This is scary.  Here are the top 10 most inspirational celebrities of 2005 in a poll of teenage girls.

Here is the Mercury News annual look into a crystal ball for technology trends in 2006. Never mind that the smartest people in tech wouldn’t dare make serious predictions about what innovations will catch fire next year. They make a humble try anyway.

By Robert Capps of Wired Magazine.
They’re exploring the deep sea and distant planets. They’re saving lives in the operating room and on the battlefield. They’re transforming factory floors and filmmaking. They’re – oh c’mon, they’re just plain cool! From Qrio to the Terminator, here are our absolute favorites (at least for now).  Great photos.

Tech execs say the darndest things. And so do shuffling presidents, and disgraced scientists, and Wikipedia fakers. It’s time to relive 2005’s biggest spoken gaffes.

Pink Floyd has been named the greatest rock act of all time in a poll of 58,000 fans.

The latest fastest and most powerful automobile ever: 1001 horsepower, zero to 188 mph in 14 seconds.

The world’s smallest helicopter weighs only 6.9 grams.  Great photos and video.

A study at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute of 133 violent offenders shows 58 percent had consumed alcohol within 24 hours before the violent act.

One acre of genetically engineered tobacco plants can produce enough anthrax vaccine to inoculate the entire U.S. population safely and inexpensively.

As the first of the 75 million baby boomers touch 60 in January, there’s good news for the men: They are catching up to women in life expectancy.

Pablo Picasso, Lord Byron and Dylan Thomas had more in common than simple creativity. They also had active sex lives.