In a shocking but not surprising twist, Linux kernel hacker, and ReiserFS creator Hans Reiser today lead police to a spot in the Oakland Hills where is wife's body lay, in return for a lighter sentence.

Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner. Street View matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the photograph was taken. Privacy International, a UK rights...

Good old Jerry Casale and Devo are sueing McDonald's over their kids toy 'New Wave Nigel' which sports a clear rip off of Devo's trade mark energy dome hat. "They didn't ask us anything. Plus, we don't like McDonald's, and...

I don't know where these guys get their ideas, but check out these incredibly original - and sometimes sinister - snowglobe scenes by by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz (via boingboing). link

apparently there's a tradition where soviet cosmonauts take a leak on the wheel of their transport bus before launching in to space. I always like to do the same before hopping on a bus, so seems completely reasonable to me...