Fun with freezing temperatures!

Cheap gas thanks to... e. coli?

In September, a privately held and highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically adapted E. coli bacterium – that feeds solely on carbon dioxide and excretes liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, “fossil fuels on demand.”

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Don't mess with a mascot!

Ricky Gervais Offends Everyone in Hollywood

Even better than a jet pack!

Finding the next Ted Williams?

Man vs. Machine!

Meet Watson, aspiring Jeopardy champ. He's a black rectangle with a globe avatar, and he absorbed 200 million pages of text to prepare for the game show.

Watson is the IBM (IBM) supercomputer sent to do battle with human contestants on Jeopardy. He analyzes the vast amounts of information in his databases to come up with contextual clues that let him understand human language, spotting subtleties like the difference between a dog's bark and a tree's bark, CNN reported.

It's going pretty well. Watson won a practice round of the game show, netting $4,400 and answering no questions incorrectly. It wasn't a walkover – he stayed silent during the "Children's Books" category.

Still, the supercomputer, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson is already a crowd pleaser at a show with categories like "A man, a plan, a canal... Erie!" and "Chicks Dig Me." The audience roared with laughter when Watson came off with game show speak like "Let's finish up 'Chicks Dig Me.'"

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Hopefully you had an easier time than this yesterday!

The Man With the Golden Voice has Hit Hard Times

"Dr. Phil" says Ted Williams, the golden-voiced Ohio homeless man, is going into rehab to deal with alcohol and drug dependency.

Williams agreed to enter a private facility after a lengthy one-on-one interview with Dr. Phil McGraw that is set to air today, according to a statement from the show.

"If Ted is ever going to get better, he's got to be honest with himself and admit he's addicted to drugs and alcohol," the statement from "Dr. Phil" says. "I've told him it's not going to be easy and it's going to take a lot of hard work. It might be a long journey for him, but this is a big step in the right direction."

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This is one way to motivate your bandmates to get better

With all the snow, you can practice this

Hopefully the closet was smell-proof!

Police in Japan were questioning a man for abandoning a corpse after his father's mummified remains were found in a wardrobe in the apartment they shared, local media reported yesterday.

The 55-year-old man reportedly admitted to police that he put the body of this father, Mitsuo Sonoda, into the wardrobe, The Mainichi Daily News reported.

"More than five years ago, during the winter, I came home and found my father in his bed. He wasn't moving. I left him there for a week, but he started to smell, so I put him in the wardrobe," he was quoted as telling investigators.

The son continued to pocket pension payments made to his father, who he shared the Kyoto apartment with for 10 years.

Police said the remains of the senior citizen - who would have been 92 years old - were found after his son's ex-wife visited the apartment January 4 and told police she "could find no sign" of her former father-in-law.

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