The 2008 economic stimulus checks are printed at the Kansas City Regional Financial Center.

The Sad Side of the Stimulus: 89,000 Checks Sent to Dead or Imprisoned Individuals

It’s not every day that a mistaken piece of mail comes courtesy of the government’s massive economic recovery plan.

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3D Backlash Is Official: Step Up 3D Wants You To Know It’s Playing In 2D Too!

3D fatigue. We have it.

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Graduation Fail: Boy Snoozes Through Obama

All of that talk about the future is understandably exhausting.

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Reporter Demonstrates How ‘Easy’ Stealing iPods Is

Honestly, this segment made me feel strangely safe. Probably not the intention.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in 2002

Richard Blumenthal: Senate Candidate Lies About Vietnam Service

When you’re the attorney general of Connecticut, you may be able to get away with fibbing about military service. But when you’re running for the state’s U.S. Senate seat? Not so much.

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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: First Question Failures

Whether its the bright lights, the zooming TV cameras, or just Meredith Vieira, a select club of Millionaire contestants find the hot seat to be too hot.

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Quotes: Stephen Hughes on Fixing the Dictionary

“An extensive check of online and offline dictionaries did not reveal a single dictionary that correctly referred to gravity being the operative force in a siphon,” − STEPHEN HUGHES, a physicist at Australia’s University of Queensland, discovering an error in the dictionary definition for the word “siphon”.  The error, present in volumes including the Oxford [...]