Saturday, August 2, 2008

Black Bear Mixes Things Up at U.S. Senior Open


Tom Watson heard somebody shout "Bear!" while he was in the middle of a backswing. Bernhard Langer stopped his pre-shot routine and waited until the bear got out of sight. Television golf analyst Dottie Pepper ran the other way on the 13th fairway.

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Collection of Cool Coca-Cola Ads [PICS]


Collection of creative Coca-Cola print advertising ideas.

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This is what $65,500,000 buys you near Dallas, Tx

In a related story, you can buy a small condo and a few bottles of water for the same amount of money in Beverly Hills.

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Greyhound Man Who Beheaded Passenger Has Been Charged

Vince Weiguang Li, the 40-year-old suspect in the gruesome stabbing and decapitation aboard a Greyhound bus in Manitoba, appeared in court Friday to face a second-degree murder charge. Shackled at the wrists and ankles, Li was led by police in and out of a courtroom on Friday morning.

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MangoFalls

MangoFalls is about old photos developed from film from old cameras found in antique stores and Sunday flea markets. A lot of these photos are about people, but it is not known who these people are.

Friday, August 1, 2008

Olympic Games: Have we reached a plateau in terms of speed?

The world-record pace for the marathon continues to improve for both men and women. For men, the record pace for the marathon is now about as fast as the record pace for the 10,000-meter run just after World War II. Today, champion athletes are running more than four times farther at speeds of well under five minutes per mile.

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Great Seinfeld Characters that were only in one episode

You might have only seen them once, but you should remember them forever

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Five People You Should Never Date

You should have known better. Or maybe you did; you just didn’t care. You’d heard the horror stories and the admonitions: “Don’t date a/your…” But some things are easier said than done, and forbidden fruit tastes so much sweeter. When I got into a relationship with a co-worker a few years ago, I knew it wasn’t the brightest idea I’d ever had. We w

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10 Notable Staircases


Staircases can be so much more than just a means of getting to the next floor. A staircase can be a work of art, a conversation piece, a place to meditate, or a historical marker.

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Sexual Attraction & Population Control Chemicals Found

Organisms ranging from humans to plants to the lowliest bacterium use molecules to communicate. Some chemicals trigger the various stages of an organism's development, and still others are used to attract members of the opposite sex. They have now been discovered

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50 Ways in Which NASA Changed Our World

Today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration marks its first half-century of exploration and discovery. But missions to the Moon and beyond are only part of the story. Without Nasa's scientists, life on Earth would be very different indeed.

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

10 of the Dumbest Business Decisions in History


We’ve all made mistakes … but probably not big mistakes like making snot beer, saying no to The Beatles, or turning down the patent for the telephone. In fact, here are some of the biggest business blunders in history:

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