Police said they were searching for a gunman who ran up to a woman while she was walking her dog Monday night and grabbed the bag she was holding.
It contained poop.
When the gunman discovered what was in it, he threw it down in disgust, pointed his gun at the dog and demanded money. He pulled the trigger twice, but fortunately, it didn't fire...
Back in 1999, during the heat of the Microsoft trials, Jim Allchin, Senior VP at Microsoft in charge of the Windows group, lied during testimony regarding the difficulty of removing Internet Explorer from Windows.
Allchin played a video showing how Windows slowed down a lot after running an Internet Explorer removal tool. Turns out that the video was false -- "It's not slow due to the Felten program," David Boies (lead attorney Department of Justice) continued. "It's slow because of Windows 98, isn't it?"
In 1978 the first spam e-mail was dispatched to about 400 people on the Arpanet (Arpanet was designed for the Department of Defense and was a precursor to the current internet).
According to global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc, absenteeism could cost employers as much as $627 million over the two workdays of the four-day opening weekend, as workers take off to see the film.
The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle".
Yahoo started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" -- as in Jerry Yang and David Filo who were Ph.D. candidates at Stanford in 1994 when they started the site.
The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
The cardiac stomach, which is a sacklike stomach located at the center of the body, may be everted - pushed out of the organism's body and used to engulf and digest food. Some species take advantage of the great endurance of their water vascular systems to open the shells of mollusks (clams, mussels, etc.), and inject their stomachs into the shells. Once the stomach is inserted inside the shell it digests the mollusk in place!
Matthew Nagle can control his TV and computer just by thinking!
After a knife attack in 2001, Matthew became paralyzed from the neck down. However, he received a brain implant consisting of 100 electrodes implanted a millimeter deep in the motor cortex of his brain that controls movement.
Now, he can think his TV on and off, change channels and alter the volume thanks to the technology and software linked to devices in his home. Read more!