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Couch Potatoes Everywhere Are Mourning The Death Of Eugene Polley At 96

Jon Prell — Tue, 22 May 2012 21:39:37 +0000

If you have never heard of Eugene Polley, you are not alone, but you honor him every time you turn on your TV and channel surf to your heart’s content. Polley died on Sunday at the age of 96 and he invented the first wireless TV remote in 1955. That first remote made life so much [...]

NBA Season In Serious Jeopardy – Union To Disband [Video]

Jon Prell — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:22:48 +0000

First the NFL, now the NBA. The difference being the NFL resolved their issues and beyond missing a couple of pre-season games, the season started as scheduled. The NBA is another story and yesterday the player’s union rejected the league’s latest proposal making it all but certain, this season is done. What is interesting is that [...]

Woman Calls 911 After Getting Lost In Corn Maze [Video]

Jon Prell — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:20:38 +0000

It’s Halloween and here in the Tri-State people love haunted hayrides and corn mazes in fact, we have several great corn mazes right here. The other day, a family in Massachusetts was enjoying a corn maze and got disoriented (which is easy to do), got lost and became so panicked, they called 911. Turns out the [...]

'Twitter' Used In Scientific Study About Human Behavior And Happiness

Jon Prell — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:35:13 +0000

It is a fact and confirmed by Twitter that people generally wake up in a good mood and are happiest on weekends. How do you get that from Twitter? Scientists at Cornell University apparently had nothing better to do so, they turned to Twitter to get a glimpse of real-time unfiltered human behavior and they found a pretty consistent pattern.

Classic Toy Gets Slick Makeover – Easy Bake Oven

Jon Prell — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:59:25 +0000

It was not intended, but when the federal government announced it would be phasing out the incandescnet light bulb, it looked like it was curtains for one of the classic toys of all time, the Easy Bake Oven. Hasbro, the manufacturer decided to use the opportunity for a makeover to give the toy a brand new look.

New Lead In D.B. Cooper Case

Jon Prell — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:47:05 +0000

It remains one of the biggest and most baffling mysteries in U.S. history, whatever happened to the guy who jumped from a Northwest Orient 727 over the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 in cash on November 24, 1971? He was dubbed D.B. Cooper in the media because he boarded the flight as Dan Cooper and shortly after takeoff, [...]