Stephen Fry’s a man with, as Douglas Adams would have put it, a brain the size of a planet, and a serious love of gadgets. His rundown of the 100 greatest gadgets of all time has a surprising conclusion, albeit one with a decent rationale. More »
Back when everyone was smoking cigarettes wherever the hell they wanted, concertgoers apparently did this thing where they’d wave their lighters around during certain songs? Or something like that? That was before my time so I don’t really know – I had to turn to the anthropologists at Wikipedia to get the historical scoop: More »
A lost remote control is an annoyance. A house fire is a tragedy. A 19-year-old near Cleveland turned the former into the latter when he used a lighter to search under his bed for a missing remote. More »
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Brad Cooper’s Zippo stopped a bullet that could have killed him. Brad Cooper is a very lucky guy. Also, Brad Cooper is crazy. More »
