Who needs stairs? They’re so last century. If I had my druthers, going up a floor in a building would be done via escalator, and going down would be done via slide. Giant tube slides, to be exact. You might think it’s impractical, but that would just mean that you’ve murdered your inner child. (w/pics)

We’re not sure why you’d want a fridge with an HD display, but if you’ve got the $3,999 to spare, the LSC27990 (aka the Panorama) is the first fridge to be graced with an high-def telly.

If you think you’ve been seeing more ad-plastered plasma screens in malls and subway stops, you’re right. Spending on alternative out-of-home media, which includes video networks and digital billboards, grew 27% to $1.69 billion in 2006, according to PQ Media’s "Alternative Out-of-Home Media Forecast 2007-2011."

F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen proposes an elegant solution to the problem of bank account phishing in the latest Foreign Policy magazine. Hypponen thinks banks should have exclusive use of a new top-level domain: .bank. ‘Registering new domains under such a top-level domain could then be restricted to bona fide financial organizations. And the price for the [...]

An Israeli archaeologist has found the tomb of King Herod, the legendary builder of ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Hebrew University said late Monday.

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, tells newspaper publishers he has a "great deal of sympathy for them" because they are "screwed".

In one of the stranges pieces of video footage ever captured, this snake is shown coughing up an entire hippo.

A solid majority of Americans own PCs and mobile phones, but the gadgets play a minimal role in the lives of almost half of US adults, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s "A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users" study.

When Sparky, the energetic family dog, poked a hole in Cassandra Openshaw’s prom gown at their Milbridge home recently, it was not the teen fashion calamity you might suppose. Openshaw just whipped out a role of duct tape. And voila! It was prom-ready once more. (w/pics)

A debate is raging among doctors over Muslim women who ask for operations to reconstitute their hymens before marriage, and medical certificates stating they are virgins. This has become a very hairy situation.