Ginger Haters on Facebook

Police are looking into attacks on ginger kids in Canada, after an “anti-ginger” group was set up on Facebook. It seems as if the group was inspired by the South Park episode about ginger kids. The group promoted an event called “National Kick a Ginger Day”, which led to several kids being beaten up [...]

Facebook wins suit against spammer

Facebook has just won a $837 million judgement against a spammer who posted sexually explicit spam on the site.  Before getting caught, the Canadian man managed to send out over 4 million messages in just two months to users of the social networking (er… social utility site).  While they don’t actually expect to see any [...]

Fan of pirates?

As in the real ones currently taking over oil tankers and other large vessels off of Africa? Well, if you’d like to keep abreast of their latest plunderings, then look no further than the International Maritime Bureau Live Piracy Map. Weekly updates provided!

Google brings Life photo archives to the web

If you’re as into photography as I am, you’ll probably be interested to see that Google has brought the Life magazine photography archives to the internet.  So far, there are about 2 million images available, but Google hopes to scan the near 10 million in total in the future.  The collection dates back to the [...]