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Well, it’s over.  After years of speculation, the brilliant rock-and-roll band The White Stripes are calling it quits.  The White Stripes duo, Jack and Meg White, are breaking up as a band (many years after breaking up as a couple).  There’s no artistic difference or animosity between the two, and they’re both in fine health […]

While NASA continues to search for more rocky planets outside of the solar system, they’re also still searching for Earth-like planets here in our own backyard.  For example, Cygnus is one of our closest neighbors, from a galactic sense, and NASA has deployed the Kepler Space Telescope to study the Milky Way galaxy.  As it […]

When a suspicious package was discovered by a Bank of American branch at the Shoppes at Quail Roost in Miami, Florida, the first step was to evacuate the area.  The next step was to call in the bomb squad.  The Dade County police attempted to detonate the box with a robot, but nothing happened.  Bomb squad members […]

Your birth certificate is one of the most important documents you have.  It’s your first document, and it’s the document that basically allows you to exist as a human being.  Whatever you do, you need a birth certificate to prove you’re real.  Unfortunately for Iain Macmillan, he’s real but his birth certificate isn’t exactly accurate. […]

A woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, headed to the counter of her local US Postal Service location with a sealed Priority Mail shipping box.  The box was headed to Atlanta, Georgia.  The package was put on the counter, and the woman in question left the store.  Then, the box mysteriously threw itself off the counter.  Curious […]

Sometime within the next few hours, Cyclone Yasi will hit the northeastern coast of Australia, somewhere in Queensland.  This storm has developed, slowly but surely, and is now a category 5 storm.  Category 5 storms are the most dangerous, and most vicious storms on the sea, the Pacific Ocean version of a category 5 hurricane […]

It’s hard for a start-up search engine to get traction.  When Microsoft started developing Bing, the nascent search engine has been working hard to gather up information, improve its search results, and build a better search engine.  However, did Bing do this fairly?  According to Search Engine Land, Microsoft Bing has been copying Google search […]

When it comes to rural library services, usually the books have to come to you via, say, a bookmobile or, in very remote locations, biblioburro.  However, in Polk County, Florida, residents can drive to the books.  At Polk Outpost 27 Tourism Center, people with a valid library card can check out DVDs and books from […]

China is an emerging superpower, there’s no doubt about that.  However, when it comes to the supposed achievements of the Chinese military and their new air superiority, I’m a bit of a doubter, and I’ve got good reason to be this way.  During a recent report on live-fire exercises conducted by the People’s Liberation Army’s […]

One of the more interesting things about soccer is the idea of the transfer fee.  Basically, one soccer organization pays another one for the rights of a player, then has to pay that player to play for them.  It’s a bit more complicated than signing a free agent player or even trading a player, and […]