Google recently announced Knol, a new experimental website that puts information online in a way that encourages authorial attribution. Unlike articles for the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which anyone is free to revise, Knol articles will have individual authors, whose pictures and credentials will be prominently displayed alongside their work.

Hong Kong has been ranked as the world’s freest economy for the 14th
consecutive year by the Heritage Foundation in the foundation’s 2008
Index of Economic Freedom study released on Tuesday.

At today’s opening keynote at MacWorld, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that in its first 200 days since it was announced, the Apple iPhone has sold over 4 million phone – on average 20,000 per day.

Minor leg injuries like ankle sprains and muscle ruptures may increase the risk
of blood clots in the legs or
lungs.

More than 85% of Internet transactions are completed with a credit or debit card, according to Javelin Strategy and Research data cited in a January 2008 Wall Street Journal article.

Today kicked off a year of 50th anniversary celebrations for the little blue creatures called Smurfs. The Smurfs originated in Brussels, Belgium.

Have a peruse at the 54 pages (and counting) worth of entries in this "Design a Nanohazard Logo" competition.

In high school, would be computer scientist Donald E. Knuth (later known as the "Father of Analysis of Algorithm), developed a Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures, after a running gag in Mad magazine.

Some of India’s richest people are paying $150 a night to live like peasants at a "native village" in the southern state of Karnataka.

Manned Cloud is a flying hotel proposed by French designer Jean-Marie Massaud. The whale-shaped airship, developed with French national aerospace research body ONERA, will be able to accommodate 40 guests and have a range of 5,000 km.