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While walking through the streets of Naples with his girlfriend, 28-year-old Darco Sangermano was injured in a very weird, fluke fashion.  It was New Year’s Eve, and revelers were celebrating by firing guns into the air.  Well, given that what goes up must come down, those celebration bullets became potentially lethal hail.  Darco Sangermano was […]

The village of Reconvilier, Switzerland, is a pretty small place, but it’s pretty pet-friendly.  The town’s population is 2,245 humans and 280 dogs, but the dogs might be at risk due to the actions of their humans.  According to a 1904 law, if people do not pay a $50 dollar dog tax, the town may […]

The executive train at Microsoft is showing no signs of slowing down.  A few months after the departure of Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, yet another Microsoft executive is heading for the unemployment line.  The head of Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business, Bob Muglia, is stepping down.  Muglia had been involved in the company […]

The offensive fireworks everyone expected didn’t happen.  Instead the BCS title game between Auburn and Oregon was a grind-it-out slugfest, with neither side able to execute consistently against the other side’s defense.  Fittingly, it wasn’t the arm of Cameron Newton or the legs of Michael Dyer that won the game for the Auburn Tigers, it […]

There’s one thing that’s clear.  Despite Western squeamishness about stereotypes and whatnot, it’s clear:  Asian children are out-achieving American children, both in Asia and in the United States.  Asians work harder, are more gifted musically, and generally achieve out of proportion to their percentage in the US, and it’s all thanks to the parents.  Take […]

In June, Twitter announced a new feature for potential advertisers:  purchasing trending topics.  That means, when people use your hashtag, they see your advertisement or sponsored tweet at the top of the list, no matter what it might be.  Advertisers were slow to latch onto this, but one group has pounced and picked up a […]

It’s one of the only facilities of its kind in the United States.  When you die, you’ll get buried or cremated or shot into space, and it’s over.  But what about those left behind?  Not children, but pets.  Well, if you have the money, you can check Fido or Fluffy into the Stevenson Companion Animal […]

Just because people stop reporting on something doesn’t mean the problem itself stops.  The Somalian pirate attacks on oil tankers and cargo ships have stopped being newsworthy ages ago.  That said, they’re still happening.  Fortunately, British defense company BAE has a great idea to fight off pirates, from Somalia or elsewhere.  BAE has unveiled a […]

You’d think Somali would have bigger problems.  Really, Somalia does have bigger problems than codes of behavior, but try telling that to Islamic extremist group al-Shabab.  In al-Shabab-dominated Southern Somalia, militant Islamic forces control pretty much every aspect of life, aside from Somalia’s pirates.  In the town of Jowhar, Somalia, militants have banned handshakes between […]

It’s taken the better part of a year, and probably longer, but the rumors have finally been proven true.  Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest cellular phone service, will be adding the world’s most popular smartphone.  That’s right, boys and girls, you can officially drop your terrible AT&T service because the iPhone is coming to Verizon […]

Yesterday, Apple’s Mac App Store officially opened for users of OSX 10.6.6, AKA Snow Leopard.  Not 24 hours later, hackers have already found a way around the DRM at the heart of the Mac App Store.  Apparently, all you have to do to bypass Apple’s DRM is to copy three digital receipts from a free […]

Ryan Tharp, like most Oregon Ducks fans, is confident his team will win the 2011 BCS National Championship game versus the Auburn Tigers.  Tharp is so confident, he’s got a bet out, just waiting for someone to take him up on the offer.  Oregon Ducks fan Ryan Tharp wants to marry a female Auburn Tigers […]

Just when you think John Edwards couldn’t possibly be any more sleazy, then the rumors start.  His wife, who initiated the divorce process until her cancer got the best of her, is still warm in her grave yet the talk is of marriage.  John Edwards is believed to be engaged to Rielle Hunter, his former […]

Think twice before you crack open that morning egg if you live in Europe.  Across the EU, consumers are being warned against contaminated eggs after 4709 German farms were closed and egg production halted.  Officials from Germany’s agriculture ministry fear that up to 150,000 tons of animal feed have been contaminated by dioxin, a fatty acid […]