How about a story on one of my favorite foods: popcorn?!! I can't say the troop of boy scouts in this article from the Today's TMJ4 website has the worst problem in the world...

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I have to love their selling technique!

This is a somewhat amusing article from The Age website about what astronauts do to get rid of their trash:

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Who knew space could be one big garbage bin? I can't help but wonder, though, if this has any effect on global warming...or if in the future we'll all just launch our trash into space after the dumps on earth are full...

Okay, this article from the San Francisco Chronicle may not be as obscure as some of the previous ones, but I thought it might amuse some of you:

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Personally, I really doubt that dogs enjoy having T.V.s blaring in their rooms, nor, I'm sure, do they enjoy wearing jewelry. The money might be better spent on animal shelters, no?

Okay, this post from ScienceDaily is sort of old, like from October 2003, but it's still pretty interesting:

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Looks like dieters should opt for taller glasses! I wonder though, what size glass should you use for drinking eight glasses of water a day?

You heard it here first! A scandal for Hershey's Canada, courtesy CBC.ca:

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I sure hope you don't live in Canada!

This is a story from NBC4i.com about some poor deer who randomly wandered into a Target store in Iowa:

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I feel bad for the deer, but if you look on the right side of the picture, a Target guy is in a pretty funny pose!

Here's an article from KHOU.com with an amusing story on a Missouri jail:

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Jails seem to be going a little soft these days...

Here is an article/video from Reuters on "Robot Athletics"

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Okay, the robot that looks like a real woman is pretty cool, but I just can't bring myself to consider waddling after an exercise ball a sport.