I think my iPhone is a great invention, made even greater by the many software applications that you can download for it.  But as 95 percent of my cable channels demonstrate, even the greatest inventions can be put to utterly stupid uses. Some of the best-selling iPhone apps fall into that category...

"Its loss left me reeling and altered the course of my life forever," said Daniel Bennett about the 77 pounds of lizard dung somebody threw out while he was away from his lab. Bennett, a graduate student at Leeds University in England, is working on a Ph.D. and is studying the rare butaan lizard, a ...

I wrote last week about the prosecution of Andrew Thistleton in Summit County, Colorado, for assaulting a woman with a snowball.  Over the weekend I learned that the Summit County DA's office moved on Thursday to dismiss the case in the "best interest of justice," if Thistleton agreed...