A hatchet-wielding man who lured a German tourist from his camper and then chopped his victim twice in the back of the head paid for the brazen attack with his life. The tourist, described by police sources as a 15-year-judo expert, turned the tables on his attacker Saturday morning and killed the thug with his bare hands, despite suffering two axe wounds to the head
For hard-core computer gamers, plain beige boxes won’t do. Instead, they go for jazzed-up custom jobs featuring cobalt blue cases and Spider-Man fan grills. Woodinville’s pcToys sees a multimillion-dollar business in selling them the parts they want
Security companies are warning of an e-card company, FriendGreetings.com, that downloads a spamming application onto visitors’ PCs
STMicroelectronics plans to announce a breakthrough on Monday in light-emitting silicon that could lead to a new generation of more powerful computing processors and more efficient automobile components as well as potentially higher-speed optical data-transmission system
Men accused of date rape
will have to prove that they made efforts to ensure their sexual partners gave agreement under laws being considered by the UK Government
With the US national elections just around the corner, Opensecrets.org, a web site focusing on Responsive Politics
recently published lobbying and donations info for the 2002 elections to date. They have a breakdown of Microsoft’s individual dossier, also, looking at the Top Donations by Industry
, Microsoft is, conspicuously, the only entry under Computers/Internet
— via Slashdot
Green campaigners handcuffed themselves to Esso petrol pumps in Luxembourg, closing down all the company’s stations in the cheap-fuel country and widening a UK-based protest
New Zealand police have become involved in a bizarre incident in Auckland, finding a severed human leg hanging off the back door of a house in the centre of the city
Pheasant season took an ugly turn for Michael Murray when he was shot by Sonny, his year-old English setter pup
IBM researchers have created a simple computation engine that’s more than 250,000 times smaller than the most advanced silicon circuitry. Called the world’s smallest computer, the system relies on a molecular cascade
that pushes a handful of carbon monoxide molecules across a copper surface to perform digital logic functions
By the year 2080, Manhattan and Shanghai could be underwater, droughts and floods could become more extreme and hundreds of millions of people will be at risk from disease, starvation and water shortages
Customers at a McDonald’s in Washington DC got a shock Friday when two deer jumped through the restaurant window
Want to patent a moustache protector? Or perhaps you’ve hit upon the idea of improving chickens’ lives by giving them eyeglasses. Well, don’t bother — they’ve already been invented. These are just some of the bizarre ideas that have trickled into the UK Patent Office on a regular basis since it opened 150 years ago. According to Steve van Dulken, who oversees the patent archive at the British Library, For every 100 applications lodged, I’d say that 10 are a bit wacky
Telecommunications companies are coming under intense pressure from the industry’s watchdog to give rebates to customers deprived of mobile telephony services due to faulty handsets
Two days after city inspectors ripped up illegal Nike advertising decals glued to sidewalks along Central Park West, Microsoft unleashed a swarm of large adhesive butterflies in Manhattan
A group of Washington insiders backed by the Sci Fi Channel calls for the release of government UFO-related evidence. Sci Fi plans to milk the connection to hype its forthcoming UFO miniseries Taken
The BBC have won the battle with the Metropolitan Police over the trademark police box, more commonly known as a TARDIS
Google has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings. Absent from Google’s French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to white supremacy, according to a new report from Harvard University’s Berkman Centre. Also banned is Jesus-is-lord.com, a fundamentalist Christian site that is adamantly opposed to abortion
The dog-only bloodmobile is the only one of its kind in the country, officials at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine believe. The white bus travels to blood drives organised by breeders, dog clubs, veterinarians and others in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland to collect blood for its well known veterinary hospital
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