Some of humanity’s greatest inventions were created by accident. Corn Flakes were originally meant to be a dough made from boiled wheat, Silly Putty was supposed to be an artificial rubber, and Silly ...

Jeff Severns Guntzel, who recently quit his position as a staff writer at the Minneapolis alt-weekly City Pages, blogs from the RNC protests in Minneapolis: . . . Soon there was another advance, this ...

The Tricks of the Trade weblog says Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan are using Silly String to detect bomb tripwires in dark rooms: They spray the Silly String into the room, and the brightly-colored ...

“Silly string,” a colorful aerosol foam that children spray on each other, is not so silly after all, at least not in Los Angeles. The city council voted Tuesday to ban the use of the string-like ...

Worried that Silly String could damage the paint on cars, the town board in Huntington, N.Y., passed a law restricting sales of Silly String on parade days. Well, maybe nobody is using maps anymore, ...

Know what the latest must-have product is in Japan? While it looks like they’ve gone mad and are shaving their wrists, they’re actually saving the planet by switching off the air-con, and cooling down ...