How does the military spend its money? By developing a new antitraction gel that's so slippery it's impossible to drive or walk on it. Should make for some hilarious CNN footage.
Next year Russian TV stations must stop inserting subliminal messages into their programming, which could change life in the country. Like plummeting vodka sales.
Before they can figure out what they want to be when they grow up, it's probably a good idea to check off some of the things they don't want to be: priests, accountants and CEOs.
The USDA's 10-year-old food pyrmaid is changing to fit the most modern American diet, which lately includes a steady stream of Krispy Kremes, Slim Jims and soy lattes.
Sure you can watch Judge Judy from an armchair, but there's more fun wondering what's underneath a judge's robe and getting $1.50 a day for gas mileage that's worth jury duty.
More and more the general public's being inundated with ads at work, on Web sites, at the movies and geez, even on the beach. Where and when will it end?
The average American spends 51 minutes a day commuting to work. That's 221 hours a year or 9.2 days to talk on our cell phones, listen to NPR and remove things from our noses.
The 75th annual National Spelling Bee was held recently and 13-year-old Pratyush Buddiga of Colorado Springs, CO won it by spelling his name correctly. Just kidding.
Branding, for those who slept through Business Buzz Words 101, is the idea that if you have a name -- and who doesn’t? -- it’s important to make sure everyone knows it.
NASA, the same wonderful people who brought us Tang and pens that write upside down, is sponsoring new research that will enable us to turn fish filets into whole fish. Weird.
A French pharmaceutical company, trying to prove once again that the French do everything better, managed to lose 85 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
The Todd M. Beamer Foundation has applied for a trademark on the phrase "Let's roll." What's next? George Bush trying to outlaw anyone else from using his name?
Considering that you can get thousands of bucks for a healthy organ, our bodies are worth about $220,000 each. So why not sell off a kidney or lung -- after all, you've got another!
Lance Bass, a singer for boy band 'N Sync, was preparing to hand over $22 million to visit space station Mir. Then Mir fall down, go boom. What's a Sync to do?
If companies start arbitrarily changing the color of food we won't know what to eat, especially if we start wrapping it in the new food wrap the USDA has developed.
I want Mariah Carey's job. True I can't sing like her, don't look as good when I bare my stomach, and can't shake my hips like her--hey, I'm a white male for Christ's sake!--but I can act better than she can.
February 14th conjures up thoughts of romance, dreamy candlelight gazes, and "Is it 5:30 already? I sure hope the drug store still has a 25-lb. heart-shaped box of chocolates left!
The idea of the euro is to unite the countries economically and create some truly boring paper money adorned with generic, unidentifiable bridges and doorways.
It's getting so you don't know who to believe anymore. In the good old days, defined as any group of years which now blur together, it was easy -- you believed your parents, your teachers, your Friends in Blue, and June Cleaver.
Office buildings aren't buying as many rolls of toilet paper as they used to, proof that businesspeople let their personal hygiene go to hell at the first sign of a crisis.
Civic duty is making a comeback in the U.S. and abroad. Of course in other countries people are being asked to help their government in different ways.
