A new study in the U.K. has found that cheating isn’t just an undergraduate sport anymore.  Masters and Doctoral students are now playing the cheat game.  Used to be, spotting cheaters was relatively easy.  Check for odd pieces of paper hidden up sleeves or tiny writing on the arms hidden under sleeves.  Strained neck muscles from looking over someone’s shoulder was another. tell tale sign of a cheater.

Anyone who has ever had custody of a small child, accompanied a pregnant woman or suffered from an enlarged prostate or aging bladder, knows how important finding a bathroom in a strange place can be. MizPee is now available to help in these emergency situations. Google can help you find streets and gives you street views, but it doesn’t help you find the “necessary room” in your hour of need.

Rock is full of unsexy performances. There’s Alanis Morissette’s “So Unsexy, that time Nirvana sang “In Bloom” in dresses, and the entire career of Hanson.

Ever since eBay started, there has been a craze for auctioning some ludicrous items. Whether it be a unit of currency for more than it’s worth, or some object of food which is said to resemble something else, they crop up all the time. But who actually bids, and then maybe even buys these items?

Nicholas Gurewitch has just announced that he’s retiring his Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip.

Sort of.

2007 was the year of the online identity — and politicians scrambled to keep up. Whether they recognized it or not, the internet was creeping into every aspect of American politics in some very strange ways. The game was changing, and sometimes even the faces of the players — both online and off.

There is no doubt that the Internet is affecting not only online language, but also how we speak. A thought that may send a shudder up the spine of old Internet users.

The glory days of the comic book industry are well and truly over, and while the companies should be happy for any acknowledgement of their existence, Marvel Comics and DC Comics have decided to declare war on the fans.

He stole 130 laptops, police suspect, from 24 different companies in five states.

For over 12 years, Eric Almly travelled the country committing robberies, according to the St. Petersburg Times. Once he even called his victim and taunted them from a payphone.

A Newsvine user busted a powerful stealth campaign with just a few clicks, and a simple question. “Why does Newsvine allow political organizations to seed ‘astroturf’ content?”