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 -> 8 interesting yet inexpensive holiday gifts
Add a personal touch to the holidays with a unique homemade gift.
23,497 views | 26 Dec 2003
 -> The Robber with a pencil moustache
An FBI hunt is on for a bank robber who's struck eight times this year with only a pencil-drawn moustache as a disguise. He's even robbed the same bank twice.
10,061 views | 25 Dec 2003
 -> Top 10 music tour grossers in 2003
You'd have thought it'd be one of the 1,553,006 annoying boy bands, or perhaps Britney or Aguilera. But old is gold.
10,836 views | 25 Dec 2003
 -> Google Logos
Google takes a free rein with its logos. Here's the stash.
1,262 views | 25 Dec 2003
 -> The myth of Enjo Kosai
In Japan (of all places) the stereotype of the "Lolita" -- the promiscuous young girl with a father-figure lover -- is alive and well. Here's a deconstruction of the word.
10,968 views | 25 Dec 2003
 -> Sometimes, it's difficult to let go
Possibly offensive, but hilarious A touching letter from a guy to his old beloved..
11,117 views | 25 Dec 2003
 -> And the award for the geekiest advertisement goes to...
...this billboard from Canada.
15,181 views | 25 Dec 2003
 -> In Canada, Freedom of Choice is at stake
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in April that federal broadcasting law prohibits Canadians from gaining access to direct-to-home satellite TV signals from providers other than two major Canadian telecoms!
11,030 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> Using computers to understand renaissance art!
This fascinating interactive program demonstrates the ways in which computer technology can be harnessed (x-rays, infrared, UV) to add to our knowledge about Renaissance paintings and how they were made!
9,846 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> Saddam and US have been closer than you think
Declassified documents from the National Security Archive. Did you know that not long ago Rumsfeld himself conveyed Reagan's undiminished support for Hussein despite their public condemnation of his use of chemical weapons? Well, that, and more..
9,626 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> Finder's fee with a history
A German man who in 1991 discovered the 5,300-year-old iceman, Oetzi, in the Alps is now demanding up to $250,000 as a finder's reward.
10,911 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> Can you define "Select"?
Whatever you might make of the Bush administration, receiving a Christmas card from the president and Laura Bush themselves is a bit of a thrill - until, that is, you discover there are a million and a half others on the list.
10,582 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> Walmart gets into music, and how!
With a whopping collection of 12 songs, in a way that doesn't work, under silly terms and conditions.
797 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> Satellite Radio
A discussion of satellite radio, which is offered customarily as pay radio, and why people go for paid radio when most of it is free anyway!
1,120 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> Is Beer the Same as Dishwater?
A study of anti-bubbles in Belgian beer -- where bubbles are thin surface of fluid in air surrounding a pocket of air, an antibubble is a thin surface of air in fluid surrounding a pocket of fluid.
1,117 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> Toilet seats as gifts?
Gary and Karri Clark haven't forgotten their second Christmas together. He knew she wanted bathroom accessories, so he wrapped up a couple of gifts and waited. The toilet seat and towel rack didn't go over too well.
1,200 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> Hand-held device that detects drunk drivers
A hand-held device designed to identify drivers impaired by drugs, alcohol or excessive tiredness, is being evaluated by the British police.
907 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> Die screaming with sharp things in your head
A collection of impaled garden gnomes.
1,072 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> US brings Christmas to Iraq
"My country is still at war. I need an American identification card to get anywhere in my own city. Now, for some reason, men with machine guns have placed two rows of jingling antlered pigs on the roof of our house. This is insane."
819 views | 24 Dec 2003
 -> Are you ready for some science?
Do people lack the attention span to follow science news more complicated than the latest antidepressant or flu shot? Maybe not, according to some, gulp, scientists.
456 views | 18 Dec 2003
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