Mozilla CEO says Apple's Safari auto-update 'wrong'

lot of people appear to be bent out of shape about Apple using its auto-update service to distribute the Safari Web browser on Windows. The CEO of Mozilla, which makes the rival Firefox browser, calls it bad business.

Man crucified for 22nd time !

Devout Roman Catholic Ruben Enaje donned a crown of thorns before being nailed to a cross... for the 22nd time in a gruesome Easter ritual.

Light From Halfway to the Beginning of the Univer

How far can you see with your own eyes on a clear night? Would you believe seven billion light years?

Marvel Zombies... The Movie!

This fan made short film is beyond awesome...

First ever size 16 girl reaches Miss England final

A 16-year-old girl tipped to be the next Sophie Dahl has become the first size 16 model to be selected as a finalist for the Miss England competition.

Innovative Chicago Tower To Feature Atrium Of Wind Turbines

The tower will have wind turbines positioned at the corners of the building, to capture wind at its highest velocity as it accelerates around the tower.

Kurt Cobain smoked oregano with his mum

A new documentary featuring previously unheard interviews with Nirvana front-man Kurt Cobain reveals how he once smoked Oregano with his mother after replacing her cannabis stash with the herb.

The Wretched Life of the Insomniac

Insomnia is a problem most insomniacs don’t want to talk about. In fact, it’s a problem many of us don’t know how to talk about.

History in Pictures: The Shroud of Turin

View a pictorial timeline of the shroud's controversial history.

Coming Soon: The Cisco Blade Server?

The movement toward blade servers in the enterprise data center has been growing steadily for some time, backed by manufacturers like IBM and HP. But expect to soon see networking giant Cisco Systems enter this market as well, setting themselves up for a tense battle with blade server manufacturers for control of the enterprise data center.

Hapless Deer Becomes Living Blogject

Affectionately named "Thor," a white-tailed deer living in suburban Pennsylvania is blogging and mapping its location using a GPS, cell phone, and free Google services.

Ball lightning bamboozles physicist

Scientific theories and experiments have failed to convince a physicist what's behind the mysterious natural phenomenon of ball lightning.

John’s Blog » Apple Software Update and Safari

What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong. It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that’s bad — not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web. What they did yesterday was to use their updater for iTunes to also install their Safari Web browser

"I know, let's ALL park on the frozen lake" (PICS)

Owned.

Monkey See, Monkey Do

[PICS] Film Geek Graffiti

If you look around the streets, you’ll sometimes find film geek graffiti. Here is a collection of some of the better street art we have come across around the interwebs.

Man Hangs Himself After Falsely Accused of Raping a Woman

A man who lost his job after being falsely accused of a horrific sex crime has been found hanged in a shed. Ian Adams, 51, was suspended and then sacked from his job at a local IKEA store after his employers received a letter saying he had raped a woman and her two children.

The Splendid Mandarinfish (PIC)

Thanks to photographer Luc Viatour for this amazing pic!

First Proper Shots Of "Steel" MGS4 PS3 Console

First proper pics of the limited edition "Steel" 40GB PlayStation 3 console available as part of the Japanese MGS4 bundle

Sony gives option to build your laptop crapware-free

Sony is finally seeing the error of its ways, but instead of removing the crapware altogether, Sony has the nerve to offer a $50 "Fresh Start" option, which "scrubs" the machine clean before shipping it your way. At the moment you can only configure the TZ2000 crapware-free, but hopefully Sony will be rolling out the choice to the rest of its lapto

New College MPG Challenge Comes with $1 Million Purse

Hybrid Fest, the group that organizes a huge hybrid get together every year, will also be hosting a cross country mileage competition this summer. Using their own custom modified Toyota Prius, teams will compete to get the best fuel economy while driving cross-country from New York to San Francisco.

Movie leaked after years of suppression by Scientology

Years ago, in 2001, several film directors worked on a documentary called "The Profit", indirectly telling the story about how the Scientology came to be what it is today.Before it could be released, the CoS managed to get it banned, even after it claimed that it was totally unrelated to Scientology. But now it has been leaked. See for yourself.

E-voting vendor blocks security audit with legal threats

New Jersey election officials have scrapped plans to hire a Princeton University computer science professor for a voting machine security review after receiving legal threats from the the vendor, Sequoia Voting Systems. Sequoia says that unauthorized independent review would violate the county's license agreement and jeopardize Sequoia's intellectu

Where is HD 189733?

The star cataloged as HD 189733 is a mere 63 light-years away. Its location is indicated in this deep, wide-angle image of the sky centered on the northern constellation of Cygnus.

Manipulation of light and space makes tiny house seem larger

The small Penguin House in Tokyo has the illusion of being much bigger that it really is.

You Suck at Photoshop #9

Donnie Hoyle gets as close to a pair of tomatoes as he'll ever get.

Ten outrageously awesome film deaths

There’s really no way of knowing how much time we have on this planet. In the blink of an eye it could be over as quickly as it started. So when it’s time to leave this earth, I hope to go out in style like these guys did.

Little old lady suing Sony, Samsung, Nokia and everyone else

Oh sure, she looks friendly enough. But don't let her matronly, argyle looks fool you. Retired Columbia University Professor, Gertrude Neumark Rothschild, is looking to extract some cold, hard cash from a who's who of Consumer Electronics giants. Otherwise, they can forget about importing their goods into the US.

World's Worst Intersections & Traffic Jams (Pics)

The complexity of modern interchanges can be daunting. Here is an exaggerated vision of what the future may look like.

Easter's Flipped Its Lid

Easter parades bring out some crazy decorations. Here's a few of the best efforts so far this year.

2 fired over Obama passport file breach

Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for accessing passport records of Sen. Barack Obama "without a need to do so," State Department officials confirmed to NBC News.

Geeky Computer Stations (PICS)

Those computer station are really cool and amazing. If you have a lot of money and time you can spend it to make something which will look like on those sets.

Will Rush Limbaugh Be Indicted for Voter Fraud?

As Ohio election officials investigate illegal crossover voting in the 2008 primary, questions arise on Limbaugh's role.

Who is anonymous? What are their crimes?

Every mistake we learn. Every failure we regenerate, every success we build on.There is no control. No leadership, only influences. The influence of thought.

Wine 0.9.58 released

Wine 0.9.58 was released today, with the following main changes: * The default version is now Windows XP. * Many Richedit improvements. * Beginning of jscript dll support. * Shell folders now respect XDG directory configuration. * Many translation updates. * Lots of bug fixes.

"So?"

A jab at the insensitivity of the current VP of the United States, Dick Cheney.

Story behind the story: The Clinton myth

One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.

Consequences of gambling vs glorifying Vegas in film '21'

Good behind the scenes LA Times piece on the film and the people involved.

Sarkozy's 'cyber spin doctor' sparks wrath on the web

The French blogosphere is abuzz with outrage and derision over a 24-year-old appointed by Nicolas Sarkozy to keep an eye on what is being said about the president on the World Wide Web. He is "in charge of monitoring what is circulating on the Web about the president of the republic: blogs, news sites, videos ... just as one might do for a traditio

New Analysis Suggests Earlier Start for Upright Walking

As early as six million years ago, apparently close to the beginning of the human lineage, an ancestral species had already developed the transforming ability for upright walking, scientists reported on Thursday.