Stranded at the airport? Don't forget Rule 240

Travel Editor Peter Greenberg explains the unwritten rule that can get you on your way when your flight is canceled or delayed.

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Republicans Scared: "Obama is the Democrats' Reagan"

Here is a great article from a conservative Republican commentator on Beliefnet. This echoes what we Obama supporters have been saying for months. He thinks Obama will "win in a landslide" if he wins the Democratic nomination: "If I were a Republican, I'd be very, very afraid. Oh wait, I am a Republican. Dang. Lord have mercy."

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Zimbabwe Releases $10 Million Bill - Which is Worth USD $4

As the US economy inches ever closer to a recession, it might provide a little perspective to look at what a real economic crisis looks like. Plagued by hyperinflation of over 50,000% a year, Zimbabwe's central bank recently decided to issue $10 million notes.

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Click if your computer screen is dirty.

Clean your computer screen through the internets!

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Guess Who is Facing 21 Years in Prison?

The drunk , rich, white one, or the sober, poor, black one?

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The truth about the iPhone's sales numbers

There have always been rumblings that the iPhone won't be able to maintain momentum, but now one publication claims that sales are plummeting. We do the math ourselves to see what's really going on with the iPhone's sales.

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Apple Plunges Most in 5 Years as Forecast Disappoints

Apple Inc. plunged the most in more than five years in Nasdaq trading after its forecast missed analysts' estimates, stoking concern that consumers will cut back purchases of Macintosh computers and iPod media players.

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The Internet has had enough of Scientology

The internet has had enough of scientology trying to sensor it and is fighting back!

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What Happens If You're Left Alone in the Dark For Days?

The result is called sensory deprivation and the human mind struggles to cope with it. Adam Bloom is a stand-up comic, an extreme extrovert who admits he thrives on stimulation. He is one of six volunteers who have agreed to be shut inside a cell in a nuclear bunker, alone and in the dark. And for Bloom it will be particularly hard.

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Worlds Largest Swimming Pool 3500 Ft Long!

Measuring almost 3,500 ft in length, The San Alfonso del Mar seawater pool in Algarrobo, Chile has been named the world's largest outdoor swimming pool by the Guiness Book of World Records.

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The MegaPenny Project: How Many Pennies Can You Visualize?

People regularly talk about millions of miles, billions of bytes, or trillions of dollars, yet it's still hard to grasp just how much a "billion" really is. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"

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Is Life on Mars? Amazing photo of strange figure on surface

A photo taken by one of the Mars rovers appears to show a strange figure walking on the surface. Is this just a rock, or is there more to it?

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Can You Tell a Fake Smile From a Real One?

Courtesy of the BBC, this experiment is designed to test whether you can spot the difference between a fake smile and a real one. Watch these 20 smiles (on video), and see if you can spot the fakes. You can only play each smile once.

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Earn Money Now! - The Best of the 1930s & 1940s Offbeat Jobs

I can't wait to let my kids raise giant frogs while dad and I work the road kill into fashionable lamps and ashtrays. Wow!

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Time Warner Cable's plan to kill Apple TV

Time Warner wants to charge customers by bandwidth, meaning it could cost up to $30 download an HD movie over Apple TV.

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Lego Master Completes 30-Pound Star Wars Starship Model

After a mammoth building session, Lego master Mark Kelso has just recently put the last brick on his model of the Invisible Hand, General Grevious' ship from Star Wars Episode III.

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The 5 Most Horrifying Bugs in the World

There are about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 insects on earth at any given moment. Seriously, that's a real number. For every one of us, there are 1.5 billion bugs. But some of them are so horrifying, just one is too many. Here are five you want to avoid at all costs.

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Finally! Scientific Proof that Squirrels are Sneaky.

You’re probably aware that squirrels hoard their food. What you might not have known is that squirrels don’t keep all their nuts in one place, but make various holes and hiding places for their food stash. Apparently, they’re also paranoid.

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Apple Introduces Manila Case,The World's Thinnest Case

MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO—Apple® today unveiled Manila® Case®, the world's thinnest case for the world's thinnest laptop, the MacBook Air. When empty, Manila Case measures an unprecedented 0.07-inches at its thinnest point, but its dynamically adaptable height goes up to a maximum of 6.9-inches, adapting perfectly to the MacBook Air

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NCAA says it will study 8-team football playoff proposal

About freakin' time....

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How to survive a 500 foot fall

It's a modern-day miracle. An Ecuadoran native who fell 500 feet from the upper reaches of a New York City skyscraper--and survived. By the time Moreno hit the alley behind the black-glass luxury apartment building, he was traveling upward of 124mph. Only about half of the people who fall off a four-story building make it. So how is he alive?

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Mysterious $100 counterfeit bills appear across world

These “supernotes" are not just any fake bills, but a counterfeit so perfect it’s become an international whodunit. The only way to distinguish some of these bills, experts say, is to compare photographically blown-up sections with magnifying instruments. About $50 million of the mystery money has been seized since 1989.

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Ten Recurring Economic Fallacies, 1774–2004

As an American historian who knows something of economic law, I became intrigued with how the United States had remained prosperous, its economy still so dynamic and productive, given the serious and recurring economic fallacies to which our top leaders (have subscribed and from which they cannot seem to free themselves.

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Top 5 things I saw in America which, freaked me out

Top 5 things I saw in America which, as a Canadian, freaked me right out

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Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES

"CES has no shortage of displays. And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers to bring to the show, we pretty much couldn't help ourselves. We shut off a TV. And then another. And then a wall of TVs. And we just couldn't stop. (And Panasonic, you're so lucky that 150-incher didn't have an active IR port.)"

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Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry

It was a late morning in the fall of 2006. Almost a year earlier, Steve Jobs had 200 of his top engineers working on the iPhone. Yet here, in Apple's boardroom, it was clear that the prototype was still a disaster. It wasn't just buggy, it flat-out didn't work...

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How To Solve a Rubik's Cube

Great beginners guide to solving the Rubik's Cube. Has step by step instruction with animation and images. Now you can solve any old cube laying around and impress your friends.

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The 3-D printer that can print a 3-D printer.

The RepRap is an open source 3-D printer - a self-replicating machine that will one day be able to print out all of its own parts.

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The Top 25 Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians

Is that a dignified gentleman or a bitter and angry lesbian? You decide!

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The Lost “Star Wars” Opening Scenes

Okay, so I’m as big a Star Wars fan as the next guy, but this really threw me. This YouTube video shows a “lost” beginning to the original Star Wars movie, and it’s terrible. Apparently these scenes were cut due to “time restrictions,” and boy am I glad. This is one of the best examples I’ve seen of how editing makes a movie better.

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Hofbrauhaus Catastrophe: Cheers!

Cheers mate. Nothing more to say, literally, no words!

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THIS is how eBay works. [PIC]

Seriously eBay, you should of banned that username. Ownage, literally; considering the scammer now owns those things.

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2007 Darwin Awards

The best part of the end of the year......

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New problems identified with Iowa caucuses!

Political operatives have urged citizens NOT to ask too many questions and NOT to take photos or video of precinct caucus results, warning them that only "conspiracy theorists" would want to independently confirm the announced results.Not taking photos or video could be a fatal mistake. If you are in Iowa make sure EVERYTHING gets recorded!!!

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