MAN KILLED BY EXPLODING LAVA LAMP: It looks to be a case of operator error.

MUSICIANS urged to register for royalty payments for certain digital and satellite transmissions. The Count Five and the Shangri-Las have collected already.

I'VE HEARD of being born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, but this is just... eeeew.

IRAN BOMBS GOOGLE!

FORMER NAVY SEAL acquitted of stalking Sheryl Crow.

TIME lists 2004's Coolest Inventions.

GO, GO GODZILLA: The atomically-mutated reptile gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. A throng of onlookers shouted "We love you, Godzilla!" and "Viva Godzilla!" as the monster posed for pictures, spewed bursts of radioactive fire and destroyed several buildings along Hollywood Boulevard.

DEBRA LaFAVE, a teacher was accused this summer of having a sexual affair with a 14-year-old student, will be using an insanity defense.

DAN RATHER: Is he too planning to invoke the insanity defense? He claims that has often spoken with the ghost of Edward R. Murrow. Everybody say it together now: "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"

"BLOG" was the number one word looked up on Mirriam-Webster's web sites this year.

DENTAL PLAQUE can be fatal.

ARESA BIODETECTION has genetically engineered flowers to turn from green to red near landmines.

WMD ATTACK ON U.S. VIRTUALLY "INEVITABLE," says Yossef Bodansky, former director of the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare.