The community of fan made Star Wars films received a boon in December when Lucasfilm loaned their sponsorship to the event, and George Lucas himself would be a judge. Unfortunately, they’ve limited the contest to parodies and documentaries, thereby shutting out hundreds of entries — via Slashdot
For the past several weeks Dr Damn, who says he’s a male college student and declines to give his real name, has been releasing versions of popular file-swapping programs online with the advertising and user-tracking features stripped out
Dr Nikki Sullivan, a lecturer in the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, is interested in bodies that disturb us and why they disturb us. Her PhD thesis on tattooed bodies has recently been turned into a book titled Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics and Pleasure
Generations of women from Jiangyong passed down a unique form of writing that was kept away from men. Now the 95-year-old Yang Huanyi may be the last alive who grew up using nushu — China’s mother tongue
Frustrated by a hard stand against marijuana use in the United States, some Americans are migrating to a handful of small communities along the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, where smoking marijuana is tolerated
Three moronic dog owners — Lloyd Earlington, David Hunkins and Julie Ward — have been jailed for three months each after 11 puppies died in a gross and barbaric
tail-docking operation. And, on a happier note, Forgea, the Jack Russell Terrier abandoned when the tanker she was on caught fire and the crew were forced to flee, has finally been rescued after 24 days at sea alone
A train derailment in Ohio cut two fibre optic cables Thursday morning, forcing Internet traffic to find other routes. The cut cable caused sporadic traffic problems throughout the day. At least one Internet peering partner with WorldCom reported traffic problems from the Clinton, Mississippi, long-distance carrier
Amazon.com is expanding its brick-and-mortar presence in a deal that will allow shoppers to pick up online book and music orders at their neighbourhood Borders Book Shops. The new online capabilities be ready at more than 365 Borders stores in November, just before the holiday shopping season
Researchers at IBM are creating a prototype for a vast data-storage system built Lego-style with storage-array bricks that can be stacked into a cube-shaped server
Australia may have new second-level domain names if interested parties can provide auDA with a sufficiently convincing argument for establishing them
A lawyer acting for the US states suing Microsoft for damaging competition has presented a document showing the company wanted to bind
Internet Explorer to Windows in order to gain market share
Munich-based Smart Fuel Mobile GmbH has shown early production examples of a methanol-fuelled device capable of producing 40 watts of power and intended to provide electrical energy for laptop, printer and mobile phone at the same time
The Ohio Department of Education wants to get to know its public school children in extraordinary detail, asking school districts under a little-known law to provide personal information on students such as their mother’s maiden name for a new database
Six red wolf pups — three males and three females — were born at the North Carolina Zoological Park on Sunday
It may seem ironic, but privacy functionality in IE6 makes it possible to launch several attacks against the browser, and against Outlook and Outlook Express, security researcher Thor Larholm has discovered
Joseph Byrd, who recorded a pair of experimental psychedelic albums in the 60s, says he can’t get Sony to pay royalties, so his psychedelic pop might as well be free
It is possible to build a computer-driven, life-size, android robot head for cost of materials of about $600.00. The android head will have two colour video-camera eyes with the video going both into a window on the PC and into an image processing Java application
Television viewers may get multiple channels from each of the big networks as the Federal Government considers overturning its digital TV strategy
Australian Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock has been taken to task over Australia’s refugee policy by the assembled crowd at the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association function in London
Nokia Australia has moved to appease angry customers and the NSW Department of Fair Trading after the mobile phone maker admitted to selling defective handsets to consumers
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