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When it comes to the behavior of television hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, you can never quite tell when they’re being serious and when they’re just being funny.  After all, their shows are a combination of satire and actual news reporting, so the blend is sometimes a little tough to make sense of.  However, […]

Bank robbers, car thieves, muggers, pimps, and thugs.  What do they have in common with Babe Ruth, Derek Jeter, Joe DiMaggio, Mariano Rivera, and Joe Torre?  Well, they’ve all been spotted wearing the logo of the World Series champion New York Yankees.  They’re the most popular team in baseball in general, and the most popular baseball […]

Some dogs have big ears or big tails.  Some dogs are just plain big.  Some dogs are just plain fat.  Puggy, a 10-year-old Pekingese, is just plain tongue.  Puggy is in the Guinness World Records book as the dog with the world’s largest tongue.  Pekingese are small dogs, so it’s not hyperbole when experts say […]

There’s no doubt that Microsoft’s first big video game hit wasn’t Flight Simulator, but Halo.  When the Xbox debuted in 2005, the thing that moved the system from shelves into homes was the brilliant first-person shooter Halo, developed by Bungie Software.  Now, Bungie is leaving the Halo business, but not before setting first-day sales records.  […]

It’s a battle of prayers versus pancakes.  On one end, the International House of Pancakes.  On the other end, the Kansas City, Missouri, charitable organization International House of Prayer.  One has been going by IHOP for nearly 30 years; the other wants to go by IHOP.  The two IHOPs, Pancakes and Prayer, are heading to […]

Flu season is here.  Yes, I know it seems like we just declared flu season over, but flu season is pretty much year-round.  Only the kind of flu changes from swine to normal to something entirely new.  Still, there’s something to be said for knowing your risk of flu and adapting accordingly by getting a […]

Jennifer Gille just wanted to go home.  Unfortunately for her, home is St. Clair Shores, Michigan, and she caught a taxi in Covington, Louisiana.  That’s kind of a long drive for any cabbie to reasonably make, so he told the woman no, took her to her original non-Michigan destination, and told her to get out. […]

It’s like the new saying goes:  you can’t be fired over stale bread.  Yes, it’s partly a take off the “no use crying over spilled milk” saying, but it’s also a reality.  A labor court in Leipzig, Germany, ruled that a German supermarket can’t fire a cashier for taking stale bread meant for the dumpster.  […]

Jeopardy is something of an institution.  The show has been on the air what seems like forever, and no doubt host Alex Trebek has seen it all more than once.  However, what he’s never seen is a contestant quite like Roger Craig, a 33-year-old graduate student at the University of Delaware.  Roger Craig won $77,000, […]

Sometimes, schools ban certain devices or services because they want to shield themselves from a lawsuit over what students download or because they need to preserve their computer network for work-related functions rather than play.  However, neither of these are the reason behind Harrisburg University of Science and Technology’s unusual social media/networking blackout week.  Harrisburg […]

The old axiom says you can tell a lot about a man by his handshake.  After all, it’s been a traditional greeting, a sign of a sealed business deal, and the measure of someone’s character at various points since it came into being.  Now, researchers say, a firm handshake might be a sign of a […]

High fructose corn syrup is in pretty much everything we eat, drink, or shop for.  Americans consume, on average, 35 pounds of the processed corn sweetener every year (ten years ago, we were eating 45 pounds of the stuff).  However, that doesn’t mean we like it.  Increasingly, people are avoiding products with corn syrup in them in […]