Teen sentenced for 'Blaster' worm variant

There ya go. Busted. In the slammer, spendin time at the ironbar hotel. The little house (that's for two years less a day, for those that don't know :)

That'll teach ya to stay up late, plagiarising someone else's code with minor modifications enough to pretend to call your own. That'll teach you to spend sleepless nights reading hex and C++ till your eyes go fuzzy and you start thinking in AND / NOR / NAND logic instead of human logic.

Hey wait a minute...this sounds like most of the ppl I hang out with...well, shame anyway.

Love grows from back seat of NY cab - Cabbie moonlights as matchmaker

While this may not be an article about technology, it is insightful: with all the high-tech matchmaking going on these days, the Internet, telephone chat lines, classified ads, dating services - this article makes me think "why didn't anyone think of this before??"

MGM DVD Class Action Settlement

Own any widescreen DVD's? They might be defective, if they are MGM widescreen. Check out this site to view the terms of the settlement, your entitlement, and a list of affected movies - all 325 of them.

Will Mac Mini spur petite-PC revolution?

Here comes the Mac Mini. A fellow I work with at IBM pointed these little guys out to me...and when you honestly consider the bang for buck, they are a very attractive computing platform indeed.

Rap mogul surrenders in drug money investigation

I knew it!! I just knew rap/hip hop was on the dark side!! Nothing that sounds like that could be for anything good.

More Identity Theft Offline Than Online

Who woulda thunk it - digital banking is safer, after all.

Soviet-era missile removed from eBay

But the reason it was pulled is the REALLY funny part.

Dang, and I had a bid on that, too.

Running Windows viruses with Wine

Really funny article. Now, I'm not posting this to get into a "which is better, Windows or Linux" debate, or to argue which is more secure, blah blah blah. Personally, I dig them both (actually, I dig COMPUTERS, regardless of OS), for different reasons.

That said, this is a hilarious article!! Read on...

Mobile virus infects Lexus cars

This is exactly why I don't want my oven to have an e-mail address.

Microsoft launches anti-piracy initiative

Oh no!! It's the end! The END, I tell you!!

R 2 many txt msgs bad 4 U?

Cell phone "texting" can be bad for your fingers...here's why.

Why some people entice mosquitoes

Don't wanna get bit? Read on.

Student sues to end summer homework

What a GREAT idea!!

Why didn't I think of that YEARS ago!?

Christians issue gay warning on SpongeBob video

"the nonprofit We Are Family Foundation -- say the video is designed to encourage tolerance and diversity."

Those darn intolerant Christians !!

Linux Inc.

Long and detailed atricle in BusinessWeek about Linux and its threat to Microsoft...very in depth and revealing.

Professor's Saturn Experiment Forgotten

"An experiment onboard the Huygens probe didn't run as planned because someone forgot to turn it on. The team lead for the experiment has put eighteen years of his life into the project, just to watch it not happen after a seven year ride to its destination on Titan." -jdray

...I'd love to hear the realization of this around the water cooler.

'Phishing' more sophisticated - Jan 20, 2005

If you do any online banking or online commerce at all, you should be aware of this issue. If you're not sure what a hosts file is, ask your computer security expert.

Stan Lee's Spidey Score Settled

Looks like Marvel has been a bit tight with Smilin' Stan Lee.

Darth Tater: The dark side of Mr. Potato Head - Jan 19, 2005

Definitely MY kind of toy. I think I'll put one of these on top of my monitor...just to warn ppl.

Experts: Cyber-crime bigger threat than cyber-terror

Naw! Ya don't say!!

Bill Gates Strikes a Pose for Teen Beat Photospread, 1983

What a sexy lug. Yep it's true.

Florida man faces bioweapon charge

...think he works for the post office??

Huygens mission

Great blog from a CNN correspondent about the probe landing on Titan. Truly a milestone for mankind.

Hong Kong Makes First File-Sharing Arrest

Watch out! Big brother is wa-atching !!

Best SSID's you have seen

Great thread from BroadbandReports.com, some of the funniest SSID's various ppl have seen. We where thinking maybe "Hacked" or "PublicAccess" might fit in :)

20 Year Archive on Google Groups

This is KEWL. Google recently published this page, which shows several "first threads" about various subjects. EG first mention of MS DOS.

Enjoy :)

Military weapons found near lake, Machine guns were supposed to have been disposed of

Not that there's a gun problem in the US or anything. They just find guns laying around anywhere, that's all.

Gadgets get couch potatoes movin

Yay! Now us gamers won't be so skinny/overweight/out of shape.

'Fear Factor' sued for rat-eating episode - Jan 7, 2005: "CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) -- A viewer is suing NBC for $2.5 million, contending that he threw up because of a 'Fear Factor' episode in which contestants ate rats mixed in a blender."

Yep. A viewer is suing. Because he "hit his head" trying to escape the TV.

Sheesh, imagine how the contestents felt. Maybe the looser could also vomit and join the suit.

Maybe I could collectively sue all the advertisers for "great pain" and "mental anguish" because I can't escape the TV commercials fast enough.

Man divorces wife before claiming lotto prize

Sounds like forethought!! A great read...click it :)

Great-grandmother admits pregnancy hoax - Jan 4, 2005

Surprise, surprise!!