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In a move that will definitely interfere with her dating life in a few years, 11-year-old Trinette Robinson of Bristol, Connecticut, has taken home the top prize in this year’s National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest.  Held annually in Montpelier, Vermont, the contest is sponsored by Odor-Eaters, a company that makes insoles and other products designed […]

When it comes to coordinating movement, there is no tool more useful than GPS.  Global positioning system technology has been a benefit to both the commanding officers of the military, stranded commuters, and manufacturers of cell-phone games.  However, there are some problems with those units.  For commuters and city users, GPS signals often have a […]

You’d think that, after having lost his job with a nonprofit firm, that Reed Sandridge would want to save money.  Instead of saving, he’s paying it forward.  Every day, he’s giving a random person on the street $10 and asking them what they’re going to do with it.  Then, he heads home and writes up […]

With the recent eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland, climatologists and geologists are getting worried.  You see, whenever Eyjafjallajokull erupts (it had been dormant for 500 years), fellow volcano Katla follows.  Katla, located under a giant sheet of ice called the Myrdalsjokull icecap, would cause problems on a global scale should it erupt.  Iceland’s […]

Things went from bad to worse for Joseph Nicalaskey and Cesar Alvarez-Jennings.  Not only did the two 19-year-olds (and their two female accomplices) fail to get the money from a pizza delivery person they robbed outside an Anchorage, Alaska home, they also got their charges increased substantially.  After stealing the pizza, but not the money, […]

Seattle is one of the most plugged-in cities in America.  Given their high concentration of coffee shops, that means they have a lot of wireless internet beams flying around, encouraging random strangers to just walk up and use them.  That’s one of the reasons why Seattle tops the Norton Antivirus list of the top 10 […]

Call it a grand reopening under extremely new management.  After nearly 2000 years, the thermopolium, or ancient Roman snack bar, in one of the best-preserved buildings in Pompeii will be reopened to the public and serving snacks again! Someone turn on the Hot Doughnuts Now sign, because the Mt. Vesuvius Snack Bar and Grill is […]

Google, the world’s most popular search engine and a billion-dollar company unto itself, has been engaged in war for the past two months.  No, they’re not fighting Facebook or Viacom or Apple… well, actually, they are fighting all those industries too, but they’re also engaged in a high-stakes war with the world’s most restrictive country, […]

There are a lot of unusual record holders, but the world’s fattest woman‘s got nothing on Pando.  Pando, also called The Quaking Giant, is quite possibly both the largest and the oldest living organism in the world. It’s a copse of Quaking Aspen trees located in Fish Lake, Utah’s Fishlake National Park.  No, I don’t […]

For the past 20 years or so, there’s been a very unusual ritual in Maryland to welcome the spring.  Given that a groundhog plays a significant part in the average American’s perception of spring, and we routinely hang out with giant monster bunnies with evil faces, the fact that this event can be safely described […]

An unnamed 17-year-old robber broke into Bella Office Furniture in Kennewick, Washington, but apparently was in no hurry to get out of the store with some stolen loot.  He eventually took off with a cell phone, but before then he spent about five hours hanging out in the store.  What was he doing in the […]

Lots of things are described as “fit for a queen,” but if you want a car that was specially fitted for The Queen, as in Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, you’re going to have to pay up.  The car was purchased from Jaguar by specialty memorabilia dealer Peter Radcliffe for 65,000 British pounds, or […]

For years, neighbors in the Foothills Community neighborhood have had problems with how Catharine and Robert Pierce live.  The pair are routinely seen outside of their home wearing only thong underwear, but when Catharine did a little topless gardening, that’s when the law finally got involved.  After multiple complaints to condo organization Boulder Housing Partners, […]

The world of copyright lawsuits is a messy and often stupid one.  One company sues another company over a copyright of something that may or may not be valid.  In the case of Google’s YouTube versus Viacom, the company itself might be at fault.  Viacom says YouTube is “a rogue enabler of content theft.”  However, […]

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