Online marketers have taken to pay-per-click (PPC), and many use it, but apparently not everyone understands it very well.

In the end, it all boils down to what your friends say about you and what they put on your tombstone.  For some people, it isn’t easy to say anything nice. Here are ten epitaphs that indicate the life of a miserable failure:

They calculated that for every inch taller a man is than his speed-dating rivals, the number of women who want to meet him goes up by about five percent.

Holiday travelers stressing over crowded flights, shrinking leg room and snaking security lines can add one more: There’s a greater chance this Thanksgiving week that their bags won’t arrive at their destination.

Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday.

When you’ve gotta go, you’ve gotta go – particularly when you’ve had a bellyful of alcohol. Given that using alcohol to great excess is a modern rite of passage and deeply rooted tradition of most societies, and that more of it gets consumed in nightlife districts, such precincts are often an ugly sight the next [...]

China, seeking to ease its dependence on coal to fuel its booming economy, said on Tuesday it will build the world’s largest solar power station in the poor but sunny northwestern province of Gansu.

Several areas in eastern China have banned sales of turbot, a popular type of flatfish, after some were found to contain carcinogens caused by chemical-laden feed, state media said.

While the laws governing advertising extend online, the law is notoriously slow in keeping pace with technological and commercial innovation. Ten years ago, spam was regarded as an unpalatable luncheon meat; now spam is an unpalatable side effect of the commercialization of the Web.

The bear was just over one thousand six hundred pounds It stood 12′ 6″ high at the shoulder, 14′ to the top of his head. It’s the largest grizzly bear ever recorded in the world.  The pictures are of a man who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear.

The largest superconducting magnet ever built has successfully been powered up to its operating conditions on the first attempt. (w/pics)

Can George Washington and Thomas Jefferson succeed where Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea failed? The U.S. Mint is hoping America’s presidents will win acceptance, finally, for the maligned dollar coin.