"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. ...
PC is spreading as can be seen from this latest story from Sweden."A heated debate is raging in Sweden after an eight-year-old boy's failure to invite two classmates to his birthday party resulted in a complaint filed with parliament. Nearly 200 outraged comments have been...
Ars Technica does a great job of looking into Bell Canada's defence of its throttling policies. Bell is now claiming that in spite of appearances, that congestion levels on its networks are high. "The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)...
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"You may remember when a Texas woman claimed to have found the head of an actual blood-sucking chupacabra, and promptly set up a business selling tee shirts marking her find.
The mystery is solved, thanks to...
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Such is the value of a walk-through..."
A nightclub investor who bought his neighbor's swank New Jersey mansion out of foreclosure for $2.6 million - not knowing that inside it was destroyed by feces from more than 100 cats and dogs - is suing.
Michael Acciardi got access...
*coughahem*"Rep. Bob Allen cites fear of black men, weather in oral sex arrest
Representative Bob Allen, a Republican in the Florida House of Representatives, blamed the weather and his fear of black men for offering $20 to perform oral sex on a man in a public park. The man...
Yet another bog tech corporation learns that messing with its customers is perhaps not the best idea.Oh, and if you do not know what "goatse" is, then you must under no circumstances enter it into the search engine of your choice, and definitely not whilst at work."Yahoo has...
Cory Doctorow has a very interesting column today about the lengths media corporations will go to enforce its control over the web. In this case, Fox is issuing legal threats to sites that link to material that Fox claims has been stolen from it.An analogy would be if police...