Hamburgers won’t just supersize your waistline, but according to a growing number of scientists they are the carbon spewing equivalent of the gas guzzling Hummer in the world of food.
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Police are looking for pranksters who hijacked a Taco Bell’s drive-through radio signal and used it to shout vulgarities to customers. The suspects posed as Taco Bell employees in the Tuesday afternoon episode, which lasted a few minutes. Continue Reading »

A naked man on a motorcycle who crashed with an Arkansas state trooper’s cruiser on a night when it was sleeting faces misdemeanor charges. A police report said a 35-year-old man kept riding when a trooper tried to pull him over during the Jan. 26 incident.

The man stopped abruptly several times in the street and then sped up quickly, until the trooper bumped him on one of the stops. Continue Reading »

A Utah woman listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails has lost them in a car crash. Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries in the accident Tuesday.

Redmond’s nails, which hadn’t been cut since 1979, were broken in the crash. According to the Guinness Web site, her nails measured a total of more than 28 feet long in 2008, with the longest nail on her right thumb at 2 feet, 11 inches. Continue Reading »

Nokia Corp. begged for forgiveness from consumers after its new cloud-based service broke down.

The Finnish manufacturer — which is striving to evolve into a mobile Internet services company — said its Contacts for Ovi offering shut down after a cooler failed, causing a server to crash. The service was down for several hours Thursday and — more importantly — all customer updates for the past three weeks were lost. Continue Reading »

The Hummer H2 and H3 are massive machines that roll down the freeways with the drivers giving off some impression that they own the road. And with the recent findings that Hummer drivers are 4.63 times more likely to get a ticket while driving, technically they are paying for a good percentage of the roads more than the average driver. Continue Reading »

What is your’s is yours. The Queen’s English will become the Queens English. What is worse is that soon the exclamation mark and question mark could be banned making it impossible for Britain-ites to shout in messages or ask questions via written form. Continue Reading »

Apparent slacker hackers with time to kill brought a raised eyebrow or two to the faces of motorists at a busy Austin intersection.

Electronic signs intended to warn motorists of construction near the intersection of Lamar and Martin Luther King boulevards were changed yesterday to warn of “Zombies Ahead! Run for your lives!” Continue Reading »

Comcast believes the pornography that interrupted its feed of the Super Bowl Sunday night was the result of foul play, a company spokeswoman said Monday morning. Continue Reading »