Dumbest News Headline of the Day

And the award for the dumbest news headline of the day goes to theregister.co.uk for this beauty…

Facebook Forms Board to Lick Molesters

I’m not an expert, but licking molesters doesn’t seem like a very good way to get rid of them.

World’s Smallest Library Fits Into a Phone Booth…Literally

Phone booth libraries are the next big…okay, the next little, tiny thing.  After the bookmobile program shut down in a small English town, the residents set up a community-run, 24/7, book-swapping library in a defunct phone booth.
Read more and see photos at inhabitat.com.

Facebook Catches 3 Criminals from Around the World

People often criticize social media and the web in general, but here is proof that the internet, and specifically Facebook, is making the world a better place…
1. Thief Caught Leaving Facebook Open: Some idiot in Pennsylvania logs into Facebook while in the middle of a robbery and forgets to log out.  (Which leaves me wondering–why not [...]

Devil Worshipers Did Not Take Over Twitter – Relax

Big controversy today when fans of the CW network television show, Supernatural, started talking about it on Twitter with the tag #luciferiscoming.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with the show, on the last episode of the previous season, one of the good guys accidentally opened a gate to hell that would allow Lucifer [...]

Cuddle Party – Would You Pay for It?

The hot new trend:  cuddle parties.  What’s that?  An article by Libby Copeland in the Seattle Times titled Strangers Attend Cuddle Parties describes it as so:

Thirteen people arrive, mostly in twos and fours, at 1 p.m. They change into pajamas and put on name tags. World music and jazz soften the mood. Mihalko asks them [...]

Twitter Addicts – Why Your Brain is Forcing You to Tweet

I once heard a news story about some sports star who was caught doing crack cocaine.  He told reporters he became addicted the very first time he did the drug.  I remember thinking, “Wow!  That’s powerful stuff.”
And now that same thing has happened to me. Except not with crack cocaine, but with something much more [...]

Will the Marriage Last? Calculate Your Odds with Latest Scientific Data

Did you know that these factors may impact whether or not your marriage will last:

smoking
in-laws
husband’s employment status

But these factors won’t:

number of kids born within the marriage
wife’s employment status

At least that’s what the data says according to a sceintific study conducted by the Australian National University.  For more information, read this article from Reuters on Yahoo News:  In love? [...]

Goodbye Jay, Hello Conan

As you probably know by now, Jay Leno is leaving The Tonight Show, and Conan will be taking over as host.  I love Conan, so this makes me very happy.  Jay Leno fans also have something to be happy about–now they won’t have to stay up so late to see him as he’ll be starting a [...]

Twins Have Different Dads (I Thought Only Dogs Could Do That)

Here’s something I’ve known for awhile:  puppies in the same litter can be fathered by different dogs.  Here’s something I just found out:  humans can have twins fathered by different fathers!!  At least that’s what a recent NY Daily News article is reporting.
Apparently, Mia Washington didn’t know that either until she found out the hard way when her infidelity [...]

Bumper Stickers, Road Rage, and Cheesy Advertising

Did you know that the more bumper stickers a person has on their car, the more prone they are to road rage?  Those were the findings of a recent Colorado State University study, according to an article regarding bumper stickers on nwautos.com.
The article also traces the origin of bumper stickers back to an advertising campaign in Kansas City [...]