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Apple has sold millions of iPads, and with the upcoming launch of the iPad 2, expect them to sell even more tablet computers to the world.  While lots of competitors have jumped into the tablet computer world, nobody’s able to match Apple on one particular metric:  price.  That’s right, after years of over-charging customers for underpowered computers, […]

The 3D concert extravaganza Justin Bieber: Never Say Never has turned out to be a great idea for Team Bieber.  Given the Canadian-born pop star’s massive appeal and huge variety of promotional goodies bearing his image, it was only natural to hop onto the movie train.  Given Bieber’s incredible backstory (rising from YouTube sensation to […]

The shaking ground in Christchurch, New Zealand, sent the city’s population of 350,000 scurrying for safety on Tuesday morning as buildings collapsed and the ground buckled.  Christchurch’s historic cathedral toppled to the ground.  Buildings crumbled.  The Christchurch earthquake has left an estimated 65 people are believed to be dead, and hundreds more are trapped in […]

Somehow, it’s become an annual pop-the-bacon-flavored-popcorn and settle-on-the-couch television event. The Westminster Kennel Club’s Dog Show is now must-see TV. It’s the perfect combination. Americans love their pets and their television. Thanks to the Westminster’s popularity the world has been given the gift that is the wonderful movie “Best in Show” and an introduction to […]

Marketing a product is a tricky thing. You want to make it appealing, but you also have to have a hook that suckers consumers into buying your product. Thus back in the 1970s, Avon put out a perfume in a lapel pin container shaped like a skunk. Go figure their reasoning behind it, but they […]

In the past, resilient author J.S. Chancellor and her publisher, Rhemalda, have been able to turn something bad into something good.  When her book Son of Erebus showed up in pirated copies online, rather than pursue with legal action, they decided to have readers post reviews to their blogs, Facebook, or Goodreads.  This worked like […]

A common phrase in movies and television shows is to threaten to use someone’s skull as a drinking glass.  Apparently, this was more than just an idle threat in Ice Age Britain.  A team of palentologists led by Silvia Bello of the Natural History Museum in London have uncovered a 14,700-year-old skull that served as […]

If you told me this, I wouldn’t believe it.  Fortunately, lucky angler Kenny Williams has his catch verified by officials.  Apparently, the lucky Williams bagged a record-sized alligator gar, or Atractosteus spatula, while fishing in Issaquena County, near Jackson, Mississippi.  A 327-pound alligator gar was caught in Mississippi’s Chotard Lake by fisherman Kenny Williams on […]

Lasers are the future of pretty much everything, from heating up food to war, but there’s one problem with focused beams of light.  Once they cut through something, they keep on going until they run out of steam or reach something they can’t damage.  Professor Douglas Stone and a team from Yale University have developed […]

When it comes to chronic fatigue syndrome, there’s no one definitive statement on the disease, or even agreement if it is a disease.  According to a study published in The Lancet on Thursday, a combination of gradually-increasing exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy has shown success in treating chronic fatigue syndrome.  This is a feather in […]

Joel Northrup refused to wrestle Cassy Herkelman of Cedar Falls, Iowa, because of his religious beliefs.  The son of a minister, Joel Northrup believes that taking on a girl in a violent sport like wrestling is against his religion and decided to take the forfeit loss rather than compromise his beliefs in an attempt at […]

Well, in the end, it wasn’t even close.  Watson’s tenuous performance in the first round of Jeopardy was merely a little rope-a-dope, suckering in the marks before lowering the boom.  Watson’s gaudy second round of Jeopardy only set the stage for the third game, which Watson dominated.  Among meat contestants, Ken Jennings’ two-day total bested […]

Inventor of the Ponzi scheme Charles Ponzi would have been proud of Monroe Beachy.  Armed with classes from H&R Block and a tenth-grade education, 77-year-old Monroe Beachy quietly built up a $33-million-dollar financial empire by taking investments from his fellow Amish, but unfortunately for Beachy his investing skills are not nearly as good as his carpentry and […]

Remember back in ye olden days when people read those things made of paper. Oh, what were they called. Umm, yeah. Now I remember – books. With the advances of e-books and the accompanying Kindles and e-readers available at seemingly every store now, books have sort of lost their luster. They’re bulky to hold. They […]