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Hovercraft Boat With Detachable Wings Takes Flight in New Zealand

By sea, by air or by land, no terrain is out of the question for a New Zealand inventor's do-all vehicle. According to a Reuters video (watch below), Rudy Heedman has built a homemade hovercraft that uses a set of detachable wings to take flight when it reaches 44 mph. It's a child's (or adrenaline junkie's) dream come true. Once he leaves the water for the sky, Heedman is protected from death or ...

Erykah Badu Tweets Paul McCartney ASAP: Clear My Sample Please!

Bossy, cigar-chomping managers? Slimy, money-hungry lawyers? Clearly, Erykah Badu doesn't need either of these to take care of business. The take-charge, if not slightly procrastinating, singer recently got a Paul McCartney sample cleared for her next album, entirely through the power of Twitter. With less than 24 hours to get the ball rolling, Badu managed to clear the sample of Wings' song ...

The Switched Questionnaire: Steven Weber

He had us in stitches with his role on 'Wings,' he scared the bejesus out of us in the TV adaptation of 'The Shining' and he most recently incited our anger as the mother of all bad bosses in the ill-fated 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.' He's also an accomplished stage actor. Yes, Steven Weber is one versatile dude. Pictured here during a reading at the recent Nantucket Film Festival, Weber ...