According to the Pantone Color Institute, Tangerine Tango, an electric orange red, is the color of 2012, and Shine's Sarah Bernard is extremely excited about the news. It's warm, uplifting, and energizing, and it happens to look great with almost every skin tone. 12/8/11 5:36pm ET
Low-cost European airline Ryanair is reportedly planning to offer pornography as an in-flight entertainment option. Passengers would be able to log in to a Ryanair app using their iPads or other handheld devices, then pay to gamble, play games, or watch hardcore porn. 11/8/11 5:57pm ET
A modern art installation valued at $1.1 million has been damaged after an overzealous cleaning woman scrubbed away a patina intended to look like a dried rain puddle. The piece, Martin Kippenberger's ''When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling,'' remains in place at the Ostwall museum in Germany, where it's on loan from a private collector. 11/7/11 11:29am ET
A modern art installation valued at $1.1 million has been damaged after an overzealous cleaning woman scrubbed away a patina intended to look like a dried rain puddle. The piece, Martin Kippenberger's ''When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling,'' remains in place at the Ostwall museum in Germany, where it's on loan from a private collector. 11/7/11 11:29am ET
The painting still hangs next to the "Help Wanted" sign.
A 30-year-old Iowa woman has been arrested for allegedly setting fire to the house of a long-time friend because she defriended her on Facebook. Jennifer Christine Harris has been charged with first-degree arson and is currently being held in the county jail. No one was injured in the blaze, but the friend's garage was destroyed. 11/3/11 6:30pm ET
According to a new study by Kimberly-Clark, gas pump handles are the filthiest public surfaces in America. The other germiest offenders: handles on public mailboxes, escalator rails, ATM buttons, parking meters, crosswalk buttons, and vending machines. 10/25/11 5:57pm ET
The rest of the top ten includes bus seats, bowling shoes and anything kissed by Paris Hilton.
According to a new study by Kimberly-Clark, gas pump handles are the filthiest public surfaces in America. The other germiest offenders: handles on public mailboxes, escalator rails, ATM buttons, parking meters, crosswalk buttons, and vending machines. 10/25/11 5:57pm ET
The list used to include money, but no one uses that anymore.
Japan's biggest toilet maker, TOTO, is taking the toilet on the road with its launch of the Toilet Bike Neo, a bike that's powered entirely by human waste. The bike runs on biogas converted from feces that is harvested directly from the driver -- who sits on the bike's toilet-styled seat. The bike also uses residual light imagery to write messages in the air as it zooms by. 10/7/11 1:23pm ET
California governor Jerry Brown has signed into law a bill that that will prevent local governments from banning male circumcision. The bill was written in response to a ballot measure proposed in San Francisco that aimed to outlaw circumcision in the city. 10/3/11 2:19pm ET
The spirited and leaderless Occupy: Wall Street movement has entered its third week in New York, as activists continue to vent their frustrations with everything from corporate greed to high gas prices to insufficient health insurance. Similar efforts have also sprung up in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle, united in their passion if not necessarily their reasons. 10/3/11 3:36pm ET
Most of the protestors are camping out in their cars and in tents, so they don't have to leave home.
Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are emerging as the victors of last night's Republican debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA. The Washington Post and The Daily Beast called Romney the clear winner, while the National Journal split his victory with Perry, and The New Republic called Perry the sole victor. 9/8/11 2:53pm ET
A 51-year-old Frenchman has been ordered to pay his ex-wife $14,000 in damages for not having enough sex with her during their marriage, which she blames for their breakup. The man was fined under article 215 of France's civil code, which states married couples must agree to a ''shared communal life,'' and which the judge ruled includes having sex. 9/6/11 12:38pm ET
My wife just called attorney Frank Azar "The Strong Arm."
Eddie Murphy has been named host of the 84th annual Academy Awards, scheduled for February 26th. It will be the first time that Murphy, who shot to fame in the 1980s on 'Saturday Night Live' and in movies like '48 Hrs.' and 'Beverly Hills Cop', has hosted the show. 9/6/11 3:36pm ET
He'll then get back to work on Donkey's Caroling Christmas-tacular 2.
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner slugged it out via memo today over the night the president wants to present his jobs plan to Congress (Wednesday, September 7th). Boehner says the House won't be in session that day until 6:30 p.m., which wouldn't give them enough time to host the president at 8:00. The night also happens to be slated for a nationally televised debate for the eight GOP contenders for president. 8/31/11 7:32pm ET
Researchers from Columbia University are projecting that if the current obesity epidemic continues unchecked, 50% of the U.S. adult population will be obese by 2030, and the rate of obesity in men and women in their 40s and 50s will approach 60%. 8/29/11 3:10pm ET
A new paper by researchers at Penn State says an extraterrestrial civilization might notice our planet by detecting changes in the spectral signature of Earth (the light radiated by our planet and atmosphere) caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Then deducing the reason to be our rapid expansion and viewing us as a threat to their resources, they might destroy us. 8/22/11 8:23pm ET
Lets hope the aliens are like France and surrender.
A federal judge in Indiana has sided with the ACLU in ruling that a high school principal was wrong to punish two girls, 15 and 16, for posting pictures of themselves on Facebook in which they're wearing lingerie and striking sexually suggestive poses with lollipops. 8/17/11 4:48pm ET
A passenger on a Paris-to-Dublin flight says takeoff was delayed almost two hours after French actor Gerard Depardieu urinated on the floor. The woman says Depardieu looked drunk and said "I need to piss, I need to piss." Then when told to remain seated, he stood and delivered. 8/17/11 5:45pm ET
When asked if he smelled something bad, Depardieu replied "oui, oui."
President Obama's summer woes have dragged his approval rating to an all-time low, sinking below 40% for the first time in Gallup's daily tracking poll. New data posted Sunday shows that 39% of Americans approve of Obama's job performance, while 54% disapprove. 8/15/11 2:14pm ET
After being reported to police, a suspicious briefcase left at a Beverly Hills office was blown up by the L.A. Bomb Squad last week. The briefcase turned out to contain a laptop computer and a screenplay and had been left by a writer hoping to get an agent to read his work. 8/15/11 4:41pm ET
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