Dozens of cities across California still pay red-light camera
vendors based on the revenue their tickets generate, even though such
contracts have been outlawed by the Legislature and ruled illegal in
Orange County court. The details are technical and still
contested but the spirit of the law is clear: Camera vendors shouldn’t
have a financial incentive to target motorists unfairly.

In the 1980s, conservatives and feminists joined to fight a common
nemesis: the spread of pornography. Unlike past campaigns to stamp out
smut, this one was based not only on morality but also public safety.
They argued that hard-core erotica was intolerable because it promoted
sexual violence against women.

Beijing’s economy maintained its steady and relatively fast growth in
the first three quarters of the year, driven by the upcoming Olympic
Games and continued structural adjustments to industries, an official
from the Beijing statistics bureau said yesterday.

For those of you who have never heard of the NY Jedi School before, it’s pretty
much exactly what it sounds like.  Here is a crazy clip we spotted on ABC.

Those who thought that kidding around at the workplace isn’t good better get
ready to eat their hats, for a new study has found that a bit of humor at the
workplace really is a good thing. The research has been conducted by Chris
Robert, a University of Missouri-Columbia
researcher.

More than three-quarters of US
marketing professionals surveyed think that social media marketing can give them a competitive edge, according to Coremetrics’ "Face of the New Marketer" study. The same respondents said that only 7.75% of their online marketing spending went to such tactics.

The self-cleaning dog, the motorized unicycle, air conditioner cat, and the vacuum contortionist are just some of the amazing photos that made it onto this weeks top ten list.

Masaya Igarashi wants $200 headphones for his new iPod Touch, and he’s torn between Nintendo Co.’s Wii and Sony’s PlayStation 3 game consoles. When he has saved up again, he plans to splurge on a digital camera or flat-screen TV. There’s one conspicuous omission from the college student’s shopping list: a new computer.

Astronauts aboard the shuttle Discovery and the international space station reveled Sunday in their successful solar wing repair, and prepared to close the hatches between their linked spacecraft and part ways.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says consumers should stop using two unapproved drug products advertised as treatments for erectile dysfunction.

The face of one of Egypt’s most famous ancient rulers, the boy king Tutankhamun, has been put on public view for the first time.

Darla Drentlaw was sleeping on her daughter Katie’s bed, waiting for her to come home, when she woke to the sound of police radios. When the officers knocked on her door, she knew they had bad news.

More U.S. women are developing a type of artery disease that raises the risk of death from heart disease and stroke, researchers said on Sunday.