A British lottery winner doubled his share of the jackpot to nearly £1 million ($2.4 million) after discovering he mistakenly bought two lucky tickets for the same draw. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A couple picking up trash along a roadside found a winning scratch-off lottery ticket that led them to a $1,000 jackpot. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The Michigan Lottery will issue the most expensive ticket in its history -- $50 per ticket -- for a shot at the $2 million top prize. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The lottery ticket Hugo Esparragoza wrapped in a box and gave to his wife turned out to be worth $1 million. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all. That's because he's also a convicted bank robber who isn't supposed to be gambling. Boston probation commissioner's office has scheduled a court hearing for December 7 to determine whether Timothy Elliott, 55, violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket for the "$800 Million Spectacular" game at a H... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

A circuit judge created a firestorm at the courthouse when he let go his longtime assistant battling cancer just days before Christmas. picked by dollyllama 8 months ago

Nothing announces the arrival of a horrible day like a nice, sternly-worded error message on your PC. picked by punthe 5 months ago

Generate Windows error messages to fool your friends! picked by Mango-fox 10 months ago

You have to read this error message it rocks! picked by willster09 7 months ago

Sony Corp. said sales of its PlayStation 3 gaming consoles have risen fast in the United States since it cut the price of its 80 gigabyte model by $100 and launched a 40 gigabyte model. picked by punthe 9 months ago

A man who allegedly included dog feces along with his payment for a parking ticket has been charged with disorderly conduct. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

It is truly EVIL to ticket the wienermobile. It's like giving the Batmobile or Wonder Woman's invisible jet a ticket. It's just not American! lol picked by punthe 1 year ago

The clever gurus at HP Labs have developed a marketer's dream tool that enables customers to enter a retail store, swipe a card, and instantly receive a printout that includes "a personalized shopping list, relevant coupons, notice of associated store discounts or sales, and even a map to where the items can be found in the store." picked by 86Apex 1 year ago

The single mother - with nine maxed-out credit cards and $8,500 in debt for her associate's degree - bought what turned out to a $1 million winning ticket with a $10 bill she found in the store Friday. picked by kissmenow 1 year ago

Their theory was spectacularly vindicated this week when they matched all six numbers and scooped the $13 million lotto jackpot. picked by tlovesd 2 years ago

If we were rational, we would just compute the odds of succeeding from this point forward and then decide if the investment warrants the potential payoff. But we are not rational--not in love or war or business--and this particular irrationality is what economists call the "sunk-cost fallacy."

*For galoot picked by dollyllama 9 months ago

Sometimes when you enter a URL for a page that doesn't exist, the site is content to give you a standard "page not found" error. Not this guy, though - he goes the extra mile and gives you something funny. picked by runninutes 1 year ago

British opera star sings Croatian national anthem. Unfortunately, he gets the words wrong, and ends up singing 'my penis is a mountain'. Croatia win. picked by Lilo 9 months ago

A stripper performed for a classroom full of British teenagers, spanked a birthday boy and asked him to rub cream all over her after a booking error by the teen's mother. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

Cheney rarely admits mistakes, but in this interview with Larry King he acknowledges an error on the war. Read the transcript. picked by hisidea 1 year ago