The new weekly shopping death match was drawing quite a crowd
Each week with the top 10 photos its a wild adventure trying to describe the photos without giving away too much of the plot. If a few don’t make sense, it may help to have your nails done and revisit them later.

Some inventions will automatically land you a spot in the Inventor Hall of Fame.  This is one of them
Beer lovers will have to admit that this DIY all-in-one beer brewing device created by John Carnett is the best invention since canned beer. And the good news is that alcoholics all around the world will soon […]

 
Whenever we get in a jam, we turn to Nebraska for advice
The United States is already in a recession and it will be longer as well as deeper than many people expect, U.S. investor Warren Buffett said in an interview published in German magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday.
He said the United States was “already in […]

 That rule about not crossing the streams still applies, even if it comes from a plastic laser diode
Imperial researchers have come one step closer to finding the ‘holy grail’ in the field of plastic semiconductors by demonstrating a class of material that could make electrically-driven plastic laser diodes a reality.

 
 Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease
Starving yourself before a long flight may help prevent jet lag, US researchers said on Thursday.
Normally, the body’s natural circadian clock in the brain dictates when to wake, eat and sleep, all in response to light. But it seems a second clock takes over when food is scarce, […]

 LifePort is a device that supports and monitors an organ during transport
In the hope of saving the lives of more people waiting for transplants, New York City is working on a plan to deploy a special ambulance to collect the bodies of people who have died suddenly from heart attacks, accidents and other emergencies and […]

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Nike’s crude attempt to prove performance under duress
After the jump are several more banned commercials.  Since they’ve been banned, they are a bit off center.  If you find them offensive, you’ve been warned.
 

 
 Because of their customer-abusing practices, few tears will be shed when the banks fail
William Seidman is the former chairman of the Resolution Trust Corp., the agency Congress set up in the 1980s to clean up the savings-and-loan lending mess. He’s also a former chairman of the FDIC. Here he talks about the housing rescue plan […]

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The funny bone on engineers must be located somewhere close to the sphincter
“I Will Derive” - A parody of “I Will Survive” that was done to make Calculus and Physics classes more interesting. Second video after the jump.

NTT’s RedTacton human area network (HAN) technology will make you suspicious of every doorknob
Personal Area Networks (PAN), pioneered by IBM’s Thomas Zimmerman in the early 90s, have been, up until now, not much more than a geek dream, a way to network all your carried gadgets together without the worrisome wiring. Now, though, NTT is […]

 
Some guys just have no idea how to act when they are rich
The world’s richest man lives in Omaha, Nebraska in a 6,000-square-foot gray stucco house he bought in 1958 for $31,500. More photos after the jump.