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Let’s face it.  The United States Postal Service as we know it is soon to be a thing of the past.  Despite holiday cards and Netflix subscriptions, the mail is just another service that is struggling to adapt to changing times.  When you can create a wedding video or send out emails, why would you […]

Watching a 3-D movie is so passe, isn’t it?  Viewing movies in IMAX 3-D is just so… 2009.  I need new thrills, because I’m bored and jaded by everything.  Enter the world’s first permanent 4-D movie theater.  Seoul Theater, in Seoul, South Korea, has teamed with an unnamed US animation studio and Wonderworld Studios to […]

If you’re looking for some good fishing, normally you’d avoid Lajamanu, Australia, like the plague.  After all, the town is 326 miles away from the nearest river and located in the desert, so it’s not the sort of place where fish just fall out of the sky.  Except for when fish falls from the sky.  […]

Some people just have the worst luck.  While out partying at a disco in Berlin, a 26-year-old German man needed a little pick-me-up, so he turned to every partier’s best friend:  powdered amphetamines.  He found a suitable car, chopped out a line, and was about to do his drugs when suddenly cops swooped in and […]

While Topeka, Kansas, mayor Bill Bunten is far from a member of the dotcom generation at age 79–he has an email address, but depends on staff to use the Internet for him–one thing he does know is the value of some good public relations.  When it comes to luring new investors into your town, you […]

In a real-world version of the chaos and carnage of a Dethklok show, a paralyzed fan at an AC/DC concert found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.  The quadriplegic, a 31-year-old former truck driver, uses a pin to move things around.  During a crush at the concert, his friend’s hand accidentally hit […]

There’s the rare discovery, then there’s a spectacularly rare discovery.  Recently, paleontologists have unearthed a triple whammy of sorts.  Not only did they find a rare prehistoric snake killed and preserved in mid-dinner, they also uncovered a very rare sauropod nest as well as an example of a non-dinosaur preying on a dinosaur.  The nest […]

Harvard researcher David Edwards normally works on medical inhalers, designing them to deliver medicine in breathable, particle form.  However, one day while looking to cut loose with his fellow researchers, he had a great idea.  Why not make other stuff breathable, too?  The result is Le Whif, an inhaled chocolate treat that has become a […]

If you’ve ever wondered what cartoon characters would look like if they were real people, then wonder no longer.  Now, as for the result?  Well… most of them look like nightmare fuel.  Handsome folks like the Buzz Lightyear up there, created by graphic artist Raoni Neary, are few and far between.  Most of the ones […]

In times of need, everyone does their best to pitch in and help out.  Starting with the Haiti earthquake and now with the latest disaster in Chile, Google has stepped in to help in two ways.  When you’re the Internet’s biggest search engine and advertising company, how can you help?  Well, via search and advertising.  […]

There was a lot more than national pride and Olympic gold on the line last night during the gold medal game between the men’s hockey teams of Canada and United States.  There was also the now-standard bet between politicians.  At stake was a case of beer.  If the US won, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper […]

Well, with the beginning of California’s no-cursing week comes the close of another weird week-long event.  Nepal’s 10-day cursing festival ended on Sunday with a big bonfire and lots of smiles and happiness all around.  The festival has been taking place for as long as anyone can remember, with the young men of neighboring villages […]

Snow makes people crazy.  In a life or death situation, you’d hope the paramedics would be willing to endanger themselves to save others, but I guess that’s not the case, as officials in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, left a man’s calls to 911 go unanswered for over 30 hours.  When Curtis Mitchell started having intense abdominal pain, […]

A woman in Quetta, Pakistan, is celebrating the birth of a healthy baby girl this morning, but the circumstances of the baby’s birth are quite remarkable.  Birth is always a remarkable thing, but when you’re giving birth in an auto rickshaw stuck in a traffic jam thanks to a passing presidential motorcade, well… that’s pretty […]

Mark Burstiner was a part-time, non-exempt employee at Apple’s flagship Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York City.  When someone dropped a Snapple bottle and cracked one of the flagship’s big glass stairs (they have a big glass spiral staircase), within a week men from Seele, the contractors who put the stairs in, were there […]