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The State of Israel finally has a national bird. Behold, the Hoopoe, chosen during this year’s celebration of the 60th anniversary of the nation’s independence.

The Hoopoe
(Photo by Dhaval Momaya, via Wikipedia)
According to a news brief from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the bird is native to the Middle East and has an Israeli commando unit named [...]

This news item from ABC affiliate Channel 13 News is just too odd to explain. Dachshund poop, Jesus statuette-napping and feuding neighbors… You just have to watch it to believe it.

The governments of France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore have something in common. They don’t fool around when it comes to piracy.
Mike Nizza reports from The Lede: Notes on the News on NYTimes.com that in 2005, the Malacca Straight, one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, was considered a war zone because there [...]

Kids are always making up games. I sure did. I vaguely remember a variant of board game baseball that I came up with in second grade.
But this one sure has me beat. Anshul Samar, a 14-year-old boy from California has created a science-based fantasy card game called Elementeo. According to the blog Geek Dad on [...]

In honor of the beginning of the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica tonight on the SciFi channel at 10:00 p.m., here is an eight-minute humorous recap from SciFi.
And honestly, if you don’t watch Battlestar Galactica, well, you’re a fraking idiot.

So, don’t call us tonight. We’ll be frothing in front of the TV.

The game of quidditch is now a reality at select college campuses on the East Coast.
What was once a game from the imagination of J.K. Rowling in her brilliant Harry Potter books, is now actually being played on an intercollegiate level, Boston.com reports. Teams such as the Amherst College Acromantulas play the Middlebury College Mollywobbles [...]

It’s called a shortnose sturgeon, it’s an endangered prehistoric looking fish, and it may stop the city of Haverhill’s plans to dredge the Merrimack River to bring more boaters and business to the city.

The Newburyport News reports that dredging the 16-mile channel from Newburyport to Haverhill to bring it to a depth of 8 feet [...]

TechCrunch blogs that Automattic founder and WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg may look towards developing social networking tools for its famous blog software.
The news is that Matt hired Andy Peatling, “the developer behind BuddyPress, a social network built on top of WordPress. BuddyPress will now become an official WordPress project.”
As many of our readers know, we [...]

It was a sad day on Tuesday for gamers worldwide when Gary Gygax, the inventor of the renowned role playing game Dungeons & Dragons, passed away. Rest in peace, Gary.
CNN.com reports that Gary and Dave Arneson developed the game in 1974. Miraculously, despite his declining health, Gary hosted D&D games at his home right [...]

I counted at least four or five different commercials hawking sports drinks or vitamin water while watching this year’s Super Bowl. And you can be sure that the New England Patriots and the New York Giants both have huge vats of Gatorade at each end of their respective benches. If it’s not for drinking, then [...]