Bartenders dressed in modified nurse outfits serve wine with syringes and test tubes in a bar in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province.

Vancouver psychotherapist Andrew Feldmar has been barred from entering the United States. The reason? During a random stop-and-search at a US/Canadian border crossing, a Google search of his name led to his article from the Spring 2001 ‘Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts.’ In it Feldmar […]

If you’re hiking through Italy’s Northern mountains over the next 20 years, don’t be surprised if you run across this 200 foot tall pink bunny! Ok, you can be surprised…

For your next romantic dinner, consider the hot, hot, hot feelings associated with the tabletop fireplace.  We predict this will start being a standard fixture in everyones homes within five years.

Here is an amazing video of people using the world’s most powerful pogo stick - the Flybar.

Advertising is the main revenue driver for the top four portals, in growth if not in sheer dollars. Shrinking subscriber access revenues at AOL and MSN have increased pressure on these portals to monetize pages using ads.

Although venture-capital investing hit a six-year high in the first quarter in the U.S., experts say it’s not the beginning of a bubble, but rather the start of a more diverse industry.

A decade after its launch, Google has overtaken General Electric as the world’s most valuable brand. The marque is worth $66.4-billion (U.S.), according to a study by global market researcher company Millward Brown Optimor. Its study calculates the value of brands based on their ability to drive profits and their growth prospects.

The internet in China is diverging rapidly from the state that the rest of the world enjoys it. Recent news of China’s leader, Hu Jintao, has revealed a strategy to distort it even further.

Hey, this one is a particularily weird invention.  Great photos.

Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. outsold General Motors Corp. by around 90,000 vehicles in the first quarter, moving a step closer to unseating its U.S. rival as the world’s biggest automaker. Toyota has been widely expected to challenge 99-year-old GM this year for the top spot in global sales — a position the Detroit behemoth has […]

Food and beverage advertisers cut spending in nearly every major media last year — except the Internet. This year, eMarketer estimates this category will spend $288 million advertising online, a 36.6% increase over 2006.

A man who spent 25 years in jail for a rape he didnt commit had his conviction quashed on the basis of new DNA evidence Monday, bringing to 200 the number of cases overturned in similar fashion nationwide since the 1980s.

NASA released the first three-dimensional images of the sun Monday, saying the photos taken from twin spacecraft may lead to better predictions of solar eruptions that can affect communications and power lines on Earth. (w/pics)

Last "Black Friday," for its annual post-Thanksgiving sales blitz, Wal-Mart Stores decided to slash the price of one of the hottest electronics items for the holidays—the 42-inch flat-panel TV—to $988. The world’s largest retailer had staked similarly audacious positions before, in numerous product categories, as part of its quest to remain U.S. retailing’s "low-price leader." […]