After former Philadelphia Flyers winger Arron Asham signed with the rival Pittsburgh Penguins over the weekend, his agent wasted no time revealing the reason for his decision to take less money with the team.

FORBES: The Pittsburgh Penguins Dividend: A Franchise in the Mold of Berkshire Hathaway

It's been a long while since Magellan comprehensively updated its RoadMate GPS mapping units, so the company's making up for lost time in style by introducing no less than seven new models in one shot.

ENGADGET: New Magellan RoadMate GPS units navigate by landmarks, steer clear of pesky traffic cameras

Unfortunately, I had no time for sightseeing in New Zealand, as I landed and departed in less than 24 hours.

FORBES: Back from Down Under

Mel Gibson, who has not taken a leading role not in the movies, anyway for quite some time, returns looking older but no less determined, with an uncomfortable hint of despair.

NEWYORKER: Edge of Darkness

No one can yet quantify the effects, but at least for a time the land will be less fertile.

ECONOMIST: Honduras and Nicaragua

The Peter Principle sold over 1m copies, a remarkable feat for a book of its type at the time, and it spent no less than 33 weeks on the American bestsellers' list.

ECONOMIST: Guru

But one in six men admitted they spent less than an hour and, in some cases, no time at all shopping for Christmas gifts.

BBC: The stress of Christmas shopping

Humans and chimpanzees were interbreeding for all this time, before finally separating no more than 6.3m years ago and probably less than 5.4m years ago.

ECONOMIST: Humans could have interbred with chimpanzees

Affirmative action, no less than any other form of discrimination, is a bad idea which for a brief time made some sense.

ECONOMIST: Affirmative action

If you wanted more proof that time and technology wait for no man, check out the newest kid on the digital block: the mirror-less camera.

FORBES: New Developments for the Camera Category