If you receive this instant message through MSN, for heaven’s sake DO NOT CLICK IT:
<friend> says: Hey, isn’t this YOU?? :S http://mainmsn.com/images/viewimage.php?=your@email.com
Clicking this message downloads a virus onto your computer (except that the link above goes to VirusTotal’s results for the file). This virus appears to take control of MSN and send the same [...]

In what may turn out to be the year’s most ironic hoax, dozens of newspapers are running with The Sun’s story Ewe’ve been conned ladies - you know, the one where the Japanese women though that sheep were poodles:
Entire flocks were imported to Japan from the UK and Australia then sold by the internet company [...]

Developer David Watanabe programs beautiful software with elegant interfaces. But I’ve noticed a clear thread in many discussions surrounding Dave’s products: that he’s really rude. Here are some verbatim comments from around the web.
“I realised that Id rather not have to recount my movements to a complete stranger just for the privilege of running an [...]

See updates at bottom of article for the conclusion to this story.
“Yesterday, around 4:00pm, I received a phone call telling me that Richard (Dampe) has been in a fatal car accident…”
What a tragic accident. A 15-year-old Melbourne boy is struck and killed by a car that lost control on a wet road. Richard Denton, developer [...]

Lara Bingle has sued Zoo Magazine for defamation, claiming it publishing photos of her without her consent. However, the emergence of pictures from a 2005 photo shoot “suggested she wasn’t averse to being in men’s magazines” (link).
The upshot of this is that you can read the full story here and click here to see a [...]

Squid fanatics rejoice!
A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday. The squid, weighing an estimated 990 lbs and about 39 feet long, took two hours to land in Antarctic waters, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton [...]

How are the hottest chilis determined? Believe it or not, the most common test involves human taste-testers. In the “Scoville Organoleptic Test”, chili extract is diluted in sugar water until the heat of its spice is no longer detectable to a panel of tasters. The resulting heat rating, measured in Scoville heat units, is a [...]

Diamonds are beautiful stones which represent love and commitment, right? It might surprise you to know that, not so long ago, diamonds were destined to become merely a semi-precious stone. Industrial mining techniques began turning up much greater quantities of diamond than was possible during antiquity, driving their value down. Clearly something had to be [...]

Chances are that sometime in the past few months, you’ve been introduced to the phrase “Will it blend?” Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you have probably seen Blendtec’s fun and innovative videos somewhere on the internet. Presented by Blendtec founder and all-round blender junkie Tom Dickson, Blendtec is the smash-hit viral video franchise [...]