The 2008 Identity Fraud Survey Report from Javelin Strategy & Research indicates that most identity theft occurs not online, but through stolen belongings, mail and telephone calls.

Michael Arndt spent 6 years creating a full size replica of a McLaren F1 car using 956,000 matchsticks, 1686 tubes of glue and spending around 6000 Euros ($8,725) on it. Now that is some sort of dedication!

JupiterResearch estimates that only 10% of Internet users have ever watched a full-length TV show online, as cited by MediaPost. The problem isn’t the audience though, it’s that there is little available to watch.

According to the latest analysis by the Pew Research Center, non-Hispanic white people will become a minority in 2050!

A ban on grumpiness, gossiping, mini-skirts and rudeness is
what the doctor orders to improve patient care in Belgrade, Serbia’s hospitals,
according to new rules issued by the country’s Health Ministry.

Charleston radio station is observing Valentine’s Day with a reminder that Cupid sometimes misses his mark. WKLC-FM, better known as Rock 105, is giving away a free divorce.

Smoking is killing nearly a million people a year in India, exacting a
higher toll than previously thought, but allied problems are often
different to those seen in the West, according to research published on
Thursday.

Picking up food with chopsticks is tough enough. Imagine picking that food off a nearly nude model. "I guess that’s body sushi, they call it. Instead of using a plate, you use a body," Thom Pham explained. Pham owns Temple Restaurant in downtown Minneapolis; it’s the first establishment in the Twin Cities to offer this […]

ISS Science Officer Don Pettit reports in his journal that outer space gives off a smell best described as "a rather pleasant sweet metallic sensation." Kind of odd considering smell is supposed to be due to volatilized chemical compounds.

According to the Associated Press, a plan to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law-enforcement missions is moving forward after being delayed for months because of privacy and civil liberties concerns. The plan is in the final stage of completion, according to a department official who requested anonymity because the official was not […]

Love really is blind, at least when it comes to looking at others, US
researchers reported on
Tuesday. College students who
reported they were in love were less likely to take careful notice of other
attractive men or women, the team at the University of California Los Angeles
and dating website eHarmony
found.

A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has
won a court battle to force the Web site that hosted the sale to reveal
the names of the winners, so she can find out who’s the father.

Google Inc plans to enter the online music market in China for the
first time, as it steps up its battle with local incumbent Baidu.com
Inc, media reported on Thursday. 
Google is expected to announce a joint venture with Top100.cn, to
allow users to listen to and download licensed music files for free,
major portal Sina.com said, citing local newspaper […]

TV as we’ve known it has barely a year left to live. On Feb. 17, 2009,
the analog broadcasts that have taken the networks into American homes
for decades will end, replaced by a stream of digital bits that carry
video and audio more efficiently and with higher quality.