Evgenij Vasiljev, a Russian software developer, has developed the Pskov 1100 — a home-made Gauss pistol
The Berkman Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is the new keeper of the specification for a popular weblog tool. The Berkman Centre took over ownership of the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) 2.0 specification this week after UserLand, a company owned by RSS 2.0 author David Winer, transferred the copyright to the centre
A Sri Lankan who sent a dog to New Zealand has been asked to pay ten times the cost of the original air freight in order to return the pet, after it was refused entry
Another successful Slashdot — the Feds are talking with the major free email providers in the hope of making it easier to trace suspects who use the accounts for crimes like fraud and paedophilia. Which really means they are using the paedophile card as a means to invade the privacy of everyone
Intel is pushing development of the 802.16 wireless networking standard. Designed to operate over a number of bands from 2GHz to 66GHz, 802.16 can work over 30 miles and pump data at speeds of up to 70Mbps. 802.16 is to 802.11 what the M25 motorway is to the Basingstoke one way system
If you’ve ever had the overwhelming desire to add a rocket pack to your bicycle or build a 2 million volt tesla coil, United Nuclear scientific supply offers a dangerous products category where you can purchase the parts and plans that will have you well on your way to becoming an embarrassing headline in your local paper in no time
New technology that can recover information from shredded documents. Not only can companies scan strip-shredded paper and recover the information, they can do the same with cross-shredded paper. The shreds are glued onto a piece of paper and then scanned. Software then looks for matches and suggests possible combinations to the operator that can be accepted or rejected. It comes at a price though — one company charges US$8-10,000 to reconstruct the information in a cubic foot of cross-shredded material
Thick-skinned mice with a remarkable ability to heal wounds are created by genetic engineering
Harold Newman, had pursued a hobby — an elaborate genealogy project — trying to link all characters from Greek mythology in a single family tree. Jon Newman wanted to finish it. Now, the Newmans’ combined work has been published by the University of North Carolina Press as A Genealogical Chart of Greek Mythology: Comprising 3673 Named Figures of Greek Mythology, All Related to Each Other Within a Single Family of 20 Generations
Landover Baptist Church offers yet another amusing and enlightening article from the Pastor Deacon Fred on ridding your community of the scourge of athetists
Useability guru Jakob Nielsen lambasts PDF files as a form of online presentation: PDF is great for one thing and one thing only: printing documents. Paper is superior to computer screens in many ways, and users often prefer to print documents that are too long to easily read online. For online reading, however, PDF is the monster from the Black Lagoon. It puts its clammy hands all over people with a cruel grip that doesn’t let go
Guide Dogs Queensland has begun trials of a laser-guided walking cane, and plans to soon test a prototype Batcane that uses sonar technology to warn the blind of obstacles
Up to one-fifth of Telstra’s $250 million in broadband revenue comes from a small percentage of its customer base who exceed their download limits
Giving a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘death by chocolate’, scientists have invented a baitless mousetrap that attracts rodents with the irresistible aroma of chocolate
Neville Kan, a London dentist, drilled away almost half of a healthy tooth to punish a patient who owed him money
The European Commission mapped out the world’s toughest ban on spam in an attempt to stop the blizzard of junk email clogging up the internet. Under the new rules, it will be illegal to send unsolicited emails anywhere in the European Union after October. Advertisers will have to secure the ‘opt-in’ consent of consumers before they can invade email privacy. Internet service companies will be obliged to filter out much of the obvious spam
Microsoft has acknowledged a critical vulnerability in nearly all versions of its flagship Windows operating system, including its recently launched Windows Server 2003 software
Telstra will sign up to a series of strict performance hurdles when it
inks a long-awaited wholesale DSL deal with Optus, now in the final stages of negotiation. Optus has indicated it will seek to extend its popular bundling strategy when it begins offering the wider-reaching DSL broadband service
Takara, Japan’s number two toy maker, is set to launch a device in November that translates cats’ meows into human speech, following the smash-hit dog-language electronic interpreter Bowlingual
AOL has laid off 50 employees involved in Web browser development at its Netscape subsidiary amid a reorganisation of its Mozilla open-source browser team. Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organisation, will continue mozilla.org’s work of co-ordinating the development of the Mozilla codebase
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