Oh happy day! Something that combines my favourite pastime—drinking—with my second-favourite pastime—washing down prescription medication with alcohol. Russian professor Evgeny Moskalev of Saint Petersburg Technological University has invented a technique that can turn alcohol into powder to be compressed into pills. This new method is capable of solidifying alcohol renders it dry to carry around in [...]

Last week, we asked your opinion on how you would deal with nocturnal and vocal neighbours who just don’t know how to say ‘no’ when they’re saying, “yes, yes, yes!” Well, the results are in and 25% of you said you would rather pull the pillow over your head and suffer in silence. That said, [...]

While we’re talking all things political, here’s a story that warmed my emaciated frame a couple of degrees this morning. Zealot and anti-gay protester, Michelle Deferio stood on a corner at Syracuse University last week with a placard denouncing the lifestyle. Out of retaliation, a drama student at Syracuse, Chris Pesto stood beside her with his [...]

They say that you should never talk about religion, politics or yourself for a reason. Following this morning’s leadership change in the Australian Liberal Party from silver fox, Malcolm Turnbull to Prince Charles impersonator, Tony Abbott, Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets have been ablaze with commentary from supporters of both sides of the [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported on a British woman who was forced by her local council to keep the accompanying sound effects to her love-making sessions to a minimum. Neighbours complained after she was reaching the high notes in the heights of ecstasy, disrupting the rest of her apartment block as they were sleeping. [...]

Hailing a cab in Mexico is now just that extra bit more difficult if you’re bloke. The city of Puebla is the latest municipality to provide a taxi service exclusively for women. Designed to reduce attacks on women by pervy drivers, the fleet of thirty-five hot pink Chevrolets are driven by women who will not [...]

I can hear William Shakespeare rolling in his grave like a lamb on the spit in a late-night kebab shop. Some genius at New Oxford American Dictionary has decided that ‘unfriend’—the act of removing someone’s friendship on a social networking site such as Facebook—is worthy of being officially adopted into official American English after its [...]

United States President Barack Obama has caused a storm in a Japanese earthenware cup for a breach of imperial protocol. When meeting Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan at the weekend, President Obama bowed deeply while shaking hands with the Emperor, considered a major faux pas in Japanese bowing etiquette. The affair is reminiscent of [...]

A Florida man was arrested after making a phone call to 911 after his mobile phone ran out of credit. Joshua Basso, the genius pictured below called the number he always knew would be free and asked the operator about her breasts before she hung up on him. Unperturbed, he called back and was hung [...]

A New Zealand MP was forced to apologise publicly after writing a hostile reply to a voter who had written a letter criticising his behaviour on a tax-payer funded trip. The member of the public e-mailed the Maori party leader, Hone Harawira after he opted to go sightseeing in Paris and skipped his obligations to [...]