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Why did the gallimaufry cross the road? To get to the other side. • Exoplanets! • My kind of store • Captain Fantastic • Recycled styrofoam Gundam • Fictional doomsday devices • More than meets the eye • Dennis Hopper...

Last fall, as part of Forbes.com's Special Report on The Future, we asked readers to bet on the likelihood of certain events occurring in 2008. They could predict who would win the Presidency, what would happen to the price of...

Google's Android platform may take things too literally: Users of T-Mobile's new Android-based G1 phone have discovered that if they type the word "reboot" into a text message or email, the phone will take it as a command and automatically...

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Wondering who's going to win the presidential election? An innovative "pint poll" suggests that voters are thirsty for change and preparing to pull the tab on Barack Obama. The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium is a chain of beer bars with...

SCARY THINGS WEEK: LINKDUMPS This Halloween, if you look in a mirror and say "gallimaufry" three times, you will summon the spirit of Noah Webster, who will drag you off to a one-room schoolhouse in Connecticut, from which you will...

SCARY THINGS WEEK: DISNEY PIRATES In January I blogged about a model pirate ship I received as a bit of promotional swag for Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean Online, a massively multiplayer game where players can create their own pirate...

SCARY THINGS WEEK: FAMOUS PEOPLE Forget your current Halloween costume idea --let everyone else dress up as the Joker or a bankrupt stockbroker. Why not disguise yourself as someone truly scary instead? Our annual collection of Halloween masks highlights some...

SCARY THINGS WEEK: NUCLEAR HOLOCAUSTS The Fallout series of video games take place more than a hundred years in the future, after a nuclear exchange between China and the U.S. leaves the world half-dead, mostly destroyed, and heavily irradiated. The...

SCARY THINGS WEEK: FAMOUS CORPSES While things might be topsy-turvy in financial markets above ground, it's still a bull market in the bone yard. The 13 famous names that comprise our Top-Earning Dead Celebrities earned a combined $194 million over...

SCARY THINGS WEEK: ROBOT APOCALYPSE According to a report in New Scientist, the Pentagon has put out a request for contractors to help them build a "Multi-Robot Pursuit System" that will let packs of robots independently "search for and detect...

SCARY THINGS WEEK: OBLIGATORY INTRO Things have been pretty scary lately. Between the U.S. elections, the global financial meltdown, and the box-office dominance of High School Musical 3, it's been almost to much to bear. But we here at the...

You know what would look amazing on you at all of those Halloween parties? A gallimaufry. • Xkcd twitters • Psychedelic broccoli • Dr. Pepper makes good • Amazing pumpkin carvings • Superman helps out Batman • X-rays emitted from...

Amazon.com's Kindle electronic book reader has been on the market for almost a year now, and by most accounts has been a pretty successful product. But the gizmo is about to get a major sales bump, thanks to an endorsement...

T-Mobile's G1 phone officially released to stores yesterday. It's the very first handset to run Google's Android operating system, an open source alternative meant to take the wind out of Apple's iPhone. But is it any good? Last night I...

Bubbles are like pornography: Everyone has his or her own opinion as to what qualifies, but it is impossible to pen a precise definition. If you wish to push the metaphor further, both are also fun for a while, if...

SciFi.com's DVICE blog has spent months consulting with voting-machine experts, makers, election officials, and studies to evaluate the voting machines that will be used in next month's U.S. presidential election. The result of their labors is a fascinating interactive map...

Warren Buffett says now is the time to buy yourself a gallimaufry. • Lunar golf • Welcome to the Terrordrome • XKCD v. New Yorker cartoon off • Buy an underground sanctuary • Orangutans in a wheelbarrow • Batman debates...

Apple's new MacBook portables may be sleek and stylish, flawlessly laser-cut from a single piece of aluminum. But the company's overseas marketing strategy isn't quite as precise. As Valleywag points out, following Steve Jobs' announcement of the new notebooks on...