In yet another case of corporate bullyboy tactics, Absolut Vodka are to accusing an Australian swimwear company, Absolut Beach, of cybersquatting — even though Absolut Beach is a legally registered and trademarked company. How long will it be before some giant multinational tries to steal your domain?
The US Department of Defence is buying information on the surfing habits of school children from N2H2, the makers of the Bess web filter. The Electronic Privacy Information Centre would like to know why
When yet another dotcom goes under and is asset stripped by the vultures, it may well be your personal details that become the big moneyspinner in a sell off
DSL — everyone wants it, but the service is leaving subscribers with more headaches than happiness
The moneyed elitist brain donors currently in session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, are scared of the masses actually learning something and taking cash from their pockets through their addiction to the internet
Full body armour, absent on the battlefield since the 17th century, is making a comeback. It’s yet to be seen if our future soldiers will look like knights of old, stormtroopers or Daleks — exterminate… exterminate…
Qantas may well have pleaded guilty to their part in the deaths of deer being transported from Australia last year, but the fine — a maximum of $4400 — is ridiculous. Adding a few zeros to that figure may have actually done something to discourage Qantas, and many other large corporations as well, now all its done is to reinforce the fact that the RSPCA is little more than a toothless lion
Sticky tape may just prove to be the low cost storage medium you’ve been looking for
SETI have a shiny new toy under construction to help them in their quest for intelligent life
Yet another attempt by a big corporation to bully a small site, this time Nintendo is the company at fault in a ludicrous war over a phantom Pokemon meta tag
Scientists have discovered how to make rat cells replicate forever — you can never have too many immortal rats
The merger between Macromedia and Allaire sounds a little like the monkey owning the organ grinder
In the grand tradition of Cape does not enable wearer to fly
, M-LAW’s Wacky Warning Labels contest has selected a winner for the year — Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover
One of the world’s most prolific spewers of spam ground to a halt this week when their servers were crashed, ironically enough, by spam
Fleeing from jail, stealing a van and then calling the cops when you get lost doesn’t rate too high of the old smart-o-meter either
When you get away with a crime, confessing on stage is probably not the smartest move to make, but then this is a guy whose getaway vehicle was a bicycle
Something finally got the better of the moronic Crocodile Hunter. Unfortunately it didn’t finish him off, but it was captured on film for all to enjoy
The bounds between fantasy and reality can be a bit thin at times, but the lads behind the iron curtain got a bit carried away when they saw James Bond on the big screen for the first time
Just when you thought you’d plumbed the depths of human stupidity, they go and make a dumber human. That heady combination of gullibility and e-mail has crossed over into the world of snail mail with the dreaded Klingerman virus. Beware of killer sponges in blue envelopes
Noting that around 30 million Americans live at or below the poverty line, that wacky Saddam Hussein is prepared to allocate $94 million in humanitarian aid to the United States
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