Book About Veganism Draws Unnecessary Backlash

We live in a country where the obesity rate has been on a steady incline for the past decade.One would think that promoting eating healthfully would be a good thing, but in the case of a book called Vegan Is Love: Having Heart and Taking Action, the response has been less than savory.

If You Pee In A Lake, You Might Kill Some Fish

Fishermen in Hamburg, Germany are taking swimmers to task, blaming their micturatory habits for the death of 500 fish in Eichbaum Lake. Some in the area have written this off as the latest episode in a longstanding feud between swimmers and fishermen, but are the anglers correct in saying swimmers are the number one cause of fish deaths, or are they all wet?

Toyota Teams With Nintendo to Use DS as Nav System

We don't know why anyone would want to spend over $2,500 to turn their Nintendo DS into a remote control for their car's GPS, but if you have a Toyota and a DS, now you can do so. Well, at least if you live in Japan. The system is available with a Toyota Smart Navi that costs $2,586, and it's called Kuruda de DS.

World’s First Phony Phone Call

It didn’t take long after Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone for people to figure out one of its best uses: making prank phone calls. It seems that a man in Providence, Rhode Island may have been the first to make such a call, a mere eight years after Mr. Bell invented the telephone.