A collection of everyday items made outrageously expensive. Hopefully these items are strictly for marketing/PR purposes as it would be a shame to waste this kind of money on such crap. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to have a million dollars you probably only thought about the cars...

[YouTube - Link] A team of Bolivian bowlers has stormed the bowling world with their unusual two-handed technique, winning medals and championships in Argentina and Brazil.  Originally invented by Australian bowler Jason Belmonte, the two-handed bowling technique is relatively simple to perform...

Is this exploitation or genuine concern?  37 year old homeless man Tim Edwards has roamed the streets of Houston for the past five years. Sean Dolan and his father Kevin saw an opportunity, and ‘hired’ Tim to be a part of their new website Pimp This Bum, soliciting donations for him...

OK, so some of your friends (or maybe you) have flunked a grade at some point or took a little longer than you planned with college but … 44 years? Vegetable stand or no, it is hard to imagine being so busy with work that you simply cannot study enough to pass secondary school exams. But one m...

Sleep researchers at the University of Toledo, Ohio, reported the first case of someone using the Internet while asleep.  A 44-year-old woman had gone to bed about 10 p.m., then got up a few hours later, logged on to her computer with her username and password, and composed three e-mails to fri...

As a kid I remember watching Dick Tracy and being awed by his ultra cool wrist-watch phone. I wanted one. I still want one. Thanks to the folks at LG, now we can all have one. LG’s G910 Touch Watch phone, available later this year, is a mere 13.9mm thick and features a full touch-screen interf...

That’s right, delicious and nutritious beavers are returning to the Detroit River after being gone for decades. This is an encouraging sign that efforts to clean up the waterways are working. See, it’s not all almost-free homes and urban blight. (I made up the stuff about beavers being d...

A palindrome is a word or a phrase which is the same when read from the start or the end, for example the word wow or racecar. Or how about the phrase; A Toyota’s a Toyota. where ever you start they are the same. You would imagine a palindrome is pretty hard to think up, maybe the odd word cou...

[YouTube - Link] The Oregon Zoo posted this irresistibly sweet video clip of a 5-month old baby Asian elephant named Samudra playing with a ball. I dare you to resist giggling at how cute this is! - via nonminus From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by auswill2k9....

The winter of 1709 was the coldest in 500 years.  All across Europe, from Scandinavia to northern Italy, and to the western coast of France, livestock died in their barns, fish froze in the rivers, millions of birds died, wild animals froze in the forests, the soil froze to the depth of 3 feet ...