The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Bob Guccione’s Penthouse magazine has filed for bankruptcy in the face of ‘stiff competition’ from online porn. Increased interest in men’s lifestyle magazines (such as ‘Ralph’) is also cited as a contributing factor. Will we be seeing more publishing icons go under as digital media becomes the norm?
Tasty treats for your vegetarian, vegan and dairy intolerant friends. I have found that home made ice cream is a treat best reserved for yourself — unless you like being constantly badgered to make it for your friends and family.
The stuff you need:
1 x 400ml can of coconut milk
30g whole wheat flour
55g raw cane sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
What to do with your gathered ingredients:
- Put coconut milk, flour and sugar into a blender and blend thoroughly
- Transfer to a saucepan and heat gently until slightly thickened and simmering
- Remove from heat, cool and chill thoroughly
- Stir the vanilla essence into the mixture
- Put mixture into the freezer and stir every 15-20 minutes until frozen
Enjoy your ice cream.
Armed with inexpensive, mass-produced gems, two startups are launching an assault on the De Beers cartel and are stepping into the realm of the computer as diamonds show amazing potential as a superior semiconductor
HBOS, one of the largest UK banks is to introduce random lie detector analysis of insurance claims according to this article from the Edinburgh Evening News. The three month trial will see calls from its 1.5 million policy holders randomly subjected to voice stress analysis. Those flagged up will then receive a set of questions designed to expose potential fraudsters
Check it out — The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Julian Dibbell has quit his day job to sell items from Ultima Online in the real world, hopefully making a living on which to support his wife and daughter
The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit against GoInternet.net, charging that it hawks Web presence over the phone and then assesses its targets on their phone bill without their authorisation
Every once in a while a set of fraternal twin eggs merge into one embryo and the resulting person has two sets of DNA. It is possible for a Chimera to have different sets of DNA in different body parts, which can cause complication for body identification, DNA typing for organ transplants, crime investigation, etc. Researchers have no idea how common this is, but suppose that it is a reasonable percentage of all fraternal twin pregnancies, which would mean millions world-wide
Incompatible new versions of the popular file-compression format could put the squeeze on users and as a result unravel support for Zip
New national e-crime guidelines have been launched by Standards Australia to help organisations deal with incidents following widespread concerns about the forensic status of computer-generated evidence
Covered in oil after resetting a sensor in the aircraft’s nosewheel, the pilot stood on a chair in the terminal building and pleaded with the exhausted tourists to join him
The lawless Mexican border town of Juarez is no stranger to death. Fiefdom of the infamous narco-trafficante ‘Lord of the Skies’, its fortunes are built on hard drugs and cheap labour. But now an even more ruthless menace stalks its dusty streets.
There is a new word spoken in Ciudad Juarez: Feminocidio — feminocide, the mass slaughter of women. There is no other word to describe what is happening: some 340 young women found murdered since 1992 in much the same manner as Sagrario, and a further 180 or so missing
Michael Berry’s name, reputation and credit line were easy pickings for some very scary people. Yours are, too
Thirty years after a bunch of hippies brought flower power to bear on a plan for a military camp in southern France, 100,000 ecologists and campaigners against global trade rules returned to the site yesterday for a festival aimed at putting the world to rights. The militant farmers’ leader José Bové was at Larzac then, and he is there now
Merrill Lynch is set to ban access to outside e-mail services from sites such as AOL, Yahoo and MSN, in response to regulatory requirements and to protect its network from viruses
US District Judge Joseph Tauro has rejected an attempt by the recording industry to uncover the names students suspected of online music piracy
Industry executives held a ceremony in a Tokyo temple on Friday to express gratitude to pachinko machines for their hard work and profitability in the face of tough economic times. Incense was offered to a golden replica of a panchinko machine and prayers were chanted to the departed spirits of machines no longer in service.
In a statement worthy of Bill Hicks, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has declared that weapons sales by rich countries were responsible for the proliferation of wars. The outspoken veteran leader said wars were being waged as an excuse to try out new weapons
The craze for flash mobs — where jokers gather en masse at a moment’s notice, perform an inane activity and then disperse quickly — is spreading across Europe
Astronomers have found the first direct evidence of a giant spiral galaxy far away that is ripping apart a much smaller one and gobbling up millions of its stars — an event that demonstrates the power of that mysterious cosmic stuff called dark matter
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