Richie Sambora was arrested on a DUI charge in Laguna Beach, Calif., Tuesday night after he was pulled over with his girlfriend and 10-year-old daughter in the car. The Bon Jovi guitarist was stopped around 10:52 p.m. after police said they spotted him weaving on the road, according Laguna Beach Police Sgt. Jason Kravetz tells …

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Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest: everyday objects underpinned with clockwork.

Earth Hour For one hour tonight, turn off the lights and help conserve energy. Supporters of the plan say it is the equivalent of taking nearly 50,000 cars off the road for an hour. Critics say it’s equivalent to taking 6 cars off the road for a year, and claim that media coverage of the …

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With revolutionary graphics, a classic score, and creative platforming gameplay, the Donkey Kong Country series was one of the most popular games for the SNES, outsold only by the packaged Super Mario World. After another decade, however, the games are considered among the most overrated of all time.

ABC3D is an elegant pop-up book featuring the letters of the alphabet. Plus: a flip book that generates a rainbow.

A man cut off his finger tip while working on a model plane. His brother, a medical research scientist, sent him a vial containing powdered pig bladder and told him to sprinkle on the severed finger tip. It grew back — “flesh, blood, vessels and nail” — in four weeks. Mmm Pigs, is there anything …

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Dressing a dog up as a person is I think not a very good thing. But when I do it, it’s fine. illiam Wegman’s Early Videos. Short Films. Trio/Metropolis/Guitar. Clips from his feature, The Hardly Boys.

Calpernia Addams is the star of the subversive new competitive dating show “Transamerican Love Story“, this seems like an apropos moment to point to her hilarious how-not-to video about rude questions transgendered people are often asked. The video’s a little long, but it’s full of great material, and highly edumacational. Thumbs up. When you’re done …

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“He nice, the Jesus. He make the good things, and on the Easter we be sad because somebody makes him dead today.” Enjoy a little short story about cultural differences and Easter from David Sedaris.

Last of the Summer Wine and Porridge actor Brian Wilde has died aged 80.     Wilde played Foggy in the long-running comedy series Last of The Summer Wine and Barraclough in prison sitcom Porridge, alongside Ronnie Barker.