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Three years ago, Cetin and BeverleyAkciecek replaced the outdoor fan of their business, Beverley’s Snack Shack in Shaw Heath, with a new fan of exactly the same size and power.  There were no complaints at the time.  However, now, the couple’s external fans have been ordered to be shut off by the Stockport council after […]

Yesterday was a pretty busy day for Netflix.  On one hand, the company’s stock price reached a record high, surging to $172.69 per share.  That’s good, as it makes the stock three times more valuable than it was last year.  However, yesterday is also a day in which Netflix’s streaming service suffered a catastrophic outage […]

Mel Gibson was supposed to get a career bump from his appearance in The Hangover 2.  His role, as a tattoo artist, was supposed to be as scene-stealing and revitalizing as the Mike Tyson cameo in The Hangover.  The key word in that sentence is was, as Mel Gibson has been fired from The Hangover […]

Alexander Corney Piggee had been having a rough couple of weeks, according to coworkers and friends.  He had a car wreck, was taking prescription painkillers, and his mother had kicked him out of the house, leaving him homeless.  That may have been what caused him to snap.  Shortly after 10 AM yesterday morning, he entered […]

With every generation, Apple moves more and more away from the old way of computing and into uncharted new territory.  Yes, the new MacBook Air is thinner, lighter, and cheaper than the old MacBook Air, and the battery life has improved, but the key difference between the MacBook Air and every other laptop in the […]

In the current model for the creation of life, the universe, and everything, it all started with a big bang, or rather, THE Big Bang.  Some 600 million years after that cosmic creation event, the galaxy identified as UDFy-38135539 formed.  That makes UDFy-38135539 the oldest galaxy in the universe, at least when it comes to […]

Without a doubt, it’s the world’s most expensive domain name.  Not that anyone has ever used it for anything, but like a lot of short, snappy domain names, it’s incredible valuable.  It’s sex.com, bought by the now-bankrupt firm Escom LLC in 2006 for $12-$14 million dollars.  Four years later, Escom is bankrupt and had to […]

The Internet is home to some pretty strange opinions.  Among these are that the innocent, innocuous typeface Comic Sans (or Comic Sans MS) is the world’s most evil, hated, and stupid typeface.  In fact, there is even an entire website dedicated to banning Comic Sans called Ban Comic Sans, run by fontheads Holly and David […]

Google has changed its Doodle again today.  As usual, they’re honoring someone awesome with a Doodle I don’t remember seeing this time last year.  Google has changed their website logo to honor the jazz musician great John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie on what would be his 93rd birthday, if he was alive.  Here are 10 fun […]

Starbucks is nothing if not innovative.  They’re the first company to bring $5 coffee to the masses.  They were on the forefront of the wifi and high-speed internet front (and finally started to give wifi away for free after selling it for a little too long).  They even have their own coffee language!  Now they’re […]

What do you do with a repeat offender?  In the case of a human criminal, they tend to lock you up and throw away the key.  When it comes to animals, sometimes they get a kill-on-sight order.  However, the case isn’t quite as clear-cut for Sueko the Chimpanzee.  Sueko, the 300-pound pet chimp of Mark […]

If you’re like me, then you probably like potatoes.  I probably eat something potato-based 3-4 times a week.  They’re really healthy for you, if you prepare them the right way, but they tend to get a bad rap for being unhealthy.  Chris Voigt of the Washington State Potato Commission is looking to change public perception […]

On the 25th anniversary of the NBA’s banning of the Air Jordan shoe (due to its colorful nature), the company has also banned another shoe company’s line of products.  However, these shoes weren’t banned due to color, they were banned due to their technological superiority.  For the first time in 64 years, the NBA has […]

Gay teens are four times more likely to commit suicide than heterosexual ones.  Given the recent outbreak of harassment and suicide among gay and lesbian teenagers, that makes today a big deal.  Today is Purple Day, a day in which people are encouraged to wear purple to show their support for gays and lesbians. There […]