"ZDNet - Build your own Palm Robot - Its Easy"

It's not science fiction, and in fact, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute think everyone should have such a personal robot. So they've created a do-it-yourself kit and published the simple recipe on the Net -- $250, 11 parts and 15 steps later, you've got a Palm Pilot Robot.

Instead, they returned to Bardsley’s home and left his body, strapped to a medical board and partially covered with a blanket, outside on his driveway. And for eight long hours, that’s where the 76-year-old man remained – right next to the family’s garbage cans. “This is the most inhumane thing I have ever seen or heard of in my entire life,” said Cindy Bardsley, the man’s daughter-in-law. “I think it’s horrible what they have done.

"BBspot - Warez Hut Changes Piracy Policy" ghahahah god i love BBspot.. they rux~ but yeah. im for developers to stop developing gay games.. who cares who warez's them.. just stop producing and everything will be cool

"Salon - Poo Rules!"

A recent cartoon on Japanese TV features a hero who makes a sidekick out of his own feces. Meanwhile, at the local temple, visitors buy plastic poop trinkets to bring them good luck. And at the corner store, a vast array of poop-shaped candy is on sale -- a veritable coprophagous feast.
The turd -- presented in Japan as a prettified swirl resembling soft ice cream -- has become a recurring motif in Japanese pop culture. There's there's even a term for it -- maki guso -- which roughly translates as "curlicue poo."

"The Sunday Times - Monica, Drink and Me - Yeltsin reveals all"

The story of this bizarre tip-off is one of the stranger tales recounted by the former Russian leader in The Midnight Diaries, an account of his last four years in office, which is published this week. No less intriguing is Yeltsin's admission that he "occasionally" turned to alcohol to alleviate the stress of the post he occupied from 1991 until he stepped down at the end of last year in favour of Vladimir Putin.