Buck Wolf

It's not only a bad spell for Lindsay Lohan, it's bad spelling. The club-hopping 20-year-old actress said in an e-mail to friends that she is preparing to clean up her image and take on the media with the help of a friend -- former Vice President Al Gore. "Al Gore will help me. He came up to me last night and said he would be very happy to have a conversation with me," Lohan wrote in a rambling letter riddled with misspellings that she sent to friends and associates.

It's hard enough for cat lovers to clean a litter box. Would you do that for your spouse … or even yourself? And yet, in the late 1860s, the Rev. Henry Moule promised to revolutionize bathroom technology with the "Earth Closet." You went in, did your business, and — instead of flushing — a device would dump ash or sand over your waste — much like a cat box. Maybe the Earth Closet wasn't in vogue all that long, but it's one of the links from early outhouses to modern-day toilets.