Unseen Beatrix Potter watercolour fetches £289,500 at auction

A watercolour by the famous Beatirx Potter was sold at Sotheby's in London to a private collector for five times its upper estimate.The picture shows rabbits putting on their coats and kissing their rabbit host...

Messenger reveals Mercury's dark side

New pictures of our solar system's smallest planet have been graciously provided by the Messenger probe.  No one's seen this side of Mercury before--formerly we'd only seen its party piece.A large version of...

$2.6 Million Worth of Animal Poop

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...

Throw a Coat over It: Teacher's Porn Conviction Debate

This is a follow-up to my earlier post. If I may correct Mark Steinmentz, throwing a coat, or any other article of clothing, over a computer will not remove malware. The machine must be erased and the operating system reinstalled, which is beyond the DIY comfort level of most...

Bin Laden '9/11 video' broadcast

"Arabic TV channel Al-Jazeera has broadcast what it says is unseen footage of Osama Bin Laden meeting some of the 9/11 hijackers."

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