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When Google gets into a business, they get into it all the way.  Google, after teasing the bookstore industry by digitizing entire libraries of classic books, has decided to get into the book game for themselves.  Google has launched Google eBookstore, an ebook sales depot which will sell ebooks for pretty much every type of […]

In 2004, everyone thought Elizabeth Edwards, wife of vice presidential candidate John Edwards, was in the process of beating breast cancer.  Unfortunately, that was not the case.  In 2007 she announced that the cancer had spread to her bones.  Now, the cancer has apparently spread to her liver.  Doctors have advised Elizabeth Edwards to end […]

In the never-ending battle to keep eyeballs on Facebook and sell more ads to more advertisers, Facebook has undergone yet another face lift.  We’re not talking a Ben Roethlisberger-style face lift, either.  The new Facebook profile has been redesigned to place more emphasis on photos, both yours and those you are tagged in, and the […]

Is he crazy, or is he holding out for more money?  A few days after Groupon’s biggest competitor, LivingSocial, got $175 million in funding from Amazon, the word is out.  Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason is rejecting Google’s $6 billion dollar buyout offer.  Instead, Mason and company are rejecting Google’s huge offer and are […]

What was originally supposed to be a brief maintenance period has stretched on, and on, and on, as popular blogging service Tumblr has been offline all night.  It’s actually been offline since about 6 PM yesterday.  The culprit is some routine maintenance gone horribly wrong, according to Tumblr, which forced them to take a critical […]

If you thought TSA screenings were invasive when they just fondled you or looked at you naked, imagine just how much worse they could get.  Apparently, Al Quaeda-affiliated physicians are looking for a way to create a possible “Frankenbomber,” or a terrorist operative who has a bomb surgically implanted inside his or her human body.  […]

A 14-year-old boy named Edgar, AKA El Ponchis or The Cloak, has been arrested by Mexican authorities while at the airport with his sister, trying to get on a flight to Tijuana so he could cross the border into the United States.  What’s the unusual thing about a teenager getting arrested?  El Ponchis is accused […]

The recent string of shark attacks at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt were believed to be over.  Two sharks were caught, and authorities said the hunt was over, the attacks would stop, and that the killer sharks were caught.  They reopened the beaches and ushered the tourists back into the waves.  […]

Google has taken a lot of flack for its Google Street View service, a street-level offshoot of Google Maps that allows people to navigate down streets despite not being anywhere near those streets.  Opponents say it’s an invasion of privacy to capture images in such a manner.  Google went to court with Aaron and Christine […]

Iowa prisons use a staggering 900,000 rolls of toilet paper per year.  Even at bulk prices for dirt-cheap single-ply paper, the state of Iowa spends an incredible amount per year on toilet paper.  As it turns out, if Iowa turned the manufacture and processing of toilet paper over to an inmate-run toilet-paper factory, the state […]

WikiLeaks has been under attack lately, and I’m not just talking about attempts to arrest founder Julian Assange or losing its hosting account with Amazon.  The former WikiLeaks URL, wikileaks.org, has been taken down by domain name provider EveryDNS.net after a series of direct denial of service (DDOS) attacks on the WikiLeaks server by hacktivists.  […]

When Jesus comes back on May 21, 2011, where’s he going to go first?  Well, there’s an amusement park he might be interested in, because it’s based off of his life and times!  A cooperative effort between Ark Encounters LLC and Answers in Genesis, the group behind the Creation Museum, have come up with $150 […]

In a controversial industry, it’s one of the most controversial practices undertaken by miners.  Dubbed “fracking” or “frac’ing,” it’s a natural gas mining technique called hydraulic fracturing, in which high-powered streams of sand, chemicals, and water are shot into shale formations thousands of feet below the surface of the earth.  This stream breaks up the […]

The beautiful beaches of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, are a tourist haven.  When the weather in Europe turns frightful, the tourists flock to this little haven on the Red Sea for sun, sand, and surf.  It’s the last aspect, surf, where the vacations of four Europeans turned into a disaster.  Sharm el-Sheikh has been the epicenter […]