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The marketing machine that is Justin Bieber cannot… nay, he WILL not be stopped.  The closest thing the music industry has to a savior at the moment, the teen pop star Bieber has been on television, is all over the radio, has been making concert appearances nationwide, and shows no signs of slowing down.  First, […]

The response was instantaneous and overwhelmingly negative.  When clothing store chain The Gap redesigned their iconic logo, everyone pretty much hated it and were not shy about expressing criticism online.  After a week-long beating via social networking websites, lots of viral parodies, and general humiliation, The Gap is announcing a mea culpa and are going […]

In 1990, a woman and her husband underwent in vitro fertilization.  It worked, and they gave birth to a healthy child.  Having had their baby, the heterosexual couple donated their leftover fertilized eggs to anyone who might need them.  About 20 years later, a 42-year-old woman gives birth to a healthy baby from those eggs […]

The old saying goes, “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.”  Surely, the same thing can be said about a half-skinned, presumed-dead cow as well.  A 28-year-old skinner working in a slaughterhouse in Seekirchen, Salzburg in Germany thought he had killed a cow after the jolt of electricity scrambled its brain.  Unfortunately for him, that […]

There have been some strange births taking place under unusual circumstances.  For whatever reason, people love an interesting birth date and time.  For example, there was the baby born on 08/09/10 at 11:12.  Joining that baby in the unusual birthday hall of fame are two children, born worlds apart.  Two children, in New York City […]

Juan J. Rodriguez knew what he had to do.  The unemployed man from Staten Island, New York, heard about a $1 million dollar prize for a particular prank, sponsored by British millionaire Alki David.  All you had to do to win the money was attend a Presidential rally, strip down completely within eyesight of the […]

Never pick a fight with a guy carrying a gun.  That’s generally good advice.  However, when the person you’re fighting with is carrying the official sidearm of Dirty Harry, a .44 caliber pistol loaded with Magnum rounds, you’re extra-advised not to mess with him.  William Michael Paine Jr. was on the way to his girlfriend’s […]

To a lot of people, Windows Phone 7 is the make-or-break release for Windows Mobile in the smart phone market.  Either this allows them to continue to be a player in the industry, or they go the way of Palm and become a niche market or worse.  The first Windows 7 smartphone has been announced […]

It’s pretty unusual for good guys to be wearing costumes, but it’s less unusual for bad guys to wear costumes in real life.  Usually, when a criminal’s looking for someone to rob, they’re also looking for a way to conceal their face from detection.  Disguises come in all shapes and sizes, but there’s no disguise […]

All their lives, Mark and Scott Kelly have been together.  After all, the two men grew up together as twin brothers in West Orange, New Jersey, so they’ve seen a lot of one another over the years.  Even when they seemed to take divergent paths, they ended up back together.  The twins are both Captains […]

The Toyota Prius merged onto crowded Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles, drives the speed limit, then exits a few miles later.  Afterwards, the car drives through the traffic-clogged streets of Mountain View, California, before coming to rest in the parking lot of Google’s headquarters.  It’s not a commuter; it’s a test subject.  […]

It’s a momentous occasion for British billionaire visionary Richard Branson.  One of his nuttier ventures, commercial space flight, is getting that much closer to completion.  Yesterday, the Virgin Galactic commercial spacecraft SpaceShipTwo underwent a successful first solo glide from 45,000 feet back down to the surface of the Earth.  It’s the latest in a long […]

Danny Lampley had a simple choice to make.  He could either say the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag, or he could go to jail.  Knowing that, by law, he is not required to say the pledge no matter what a judge might say, he chose to go to jail.  Lampley spent five hours […]

The old saying about man biting dog is true.  Roderick Lewis, upon seeing West Haven, Connecticut, police officer Scott Bloom on Elm Street, greeted the officer with a shout of, “I need a bag of dust,” meaning angel dust or PCP.  As we all know, cops don’t usually carry around drugs.  When Officer Bloom went […]

It’s one of those fantasies every kid has.  You see someone combing the beach with a metal detector and you think, “Man, that would be sweet.  Get me a metal detector, find me a big treasure chest full of gold and jewels, and live the sweet life!”  Most people only find junk like discarded underwire from bras […]