Oprah Winfrey’s private jet was forced to return to the city airport after its windshield was cracked in a collision with a bird, officials said. Winfrey and her boyfriend, Stedman Graham, were not hurt in the incident, which occurred around 12:30 p.m. Monday just after the GulfStream jet had taken off from Santa Barbara Municipal […]

Can you remember who uttered of each of the following utterly idiotic tech-related utterances in 2005?
# “Lightweight, and crank it on, and you shuffle the shuffle.”
# “I know what I don’t know, and to this day I don’t know technology and I don’t know accounting and finance.”
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In Berlin -Germany- Emilio Rinaldi was 12 when a friend accidentally shot him in the waist and his family was unable to pay the hospital bill. Now 60 years later, his debt with Berlin Memorial Hospital has been settled. Rinaldi, now of Eau Claire, is retired from the insurance business and serves on the board […]

“I have nothing against Santa Claus. I love Christmas,” animal researcher Milan Shipka said. “But reindeer meat is healthy and it tastes good, and most people don’t think of Santa eating his reindeer when he’s done on the 26th.” Not that Shipka plans to dine on the 17 pregnant reindeer he’s studying at a University […]

Is it still Christmas in your part of the world, or are you having a second Christmas day off of all the left-overs from yesterday? Here’s a list of 128 songs which are all explicitly released under a Creative Commons license (no, I did not consider songs which are merely “podsafe”!) and thus can […]

Little is known about the Dodo, a famous flightless bird thought to have become extinct in the 17th century. No complete skeleton has ever been found in Mauritius, and the last full set of bones was destroyed in a fire at a museum in Oxford, England, in 1755. Researchers believe the bones are at least […]

The Globe and Mail is reporting on another group of researchers delving into the field of ’synthetic biology.’ The project stemming (zing!) from the efforts of two biology labs in British Columbia and Maryland is attempting to create the first synthetic life form. From the article: ‘The project is being spearheaded by U.S. scientist Craig […]

Healthy mangrove forests helped save lives in the Asia tsunami disaster, a new report has said. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) compared the death toll from two villages in Sri Lanka that were hit by the devastating giant waves. Two people died in the settlement with dense mangrove and scrub forest, while up to 6,000 […]

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Photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveil the planet Uranus has two more moons than originally thought, and two faint rings never observed before. The new moons, which were named Mab and Cupid (like the other moons named after characters in Shakespeare), bring the total number of satellites or “small moons” orbiting Uranus to […]