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Margaret O’Callaghan had a need for a new type of kitchen utensil.  The round-bottomed ladle and the spatula are just not good enough when you’re dealing with things like crock pots and serving dishes.  That’s why she invented the scrudle, a combination ladle and spatula designed to scrape the deliciousness from any sort of cooking […]

Every day, Tom Baker deals with the issue of traffic.  Given Southern California’s massive concentration of cars, it’s no wonder that Baker would get frustrated dealing with the daily traffic routine.  That inspiration resulted in these great images of Los Angeles without the cars.   Here’s the full image gallery, and it’s awesome.
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Have you ever wondered where salt comes from?  I mean, salt is in everything from fertilizers (potassium chloride) to the dinner table (sodium chloride), but where does it actually come from?  Why, salt mines, of course!  They’re not just for horrible industrial accidents or mad scientist lairs anymore.  English Russia has a great look inside […]

When you’re sitting in the theater, all decked out in your Twilight gear, you’re going to want a snack.  I mean, it’s only natural, right?  Once you walk into the theater and you smell that wonderful popcorn smell filtering in from the lobby, even the strongest-willed of dieters feels a moment of weakness.  However, if […]

The Moldovan military isn’t very large.  There are only about 6500 men in Moldova’s armed forces, defending a country of about 3.5 million.  However, what the Moldovan military lacks in manpower they make up for in breath power.  You see, in order to fight off the swine flu that is raging throughout the country, the […]

Lots of people like to think they’ve got the skills of a keyboard ninja, but what good is a ninja without weapons?  Yes, he can still sneak around and attack any technological problem with his or her bare hands, but it’s so much easier and messier if you have something you can do damage with.  […]

While fishing in a retention pond in Palm Springs, Florida, a 14-year-old boy fished up something that doesn’t belong in Florida.  This invasive species is the dangerous meat-eating piranha.  That’s right, there were not one, but two piranhas caught in the wild in the United States. The most troubling aspect is that the two piranha […]

Among the many groups of folks who get swine flu vaccine priority are child-care workers like teachers, daycare employees, medical personnel, and those sorts of people.  Given that swine flu is everywhere, people are jockeying for a place on the swine flu priority list.  There are only so many vaccines to go around, and thousands […]

The idea is there.  You take a pair of normal workout pants, combine them with the MP3 player of your choice, and then figure out a way to turn the kinetic energy generated by movement (like running or biking) and turn it into actual energy to power the MP3 player.  That’s the idea behind the […]

Police in Tamarac, Florida, are looking for a man who robbed a TD Bank location in Broward County on Monday morning.  The clues to his identity are sketchy, but odds are you’ll smell him before you see him.  You see, this mystery robber has been called the bad breath bandit (by me) due to his […]

If you reported seeing a giant monster stalking the canals in the Madeira Beach area of Tampa, Florida, people would say you’re crazy.  Surely Russ Sittlow, a retired 78-year-old engineer, knows this.  However, after having captured a beast he calls Normandy Nessie (after the road he lives on) on film twice and having spotted it […]

People will do a lot of crazy things to try and get into the United States for a shot at a better life.  When you’re dealing with accused illegal immigrant smugglers, like Maria Candelaria Moreno of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Mexican native Ricardo Moreno Separza, there’s no depths to which those people will sink to make […]

What do you do when the bear won’t shoo?  Well, if you’re an anonymous 11-year-old boy in Driggs, Idaho, and you’ve got an American black bear on your front porch, threatening your family, there’s only one thing you can do.  Take care of the threat.  The boy grabbed a rifle and, after the bear refused […]

There is nothing more exciting to the mind of a creative person than the allure of infinite possibilities.  And what sort of novel utilizes infinite possibilities more than science fiction?  There is no genre of literature that has so captivated the mind and so inspired the inventor than sci-fi, as you can see by these […]