Choose Your Own Adventure

(Newser) - They're playfully called the "forgotten five": A handful of toys—the pogo stick, the Fisher-Price Corn Popper, My Little Pony, PEZ dispensers, and Transformers—that regularly approach toy-box royalty as finalists for the National Toy Hall of Fame, only to be tossed back on the pile. For one...

(Newser) - Twitter is playing host to a hit new game, all about whether you could survive a day as Beyonce's assistant without getting fired. "They gotta start giving pulitzers for tweets," New York Times reporter Astead W. Herndon wrote of the choose-your-own-adventure-style thread created by 19-year-old student Landon...

(Newser) - Finally, a time-sucking use for Twitter other than reading about what your favorite celebrities are eating for breakfast: Choose Your Own Adventure! Jonah Peretti brings the classic game, in which the reader makes choices that shape the story line—do you a) enter the over-packed Apple Store or b) decide...