New Jersey Man Stops Sacramento Webcam Suicide

SACRAMENTO, CA - A young man is recovering, following an attempted suicide which was broadcast via webcam from his home.  He'd been chatting online with another young man from Camden, New Jersey and using a...

Afghan Child Rape: Defending Freedom to Abuse

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly sickening, when as a Canadian soldier in a country you are sworn to protect witness hidden atrocities of allies you have trained who may one day save your life...

McGruff Takes a Bite out of Cyber-Bullying

When I was a kid, the image of an animated dog in a trenchcoat and fedora saying: "Take a bite out of crime." filled me with amusement. Truth is, I have the same reaction today.However, back in my day (I say...

Tweetmeme Ranks Your Links Into Twitter According To Popularity

The Twitter experience is very similar to walking on a busy street and catching partial conversations. That is why a lot of effort is ongoing to optimize scaling opportunities by categorising the various uses of Twitter. A new service called

New Mexico officials in a tourism tizzy over alien ads

I don't know what the critics are so concerned about. It's funny, isn't it? "ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - New Mexico bills itself as "The Land of Enchantment." But for weeks now, a contentious debate has raged...

"Anonymous" tells Drew Peterson: I Saw Stacy, Lawyer Rushes to the Media

This story just gets stranger and stranger."In another weird development, the AP in Chicago is reporting that Stacy Peterson may have been sighted -- according to her media-mugging husband, former police sergeant...

Bhutan Deploys Linux

"The government has refreshed the Debian-based operating system that it launched last year.The Bhutan government liked its first taste of Linux so much that it has come back for seconds, releasing an updated version of its Debian-based operating system that it launched last...

Right Said Fred

UPDATE: "At 7:57 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, while taping "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" for broadcast later in the evening, Fred Thompson finally said: "I'm running for president of the United States." The...

Canadian Carrier's True Video-Chat Phone: Sex Chat 2.0

William Shatner was on hand to promote the forthcoming video-chat service from Rogers, the very first of its kind in North America. Who'd'a thunk it, Canada, of all places, rocking the mobile world?I doubt Rogers would like to see their product framed this way, but mark my...

Mom donates laptops to wounded soldiers

"Laura Brown, a mother with a son who fought in the Iraq war, is trying to improve conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center — one laptop computer at a time. The 50-year-old from Cody, Wyo., was chatting on the Internet with the mother of a wounded soldier two years ago...

What is VIRB? Did you get invited?

I came across a long stream of photographs where people were doing there best to get invited to VIRB. And the I started digging around and found some interesting blog posts about the social networking site."I have...

My So-Called Second Life

"I thought I'd want to have lots of sex. Meaningless, multipartnered, degrading sex. After all, if Second Life is a virtual community in which you can look however you want, do whatever you want and use the fake name you want, then I could make all my fantasies come true. And...

Affairs / Marital Infidelity

"Maybe it's happened to you. You're fed up with your spouse, so you start chatting with that attractive person of the opposite sex in the next cubicle. You've known him for years, and it's so easy to talk. He just listens. Pretty soon you're sharing intimate problems, and now...

The Pleasures of Medicine

"Whether chatting with grateful patients late at night or witnessing the mysterious healing powers of the human body, a physician's job can be a real high The whole world was green. My driver's-side window let in the 3 a.m. buzz and click of a traffic signal and the...

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If history is an indicator, soon we will not talk online but 'gtalk' instead: now everyone can sign up for GTalk.

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