Turkey Testicle Festival Can Keep Name

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Organizers of fourth annual Turkey Testicle Festival can keep their name, despite concerns about the propriety of the word and the island's virtue....

Screenshot Tour: Instant photo movies with Tracking Shot

Fun little webapp TrackingShot whips up movies from your photos and music in a flash (and in Flash). Click on the image above to see a quick tour of Tracking Shot in screengrabs. Upload your photos and music to TrackingShot and it'll mix up a Ken Burns-style digital photo movie to the beat of your song ...

Grand opening planned for Ritz-Carlton Beach House

A Nov. 9 grand opening of the Naples Beach House means the multimillion-dollar renovation of The Ritz-Carlton beach resort is nearly complete.

U.S. Population Hits 300 Million Mark

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's population officially hit 300 million at 7:46 a.m. EDT Tuesday, when the Census Bureau's population clock rolled over to the big number....

New York Subway Noise Levels Can Result In Hearing Loss For Daily Riders

In a new survey of noise levels of the New York City transit system, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that exposure to noise levels in subways have the potential to exceed recommended guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Environmental ...

FeedMeGigs / Tourfilter

Keeping up with what bands are coming to your city is a difficult task (even harder if you actually live in a large metro area) but there are a few services that are coming around that are trying to change that. Sure Pollstar has listings but that's rarely for the small club show up the street. I think ...

Salt systems could shake up home pools

Southwest Floridians are swimming in friendlier waters these days, at least on their own properties.

Wallflower at the Web Party

How Friendster missed a billion-dollar break.

Planet Google Wants You

The Web giant, adding YouTube, seeks a mind meld with its users.

Web-services firm gets venture funding

Freewebs has closed a multimillion-dollar round of venture capital from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Columbia Capital.

Canadian Doughnuts Invade

Dateline: Ten U.S. states... and counting

Send the elevator directly to your floor

In a hurry to get to the 17th floor on a crowded elevator? The iHacked web site says a simple (but impolite) key combination can make some elevators skip everyone else's floor and go straight to yours: The only thing you need to do is press down the close door button, and the floor you would like to ...

Goodyear Workers Prepare for Long Strike (AP)

Legend has it you used to be able to smell the rubber in this blue-collar city, home to the world's third largest tiremaker. But these days the most noticeable scent near Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s hulking headquarters is the smell of wood burning in metal barrels that keep striking workers warm from ...

Forecast: Local housing plunge

The Fort Myers area is second on a national list of metropolitan areas where housing prices are expected to plunge.

Trial set for former Barron Collier band director charged with having sex with minor

With the prosecutor seeking about 30 years in prison, the former Barron Collier High School band director charged with having sex with a 12-year-old boy he met on the Internet is set to take his case to trial. During a hearing Tuesday in Collier County Circuit Court, Jeffry Mark Branson, 46, had his ...

Shares of Blackberry Maker Hit Year High (AP)

Shares of Research in Motion Ltd. soared to a year high Friday after the maker of the Blackberry handheld device reported preliminary results for its fiscal second quarter and a third-quarter outlook that were above Wall Street's expectations.

One phone number to rule them all

GrandCentral is a brilliant new web app that lets you consolidate all of your phone numbers into one number, meaning someone can call you on your GrandCentral phone number and all of your phones (cell phone, work phone, home phone) will ring. And then it gets interesting. If you don't want every one ...

How did the 4-legged chicken cross the road?

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Naples' Vanderbilt Inn coming down for condos

Bittersweet.

A Parade of Condos Enters the Market

Chinatown, finally sharing in Manhattan's housing boom, is opening to a much broader slice of New York.