NEWCASTLE, ENGLAND — The Newcastle Crown Court is poised to take up a case that evokes shadows of an American legal morass settled earlier this year.The British case against 35-year-old civil servant Darryn Walker is eerily similar to the American prosecution of 56-year-old...

BLANDING, UT — Some religious figures are more equal than others – and any deity that has the balls to show its genitals is nearly guaranteed to be considered worthy of public censure. Such has certainly proven to be the case for famous humpbacked flautist Kokopelli....

LOS ANGELES, CA — Porn must be going mainstream because the mainstream keeps producing porn-themed motion pictures, even if it prefers to avoid working with too many actual porn stars while doing so. The latest topic to enjoy Hollywood’s velvet touch will be controversial...

CYBERSPACE — Love it or hate it, high-definition viewing is becoming an increasing reality. Content publisher and affiliate network program owner Storm Media plans to embrace the new standard – and has launched six new sites and a Hi-Def affiliate program to prove it.“With...

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS — Dutch electronics giant Royal Philips Electronics has begun manufacturing another kind of home entertainment product: “relationship care” gadgets, better known as sex toys.The Intimate Massager line initially will be marketed in Britain. The...

SANTA CLARA, CA — Brad Pitt has overtaken Paris Hilton as the most dangerous celebrity to search for in cyberspace according to internet security company McAfee Inc.’s second annual roundup of the riskiest celebrities in cyberspace.Checking in on the famous can be dangerous...

PAKISTAN — Former beauty princess and GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s sudden introduction to the world of international politics has made this year’s campaign season much sexier – and much more dangerous, as Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari discovered...

FOUNTAIN, CO — Some women will go to unexpected lengths to get what they want, including cosmetic surgery. But the idea that someone would plan a murder in order to fund a boob job is more than a little extreme. Nonetheless, an enamored Nikita Lee Weis was so smitten by his...

CYBERSPACE — Another core internet protocol is vulnerable to attack, researchers said, and this flaw is a doozy.A bug in the transmission control protocol (TCP) puts broadband servers and routers at risk of suffering crippling denial-of-service attacks, researchers...

HOLLYWOOD, CA — Luke Wilson, James Caan, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht, Peter Stormare and Rachael Taylor have signed on to star in an independent film that plays comic homage to the birth of the online porn industry.George Gallo (Bad Boys, Midnight Run) will direct Middle...