Medvedev said he agreed with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov that rebels should no longer be called Islamic extremists.

Officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit in San Francisco that governs Wikipedia, say that within weeks, the English-language Wikipedia will begin imposing a layer of editorial review on articles about living people.

She is among the rarest of the rare: a child seemingly born mentally ill.

Existentialism by Apokalips, the webcomic

Recently it has come to my attention that long-time warez serial site serialz.to has simply vanished from the internet, but this is not what makes it worthy of my time writing and submitting this journal entry. The fact of the matter is that by vanish, i mean literaally, with no trace, no google caches of the page, no news articles, no forum posts. The closest thing I can find to even provide evidence it existed at all is an alexa traffic profile.

A Dutch judge has ordered Bittorrent site Mininova to remove every last torrent that links to copyrighted materials. The site has 3 months to comply. If it doesn't meet the deadline, Mininova's operators will face a penalty of up to 5 million Euros, or about $7.1 million.

Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

The Keyboard Cat, in folded paper.

In anticipation of the new season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” submit a caption and you could win a signed print of the illustration below plus a full set of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” DVDs. The winning entry will be featured in an advertisement in the September 21 issue of the magazine.

A heated debate has begun in New Zealand after a man killed and roasted his family's pit bull terrier, with the intention of eating it.

Photos from Google Street View by artist Jon Rafman

A first person experience in comics and video format.

A series of photographs from Marc Da Cunha Lopes ("aisakie") shows us the factory work behind the most iconic games of the past few decades: the smelting of Sonic's rings, the chiseling of the 1-Up mushroom, and the rubber-pressed rebounding blocks of Arkanoid.

After six years of frenzied expansion, during which the emirate's population grew at 7% annually and nearly $600 billion went into construction (the world's tallest building! the world's largest shopping mall! the biggest man-made island! an indoor ski resort!), reality has come rushing into view.

Gmail by default gives 11 font choices which are more than enough for an average user. But sometimes we would like to have stylish fonts used in our mails to impress our friends or standard font mail for business communication.