The latest craze in Germany is Kartoffelkanone
or potato bazookas. These use hairspray ignited by a spark to fire potatoes at colossal speeds. The authorities are not amused — via Slashdot
A lioness in a Spanish animal sanctuary ripped the right arm off a British tourist after the 54-year old silly cow clambered up a barrier and stuck her fingers inside the cage
As troops gather in the Middle East and the US hypes up rhetoric for war on Iraq, an army of protesters across Australia is mustering its forces to fight for peace
US trade negotiators are pushing for Australia to sign up to a tough new copyright regime that could hold ISPs liable for breaches. The EFA are less than impressed
Gibson is planning to roll out their Magic this year with the delivery of guitars using Cat 5 instead of analogue cables to connect instruments and amplifiers. The debate over the quality of digital vs analogue signal processing is not new, but using a Magic
Les Paul would force you entirely into the digital domain
Nineteen Australian universities are on the way to creating a seamless virtual national research library
Children in the UK who were conceived from donated sperm and eggs will be able to find out limited
information on their genetic parents
Gigantic dust clouds swirling over China are threatening the world’s most populous country with the first-ever ecological meltdown
. The clouds — which stretch for thousands of miles over Asia and have even reached across the Pacific to North America — are rising from a rapidly growing dust bowl in northern China that far outstrips the notorious one in the United States in the 1930s
Anyone can contribute an article to the Wikipedia, an open-source encyclopædia that relies solely on volunteers for its content. All that’s needed is a little initiative
A 32-year-old Boulder man who had opened his apartment’s patio door to enjoy the unusually warm weather was later overheard screaming threats and seen waving what appeared to be a handgun, prompting a maintenance worker to call police. It turned out that the man was simply upset at his computer — which he had called a bitch
he wanted to kill
— and the gun was a plastic pellet gun, not the .45-caliber automatic handgun it was made to resemble
Antoni Gaudí, the Barcelona visionary who was the greatest Spanish exponent of the Art Nouveau style, has had his luscious 1908 design for a New York hotel submitted for the World Trade Centre site
Linux’s popularity with programmers has already managed to make a huge dent on the market share of rival software Unix and now it’s gradually threatening to do the same with Microsoft’s dominance of the business software market
If you’ve ever used a peer-to-peer network and swapped copyrighted files, you’re what prosecutors like to think of as an unindicted federal felon
A man trying to beat his dog to death with a gun was fatally wounded when it apparently went off accidentally
The Australian Consumers Association claim that a levy on the sale of blank CDs and DVDs may benefit buyers if it locks in a right to copy for personal use
Microsoft has changed the code name of its highly controversial trusted
computing platform from Palladium
to next-generation secure computing base
The pre-emptive demonstration against the pre-emptive war, which drew an estimated 250,000 chilled Americans to the Mall last weekend, was as polite and peaceful as the retarded monkey boy could have asked
A Sicilian man who had been pronounced dead by doctors startled relatives by sitting up just before he was to be put into his coffin and demanding a glass of water
Traffic on the many parts of the internet has slowed dramatically, the apparent effects of a fast-spreading, virus-like infection interfering with web browsing and delivery of e-mail through dodgy Microsoft servers
Spam is not speech, it is conduct, specifically, spam is conduct consisting of a denial-of-service attack which may or may not be targeted at users, systems, networks, mailing lists, or some combination of these, sometimes in small but often in very large quantities
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