Pens

Incredible Pen Still Works After 25 Years In Woman's Stomach

Posted 12.20.2011

Twenty-five years ago, a woman told her husband and general practitioner that she accidentally swallowed a felt-tip pen. They didn't believe her at th...

WATCH: Artist Draws Portrait With 3.2 Million Dots

Posted 02.05.2012

It is customary when looking at a piece of art to examine closely and observe the small details of creation. The weight and brevity of the brush strok...

Read A Long Lost Letter From Mitch Hedberg

Posted 11.29.2011

Late comedian Mitch Hedberg loved to hand-write his jokes the old-fashioned way, and after borrowing someone's Uni-Ball Gel Impact pen to fill out a s...

The Lowly Pencil

Meg Waite Clayton | Posted 05.25.2011

Meg Waite Clayton

There is nothing like the freedom of a pencil as I'm taking the muck that is a first draft and trying to make something of it. Not quite right the first time? Erase and try again!

High-Grade Goods: Take Back-to-School Shopping Back to the Earth

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Avital Binshtock

These pens and mechanical pencils from Paper Mate look and feel like regular plastic but are made of biodegradable sugar-plant parts. Their packaging is plastic-free and 100 percent recyclable.

David H. Brooks, Defense Contractor, Spent $350,000 On Pens: Prosecutors

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A federal prosecutor says a former chief executive of the nation's leading supplier of body armor to the military spent mo...