Imagine for a moment

Can't stop giggling

Downhill extreme

A quantum levitator

Promise me you'll kill me

How Doctors Die

Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could triple a patient’s five-year-survival odds—from 5 percent to 15 percent—albeit with a poor quality of life. Charlie was uninterested. He went home the next day, closed his practice, and never set foot in a hospital again. He focused on spending time with family and feeling as good as possible. Several months later, he died at home. He got no chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical treatment. Medicare didn’t spend much on him.

Freeze Mob

It's insulting

Pair of Robbers Want Only iPhones, No BlackBerries

Twice at 526 114th St., and once at 556 114th St., the suspects demanded the victims hand over their iPhones, police said.

The first victim complied, but the second only had a Droid, according to police. The thieves apparently didn't want a Droid -- so they took cash instead.

Born under a lucky star

'Lucky' woman who won lottery four times outed as Stanford University statistics PhD

Used to be funny, but now terrifying

Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works

Address is Approximate

Lightning bolt!

Pure dedication

Stop-Motion Music Video Shot Over Two Years with 288,000 Jelly Beans

Shooting The Hobbit in 3D

A unique spin

Flying a perfectly good plane into the ocean

What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447

The importance of melodrama

Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask

It is an irony noted with relish by critics of the protests – one also glumly acknowledged by many of the protesters – that the purchase of so manyVendetta masks has become a lucrative little side-earner for Time Warner, the media company that owns the rights to Moore's creation. Efforts have been made to avoid feeding the conglomerate more cash, the Anonymous group reportedly starting to import masks direct from factories in China to circumvent corporate pockets; last year, demonstrators at a "Free Julian Assange" event in Madrid wore cardboard replicas, apparently self-made. But more than 100,000 of the £4-£7 masks sell every year, according to the manufacturers, with a cut always going to Time Warner. Does that irk Moore?

"I find it comical, watching Time Warner try to walk this precarious tightrope." Through contacts in the comics industry, he explains, he has heard that boosted sales of the masks have become a troubling issue for the company. "It's a bit embarrassing to be a corporation that seems to be profiting from an anti-corporate protest. It's not really anything that they want to be associated with. And yet they really don't like turning down money – it goes against all of their instincts." Moore chuckles. "I find it more funny than irksome."

Part of the magic is the traffic

Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam

Stamos Snugglefest