Giant squid taking over world

According to scientists, squid have overtaken humans in terms of total bio-mass.

Another Exciting Saturday Night

Supercharging the Brain

New drugs promise to improve memory and sharpen mental response. Who should be allowed to take them?

I'd rather kill myself than remove veil, woman tells court

A Muslim woman has told a court she would rather kill herself than give evidence without wearing a veil.

What to do if you are taken hostage

Current events in the Middle East have immeasurably heightened the risks of kidnapping and mis-treatment.

Halloween Hallucinations

Pumpkins

Bush website blocked outside US

Surfers outside the US have been unable to visit the official re-election site of President George W Bush.

Hobbits Found Near New Zealand

Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world.

Heaven and hell

The idea that we live one short life on earth and then spend the rest of eternity in either a hell of torment or a heaven of bliss must rank as one of the most absurd superstitions ever invented by the human mind. No life on earth, no matter how good or how evil, could possibly justify an eternity of reward or punishment. What's more, if the Christian God created our souls, he must have given us our basic character traits, and would therefore be largely responsible for our actions, and if that is the case, there would be no justice in punishing us, or -- for that matter -- in rewarding us. And if this God really made us in his own image, wouldn't that reflect rather badly on God?

Spouting Bowls

What, you've never heard of a Chinese Spouting Bowl?

The Official Phyllodocida Appreciation Page

Don't you just love the Phyllodocida?

World War II Posters

A nice collection of war posters from WWII.

Drinking Tea Might Delay Alzheimer's Disease

Drinking tea appears to affect the brain in a similar way as drugs prescribed for Alzheimer's disease, UK researchers report.

Artist's condom career

A Brazilian artist makes clothes and sculptures out of different colored condoms.

Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom filter lets phones see through bikinis.

Footballer fined for urinating on woman in hotel.

St Kilda full-forward Fraser Gehrig will have counselling and be fined up to $5000 by his club after urinating on a woman in a bayside hotel this week.

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Under the Surface, the Brain Seethes With Undiscovered Activity

...except tonight, because I'm drunk. There’s an old myth that we only use 10 percent of our brains, but researchers at the University of Rochester have found in reality that roughly 80 percent of our cognitive power may be cranking away on tasks completely unknown to us.

Plan in the wind to help gassy cows. 19/10/2004. ABC News Online

Scientists in New Zealand and the Gippsland region in south-eastern Victoria have launched joint research into ways of reducing methane emissions from cows.

CyberTimes Navigator

Navigator is the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for forays into the Web. Its primary intent is to give reporters and editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around blindly to find a useful set of links of their own. Its secondary purpose is to show people that there's still a lot of fun and useful stuff going on out there.

Hormel's Spam Museum

16,500 square feet of pure pork fun.

True Facts

Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears. It's on the internet, so it must be true.

Kelloggs Cornflakes

Kellogg’s Cornflakes, the bland breakfast flakes that go almost instantly limp in milk were originally invented to bore you into such a deep coma that you would fall face down in the milk drenched flakes, drown, and thereby be spared the temptation and sin known as masturbation.