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 -> Whats the probability of a Whale jumping on to your yatch?
A whale jumping out of the water and on to your yacht seems like a billion-to-one shot, but it happened last week.
630 views | 05 Sep 2003
 -> This stinks a little
There is no more farting amongst the staff in the Swedish national bank. " We do not have a specific fart ban, but we have ethical guidelines and naturally, farting is simply not done here", said Staffan Folke at the banks work environment office.
546 views | 05 Sep 2003
 -> Bumper nuts?
What will they think of next? :)
832 views | 31 Aug 2003
 -> No "GI JANE"s in reality?
Nearly 12 percent of the women who graduated from the United States Air Force Academy this year were the victims of rape or attempted rape in their four years at the academy in Colorado Springs.
944 views | 30 Aug 2003
 -> French heatwave!
The heatwave that roasted France this summer killed 11,435 people in the first two weeks of August alone, making it, in human terms, one of the worst natural disasters in the history of France.
760 views | 30 Aug 2003
 -> Mars comes this close...
Earth made its closest approach to Mars yesterday when the centers of the two planets were "only" 34,646,418 miles apart.
622 views | 28 Aug 2003
 -> I am the Yes-man you are looking for!
How is this for a resume in this down economy?
522 views | 28 Aug 2003
 -> The Roman sense of style
Despite conquering the known world, it seems the Romans had a very different idea of what constituted style (or lack of it?)
682 views | 27 Aug 2003
 -> Flash 2004 announced
Macromedia has announced the next version of flash. Entitled "Flash MX 2004", the product comes in two flavours now: regular and pro. The pro edition is geared towards advanced application developers and high end video producers.
633 views | 25 Aug 2003
 -> The "fat cats" in White House?
The top 5 richest Senators are, indeed, democrats. Further, 10 of the top 15 richest Senators are also democrats.
994 views | 24 Aug 2003
 -> Your Guide to Looking Busy at Work
We now live in a world of hyper-strict firewalls, regular scanning of employee files and thrice hourly PHB walk-bys. What is a dedicated time-waster to do?
9,863 views | 23 Aug 2003
 -> Dont lock your baggage
US gets tight on security. "TSA suggests that you help prevent the need to break your locks by keeping your bags unlocked. In some cases screeners will have to open your baggage as part of the screening process."
11,649 views | 21 Aug 2003
 -> Now, SoBig
A new variant of W32/Sobig is a High Risk mass-mailing worm. It arrives as an email attachment with a .pif or .scr extension. When run, it infects the host computer, then emails itself (using its own SMTP engine) to harvested email addresses.
12,321 views | 21 Aug 2003
 -> Dont be constipated
Interesting take on a popular song.
20,227 views | 21 Aug 2003
 -> Icecream --> Personality?
The ice cream flavor you choose says a lot about your personality...
992 views | 21 Aug 2003
 -> All about the blasted BLASTER virus
From McAfee. Contains some pretty useful links to Microsofts own page and the patches.
1,423 views | 20 Aug 2003
 -> Cracking Windows passwords made easy
A SWISS BOFFIN has created a web page demonstrating how easy it is to crack Windows based passwords. But that has prompted serious questions about the methods Microsoft uses to encode passwords. The site: http://lasecpc13.epfl.ch/ntcrack/
795 views | 19 Aug 2003
 -> Not an easy road ahead for North Korea talks
Days before unprecedented multi-party talks on the North Korean nuclear crisis, Pyongyang and Washington have sent out messages illustrating both the depth of distrust and the hard negotiations that lie ahead.
584 views | 19 Aug 2003
 -> Linux Lawsuit Could Undercut Other Freeware Programs
SCO lawyers are going to argue that the GPL (the license under which MANY freeware programs are released) itself is invalid, as it "is pre-empted by copyright law".
636 views | 19 Aug 2003
 -> President Bush Claims That He Is Gods Messenger
...Bush said: "God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to...." Yada Yada Yada..
619 views | 19 Aug 2003
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