After surviving a car crash an 11 year old boy named Lachlan performed CPR on his critically injured father, then ran 3km (nearly 2 miles) barefoot through total darkness to get help. Lachlan “Lochie” Nally, 11, and his father Matthew, 36, of Koolunga, were in a crash on the Red Hill to Koolunga Rd in [...]

LectureFox is a cool resource if you have an interest in academic subjects and want to kill some time. The LectureFox site contains a growing catalogue of links to lecture materials (video, audio, and notes) from distinguished universities such as Harvard, Yale and Oxford. The lectures are skewed towards the sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Math, and [...]

WOW Insider has an interview with Noor, a World of Warcraft player who is progressing through the game without resorting to killing. It can’t be much fun playing this way and his chances of reaching level 80 are slim but kudos for trying. Back in November 2007, columnist John Himes took a look at a [...]

From TorrentFreak: A DVD-player that has been designed to prevent DVD-screeners from leaking to the public will be phased out because industry insiders say the DRM hurts their viewing pleasure. It seems that DRM is fine when it’s annoying the public but unacceptable when it’s affecting them. The hypocrisy of people within the film industry is [...]

Apparently so. Welcome to bizarro world. According to an article over at the New York Times, Ahmadinejad has been blogging for over a year and has promised to spend 15 minutes a week to update his website. The irony is palpable and the NYT doesn’t fail to point it out. There is a political irony to Mr. [...]

If you’re having trouble explaining to Grandma what a blog is, this video by the guys at Common Craft should help. (source)

The TV-Links website has been shut down and it’s 26-year-old operator arrested after a raid by Gloucestershire Police in cooperation with an anti-piracy group called Fact (Federation Against Copyright Theft). What’s disturbing about this is TV-Links didn’t host any of the movies or shows themselves. All they did was link to videos on YouTube, Google [...]

I found this pretty amusing. Kim Jong-Il has told delegates at the recent inter-Korean summit that he is an Internet expert. Apparently he doesn’t like what he sees on the net because he’s reluctant to allow people further access. Sounds to me like he just wants to keep all the porn to himself. Kim [...]

Everyone has used the smiley face at one point or another, but do you know how its use started? Twenty-five years ago a Carnegie Mellon University professor named Scott E. Fahlman sent a message proposing the use of a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis as a joke marker. It is the earliest [...]

In news that will no doubt get NASA folk sweating a little, Google has announced they are offering a $20 million prize to the first private group to land an unmanned rover on the moon. For a company that posted a first quarter profit of $3.66 billion, $20 million is a drop in the water, [...]