Woman gives birth to preemie in restroom.

Officers say she then walked into the women.s restroom. Soon after, witnesses say she walked out of the hospital with a black man and disappeared.

About 10 minutes later, police say another woman found a newborn boy in a toilet in that restroom.

Freakonomics.com

They beat up Santa Clause in Tel Aviv

A bunch of yobs (Hooligans) kicked and punched dear Santa Clause.

HIV positive man sentenced to 48 years for rape of 5-year-old

A Harding Township man who is HIV positive was sentenced to 48 years in prison today in for repeatedly raping a 5-year-old girl in his home.

Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Charles Doneghy imposed the maximum and consecutive sentences on Antonio Gonzalez, Jr., 48, who was convicted in November of four counts of rape and one count of felonious assault.

Child rapist gets 60 days in jail

There was outrage Wednesday when a Vermont judge handed out a 60-day jail sentence to a man who raped a little girl many,many times over a four-year span starting when she was seven.

The judge said he no longer believes in punishment and is more concerned about rehabilitation.

Prosecutors argued that confessed child-rapist Mark Hulett, 34, of Williston deserved at least eight years behind bars for repeatedly raping a littler girl countless times starting when she was seven.

China signals reserves switch away from dollar

China indicated on Thursday it could begin to diversify its rapidly growing foreign exchange reserves away from the US dollar and government bonds . a potential shift with significant implications for global financial and commodity markets.

Economists estimate that more that 70 per cent of the reserves are invested in US dollar assets, which has helped to sustain the recent large US deficits. If China were to stop acquiring such a large proportion of dollars with its reserves . currently accumulating at about $15bn (.12.4bn) a month . it could put heavy downward pressure on the greenback.

Have scientists found Mozart's skull?

It has been a mystery for more than a century - is a skull in an Austrian basement really that of arguably the greatest composer of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

A group of archaeologists has begun to answer the question by digging up the remains of Mozart's close relatives.

12 of 13 miners found dead in W. Vagina

At first, they were all thought to have been alive, but later confirmed that all but one died.

Remember Back Orifice?

It was a pun on Microsoft Back Office 2000.

Just thought about it and I want to bring it back. In case you havn't seen it.

My how it's grown: LINK

Shuttle bare bones PCs are so cool!

I have an older one. I gutted out some of its entrails (guts) in order to place a second hard drive. They have these water filled tubes that transfer heat from the CPU to the back of the unit where a mounted fan cools it off by blowing on its razor thin radiator fins.

The problem I find with these is that it often collects dust. At first, I tried putting an air filter on the fan, but this eventually restricted nearly all its airflow. Then I tried putting in one of those "tornado" fans in, but damn those are so loud. So my final solution was to just remove most of the radiator's fins, leaving in just enough to bind the four water filled tubes together. It's doing fine for the past two years. I have not had any problem with the unit.

Is their method of cooling the CPU by transfering heat to the back of the unit better than putting a heat sink and fan on the CPU? Probably not. But it does allow you to squeeze more parts in a tight little box. Whereas a heat sink and fan take up too much vertical space. What I mean is that you'll have trouble putting in a hard drive if the fan and heat sink are on top of the CPU.

see shuttle.com for more info. You'll have to go through many screens before you get to their products page. They also open up new windows for links to many of their own pages.

This is weird!

www.SpaceBassFilms.com

British use satellites to spy on homes

Hi-tech cameras brought in to police home improvements and council tax dodgers

Remember George Orwell's 1984?

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny gun
And if you ever saw it you would turn around and run
All of the other reindeers used to laugh and call him names
Rudolph the rednosed reindeer blew out their little brains
Then one foggy christmas eve Santa came to say
Rudolph with your gun so bright won't you spare my life tonight
Then all the reindeers feared him as they shouted out in agony
Rudolph the rednosed reindeer please don't kill me

For VoIP, too many threats to count

It probably will not directly attack end users. It looks like it will attack the VoIP providers.

If you've used VoIP, you'd know that you don't need to open any ports on your router to the public. The VoIP box you plug your telephone into polls your provider every few seconds (depending on your provider and your telephone adapter).

For those who don't have it yet, the little adapter is a tiny embeded computer running an embeded OS. I know that Linksys uses embeded Linux.

Microsoft vs Google: ads

Opinion: It was no coincidence that Microsoft announced its discovery of a typo-squatting scheme involving Google's AdSense system a day before the Web search company won a $1 billion advertising and investment deal with AOL-Time Warner.

Nothing can be more satisfying for a software company than to use its technology to uncover a serious business problem that needs a solution, especially when it gives you a chance to discredit an arch-competitor.

Boxing day shooting rampage in downtown Toronto, Canada

Two Jersey City, NJ officers drive off raised draw bridge.

A section of the bridge is raised to allow large ships to pass.

This section remains horizontal while it moves upwards. So you see a section of the bridge missing while large vessels pass through.

What's this? New research shows that clean air aids global warming.

So now we need to dirty the air?

Study shows: Sex vs. Intelligence: Bigger balls mean smaller brain

... **gulp** (**looks down**)