Hackers took over an Indonesian government website for several hours to protest against a new law banning online pornography, the information ministry said.
The protesters posted a message on the ministry of information website challenging it to “prove that the law was not drafted to cover the government’s stupidity.”

Proposals from Belgian government officials would give teenagers the right to assisted suicide and parents of terminally ill children the right to have their children euthanized. The plans by members of Belgium’s coalition government call for the extension of rules allowing physicians to perform euthanasia on terminally ill people suffering “constant […]

A recent poll of about 12,000 US business decision-makers by market researcher CoreBrand found that Microsoft’s brand power has taken a dive over the past four years. According to the study, Microsoft dropped from number 12 in the ranking of the most powerful US company brands in 2004 to number 59 last year. In 1996, […]

3-D Billboard Whiskey Ad Campaign
Ad campaigns give us an interesting glimpse into our culture, a way of taking the temperature of our creative spirit. The following ads clearly show us that the imaginations of people at the ad agencies work without any real limits.
 

 
The Russian-Built SKU
At first this looks like an impressive vehicle, but you can see some of the obvious deficiencies after the jump.
 

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This is a short clip from “The Job,” a comedy filmed by Screaming Frog Productions.

The German government has had to bail out state-owned banks with taxpayers’ money after their managements recklessly gambled away billions on subprime investments. But if a state-owned bank were to go under, the consequences could be disastrous for the whole economy.

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In case you were wondering what kind of distortions your face goes through when someone slaps you, well, you’re in luck.
 

 
What or who do we fear the most? In a world that is largely driven by fear, it makes sense to probe the nature of this fear, and what keeps us up at night.
Our perception is that when one fear is alleviated, another will rise to the top. Human nature will never allow us to […]

A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane has called for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.
Mandi Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she […]

This appears not to be a joke: the Quantum Sleeper is a bed that hermetically seals itself as you sleep to protect you from “Bio-Chemical terrorist attack,” “natural disaster,” “kidnappers/stalkers” (only those who don’t possess a forklift, surely) and affords “Bulletproof ‘Saferoom’ protection.”

Total advertising spending in the US flatlined in 2007, growing by just 0.2% compared with 2006, according to TNS Media Intelligence.
In the fourth quarter of 2007, total US advertising spending actually fell by 0.1% compared with the same period in 2006.

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This drum table will certainly get on your nerves much more than that pesky colleague who has developed this nasty habit of drumming his fingers on the table throughout the entire day. Well, at least this drum table produces way more authentic sounds, but seriously - unless you’re a modern musician who finds inspiration from […]

Researchers say they have found a recording of a human voice that predates Thomas Edison’s first recording by almost twenty years!

If life on Earth was not strange enough, nature occasionally throws a very unusual creation into the genetic mix.
This ‘wolphin’ and ‘Shetbra’ are two examples of rare hybrids created when animals have mated across the species divide.
Although it is extremely rare, animals occasionally succeed in producing offspring with mates from closely related species. Scientists believe […]