted this via not denying this a couple of times, moreso back when he was […]

One of the big arguments about the survival/government bailouts of the auto industry is what the workers make.  I don’t mean their hourly wages (which are high enough as it is), but their true compensation levels.  The figure, much debated, for the average auto worker was $40 an hour.  That seems like a lot, until […]

When you’re as tall and gawky as a giraffe, it’s easy for playing around to get out of hand.  That’s what authorities say happened over the weekend when Griffy, a 20-year-old giraffe at Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, Rhode Island, headbutted a trainer so hard she had to be taken to the hospital.  The […]

Screenwriter J.D. Shapiro, like most of the world, didn’t like the John Travolta-starred Battlefield Earth.  Of course, where Shapiro is different from everyone else is that he’s the guy who wrote the movie, at least from a technical standpoint.  He tells the story behind what is widely seen as the worst big-budget movie ever made […]

Once again, America’s loss is China’s gain.  Looking to pare off smaller divisions and raise some much-needed cash, Ford Motor Company has reached an agreement with a Chinese company, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, to sell off the Volvo brand for an estimated $1.8 billion.  The immediate benefit was felt by Geely Automobile Holdings, the automotive […]

After a night of drinking heavily enough to beat the breathalyzer, 55-year-oldDonald Wolfe just wanted to do some good.  When he saw a poor opossum just lying in the road, he thought to himself, “I know, I bet it’s just playing possum!  I’ll go revive it!”  Unfortunately for Donald, he was trying to revive roadkill, […]