Florida Woman, Posing as Husband’s Ex, Posts Racy Ad on Craigslist
A Florida woman may have taken the prize for nastiest prank ever.
Natasha Larson took out an ad on Craig’slist in which she invited men to come over for random sexual encounters — and then she signed it with the name and address of her husband’s ex.
The American Medical Association Declares War on Photoshop [VIDEO]
The American Medical Association is taking a stand against Photoshop.
For decades, photo manipulation software has been whittling the waists and thinning the thighs of celebrities and models, and the AMA says it’s caused unrealistic and unhealthy body image issues — especially among children and adolescents.
Light Switch Sticky Pad May Save Your Sanity
You know you need milk. Before bed, you even chant it yourself — “need milk, need milk, need milk.” But then the next day you wake up, leave the house, and return empty-handed because you forgot. What’s someone afflicted with a lousy short-term memory to do?
How about making a note to yourself in a spot you’re sure to see it? Switch Notes ($12) is a sticky-pad with a hole in the middle that’s just the right size to fit over a traditional light switch — the last thing you hit before you leave home. There’s even a little indentation at the top to store a pen.
Pope Benedict XVI Sends First Papal Tweet From an iPad [VIDEO]
The technologically-savvy Pope Benedict XVI has already encouraged priests to blog and helmed the launch of the Vatican’s YouTube channel and Pope2You mobile and Facebook apps. So it’s really no surprise that as part of his newly-launched news portal, the pontiff sent his first tweet recently — from the papal iPad.
You can follow the Vatican on Twitter at @news_va_en.
New Site Offers Daily Deals to Help You Maintain Healthy Lifestyle
You know about Groupon — once a day, it offers you a cut-rate deal on everything from massages to restaurant dining. A new daily-deal site in San Francisco is now hoping to use the same method to improve your health.
Zipongo doesn’t just save you money, it encourages you to make better decisions by pairing its deals on natural foods with a lifestyle tracking app to help monitor your eating, exercise, and lifestyle.
Woman Finds 29 Double-Yolk Eggs in a Single Carton [VIDEO]
Hope she wasn’t planning to make meringue. Charlotte Matthews, a cake decorator from Rochdale, England beat the odds this past Sunday when she cracked open 29 double-yolk eggs in a row. According to PoultryHelp.com, these unusual eggs result when “ovulation occurs too rapidly or when one yolk somehow gets ‘lost’ and is joined by the next yolk.” The chance of even finding one is estimated at one in 1,000.
After cracking open 13 double yolks in a row, she asked her husband to film as she went through the rest of the box she purchased from an Asda supermarket, a British subsidiary of Wal-Mart.
Guy Meets Girl in Beautiful Split Screen Video
This amazing little piece of split screen filmmaking, shot entirely with a Nokia N8 and winner of the Nokia Shorts Competition 2011, depicts the parallel lives of a man and a woman from different parts of the world who finally meet cute when their side of the frame syncs up.
Are Violent Video Games Contributing To the Declining Crime Rate?
A new academic paper suggests that the proliferation of violent videos games over the past 20 years has contributed to the more than 50 percent decrease in violent crime over that time period.
The paper’s authors analyzed published studies on the topic of violence and video games, and were able to conclude that “though there is evidence that violent video games cause aggression in a laboratory setting, there is no evidence that violent video games cause violence or crime.”
Will American Airlines’ New Boarding Method Save Time or Create Chaos?
For about a decade, airlines and academics have tried to figure out the fastest way to load passengers onto a plane. The less time spent on boarding, the more revenue-generating flights airlines can squeeze into a day. In fact, according to a 2008 study in the Journal of Transport Management, every minute cut on boarding can save $30 per flight.
Now American Airlines is trying out a new boarding method, and reaction is mixed.
Get Rich Quick! A Billion Dollars in Loose Change Is Just Waiting For You
With all the talk of how broke the US government is, you might be surprised to learn there’s over a billion one-dollar coins sitting unused in Federal Reserve vaults. And the US Mint is still cranking them out.
NPR’s Planet Money and Investigations teams found that the coins are the wasteful byproducts of a failed congressional effort to get Americans to use them in everyday commerce.
Cirque du Soleil Performer Unleashes Amazing Gravity-Defying First Pitch [VIDEO]
We’ve seen some truly horrendous first pitch efforts over the years, from the “what did you expect” dribbler that Mariah Carey uncorked, to the shameful 10-footer that NBA star John Wall recently unleashed.
The crowd at PETCO park in San Diego was treated to the opposite side of that coin Monday, when Cirque du Soleil performer Gabryel Nogueira da Silva was given the task of the ceremonially first pitch.
Will Charlie Sheen’s ‘Two and a Half Men’ Character Get Killed Off?
According to sources for TMZ, ‘Two and a Half Men’ creator Chuck Lorre may be planning to kill off Charlie Sheen’s character, Charlie Harper, when the top-rated sitcom returns to CBS this fall.
Though TMZ notes that the script has not been finalized, and will not shoot until August 5, producers are allegedly considering a number of options for Charlie’s exit, including having him drive a car off of a cliff.