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Ryan Stephens has been charged with teasing Timber the police dog after he was found barking and hissing at the animal. The 25-year-old claimed ‘the dog started it’ when officers asked why he was barking at the K9 dog in a patrol car in Cincinnati, Ohio. Police said he appeared...

The organization that oversees the distribution of Internet domain names has given final approval to ".xxx", a domain dedicated to adult subject matter. The new domain is known as a generic top-level domain, meaning it is the final part of a website address and isn't country-specific (like...

A jackdaw bird has become a real-life Kes after befriending schoolboy Emmanuel Adams while he walked to school - and has now moved into the boy's home. The jackdaw began landing on the head of Emmanuel Adams as he walked to school, and now comes with him into his home, perching on the...

Don't laugh, but a vicious squirrel has terrorized a Vermont neighborhood, attacking at least three residents and eluding wildlife control experts for more than a week. The small gray squirrel in Bennington, Vt., has broken the peace that existed between humans and the small woodland...

Some dentists use laughing gas on the job, but one British dentist has been suspended for using the human kind instead. Authorities at the British General Dental Council say they will remove 35-year-old dentist from the official Dentist's Register next month for a variety of offensive...

The Windows 7 Taskbar is great feature, but you may want to tweak one of its default behaviors with this registry edit. Link Removed

According to a police report, David Goodman said he was attempting to cheer up a 21-year-old female employee of the Wisconsin law firm he was servicing. The 52-year-old explained that the lady in question 'seemed to be stressed out' during a previous visit. Upon realising that the postie...

Hi! I'm Adam Shostack,a program manager working in TWC Security, and I'd like to talk a bit abouttoday's AutoRun update. Normally, I post over on the SDL blog, but oflate I've been doing a lot of work in classifying and quantifying how Windowscomputers get compromised. One thingthat popped...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Parrots, like humans, choose to use one side of their body more than the other, with more of them left handed -- or, more precisely, left footed than anything else. Some species even try out both before deciding on one side. Australian researchers found...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error Reuters – A competitor types a text message into a mobile phone during a competition in Singapore … NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Nearly four out of five women and three of five men say they believe texting, Facebook and other...

Meet the Woman Who Eats Couch Cushions Compulsions drive people to do very strange and unusual things. But eating couch cushions? That may very well be the strangest yet. Adele, a 30-year-old woman from Bradenton, Fla., recently came forward on a TV show about her bizarre taste for foam...

Naked Tourist Richard Gervasi Blocks Traffic in Florida, Gets Shot With Taser He might be the king of the world, but police say this emperor needs new clothes. A tourist was shot with a taser three times by Florida police after he allegedly got naked and blocked traffic in Big Coppitt...

Link Removed Scientists proved long ago that the Internet is, in fact, composed of 98.7 percent cats. Yet why cats -- whom evolution equipped with space-detecting whiskers -- insist on squeezing themselves into impossibly tight places is still a mystery. A really entertaining mystery...

When I mouse over something in my taskbar, it does it's usual mouse over thing, highlight the icon, maybe make the color of active items move with my mouse, the usual stuff. But when I move my mouse away from the taskbar, it still behaves as if the mouse is over whatever icon. A log out and a...

Hi everyone, Since we released Link Removed due to 404 Error on August 23, we've continued to conduct an investigation not only into our own affected products, but also into how we can best help to protect customers given DLL preloading also affects some third-party applications. We'd like to...

Apparently it happens when a group of ants get seperated from the main group.....they walk in circles following the scent trail until they die.

I started MS Word and keeping it open, when i try to uninstall it in Win 7, it does NOT give message "File in Use" and uninstall MS Word. Here the main concern is Why the "File in Use" message is not displayed before uninstalling the software???? This behaviour happens when you uninstall any...

More than 20 Virgin Blue staff and managers from Sydney and Brisbane airports have been sacked for repeatedly using the airline's computers to view and swap pornography. The airline said the staff had been "terminated" this week after ignoring at least one warning about breaching the company's...

Link Removed due to 404 Error This duck got himself all in a flap after inadvertently straying into the path of a giant Shoebill while heading towards water. But it was all water off a duck’s back for the imposing 4ft tall bird which instead of eating his smaller friend, carefully picked him...