Woman ‘tricked into sex’ by penis cream treatment
A Syrian-born airline pilot allegedly tricked a schoolteacher from Haverfordwest into having sex with him by pretending he had to administer ointment on the end of his penis, a jury heard yesterday (Tuesday).
Fadi Sbano, 38, even pretended to know a gynaecologist who advised him on how often to [...]

How does this threat to Internet freedom affect you?
Such corporate control of the Web would reduce your choices and stifle the spread of innovative and independent ideas that we’ve come to expect online. It would throw the digital revolution into reverse. Internet gatekeepers are already discriminating against Web sites and services they don’t like:

In May [...]

Take Your Paws off the Presidency!Does the Bush administration have a secret succession order that bypasses Congress?
By Bruce Ackerman
Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008, at 3:35 PM ET
Suppose the worst happens, and the next terrorist attack hits Washington hard, taking out the president and the vice president. What happens next?
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer’s new book, [...]

Investigators and a grandmother are trying to make sense of a sign found posted in a New Braunfels neighborhood. Is it a joke or something more sinister?
There are plenty of signs at the pool you would expect to see - “No Lifeguard on Duty” and “No Diving.” But a woman who lives in the neighborhood [...]

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Remote Area Medical (often abbreviated as RAM) operated for awhile with the persistent support of founder Stan Brock until the television show, 60 Minutes, aired a broadcast about the organization back in March of 2008. Recently, there was an update and the news wasn’t great. Why? Because Remote Area Medical, an organization which serves those [...]

Today’s Best-of-the-Sidebar was originally posted by “Yahweh” …
Being a programmer and the only computer literate person in my family, I get tech support calls from my family all the time. I got a phone call from a brother-in-law today:
Him: Hey, you’re good with computers right?
Me: Yes.
Him: And you know how to program computers?
Me: Yes, that’s [...]

Check out these 15 Internet screw-ups that will live in infamy.

Dreamhosts’ $7.5 Million Billing Mistake: Due to a “fat-fingered” error, Dreamhost accidentally overbilled almost all of their customers, charging them for nearly a year in hosting fees. Large charges appeared on customers’ credit and debit cards, but Dreamhost promised to make good on refunds, and [...]

The national Terrorist Watch List has now crossed one million names — that’s a million suspected terrorists (including nuns, members of Congress, and people named “Robert Johnson”) who will spend their days being harassed, denied the fundamental right to travel, and punished for having a name vaguely like the name used by someone who may [...]

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Join us and the ScriptumLibre.org Foundation in boycotting all products and services sold by Trend Micro.
The proprietary software company Trend Micro has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Barracuda Networks. They claim that Barracuda is violating their patent by distributing the free software antivirus program ClamAV.
We should avoid using any proprietary software, but [...]