Stress is one of the top causes of heart attacks — and working with stupid people on a daily basis is one of the deadliest forms of stress. Despite the dodgy source and unverifiable contacts, I have to wonder if this article would be proven true if authentic research was performed
Malaysian Muslim men can divorce their wives through text messages on mobile telephones. Anyone who is gutless enough to initiate a divorce using SMS is someone you should be glad to be shot of
Just finished the latest project — three dog scarves. Not scarves for dogs, despite what the full size version of the second image may indicate, but scarves made from dog.
The striped warp is commercial cotton in black and natural, the white being too stark against the natural colour of the dog yarn, which gives the finished scarves a fuzzy halo much like mohair.
The weft for two of the scarves is a hand spun blend of Alaskan Malamute and Siberian Husky undercoat — the stuff they would otherwise leave all over the house. The yarn for one of the scarves is overspun, producing a scarf with a corded texture. The third scarf is woven with dog yarn plyed with natural black Alpaca giving the finished item a tweed effect.
All three scarves are finished with hand twisted fringes.
It helps to catch your models during a nap.
Although, sometimes luck is with you and they stop gnawing on each others heads long enough to get a decent picture.
Spammers last week got on the wrong side of the wrong man, and quickly found themselves with a taste of their own medicine. The man? Deputy Communications Minister Andrei Korotkov. Tired of the endless spate of unsolicited messages that clog e-mail systems everywhere, an audio message was volleyed non-stop to the telephone numbers listed in the spam
Safecom has released the photographs from the Children Overboard scandal that the public were not allowed to see, in keeping with the brief issued by Operation Relex’ Canberra Command Centre — at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet‘s office — which stipulated explicitly to ‘not humanise the asylum seekers’
A non-invasive neural network that is designed to read minds could give freedom of movement to everyone, thanks to a system that lets them steer a wheelchair using only their thoughts
Barry Brook from the Northern Territory University fears small mammals in the Top End may become extinct if land clearing continues
Proving that scientists are indeed a wacky bunch of people, the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists is a club for scientists who have, or believe they have, luxuriant flowing hair
Anti-spam activists have upped the ante in their fight against junk email by publishing the details — including credit card information — of people who’ve ordered spamming services online
Computer manufacturers have been press-ganged into the hunt for customers in the broadband internet market, with industry heavyweights Telstra and Optus planning to offer services bundled with PCs in time for Christmas
23-year-old polar bear Pelusa was sprayed with an antiseptic spray that turned her normally white fur a dark shade of violet. The unusual colour — a temporary side effect of the treatment for dermatitis — has turned the ageing bear into a minor celebrity in Argentina and prompted thousands of schoolchildren and tourists to make their way to the Jardin Zoologico de Mendoza
Officials are determined to secure a replacement for the city’s police dog that died last week of heat exhaustion. Sandor, a Belgian Malinois, died when a patrol car’s air conditioning failed on a 38°C day
The federal government intends to introduce legislation later this year that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail. But a member of the advisory group charged with helping develop the new anti-spam legislation does not feel the final document goes far enough in punishing people found guilty of spamming
Though Google has become synonymous with searching, it does have a few pitfalls, including a tendency to skew results toward shopping, a lack of diversity for searches containing synonyms and its impact on research
According to Gartner, seven million US adults, were victims of identity theft in the 12 months ending June 2003. The analyst group is calling on banks to make it tougher for crooks to obtain credit in false names
A new type of tungsten filament — the world’s most widely used light source — may emit enough energy to power electric cars, generators, and consumer electronics
Both of the beasties are firmly of the opinion that their heads belong in the refrigerator. This is why the closest object to their questing muzzles is their own bag of green beans.
They like to help put the groceries away. Making sure the beans are readily accessible prevents things like entire cartons of eggs from mysteriously disappearing.
For once not looking insane or otherwise deranged, the malamute helps herself to the beans.
Welcome to a police state. The FBI has started harassing people for reading politically incorrect articles in public. That guy who reads over your shoulder on public transport may be a police informant rather than just an annoying prat
Google unveiled refinements to technology for searching daily news, its latest effort to become the Web’s go-to hub for headlines. The new service, called Advanced News Search, allows visitors to scour headlines by date, location, exact phrases or publication
The case of 174 feral Chihuahuas on death row in a Los Angeles animal shelter has pitted animal rescue groups against each other in a debate over whether the purse-sized dogs are too vicious to adopt
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