So you are a bank teller and someone comes in to rob the bank wearing a hood and a scarf to hide his features. How do you identify the criminal? You might just try asking him to take off his disguise. Police said Brian Waltermyer, 33, walked into the Integrity Bank in York on Thursday ...

SciFi.com’s Dvice blog had news about a new railgun the navy has. I find myself discourage that we continue to find more ways to kill each other and yet I must admit that the guy in me also has the reaction of “13,000 miles per hour, 10 megajoules, cool”! Sue me, it’s the testosterone. Just ...

I found this speech by Barak Obama to support my impression that he is an interesting candidate. I continue to see him as someone who sounds reasonable. I wish that were not such a rare quality in a polititian. In this speech he talks somewhat about his personal faith but more about the role of ...

When I showed my co-workers the video from CES of Bill Gates last day one of them was reminded of a similar short video from Bill Clinton’s last days in office.

I am sure someone somewhere in the Whole Foods management chain thinks this was a good idea but this story originally reported in mlive.com (I saw it on the Church of the Customer Blog) just has me scratching my head. John Schultz says he lost his job at Whole Foods Market in Ann Arbor after ...

The headlines practically writes itself in this stupid criminal story: BOSTON – An alleged bank robber in Boston should have been more aware of who was behind him in line. Police said Adam Grennan, 39, of Hull, passed a note to a teller at Mt. Washington Bank in Dorchester on Monday, demanding large bills and ...

A friend of mine has a friend who’s a retired DC cop. The ex-cop had Christmas dinner at my friends house, where he told a great old story: Patrolling the streets one day, a man flagged him down, waving his arms enthusiastically… Told him, “That guy over there stole my boom box, and that’s the ...

What happens when a simple generous act of buying coffee for a stranger meets the holiday spirit. It might become contagious as it did this week near Seattle, Washington. MARYSVILLE — Lindsey Molstad of Stanwood was pleasantly surprised Wednesday afternoon when a man in a sports car with Texas plates paid for her vanilla latte ...

5 year old Harry Cordaiy is now called “Mousetrap Man” by his class mates. He and his classmates had been the victim of a thief or thieves at their school before Harry sprung into action. He devised a homemade ink bomb using a mousetrap and food coloring attached to a $5 note. Using his homemade ...

Fark had a story about a man who made an unwise decision regarding a lost hat: A man who fell six stories into a trash compactor that activated when he hit survived the ordeal, Moline police said. Police were called to the building by a resident who could hear a male voice yelling for help ...