REDMOND, WA — Microsoft and Yahoo may be headed for a shotgun wedding. On Friday, after the world’s second-most-popular search engine tersely and obtusely declined Microsoft’s request for its hand, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said his company would pursue a hostile...

KEIZER, OR — They say that beauty… and art… and pornography… are in the eyes of the beholder. A small town in Oregon is certainly putting that theory into practice when it comes to the shape of its concrete pedestrian posts.What some likely see as a series...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A disastrous terrorist attack on the internet is imminent, and the only way to prevent it is to strip American citizens of their Fourth Amendment rights. In a nutshell, that’s the argument from the Bush administration as presented by National Director of...

BOSTON, MA — Game-design firm THQ has licensed the Playboy name for a line of branded mobile games.The multi-year deal encompasses both development and publishing rights. According to dbTechno.com, the games will be non-nude and released globally. The first, “Playboy Games:...

SINGAPORE — When Singapore Airlines’ new Airbus 380 passenger airliner rotated off the tarmac for its maiden voyage, it was with a significant new rule about passenger behavior: Passengers were to control their “primitive urges” in the suites, please.The world’s largest...

NEW YORK, NY — Here we go again: The mainstream media is beating the drum about porn on cell phones. A Wednesday report from Reuters called mobile phones “the next frontier for erotica.”“If the adult entertainment industry has its way, Americans will soon get a choice of...

JACKSON, MS — The citizens of Jackson, MS probably didn’t even realize that their moral health and safety was once again at risk, but a brave reporter from WLBT 3 not only made sure they knew – but helped avert disaster by going “undercover” at the Adult Video and Books...

WASHINGTON, DC — America is an unusual country. As the government assured citizens after the New York City terrorist attack of 9-11, one of the chief ways of showing patriotism in the modern world is to spend money and consume goods. Once upon a time, patriotism was shown...

MARINA DEL REY, CA — Apparently fazed by the recent outcry over Network Solutions Inc. “front-running” domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers last week resolved to curtail “domain tasting” by making domain-registration fees...

SINGAPORE — It’s hard to know what 21-year-old Tan Wen Zhong was thinking when he got onto the elevator bright and early one morning wearing a pink bikini – but it probably wasn’t how much he’d like to spend a day in jail and pay a $7,529 fine.Nonetheless, that’s precisely...