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Ollie the Octopus

​ESPN would have you believe that Spain won the World Cup, and sure, there's some merit to that. But the true hero of the 2010 games was Paul, the "psychic" German octopus who correctly predicted the winner of Germany's seven matches as well as the championship between Spain and the Netherlands. Aquarium staff lowered identical food buckets, each containing a competing country's flag, and Paul first ate from the bucket of the country destined to win.More >>

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Father of the CLaw.

​Mark your calendars, ladies and gents, as the day a Palm Beach lawyer didn't charge you for a service -- not a lump sum, not by the hour, not by your first- born. Christopher Hopkins, an attorney with Butzel Long on Worth Avenue, has developed a free iPhone app that all but replaces law school... or at least that boring 8 a.m. class with the stuffy professor but we all survived fine without that, didn't we?

Called the CLaw (Christopher + Law), the app's outfitted with state and local rules of professional conduct. For example, "There was a question about what standard notice you give when scheduling depositions, and I referred to the Palm Beach bar guidelines," Hopkins says. "It's five days."

So sure, it may never reach the same popularity with the masses as "iBeer," but it's set to make the law process more efficient and painless. Follow the jump for a Q&A with Hopkins:



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For too long did grandmothers of yesteryear express their anger quietly, perhaps by "accidentally" missing a cross-stitch on this year's Christmas sweater (and once there's a run, there's no saving Rudolph).

That wasn't Vicki Ryder's style. For the past few years, the 67-year-old founder of the South Florida Raging Grannies has led a gaggle of angry elderly women around the Gold Coast, clothed in aprons, shawls, and oversized hats while singing lyrics penned by Ryder about the government's shortcomings. The above video features the Grannies crooning "We've Always Paid Our Taxes," a special Tax Day tune against their dollars going to support war and other political actions not to their taste.

After the jump, read our Q&A with Ryder, a granny of three, on why the tea party is full of hypocritical copycats and why she never reminds her grandchildren to wear a sweater:



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Photo courtesy: Anthony Niedwiecki

What do you call a man who downsizes from two jobs to one in the middle of this rotten economy? How about... smart?

That's because Anthony Niedwiecki (on the left, with husband Waymon Hudson) is trading in two good jobs -- law professor at Nova and vice mayor of Oakland Park -- for what he thinks can be a great job: a professor at John Marshall Law School in Chicago, where he stands to get a nice pay raise.

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​​ You know the stories about how famous people have humble beginnings?
Don't get too excited; this is another story just like that.More >>

Photo courtesy: Meira Kreuter

Meira Kreuter with Elizabeth, an Ethiopian girl.

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