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According to the Saturday, December 24th New York newspaper, my friend Peter Franklin, the New York City Cab AND GAB driver transported Santa Claus around the world Christmas Eve, stopping in 171 countries overnight. I guess Santa used Pete because of some kind of labor dispute with his elves...

Don't ask me, ask my special guest this afternoon (Tuesday) at 4:35 on the Puffman Show. He's Edward Meyer from the world famous Ripley's Believe It or Not and "Easy Ed" us one of my favorite guests ANY time of the year. This afternoon we'll be talking about some strange gift ideas in Ripley's latest claim to fame, "Strikingly True" and it's another winner...

The Bathroom Readers' Institute has done it again! They're out with "Uncle John's 24 Karat Gold Bathroom Reader" glittering with all-new absorbing material, proving again what makes it the best-selling bathroom-reading series in the world. Once again, The Bathroom Readers Institute has unearthed a priceless collection of surprising, amazing, head-scratching, and hilarious articles I'm L

'm doing an interview this afternoon (Thursday) at 4:35PM about Sinatra's favorite watering hole and guess what? It wasn't the Dixie Inn! It was a joint down in Vegas named "Jilly's" that was a favorite Rat Pack hangout. My special guest this afternoon will be Rich Herschlag who's written the untold glamorous and brutal true story of the famous and the infamous...

After several prior failed attempts to challenge social media behemoth Facebook, Google introduced a new service on Tuesday that it hopes will finally do the trick. Called the Google+ project, it’s currently only available to a select group of Google users — they’ll soon be able to invite others — and it will let people share and discuss status updates, photos and links, just like they do on Faceb

In a 7-2 vote, the US Supreme Court ruled Monday that it’s unconstitutional to ban kids from buying or renting violent video games, saying that despite fears the games may prompt children to emulate what’s seen in them, the government has no right to “restrict the ideas to which may be exposed.” The decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association upholds that of the 9th Circuit federal a

Being out and about and having your cell phone battery die has to be one of the most irritating first-world problems in existence. What if you could avoid it simply by wearing the right shirt? That’s what UK mobile phone company Orange is striving for.

YouTube A bill has passed in Nevada that makes it legal for Google’s fleet of driverless cars to take to the state’s roads. The hope is that in the future, these automated cars could avoid the crashes currently caused by distracted driving. Several companies are already hard at work creating the technology necessary to make it happen.

Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history: 1692 – At the Salem Witch Trials, Bridget Bishop is hanged for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries" (More info) 1793 - Washington replaces Philadelphia as US capital (More info)

Xiao Zheng, a 17-year-old living in China, wanted an iPad 2 so badly that he was willing to sell one of his vital organs to get it. Zheng didn't have the money for the tablet computer so he responded to an online ad that offered cash for healthy kidneys...

Using only Legos and rubber bands, Jack Streat was able to build a fully-functional  replica of a Heckler & Koch UMP 45 sub machine gun. This is far from the only time Streat has fashioned a potentially dangerous thing out of Legos;  he was able to build a working chainsaw out of the construction toys, and has a Youtube channel full of videos of other Lego weapons he has assembled. The video f

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