More than half of Americans visited a library in the past year with
many of them drawn in by the computers rather than the books, according
to a survey released on Sunday.

Lifehacker has an interesting blog post on the "Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About" that includes stalwarts like Google Trends and Google Alerts and a few others that may not be quite so familiar like Google Personals, Google’s WYSIWYG web site creation tool, and Flight Simulator for Google Earth.

An inevitable consequences of advanced and rich economy is a fatter
population, says a health economist and co-author of a new book The Fattening
America. Though obesity has
established itself in western industrial societies, the author Eric Finkelstein
gives example of India and China where, he says, waistlines are growing rapidly
along with their economies.

The total number of billionaires in China has risen to second place in
the world, just behind the US, Yangcheng Evening News reported on
Sunday.

From a Greek nunnery turned
into a marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South African
man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to "walk the pain off", the
world was full of weird news in 2007.

Yes, the Seth Godin Action Figure, with built-in Brandomatic® and PurplePower® is now available and you can be the first on your block to have one.

If you saw someone wearing these Hello Kitty contact lenses, you would miss everything they said because you would be busy trying to figure out what is wrong with their eyes.

Flying fish were the inspiration for an unmanned seaplane with a 7-foot wingspan developed at the University of Michigan. The autonomous craft is believed to be the first seaplane that can initiate and perform its own takeoffs and landings on water.

A Quebec man has sold the "magnificent" two-metre-high snowbank in front of his home on EBay for $3,550, less than two weeks after putting it up for sale - to a buyer who plans to use it for a snowball fight with his family.

Outplacement
consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc released a list of what it
called 2007’s most unbelievable workplace stories. Some
highlights: Workers in Scotland
lined up to take classes which encouraged flirting to get ahead in their
careers. Class exercises included purring like a kitten and dancing like
Christina Aguilera and Justin
Timberlake.

The word that best describes this week’s photos is "painful". But truly an amazing set of painful photos.

The digital lifestyle has arrived in the country and home automation is the latest in a hightech world that promises ultimate luxury. A home network integrates all the appliances into a single system controlled through a remote control. Intelligent homes offer conveniences one wouldn’t have even imagined a decade ago.

A prototype solar tree that recently went on display on a busy street in Vienna, Austria has passed a key test by providing light during the night-time even when the sun had been blocked by clouds for four days in a row. The branches of the solar tree were decorated with 10 solar lamps, each […]

YouTube has an end of the year list, but there’s something a little strange about all the media coverage today on the "top YouTube videos of 2007." These aren’t the most viewed videos of the year. They are YouTube’s selection of the "most memorable." The most viewed video on YouTube this year was Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend, […]

It is one of the biggest companies in the world and now the internet giant Google has also been dubbed the most employee-friendly.

People in many parts of the world indulge in the curious practice of eating dirt, also known as geophagy.
But why they do so has remained something of a mystery, until now.

A Korean newscast reports on a hybrid breed of carp with "human faces."

A black hole in what has been nicknamed the “death star galaxy” is sending a jet of radiation and energy to a smaller neighboring galaxy.

Offer someone this teaspoon to stir their tea - as soon as they dip it into the hot liquid, the spoon bends through 90 degrees.

With more than 2,000 consumer electronics companies fighting for the attention of 140,000 attendees at International CES, the competition to get noticed is fierce. Companies will parade their newest and hottest products and promise starry-eyed consumers and journalists imminent release dates for their gadgets, while the more daring keynote speakers give their predictions for the […]

The St. Petersburg, FL, Times reports that Florida is going back to paper ballots, but with a twist. They are printing the ballots on-demand, right there at the polling booth. This isn’t machine-assisted voting where a touch-screen fills in your printed ballot for you. It’s just a way to save printing costs and reduce paper […]

Apparently some people think this type of entrapment will somehow build a better community - - Robin Garrison, an off-duty 42-year-old firefighter, was walking in Berliner Park in Columbus, Ohio, in May when he saw a woman sunbathing topless under a tree. He approached her and they started talking and getting comfortable, the woman smiling […]

Four more of the marketing gurus from eMarketer give their thoughts on the emerging trends developing in the ever changing field of marketing.

Researchers, for the first time, have demonstrated in mice that a protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is critical in managing satiety, and is the main cause behind obesity and overeating.

Now dog owners can surprise their best friend with a treadmill.