Neel Kashkari is currently a Republican candidate for governor of California, endorsed by Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney. In 2008, he was the Treasury Department official in charge of bailing out the banks, and we ran his high school yearbook page.

"What is Vanilla Ice up to these days?" you probably asked yourself this morning, while guzzling orange Faygo and weeping. Well, like most Americans, Vanilla Ice has reinvented himself as a reality TV "star." To the delight of Fox News!

One year before eBay bought it, Half.com paid the town of Halfway, Oregon, to rename itself and become the "world's first dot-com city." Blogger William Drenttel called around the town of Half.com to ask, seven years later, about the deal.