NASA is planning to mount a camera on the external fuel tank and broadcast a 2 October shuttle launch
Police arrested a Texas man on child abuse charges on Friday after he allegedly used a 100,000-volt stun gun to discipline his 8-year-old stepson for missing the school bus
The Washington Post threatened an anti-abortion activist with legal action for registering a similar domain name and snatching e-mail messages intended for reporters
Scholars from MIT, the University of California in LA, and the University of London have worked together to oppose laws restricting children from playing violent video games. The battle is currently taking place in the US Court of Appeals and the case seems to hold a decent amount of merit — via Slashdot
The controversial do-it-yourself medicine that inspired the heart-rending movie Lorenzo’s Oil has finally been proved to work. The new research ends years of uncertainty about the treatment and demolishes the claims of experts who repeatedly said it was a worthless quack remedy
According to Jerry Bromenshenk at the University of Montana, trained honeybees have shown a remarkable ability to sniff out land mines, suggesting a possible new way to find the estimated 110 million unexploded land mines around the world
For two weeks, volunteers have kept a round-the-clock vigil at the no-kill Animal Shelter of North County. They’re afraid that if they leave, the city of Arlington will lock them out
Recent studies in Romania where large numbers of sheep coexist with dense populations of large carnivores, such as bears and wolves, have shown that the use of electric fences in night time pens can significantly reduce sheep mortality
NSW Police Minister Michael Costa has asked the Federal Government to shut down web sites with instructions to disrupt a World Trade Organisation meeting in Sydney
Privacy activists warn that increasing reliance on biometric technology for security purposes is a serious threat to the rights of innocent Americans
The Wayback Machine, an archive of web sites as they appeared in their past incarnations, is reported as having censored the Scientology-critical Xenu.net, in a repeat of the heavy-handed tactics used against Google
Frank Robinson is a man who is into Lego way more than the average builder. At last count the Robinson family’s Lego inventory was nearing 100,000 pieces, a majority of which were tallied and itemised by type and colour on a computer spreadsheet. No Lego story would be complete without a link to something large and useless, say, a Lego harpsichord. Okay, it plays, so it’s not actually useless. How about the Lego Star Destroyer — via Slashdot
Parts of the newest version of Red Hat’s Linux software have slipped onto the Internet, nearly a week before the operating system’s official release date, giving glimpses of a product with a new focus on mainstream computer users
A 92-year-old Australian woman has become the nation’s oldest first-time home buyer after securing a housing loan she does not have to pay off for another 30 years
An urgent business proposition
and requests for urgent assistance
from a so-called Nigerian official were heeded by a Detroit bank secretary in the latest example of how the ubiquitous e-mail scam actually works
Officials at the state Directorate for Wildlife Management have said that no licenses will be issued for a wolf hunt this winter as they are only aware of two wolf pairs that can reproduce. That means there is no basis for an authorised hunt. The decision provides for some breathing room in a long-standing quarrel between Norwegian and Swedish wildlife officials. Both sides had cooperated in building up southern Scandinavia’s once nearly extinct wolf population, members of which often cross back and forth over the border
ISPs are preparing for a new cybercrime code of conduct that will detail how much data they should keep on subscribers in order to co-operate with police and other law enforcement agencies
Millions of internet users have unwittingly consented to having their online activities monitored by agreeing to convoluted terms and conditions on web sites
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