Wacky Courtcases including United States v. Satan. more inside

Six-wheeled Supercar "4 steering front wheels permit to increase braking, comfort and directional stability." Plus, it looks like something out of the Thunderbirds.

She Lost Her Job She bitches about co-workers on her weblog. She shows her weblog to her employer. She loses her job for her bitching. She whines about having lost her job. more inside

Clean Venue Olympics

Strict regulations published by Athens 2004 last week dictate that spectators may be refused admission to events if they are carrying food or drinks made by companies that did not see fit to sponsor the games.

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Curious, George I have a compact flash card that has four Psion 5mx WP files on it. After adding some files from my PC, the card reads "corrupted" on the Psion, and won't read at all on my PC. Can anyone help me recover the text in the Psion files I know are on there?

Against the Law? This article makes me wonder if the FBI gets paid per charge brought.

Will She or Won't She? Categorically denying that there will be an eighth Harry Potter book does not mean there won't be an eighth Harry Potter book. Funnily enough, there is no mention of an eighth Harry Potter book on the author's homepage.

Disinhibition

It's well known that people say and do things in cyberspace that they wouldn't ordinarily say or do in the face-to-face world. They loosen up, feel more uninhibited, express themselves more openly. Researchers call this the "disinhibition effect." It's a double-edged sword.

Metafilter Access [NSFW - someone posted goatse to Mefi] more inside

Phonebashing Do we believe that vandalism is a valid form of protest?

"for your veiwing pleasure, several movie clips depicting our work! All these clips have been recorded very recently and are no bigger than 1MB (all are in quicktime format). All the people concerned are real members of the public and no one was refunded for the loss of their mobile telephone."

I don't. I sympathise with the victims trying to get the police to take the crime seriously.

Important information from the Ministry of Vague Paranoia And the response from the Cabinet office.

BZFlag is a free multiplayer multiplatform 3D tank battle game.

Osama's Cyber War Oh those pesky tourists! more inside

Isometric pixel art, isometric pixel art, isometric pixel art, isometric pixel art How do they do it?

Peter Pan [No more inside]

Death of the Book But story telling remains, as ever. more inside

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity #1 is one we are all familiar with: "Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation."

The illustrated story of copyright This is an online version of the out-of-print book of the same name, on the author's homepage (all rights reserved). The perspective is American, of course, but it still makes interesting reading for the rest of us.

The Royal We This is old, but interesting:

The mathematics of our ancestry is exceedingly complex, because the number of our ancestors increases exponentially, not linearly. These numbers are manageable in the first few generations—two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents—but they quickly spiral out of control. Go back forty generations, or about a thousand years, and each of us theoretically has more than a trillion direct ancestors—a figure that far exceeds the total number of human beings who have ever lived.

The journalist speaks to a couple of people who have the answer to the conundrum.

Fast Mozilla How to make Mozilla as fast as Opera. more inside