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  • Seaching for the Next Pocket Fisherman Thursday, 4 Apr 2013 | 4:26 PM ET
    Pocket Hose

    Inventors are hoping their products will hit the infomercial goldmine and become the next OxyClean or Pocket Fisherman.

  • Ha! The Rubber Chicken Economy Is Booming Monday, 1 Apr 2013 | 2:13 PM ET

    Prices bottomed out on everything during the recession, from homes to new cars, but now everything seems to be on an upswing, including the price of a good laugh.

  • Holy Cow! Bovine Sells for $170,000 Thursday, 28 Mar 2013 | 2:39 PM ET
    Karlie the cow was sold for $170,000.

    Think beef is expensive now? A cow just sold for a record $170,000 at auction in Syracuse, New York.

  • Bacon Mouthwash—For Real or Delicious Prank? Thursday, 28 Mar 2013 | 1:16 PM ET
    Scope Bacon Mouthwash

    Scope is now touting bacon-flavored mouthwash. My first reaction—what took so long? But my incredibly accurate instincts tell me something is afoot.

  • Exit Strategy: Is It Time to Quit Your Job? Tuesday, 26 Mar 2013 | 3:29 PM ET

    Employees who've been at the same company 10 years or more are as rare as a unicorn these days. Is it time for you to move on?

  • What Would You Do to Avoid Paying the Bills? Tuesday, 26 Mar 2013 | 1:40 PM ET

    It's getting close to the end of the month. Time to break out the checkbook (anyone still have one of those?) and pay the bills. It turns out some people really will do anything to avoid paying the bills.

  • The Baco: Bacon Taco

    On April 4, opening day for the West Michigan Whitecaps baseball team, fans will be able to buy The Baco after voting for it in an online contest for new menu items. The Baco is made from bacon strips fried into the shape of a taco shell, then filled with lettuce and tomato.

  • Hooters Girls Throw Spring Training a Curveball Wednesday, 20 Mar 2013 | 1:40 PM ET
    Hooters ballgirl at a Philadelphia Phillies Spring Training game interferes with play against the Tampa Bay Rays.

    Hooters girls drafted to man the sidelines during spring training are throwing the game a curveball. Over the last two weeks, there have been several errors, as some Hooters girls attempted to "wing" it playing America's pastime.

  • The Cyprus Threat? Really? Monday, 18 Mar 2013 | 12:58 PM ET
    Cyprus

    Why is a problem in one little corner of the world rippling toward our shores? Are we truly so intertwined with everyone? Even Cyprus? Is this truly a case of The Princess and the Pea?

  • Oops! When Live TV Goes Bad Thursday, 14 Mar 2013 | 5:02 PM ET

    Live television news can be a very funny business, but most of the laughs result from blunders. Here is a very funny way a Los Angeles weatherman reacted after making an embarrassing flub this week.

  • Dow vs. S&P, Who's King of the Market? Wednesday, 13 Mar 2013 | 12:34 PM ET

    The Dow is the King of Indices. When it makes history, we listen. But should another wear the crown?

  • Need a Job? Try Becoming a 'Granny Nanny' Thursday, 7 Mar 2013 | 2:06 PM ET

    We are living longer, and increasingly Americans have long term care insurance or some other means of paying for care in their own homes.

  • Faster than a 4G iPhone. Able to unfreeze computers in a single click. Leaps tall servers in, well, two bounds. It's time to honor the office superhero.

  • Granada, Nicaragua

    Here's a contest that's offering a free "test drive" of retirement in a tropical destination for a month. Applicants "must be willing to relax." Think you got what it takes?

  • Is Silicon Valley Home to Sugar Daddies? Friday, 1 Mar 2013 | 11:53 AM ET

    SugarDaddie.com is offering the town of Woodside, Calif. $11.65 million to change its name to "SugarDaddie.com, USA." But gold diggers usually circle their prey further south in SoCal, where silicone is more prevalent than silicon.

  • Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy economic indicator? Maybe you will now: There was double-digit growth in the amount left under the pillow in 2012!

  • Million Dollar Idea? Battling Dog Breath Thursday, 28 Feb 2013 | 8:30 AM ET

    Here's a story about a personal hygiene startup with a sense of humor, which may have figured out the way to big profits is through a dog's mouth.

  • Telecommuting Experiment: My Day Working From Home Wednesday, 27 Feb 2013 | 11:12 AM ET

    So Marissa Mayer thinks too many Yahoo employees could be deadbeats because they "work" from home, and their absence may be one reason the company's lost its way. So I decided to conduct an experiment and work from home for one day.

  • Jumping Into Oscar Buzz: Aflac for Affleck Thursday, 21 Feb 2013 | 5:19 PM ET

    How can an insurance company with no connection to the film biz find a way to exploit the buzz about the Oscars? It's all in a name.

  • Hey Psy, Move Over for the Harlem Shake Thursday, 14 Feb 2013 | 5:39 PM ET
    The Harlem Shake (Google Office Edition)

    Hey, sexy lady, Gangnam Style is so 2012. Here comes the "Harlem Shake." The new dance craze hit YouTube less than two weeks ago and already has over six million hits.