It used to be that you had to get media corporations on your side to get worldwide attention. Not anymore. If the news about this year's Super Bowl commercials are any indicator, we may be moving into an age where virtual marketing may not only be cheaper, it's more effective as well. By ads, I mean the ones that didn't make it to air, but are now floating around on the Internet for all to see. Consider the latest PETA commercial, which NBC refused to let air during the Super Bowl because it "depicts a level of sexuality exceeding our standards", according to Victoria Morgan, NBC Universal's advertising standards executive.

"The Speeches of Barack Obama" is a textbook that compiles all of Obama's speeches from his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech to his victory speech when he secured the Democratic nomination this past year. It is written in English with corresponding Japanese translations, and comes with a CD presumably so that readers can perfect their pronunciation. It has sold over 420,000 copies in Japan since its release on November 20.

Scientists have recently discovered one of the largest single-celled organisms in the seafloor of the Bahamas. Why should you care? Because it's providing new insights into evolutionary history.

"It's only a game". Or is it? The discussion of the line between virtual and real has reopened now that a British couple is filing for divorce because of possible cyber-adultery.

Although this story took place at the University of Illinois, it could conceivably have occurred at any college campus. A sex offender carrying a three-inch folding knife was recently arrested at 2:30 in the morning in the university's undergraduate library. The scary part? He may have been living there for a few days behind movable bookshelves.

We've heard about GPS capabilities being placed in devices like cell phones. But now they're being placed in perhaps the unlikeliest of places: lingerie! But before you get too startled or outraged like a feminist group in Berlin, you might be interested to find that the device provides women in certain violent countries protection from potential attackers or rapist

If you could make your DNA available to the world, would you? Now you can, as a result of a new scientific initative, the Personal Genome Project. The idea is simple: You send in your DNA, which is then decoded into your genome and placed on the web site. But that's not all. Your phenotype, or the resulting products from your gene sequence, is also made available.

Josh Pothen recalls the life of a woman named Lillian Doerksen, often called the "Protestant Mother Teresa" for her work in India raising orphaned girls and opening schools in Maharashtra for the deaf. She was also Pothen's grandmother, and in this blog he shares some of his own insights into her life.

Tired of waking up on a Saturday afternoon only to discover the ridiculous emails you sent last night while drunk? Well, Google has launched Mail Googles to prevent just that. Using simple arithmetic problems to screen for drunk users, Mail Googles might be just what you need.

In the advent of today's eco-friendly lifestyles, Manuel de Arriba Ares, a retired gym teacher in a village in Spain, has taken the trend to a new level by estabilishing a "ecological gym" made of primarily tree trunks and old pieces of lumber, in an effort to publicize his small town.