RENO, NV, August 13 - Reno police arrested a local man for possession of stolen property after a traffic stop involving a motorized bar stool.

Reno police pull over speeding bar stool

"A German who borrowed £5,000 from his mother for a penis extension is demanding a refund after it ended up shorter and deformed."

I guess this is what happens to people who support spam.

German demands refund after penis extension backfires

] Scientists in China have, for the first time, used
] cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain
] a mix of DNA from both humans and rabbits, according to a
] report in a scientific journal that has reignited the
] smoldering ethics debate over cloning research.

Even though they claim most of the rabbit DNA was removed prior to the fusing, how valid of a test cell would these actually be? Without having 100% of the qualities of a normal cell how could we actually use these and get reliable results?- wilpig

Figures it would have to be a rabbit... Echo needs more Bunnymen. I love the justification for this too--Human eggs are expensive-- Picture this ad a few years from now, "Need a Baby???!!, On a Budget??!!"

Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo (washingtonpost.com)

"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