Rare Retile
A rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found nesting on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in a rare tuatara.
A rare tuatara has been found in New Zealand (Agencies Photo) about 200 years, officials said on Friday.

Boat-loving seagulls will have to poop elsewhere if a team of high school students have anything to say about it. The team, named Vanish Productions, recently won the top regional prize in New Zealand’s Young Enterprise contest for their Ultrasonic Bird Repeller.

Look At All The Seagulls

 
Today I bring to you Halloween business ideas, surprise, surprise.
I have to say, I was disappointed to find that while the holiday itself is weird and wacky, the corporations that surround it are pretty usual. They range from haunted houses, to event planners that will decorate and provide spooky catering for your party, to costume [...]

Scary R2-D2
Capping off our day of Halloween costume roundups is everyone’s favorite droid, R2-D2. Artoo joins the iPhone, the folks at BioWare, and fellow robots on this haunted day at DVICE.

Creepy, Crawly Cochroaches
I wonder what Juliet would have said about cockroaches. Would she say,
“What’s in a name? That which we call a cockroach
By the name ‘cafard,’ is it not still creepy as hell?”

Featured Invention at the Colorado Inventor Showcase  
WHO LEFT THE TOILET SEAT UP? – If you share your bathroom with a woman (or you are a woman), you know the unspeakable horror of what we’re talking about.

This Will Be Lost In Translation…

It took Christian Bok 7 years to write Eunoia – the word is the shortest word in the English language containing all five vowels.
Eunoia means “beautiful thinking” and it’s a very fitting title to Christian’s book, in which each chapter uses only one vowel!
From CHAPTER A – FOR HANS ARP:
Hassan [...]

At Least They Are Golden

South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled yesterday that only the visually impaired can be licensed masseurs in the country, upholding a law set up a century ago despite arguments it infringed on free employment rights.
The law was established in 1912 when Korea was under Japanese colonial rule to help guarantee the blind [...]