With more and more people choosing to travel by bike, it’s important for both drivers and cyclists to understand the rules of the road in order to prevent disaster. Luckily, Bikeyface.com has a whole series of comics explaining the viewpoint of cyclists. And before you complain, car-driving brethren, remember that the more bikes there are, …

Anyone with a major project on the horizon will tell you that a good contractor is hard to find, but there are plenty of contractors out there wondering why the phone isn’t ringing as well. The problem could be that your marketing needs a makeover. Tom Reber at Motor has been there and confronts three …

Iron Maiden has been around for 40 years and is now collaborating with a British brewery to release their own beer called Trooper. The beer will be available in England and Wales in May, and by online order to Americans. Trooper — described as a traditional English ale at 4.8% alcohol — will be available …

The reigning wisdom says that everyone’s a little Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, but if you don’t happen to be an O’ Something, no worries thanks to this handy list floating around on Facebook on how to find your leprechaun name. Full story at Pride of the Irish @ Facebook via Girls Guide to Beta. …

Rats. Seriously, not many words can make me shudder like this. They breed like crazy – each female can bear nearly 100 rats each and every year. And it’s not just because New York City is an exciting place to be, it’s just the way they are built. But, NYC needs some rats, because they …

As if a volcanic lake wasn’t cool enough to light the fires of your imagination, get a load of the color atop Indonesia’s Mount Kelimutu, the various shades of which can be seen in a series of photos at Top World Tourism. Believed to be a gathering place of the spirits, these three lakes — …

What Aristotle said of Greek tragedy in the Poetics is also true of the Martini. “Having passed through many changes, it found its natural form; and there it stopped.” …. I am not arguing that there is a natural recipe for the Martini, a natural proportion of gin to vermouth. I am arguing that there …

Peter Howell is the film critic who at one time, was best known for panning The Big Lebowski, and he is now recanting in a big way in an article in the Toronto Star. He says he was “underwhelmed” at first by the film and the day it opened at Sundance the publicist for the …

Every so often the powers-that-be in the fashion world decide to throw men a curveball to mix up their formal wear line-up, but if a velvet jacket or new cut simply isn’t in the budget, using one of these tie tutorials from Black Lapel’s The Compass could be just the thing to break the ice …

A Maryland man and three others received organ transplants last year from someone who had died, unknowingly at the time, of rabies. The Maryland man has succumbed and the other three are currently receiving shots to prevent disaster. Rabies almost always causes death. It’s a viral disease that spreads in the body, along the peripheral …

Time has compiled a list of traits found in the most successful college students. They note first that, it seems to be all about what you do once you get to college, and not where you actually go to college. Researchers show that there are three types of learners: Surface – they do as little …

If green beer isn’t your staple on St. Patrick’s Day, then Guinness is the way to go, yet if a pint of stout isn’t your idea of a celebration, feel free to get your mix on with these six cocktails from One Martini at a Time and Guinness itself. Not only is everybody a little …