Ever wonder how things actually came to be? This article is a look at how some of the things we take for granted in the modern age were first suggested.
As an educator who teaches IT topics, how do you illustrate the concepts of networking to your classes? Do you resort to the white board and static two dimensional network diagrams? Don't you find this approach tests the limits of how realistically you can explain what happens on …
Looking at the way the gaming world has evolved it'd be pretty stupid to lump all modern "Gamers" into the historical stereotype of nerdy, single, over- or under-weight guys with nothing better to do than perhaps play the odd game of tabletop Dungeons & Dragons and lay the sm …
'm in a relationship. So is one of the guys I work with. Through this deep, spiritual connection, he tries to commiserate with me about how terrible women are and how downright annoying they can be. Right? Right? Yeah! Man talk!
Teen stabbings are rarely out of the headlines. But a course which answers such questions as why even a cut to the buttocks can kill aims to stop pupils carrying knives.
Natasha Henstridge, also known as "the chick from Species" and more importantly to my mind, Ghosts of Mars (check it out) will be joined by Marcus Dixon (alias) and C&C veteran Joe Kucan who reprises his role as Leader of The Brotherhood of Nod Kane.
A Sussex policeman has been discharged from hospital after an attack by about 50 cows left him with four broken ribs and a punctured lung.
The aging "Harry Potter" wizard Dumbledore might as well have posed for the cover of "The Advocate" in a leather harness for all the controversy that's erupted over J.K. Rowling's recent revelation that he's gay.
In a move as curmudgeonly and dark as anything Lord Voldemort could have dreamed up, Penguin India (henceforth to be referred to as "the publishing house-who-must-not-be-named") has sued, for an obscene amount, a community Durga Pujo for creating a "Hogwarts"-themed panda …
Rowling this week outed Dumbledore as being "gay". Oh I bet she @!$%#ing did! I hate this women. I know hate is a strong word, but I do. I am not proud of it either. It's just how I feel about the chick. Why? Let me explain...
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One of Britain's leading black police officers is to demand that more people from ethnic minorities must be stopped and searched if the fight against inner-city gun and knife crime is to succeed.
Somewhere on American soil in a top secret government scientific base a dangerous and terrifying virus has escaped the confines of the lab it was breed in.
The Dawn mission to the asteroid belt passed a critical test last weekend, exercising its gentle, yet reliable, ion-propulsion system to accelerate its mission to two destinations during an eight-year voyage through our solar system.
Second Life has its First Life, and now Web 2.0 darling Facebook has its own parodies in the form of Enemybook and Snubster.
A priest has been interviewed by police on suspicion of inciting racial hatred for expressing his Christian views in his parish newsletter.
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For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world's population, while enabling the "elites" to live forever with the aid of advanced technology.
Primetime goes behind the scenes at the Leipzig Game Convention to bring us video from the special EA business lounge at the event - "...checking out EA's secret line of programs that they don't tell the public about".
We all know how annoying can spam be. Although there are highly sophiscated tools nowadays, which can reduce the amount of spam in your mailbox to the minimum, it's still at least unpleasent to see all those "penis enlargement" mails.
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. Funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen the finished array will have 350 6m antennas and will be one of the world's largest.
Greenpeace, the environmental campaign group, have hijacked a power station in Kent. Their takeover was spurred by the prime minister's decision to approve the UK's first coal plant in over three decades.
Schoolchildren in Russia are to be taught using the free, open-source Linux software in an effort to cut the cost of teaching information technology.
File this under "Somewhat Useless Information for Unexpected Run-Ins with Asteroids" — researchers in Scotland have determined the best way to blast a giant space rock entails focusing sunlight onto the asteroid with space based mirrors.
Not Again: 24 Great Films Too Painful To Watch Twice.
Play.com has today begun taking pre release orders for the PC version of Command & Conquer Kane's Wrath! The site claims the final release date for the eagerly awaited expansion pack will be 28/03/2008 - a month later than had been expected by other commentators on the web.
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