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We’re still plotting our first solar-powered product purchase, but with all the wacky doodads made to run off sunlight we have to admit the choices are a little bewildering. should we get something useful like a solar-powered mouse for our computer? Or, do we get something that’ll really impress all the folks at the office, [...]

A tragic death can turn a star into an icon, but what about the various figures we rarely hear about who died in silly and unfortunate circumstances? Well, it’s a little embarassing, but they died because they ate too much, kicked furniture out of frustration and succumbed to infection, chocked on feathers, bottlecaps and their [...]

Today is the bicentennial of Honest Abe’s birth. Had he been a land tortoise (one not shot in a theater box, as so many are), he might even be around to celebrate with us. Sadly, our one and only Lincoln was taken from us, and so we’ll have to make do with more-or-less pale imitations. [...]