lotteries Man uses a lucky coin to win $4-million from scratch ticket — not once, but twice Carla Sinclair
air travel Flight cancelled, man detained after throwing coins into plane engine for "good luck" David Pescovitz
micronations In 1948 James T. Mangan declared the entire universe to be a country under his protection Mark Frauenfelder
tabloids Brad Pitt's brush with death, Julia Roberts quitting Hollywood, and Christmas kittens, in this week's dubious ad-packed tabloids Peter Sheridan
fiction Bruce Sterling: "From Beyond the Coming Age of Networked Matter," a short story Bruce Sterling