Gidget, the famous Taco Bell chihuahua, died today at the age of 15. Probably one of the most famous dogs aside from Lassie and Rin-tin-tin, she will be missed. Bye Bye pup. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

So for 27-seconds the governor of California, better know as the Terminator, wielded a 2-foot knife at the Twittersphere while thanking people for their ideas on cutting the $26 billion dollar deficit. The best idea, having him sign state owned cars and then auction them off, after all he is a celebrity. They say the [...]

Oh what a stir there has been over Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. The book has been written and the cartoon has been drawn, but now we are in store for a very different Wonderland. Not even twisted American McGee’s Alice can compete with Burton’s design. He is creating a world unlike any other, taking [...]

Voting is going on right now for the New 7 Wonders of the World. The field is now narrowed to 28 finalists from the original 261 natural wonders submitted for consideration. The New 7 Wonders organization predicts a billion people will ultimately vote for the seven winners, which will be announced in 2011. The finalists [...]

To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11′s historic landing on the moon, NASA had a giant moon pie created for guests of the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, FL. According to Yahoo! News, the pie is 40 inches in diameter and weighs 55 pounds. Fourteen of those pounds are made up of marshmallow [...]

Think you need a terminal degree and scads of classroom time to be an astronomer? Not so much… Amateur astronomers, those with a passion but without a grant funding them, can sometimes make discoveries that the pros miss. That happened just the other day, in fact; an amateur astronomer from Australia (say that three times [...]

Do you ever look at signs and wonder what in the world does that mean? Well these are a few signs that would make anyone go ‘WHAT?’ How often do they have a problem with people MOLESTING the alligators? There just aren’t words for this one. Yeah, have fun with that. Now that is just [...]

On July 22, 2009 there will be a solar eclipse, the longest on record. Experts estimate that it will be completely eclipsed for 6 1/2 minutes. In all the eclipse will last 3 hours. Unfortunately North America will be blind for this momentous event. Only those in Southeast Asia and the Pacific will get this [...]

He doesn’t use canvases and brushes aren’t for him. His art is fleeting, there for an instant, gone by the next rain. Julian Beever is a chalk artist. He makes side walks with images that come to life. Take a gander at what he can do. Is the baby real or part of the art? [...]

In this era of Photoshop and artistic “manipulation” of pictures, it gets harder and harder to tell the real from the fake. About.com has a quiz to see if you can sort reality from fiction. Give it a shot (click here) and see how you do! Here’s a hint: The photo above is one of [...]