"Open Source Victoria has expressed concern that the use of "insecure and vulnerable Microsoft platforms" have cost Australian industry and government a great deal in lost productivity and money and urged these sectors to upgrade to open source platforms such as Linux and FreeBSD."

Open source group urges switch to avoid 'costly' Windows worms

" To some, Hurtubise is a cult hero. He's burned through more than $100,000 and gone bankrupt building a 150-pound protective suit of titanium, plastic, chain mail, galvanized steel, rubber and thousands of feet of duct tape.

To test his invention, Hurtubise has been run over by a truck, hit by a moving car, smashed in the shins with a sledgehammer, scorched with flames, and hacked at with chain saws. "

We should send this guy after bin-laden.

The Trials of RoboBear

"MOSCOW - Sapamurad Niyazov, "Turkmenbashi the Great", was made President for Life of the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan yesterday. He marked the occasion by renaming all the months of the year. "

Wonder if he knew Emporer Norton.

Eccentric Turkman leader renames days of the week, months - one in his honour

"Scientists at Cornell University in New York have now managed to build the ultimate in tiny transistors, in which electrons flow through a single atom. "

Scientists develop transistor the size of an atom

"Scientists running a pioneering experiment with "living robots" which think for themselves said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it "lives"."

I am Not a Number!!! Well, maybe Number 5...

Robot on the run

"A man has been jailed for 50 days for dissecting his daughter's guinea pig believing it was a government spy."
""It's not often you have someone this paranoid from using drugs that they think a guinea pig is spying on them for the government," Deputy District Attorney Tom Connors said. The paranoia was apparently a byproduct of Zavala's methamphetamine use, not mental illness."

Its the government I tell you... They're in it with the hamsters and the mice!!!

Man jailed for killing guinea pig he thought was a spy

"An Australian council has been forced to apologise after a traffic warden issued a parking ticket for a car whose owner lay dead inside."

Warden issues parking ticket to dead man

"LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (AP) -- It smells like rotten eggs at best, decomposing flesh at worst. It looks like the pods from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
"It's frightening," said Eileen Masterson. "We can't swim because the odor is so horrible and we won't crab here because we don't know whether it's safe"
" The substance, which was noticed about two weeks ago, consists of jelly-like bulbs that undulate with the waves just below the surface. "

What is it...These things just keep popping up...Figures the one from jersey smells like shit.

Another gelatinous blob, but this one stinks

"When US soldiers see my name on my badge, they ask to have their photos taken with me. Of course, I do this with good grace," the young Saddam said.

Saddam Hussein found in Baghdad ambulance

“The lab is the world’s biggest playground for technology,” said Northrup, who joined Lawrence Livermore in 1993 and left about three years later to start the biotech company Cepheid. He is now president and chief executive of the startup MicroFluidic Systems Inc. in Pleasanton, Calif. “I had access to incredible technology, multimillion-dollar equipment … all the things I would need to figure out the problem.”

Resource-rich federal labs foster ingenuity, struggle with fledgling inventions