Walmart Shoppers in All Their Glory

I thought this seemed appropriate on Halloween.

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Halloween Light Show

Caught on Video: Elderly Woman Driving Wrong Way on Interstate

An 84-year-old woman from Wilmington, Pennsylvania, was seen driving the wrong way on I-95 Thursday afternoon, causing several crashes along the way. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured.

This video was shot by another driver:


So far, the woman has not been formally charged with any crime.

Naturally, the first thing I thought of after reading that story was this scene from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles:

Allow Extra Time at the Airport When Traveling This Holiday Season

Thanks to changes in the "security" screening process in U.S. airports, you will want to allow plenty of extra time when traveling this holiday season. As a passenger, you now have a choice when passing through a security checkpoint: 1) You may walk through the full-body image scanner, or 2) you may submit to a pat-down.

If you opt for the latter, be aware that this is not a back-of-the-hand frisking and a quick wave of a metal-detecting wand. The new procedure is so invasive that the TSA agents conducting these intimate groping sessions will be required to buy each passenger dinner first. Pad your travel schedule accordingly.

Of course, you could always choose option one and have naked pictures of yourself taken and stored in a federal database so they can be ogled later by tax-subsidized perverts. It's entirely up to you.

I really long for the days when traveling to Grandma's meant a pleasant sleigh ride over the river and through the woods. I don't know about you, but my idea of holiday cheer doesn't involve sexual harassment.

Dads Against Daughters Dating

I may have to get one of these within the next few years.

NEWSFLASH: The World Won't End in 2012

Let's clear up something first. The Mayans never predicted the cataclysmic end of all things in a particular year; their calendar just ran out of dates. My theory is that the guy assigned to write down all those dates simply got tired and quit. But try making that into a Hollywood movie.

Like Y2K before it, 2012 has become its own multimillion-dollar industry. Web sites, books, movies, you name it; just about everyone has gotten in on the action. So imagine the collective disappointment when it was discovered that the Mayan Long Count Calendar - or at least our understanding of it - is wrong. The world won't come to an end in 2012. In fact, the ending date on the calendar may be off by 50 to 100 years. (Someone forgot to carry the one, or something like that.)

I guess that means our grandchildren will probably be the ones having to worry about the end of the world. But since they would have already had to deal with the bankruptcy of Social Security and Medicare, the collapse of the U.S. dollar, a third world war, and several more butchered re-releases of the Star Wars movies, I can't think of a better-prepared generation.

iPhone Travels to Space, Falls 100,000 Feet, and Survives

This is cool. Over the span of eight months, seven year old Max Geissbuhler and his father built a spacecraft designed to carry an iPhone that would record the trip to the outer edge of Earth's atmosphere. Here is footage of that amazing trip.



So what did your kid do for his science project?

iPhone Rock Concert on the B Train

Members of the alternative rock group Atomic Tom, using only iPhones, perform their single "Take Me Out" on the B Train in New York City.

"Validation" (an Award-Winning Short Film)

Mr. T on Sound Investing

I don't want to speak for Mr. T, but I'm sure he would pity the fool who doesn't invest in gold.



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