A pub with no beer is one thing but Goondiwindi, in southern Queensland, has a new water park with no water
Julian Haight appears to be blocking Spamex, a competitor to SpamCop that provides disposable e-mail addresses as a spam-proofing technique. He has also periodically blocked Despammed.com, another free-service competitor
AOL Time Warner has released Netscape 7.01 that allows users to suppress pop-up ads, one of the most hated ad formats
Linux is making inroads into the nation’s universities, pushing Windows, Unix and Apple operating systems off the desktops of first-year IT students
Music and film producers have been slammed as rip-off merchants in a scathing industry review by Forrester Research chairman and chief executive George Colony. And according to Gartner analyst Daniel McHugh, attempts to block copying of music CDs will spark an arms race between record labels and hackers
According to a new United Nations report, despite global treaties, children are being recruited as soldiers by governments in the Congo, Burundi and Liberia and are prevalent among rebel groups in Colombia, the Philippines, Uganda and Sri Lanka
A US court has granted AOL almost US$7 million in damages from CN Productions that sent its users nearly 1 billion spam messages touting adult web sites
Thousands of Gentoo and Magellanic penguins have been found on washed up on beaches partially paralysed and dying in the Falklands
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan was shocked at the public humiliation of a woman councillor beaten and paraded naked through a village on the orders of a powerful landlord
United States Government officials have confirmed the CIA has a hit list of terrorist leaders it is authorised to kill
The world’s biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don’t be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that moral compromise is just the cost of doing big business
ICANN plans to approve a host of new address suffixes to join the likes of .com and .org over the coming year
The so-called Group Five set of customers, including the ACCC and top government departments, is considering opting out of a servicing contract with Telstra
The grey wolf that was captured in Utah and sent back to Wyoming is heading back to his home ground. While federal agents are probing the death of a grey wolf that they believe died of a gunshot wound in South Dakota
Search engine company Google is testing an online shopping price comparison service, Froogle, and has introduced beta versions of two other search tools, Google Webquotes and Google Viewer
If a US-led war with Iraq smears blood on his hands as an American citizen, Sean Penn wants to know why — and he has come to Baghdad to find out
The sequel to legendary anime movie Ghost In The Shell, Innocence: Ghost In The Shell, has been announced. Due out in spring of 2004 in Japan, with Mamoru Oshii onboard writing the screenplay and directing — via Slashdot
Lurking in the heart of the Melbourne Museum is the 50 year old CSIRAC computer, and it’s still functional. Sporting a whopping 2K of RAM and screaming along at a blistering 300kHz it proves the adage that they really don’t make ’em like they used to
DSL roll-outs are galloping ahead around the world, with more than 30 million subscribers now using the technology, but Australia continues to lag behind its Asia-Pacific neighbours
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