A new company offering rental cars powered entirely by bio-diesel has just set up
shop in Los Angeles. But there is a catch. Only one place in town to fill up.

The Chinese government has announced
plans to launch an alternate Internet root system with new Chinese
character domains for dot-com and dot-net. This may mean that
Chinese Internet users will no
longer rely on ICANN, the U.S.-backed domain name administrator,
and, as one
commentator notes, could be the beginning of the end of the
globally interoperable Internet.

Looks like somebody leaked a promotional video for Microsoft’s
new "Origami Project."

Isabelle Dinoire, the
38-year-old French woman who received a groundbreaking face transplant on November 27th to
acquire a new nose, chin and mouth is now recovering and improving.  Amazing photos.

A new deal between a game maker and an advertising company highlights the
growing enthusiasm for securing and placing ads in online video games.

Digg.com has become a very popular site seemingly over night.
However, their heavy-handed tactics have begun to alienate many in the
online world. As a result, several Digg-clones have begin
springing to life. Here is the current list, and it is growing
daily.

More and more shoppers are parking in front of their computers instead of at the mall.

If you are planning your strategies for earning money on your webtraffic through Google AdSense, carefully study the following list, because these words and these subject areas will determine, to a large extent, the profitability of your site.

The travel industry is changing. In general, expect it to get more crowded, more expensive, but at the same time simpler. Here are some of the major trends.

This once grand amusement park attracted millions of visitors each year. Now, some find beauty in the skeletal remains. Truly amazing photos.

These are not the typical buildings you see on every street corner. Very cool photos.

FON is a router software program that allows people to synchronise their WiFi broadband access all over the world.

This is one giant wheel of pure adrenaline. The Wheelsurf is one of the most distinctive
vehicles on the planet — a single-wheeled, ride-inside conveyance
that’s sure to get you noticed. Cool photos.

A new national study from the
American Library Association (ALA) finds that Americans overwhelmingly
are very satisfied with their public libraries, agree more public
library funding is needed and believe public libraries will be needed
in the future. Two-thirds of adult Americans (roughly 135 million
people) visited their public libraries last year.

Bacteria are everywhere, silently going about their business of breaking down cellulose, fermenting foods or fixing nitrogen in the soil, among a host of other activities.

The
idea behind the F 300 Life Jet, presented at the Frankfurt Motor
Show, was to combine the benefits of a motorcycle with those of a car. Cool photos.

What’s happening to the gap between those Americans who are wealthy and
those who aren’t? It’s widening. The Federal Reserve’s new Survey of
Consumer Finances offers this perspective…

A re-usable, lightweight suit could help save the lives of thousands
of women in poor countries who die each year during childbirth,
researchers said on Monday.

MySpace can be unfamiliar ground to busy parents, and not everything is as it seems on the site.

And its finally happened… I knew the day was not far….

You can learn a lot about bird flu and the specter of a global human
flu epidemic by checking official information from the government or
medical groups. But thousands of times a day, people turn to a much
different source.

I just fought my way up a wind tunnel, scrambled
through a ventilation duct, clambered across 40 yards of rope netting,
rolled under a fence, and burrowed through a mass of grapefruit-sized
plastic spheres. Now I’m facing two doors. One leads to freedom. The
other to a room with something nasty in it, possibly involving torture.

In November 2004, New York Police Det.
Patricia O’Brien went to the Daniel George and Son Funeral Home in
Brooklyn to check out what she thought was a routine business dispute.

Ray Kurzweil sees a radical evolution of the human species in the next
40 years. The merger of man and machine, coupled with the sudden
explosion in machine intelligence and rapid innovation in gene research
and nanotechnology, will result in a world where there is no
distinction between the biological and the mechanical, or between
physical and virtual reality.

University
of Hawai’i researcher Michael Antal has developed a working fuel cell
that uses charcoal as its fuel and operates at bread-baking
temperatures.