Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light helped smuggle six Americans out of revolutionary Iran!

When Khomeini took over Iran and the hostage crisis took place, a half dozen managed to evade capture for 80 days. This is the story of how a CIA agent that got them out.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_cia.html

Want to see Disneyland but don't want to give the Disney Corp any money? Go to China!

The Chinese government has opened a theme park that is pretty much a direct copy of Disneyland -- all without the knowledge, cooperation, or licensing and royalties to the American corporation. Castles, characters, costumes, all lifted.

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1678

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/04/019218

If you find yourself needing a new calculator...

This one could do you just fine! I don't know that their photo does the product justice, though.