Now this is all kinds of awesome. 'Seam carving' digital image resizing method

Unlike many such new shinies, there are immediately obvious practical applications—certainly for designers, anyway.

With special guests Toby Sammet, Anila Mirza and Amir El-Falaki. Ya rly.

Owners 'must defend dogs' rights'

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...I have nothing to say about this reprehensible image.

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UK dog undergoes first knee swap

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Stonehenge: A wizard did it.

(Alternative headline: "Nailed, nailed to the wheel..." \m/)

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'Pampered' cows? Pampered? So making them lie on concrete floors was as much as they deserved? Idiotic headline.

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Google Earth given celestial view

We once looked up Area 51 in Google Earth for a laugh. It's listed! But boring. Have you ever found any Easter eggs in Google Earth?

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Camera scans into deepest space

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Agatha Christie comic strips. Hmmm. I guess you'd have to restructure the story a lot to do the same level of clue-laying when using pictures. Then again, there are already TV adaptations, the most enjoyable of those being the David Suchet Poirot series.

I find it amusing to think of Miss Marple sharing a shelf with Miss Marvel, but why not? Christie's celeb sleuths are pretty much superheroes, albeit not in the "costume and powers" sense.

Ahem.

(Edguy video WTF, but I'm all about that gramophone section. Mmm.)

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YouTube introduces video adverts

Yeah, they have to pay the bills, whatever. It's just this line that annoyed me; ads do NOT provide "value to the end user". What insulting tripe.

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CIA 'launches Facebook for spies'

You can just guess the quality of most of the contributions.

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Watchdog alarm at 'exam' earpiece

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Worst name ever. Cute fish, though.

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Is assault lawful when protecting someone? This article answers the question if you live in the UK.

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OK, so T. rex could outrun the average footballer. But could it score?

(Cue crowd singing "There's only one compsognathus, one compsognathus...")

As soon as we have the technology, I propose we try this theory out on David Beckham, Wayne Rooney and... well, that's all the footballers I've heard of apart from Matt Busby, if he played, but let's just keep going until we run out of overpaid racist louts to use as test subjects.