Isn't Spam sushi a culinary crime? Not in Waikiki.

Popular Mechanics editor-in-chief Jim Meigs brings his father, A. James Meigs, to Panama to learn more about plans to expand the biggest engineering project in history. A. James Meigs grew up on on the canal: his father, Al Meigs, helped to build, and later operate, the Miraflores locks at the Pacific end of the canal.

"Terry lane is now officially deemed a Google-dodger."

Another term for Drummer: Musician’s Labourer.

Richard Dawkins was recently voted one of the world's top three intellectuals (alongside Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky).

Scientists analysed almost 350,000 works of fiction from Britain and the US, then repeated the experiment with ancient Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana between the first and third centuries and Chinese dynastic poetry between the fourth and sixth.

Bossoms bobbed up most frequently, with 219 references. But only 16 of those referred to shape or size.
There were however 66 references to waists and every one specified a slim waist.

It's not good news for the average Aussie woman, whose shape is leaning more towards apple than hourglass.

The one-time mistress of the late Sydney car yard king Peter Warren has made a secret statement to police backing Marcus Einfeld's claims a phantom driver is to blame for his alleged speeding offence.

With many councils now removing bin bags only once a fortnight in order to meet Government-imposed recycling targets, a new type of bait-resistant rodent has evolved among the millions of tons of rubbish left rotting in streets and gardens.

After making his alarmist claim about the drought being the worst in 1000 years, Flannery leaps from one insupportable conclusion to another, with his claim that this supposedly "extraordinary drought" is a "manifestation of the global fingerprint of drought caused by climate change", and his implication that Australians need to prepare for a state of permanent drought. In fact, Australians would do better to prepare for the floods that will almost certainly follow this drought as they have done in the past.

The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.

Say you've just bought Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon", released as a Super Audio CD (SACD) in its 30th anniversary edition in 2003, and you want to play it under Vista. Since the S/PDIF link to your amplifier/speakers is regarded as insecure, Vista disables it, and you end up hearing a performance by Marcel Marceau instead of Pink Floyd.

Sense About Science, a charity that promotes the importance of scientific evidence, warns that celebrities are prone to backing theories and therapies that make no scientific sense and offers them the chance to check their facts first.

A physicist, a biologist and a mathematician sit in a sidewalk cafe, looking at the building across the road. Two people go into the building, then three people come out.
Physicist: "This must be a measuring error!"
Biologist: "This is proof of procreation!"
Mathematician: "If one more person goes into the building, it will be empty!"