How embarrassing for HD DVD… It’s not enough that blu_ray kicked their butts in the high definition DVD format war, now the beauty industry has snubbed it in favor of blu_ray, too!

Invention is 5 percent inspiration and 95 percent perspiration, Thomas Alva Edison, one of the world’s greatest inventors, said. For Filipino inventor Virgilio “Billy” L. Malang, who invented a vitamin-laced beer, that 5 percent inspiration came from the Filipinos’ love of drinking.

Most of us are obsessed by wealth. But we gauge how rich
we are by looking upwards at those who have more than us. This makes us
feel poor. Here is an amazing calculator that will help put your life into perspective.

A research team from the University of Illinois who have developed a way to manufacture nanowires of any length
from various materials. Not, unfortunately, carbon nanotubes, or we
would be looking for news on space elevators soon. The process is
analogous to drawing with a fountain pen — as liquid is drawn from a
reservoir, a solvent (water or […]

Spoofers, spammers and phishers, beware. There’s a new gun in town, and some of the Internet’s most powerful companies — including Yahoo, Google, PayPal and AOL — are brandishing it in the ongoing battle against e-mail fraud.

UK ad agency Mother London is full of creative people (just check out their website, where you can search for employees by ..um, their "distinguishing features"). So when they wanted to create a self-promotional item, printing bags with their logos like everyone else just won’t do. Instead, Mother London created a series of Uncarriable Carrier […]

Vern Graner and Rick Abbott of The Robot Group built an inkjet printer for ping pong balls.

One of the strangest meal-times in the animal kingdom has been caught on film by a BBC crew. The team recorded footage of a female worm-like amphibian, called a caecilian, allowing her young to peel off and eat her skin.

Next time you need a real expensive operation, better consult this map.  (w/pic)

Just when you were looking for something to insult your intelligence and slap you across your creative spot, these appeared…

The use of electronic data as
evidence in divorce cases has sharply increased in the past five years,
according to a survey of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Video ads are an acceptable and even likable accompaniment to casual games, according to a RealNetworks survey of 1,500 RealGames players.

The age-old complaint by mature women that men their own age are only
interested in pretty young things was turned on its head at an exclusive
speed-dating session in New
York. At "Natural Selection
Speed Date II: Sugar Mamas & Boy Toys," held in a posh club on Manhattan’s
Fifth Ave, it was a chance for wealthy older women to […]