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We had some pretty dangerous toys as kids, from our pair of ninja stars to the official The Fly matter-transporter, which accidentally turned our friend Chris into a giant ant during an elementary school sleepover. Still, we never got a pellet gun or a samurai sword (no matter how often we asked), nor did we [...]

Hey, the 2010 Winter Olympics are on right now in Vancouver! From what we hear and see, there is not exactly a lot of snow up there, but plenty of ice on the slopes and in the arenas. And, though some of the major figure skating competitions have already taken place, with medals handed out [...]

You would be surprised, we suspect, to see how clean and tidy our computers are given the innumerable things that list experts have to keep in huge quantities. Maintaining a semblance of order is hard work, so when we heard that today is Clean Out Your Computer Day we got a little annoyed: every day [...]

For the many years that we have lived with cats, not once have we seen one even semi-fail, not to speak of outright or epic fails, so it took the emergence of the Internet and its endless numbers of cats to convince us that our feline friends do in fact fail. For instance, look at [...]

Of all the strange vehicles in the world–including stealth boats, solar-powered planes and homemade submarines–there probably isn’t one that we’re less interested in piloting than the snowmobile. That being said, for a long time we didn’t understand just how fast they can go. Then one overtook us on the highway. Still, judging by Epic Carnival’s [...]

Our interactions with police officers have always been of a very civil, unremarkable sort, except for that one time a cop commandeered our parents’ car for a high-speed chase and we never heard from him again. He wasn’t wearing a uniform, but he said he was an under-cover officer busting a drug ring from the [...]

Hey, you know what are just around the corner? No, not highway bandits. The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver! When the big city near where we grew up was first selected to be the host we were determined to make it our grand homecoming. We started training immediately, but quickly put ourselves out of the [...]

One spring, a few years back, as the winter snow finally melted away and the foliage turned a deep green, we were dismayed to see that a family of trolls had taken up residence in the tall spruce tree next to our house. And not the cute trolls with tufts of hair in funny colors; [...]

Today, according to trusty Wikipedia, is St. Knut’s Day in Sweden and Finland, which is named for Canute IV, who ruled Denmark from 1080 to 1086 and decreed that Christmas should be celebrated for 20 days. This means that the celebration ends on the 13th of January, when all the little kids gather and take [...]

Did you know that November is National Model Railroad Month (NMRM) here in the U.S. of A.? No? Well, how could you, really, unless you rode one every day or so. Most of us only use the model railroad very occasionally, and it’s generally an occasion for bedazzled wonder. Daily model railroad commuters have it [...]