Isn’t math beautiful?  Here are the top fifteen entries selected to be in the Benoit Mandelbrot
Fractal Art Contest 2007 exhibition.

Fruit flies that develop homosexual tendencies when drunk may help
reveal how alcohol loosens human sexual inhibitions, claim researchers.

This amazing photo pretty much tells the whole story.

It’s been an eventful year for the auto industry. Innovative products.
Public-private partnership. Green strategies. Fresh loans to boost consumer
spend.
There have
been big deals at home and overseas. Indian companies have gone all out to
conquer the world with big ideas, big innovations and big deals. Here are some of the top CEOs in the industry for some […]

According to a survey from ForeSee Results,
even with sales figures up, online retailers should not become
complacent. Online shoppers aren’t happy—at least not as happy as they
used to be.
Customer satisfaction with online retail during the 2007 holiday season was down from the previous year.

Innovation is the name of the game for 2008, judging by an October 2007 Next Level Strategic Marketing Group survey of marketers. Nearly two-thirds of respondents
said their upcoming strategies would include innovations, line
extensions or new marketing initiatives.

We don’t normally post stuff like copyfight and the RIAA’s quest to quash music piracy through lawsuits, but this recent article in the Washington Post is too good to pass up: apparently the RIAA now maintains that it’s illegal for you to transfer music from a legally bought CD to your computer!

There was a moment during 2007 when I suddenly thought, no, this is wrong, it has to stop.
It was during New York Fashion Week in September, I was sitting front row at the Calvin Klein show, and I could see Joanna Coles, the very clever, mature and by no means lowbrow British-born editor-in-chief of American […]

Notorious chief constable Richard Brunstrom is facing demands to resign after publicly claiming that the illegal rave drug ecstasy is safer than aspirin.

This 2003 toilet seat design solves an age-old problem — how to visually identify a still-warm toilet seat so you can avoid absorbing the previous user’s residual conducted body heat.

A Florida man and his neighbor built a boat that doubles as a submarine.