Spiderman Lizard New Pet Craze

A new exotic pet craze is sweeping the globe, after a very colorful lizard was found to resemble a very popular superhero. The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama looks a lot like Marvel superhero Spiderman, with a red...

New Bagel Head Craze Injects Saline Under the Skin: Crazy or Cool

The newest craze sweeping the clubs of Tokyo and slowly making its way west see teenagers injecting themselves with saline under the skin and disfiguring parts of their body, mostly their heads; it's called 'Bagel...

Celebrity jogging: LA's latest fitness craze

Dressing up in spandex and jogging around celebrity haunts with your mobile phone poised to 'pap' (take photos of) any celebrity that passes by. This is an alternative to the bus tour of celebrity houses I guess...

The new Vancouver Special, now with more awkwardness

Here's a cantankerous piece about a new Vancouver housing trend: the Mohawk. If you're from these parts you've probably seen them around--"a two-storey box with a half-sized strip of 'hair' on top," as the writer describes them.The Mohawk is arguably more attractive than its...

Tower running - the latest painful craze in getting fit

A new craze is starting to take off in the world of extreme sports and intense fitness training. It's called 'tower running', and it involves running up hundreds of stairs in the world's tallest buildings in...

Mentos madness as 1,300 students set Diet Coke fountain record

A new world record has been set. 1,360 students in the town of Leuven, Belgium set off simultaneous geysers with mentos and diet coke. Looks like lots of fizzy fun!"After they each dropped a tube of the mints...

Shaking your booty is popular on the Ivory Coast

Remeber about 10 years ago when the Macarena was really popular and everybody knew the dance - whether you wanted to admit to it or not? Well now the Ivory Coast has its own answer to the famous song, complete...

Crank Dat Tune: Soulja Boy Sets Download Record

Last year's breakout (and hard to break out of your head) smash "Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)" is the most legally downloaded ever, according to Interscope Records.I love artists who include their own name in their song...

Web networkers 'at risk of fraud'

"People who use internet networking sites are being warned that they could be at risk of identity theft. Credit information group Equifax said members of sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook may be putting too many details about themselves online. It said fraudsters could...

Everybody Do the Aunt Jackie

A viral dance craze is a funny thing. In the early days of TV, a bunch of shiny teens doing the twist on a show like American Bandstand was enough to get their peers across North America to start shaking their...

Open Garden Squares a Great Escape

Open Squares weekend is a chance for the public to view the impressive garden squares, normally kept locked to the public. One category-B square in particular is never open... "At HMP Wandsworth, the largest...

China's Communist Party gets a taste for the blogging craze

"Around 20 officials from a town in eastern China have set up their own blogs after being encouraged by a local Communist Party leader, state media said..... However, the Chinese journalists noticed that visitors to the site are not allowed to post their comments...

Coca-Cola Joins Exploding Soda Craze

Viral Marketing continues to to solidify itself as legitimate

Iran's Fundamentalists Take Up Blogging

"The craze for blogging in Iran has reached an unlikely set of adherents - the country's conservative Islamic clerics. Following the example of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ayatollahs, seminary students and...

Outrage as US Baby Wig Craze Hits Britain

NowPublic first brought this story to you in September.  And what a story it was!  " It's never too long before the latest craze to sweep America makes its way to the UK but most would wish this one...

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