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Keep Britain Tidy, a British anti-trash campaign run by a prominent environmental group, just released a survey of the garbage it found strewn all over 10 of England's city streets, including London. Its headliner finding: McDonald's accounts for 29% of the fast-food trash left across the country....

When it comes to raising some quick cash, some ingenious people are really willing to go the extra mile. Such is the case of two New Jersey funeral directors who have lost their mortician licenses and face some serious fines and prison time based upon their participation in a body-parts-for-sale...

Somewhere in the middle of 2008's great recession, one thing became painfully clear: 2009 will be a year of retrenchment, and for many people, one of 2009's first casualties will be clutter. All those various possessions that fill closets and make 4,000 square foot homes so necessary may start to...

I'm a sucker for the homemade, the kitchy, and the repurposed, so I'm a sucker for Make Magazine. Make bills itself as "the first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects," but that only describes the devices, not the attitude, which is often hilariously counterculture. Now the magazine...

After touching down at San Francisco International Airport after the holidays, I didn't feel so guilty about flying as I had in the past. Or actually, because of optimism for a New Year, reduced gas prices and a third of the seats on my flight staying empty, I didn't even give a thought about...

It's official. The video tape is officially dead. But then you knew that already.The last manufacturer of VHS tapes shipped out his last truckload of them earlier this week, according to the Los Angeles Times. "It's dead, this is it, this is the last Christmas, without a doubt," Ryan Kugler, 34, a...

Remember when the Post Office started coming out with self-stick stamps? The novelty was thrilling. No longer did we have to lick them! It felt like we were in a golden age. For a while there, sending stuff felt fresh. In 2008, though, the United States Postal Service tried out something new that...