Federal authorities are pursuing fugitive crime boss James Whitey
Bulger in cyber space under a first-of-its kind agreement announced Wednesday between the FBI and Web portal Terra-Lycos. With a presence in 42 countries and in 19 languages, Terra Lycos is known for the world-wide scope of its Web presence
A future high school history teacher, Jason Eric Smith, sold an 867MHz PowerBook G4 on eBay right before finals. He found out the hard way that people are out there to rip you off, and he went to great lengths to catch this guy with the help of Mac heads everywhere
A banner hanging in United Record Pressing‘s shipping room gives a peek at what the Nashville company hopes for its future: Vinyl Rules! Pure analogue, anti-digital revolution
Wildlife campaigners are backing calls for the New Zealand government to support an industry that turns the alien brush-tailed possum species into coats and socks
A group of techie activists equips tree-sitters in Northern California’s Headwaters Forest with laptops and wireless gear in hopes that protestors’ in-tree blogs will draw attention to old-growth logging
Frank Polifka has a patent on his tornado in a can device — officially known as Windhexe — that creates a tornado force wind. Besides pulverising concrete, it can pulverise small objects including jelly fish, and chicken feet without destroying the organic compounds. The chickens don’t like it
An innovative solution to curb both spam e-mail and telemarketing. In short, the potential recipient of a message/call advertises the potential cost of contacting him uninvited. If the sender agrees to pay that cost, it acquires a token that it includes in the message/call and the message/call is accepted. The recipient decides to collect the fee or not, while recipients in a white list are not required to carry a token. The author, Scott Fahlman, also provides for a more detailed description — via Slashdot
Software meant to protect young people from the seamier side of the Internet may also be blocking important health information
The NSW Government has backed off repealing controversial internet censorship laws, putting the legislation in the deep freeze while it waits for a federal review
Customs is targeting terrorists with technology that allows officers to track passenger data and travel patterns
French is such a rich language that it now has, by state decree, two words for ‘@’ — the ‘at’ sign that has become a world-wide symbol for the Internet — but only one official way to pronounce it
The fires raging around the island continent’s biggest city, Sydney, this week are as natural to the bush as are kangaroos and emus, or sun and rain. But urban sprawl has blurred the divide between the outback and the cities, and while fires the size of England rage almost unnoticed in the remote centre of Australia, in populated areas the flames can bring death and destruction
CNN owned the story of the first Gulf War — blogs and the Internet may carry the day if there is a sequel
British vagrants will be wearing a variety of styles in fur this winter as an animal rights group hands out unwanted coats in its ‘Fur Giveaway‘ campaign
Three environmental groups — the International Centre for Technology Assessment, Sierra Club and Greenpeace — sued the Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to force it to combat global warming by limiting air pollution from US automobiles
Take a tour of London Underground stations that have been abandoned during the more than a century history of the commuter system. It’s all very Neverwhere
Consumer Reports magazine’s vintage photo gallery is a fun site in which you can see photos from when the magazine reviewed electric toasters in 1956, in-car record players in 1961, radio sunglasses in 1966, and other good stuff. Don’t forget about the flaming Nerf ball — via Slashdot
A totally new and highly controversial theory on the origin of life on earth, is set to cause a storm in the science world and has implications for the existence of life on other planets
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