Using the web as a playground

PMOG lets you use the internet as a medium for a game of treasure hunting.  An interesting use of the medum and an example of how you can re-claim your browsing experience."PMOG is the Passively Multiplayer Online Game. To play, you’ll need to Get Firefox and Add...

Chinese Mine Explosion Traps 33 Workers

UPDATE:So far China Daily reports ten killed, and that the mine was not even supposed to be operating."A gas explosion on Wednesday in a Henan Province coal mine left 10 miners dead and injured 10 others, a source in Zhengzhou said. The explosion occurred around 9am at...

Fortune 100 Companies' PCs Spewing Spam

Frighteningly, machines maintained by big technocentric firms have been pwned (as it were): these machines are dancing to the spam tune under the very noses of some of tech's biggest sellers. Practically, it's worrisome because such machines would store far more contacts than...

POLICE forced to rescue cat with head in jam jar after chasing mouse into the...

POLICE had to rescue a cat that tried to fish a mouse out of a jam jar and got its head stuck. A motorist went to a police station for help after finding the tabby wandering beside a road in Peterborough with the jar on its head and the mouse millimetres from its nose. A...

Overpass collapses traps cars - NEWS.com.au

" Article from: Agence France-Presse Font size: + - Send this article: Print Email A HIGHWAY overpass in a suburb of Montreal in Canada collapsed today, trapping cars underneath and sending others crashing down from above, police said. Five people were pulled from the rubble...

Ukraine coal mine blast traps 43

"More than 40 miners were trapped in a coal mine in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday when a mixture of coal powder and methane exploded, a spokesman for the emergencies ministry said. Ihor Krol said the incident occurred at around 0200 GMT at Zasyadko mine in the Donetsk coal...