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 -> Top 10 words with unusual origins
Oxford Dictionary says language isn't all about the obscure. Lexicographers don't have 'favourite' words, but here are a few old chestnuts which are both common (for the most part) and have a story to tell..
757 views | 08 Nov 2003
 -> How's this for an anti-virus ad!
(Warning: PG material!) Antivirus maker Bullguard dangles a carrot..
199,947 views | 05 Nov 2003
 -> Cinema's cheesiest moments
Bill Pullman's call to arms as US president in the film Independence Day has been named the cheesiest movie moment of all time by Empire magazine.
997 views | 05 Nov 2003
 -> Killing cancer with a virus
A Canadian institute has completed Phase I clinical trials of their "reovirus" formulation (named REOLYSIN) with 11 of 18 patients showing viral activity with significant tumor regression (cancer decreasing!)
847 views | 05 Nov 2003
 -> The Dawn of the E-Bomb
For the wired world, the allure and the danger of high-power microwave weapons like E-bombs (not email bombs, rather electronic microwave weapons) are both very real..
546 views | 05 Nov 2003
 -> Britney Spears look-alike
This will have you spooked.
1,966 views | 05 Nov 2003
 -> Pentagon Wants to Make a New "PAL"
Pentagon will spend $29 million to build a Perceptive Assistant that Learns, or PAL, a kind of digital flunky that can schedule meetings, maintain websites and reply to routine e-mail on its own.
496 views | 05 Nov 2003
 -> Man fired after being stranded on mountain top
A German man who survived five days in the Alps in freezing temperatures by eating snow has been fired because he missed work.
49,808 views | 05 Nov 2003
 -> XBox may switch to Apple base
Microsoft's next-generation Xbox will ditch its Intel chip in favor of the same kind of chip used in Apple's Macs -- an IBM PowerPC processor.
811 views | 05 Nov 2003
 -> Man drops cell phone in train toilet, jams arm
We've all had bad hair days with mobile phones, but only one guy had his literally go down the toilet.
774 views | 05 Nov 2003
 -> Online sale of Scottish castle closes with two million hits
The online sale of a Scottish castle, Lee Castle, has closed after its website attracted more than two million hits, worldwide interest and nearly 40 formal offers.
199,016 views | 03 Nov 2003
 -> Gay bishop consecrated
With the ceremonial laying on of hands by a cluster of bishops, the Rev. V. Gene Robinson was consecrated the next bishop of New Hampshire and the first openly gay prelate in the Episcopal Church U.S.A. on Sunday.
759 views | 03 Nov 2003
 -> Worst Halloween costumes of all time
When I was growing up, most of the kids in my neighborhood were fairly uncreative. Instead of thinking long and hard about what you wanted to be for Halloween, they'd run to the store at the last minute, and grab a prepackaged costume..
963 views | 31 Oct 2003
 -> Spiders 'remember first date'
Female wolf spiders - schizocosa uetzi - prefer to mate with males which look similar to those they encountered before they were sexually mature.
499 views | 29 Oct 2003
 -> Don't say this loud: Air Action
VIDEO file: An interesting ad.
571 views | 28 Oct 2003
 -> The California Fire
A Satellite picture of the LA fires
4,284 views | 28 Oct 2003
 -> Talk about "stiff" school regulations
Six British schoolboys were rushed to the hospital after taking the erection-enhancing drug Viagra at lunchtime.
765 views | 27 Oct 2003
 -> Magic number tells when to change sex
From tiny shrimps to massive fish, many species change sex once they reach a certain size, and British researchers have now discovered an amazing universal rule: that they all tend to do this at the same relative size.
819 views | 27 Oct 2003
 -> VersaLaser: Translate computer drawings into real objects?
VersaLasertm can transform drawings on your computer screen into real items made out of an amazing variety of materials (wood, plastic, fabric, paper, glass, leather, stone, ceramic, rubber) and it's as easy to use as your printer!
585 views | 27 Oct 2003
 -> A Cool Flash Game
Samorost is a surreal Myst-like puzzle game with great music and beautiful backgrounds where you help the little guy in white save his driftwood planet from a collision with another driftwood planet.
879 views | 27 Oct 2003
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