The bomb, described as "amateurish", consisted of propane tanks, fireworks, petrol and a clock device. It was planted in a sports utility vehicle.

"That's when the smoke started coming out and then we heard the little pop, pop, pop - like firecrackers going out and that's when everybody scattered and ran back," he told the Associated Press. "We dodged a bullet here," he added.

Facebook's privacy policy once promised, "No personal information that you submit to Facebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in your privacy settings."

Today, Facebook removed its users' ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users' profiles, "including your current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests" will now be transformed into "connections," meaning that they will be shared publicly.

Facebook has consistently ignored demands from its users to create an easy "exit plan" for migrating their personal data to another social networking website.

Google won't allow the co-inventor of Unix and the C language to check-in code, because he won't take the mandatory language test.

Between 1969 and 1973, Ken Thompson implemented a version of the Multics system at Bell, called Unix, with Dennis Ritchie. At the same time he also developed the C language.

An Israeli who tried to bring his iPad back from the US on Tuesday told the Haaretz's business division, TheMarker, that when he tried to declare it at Israeli customs it was confiscated, and he was directed to contact the Ministry of Communications if he wanted it back.

"All new electronic technology that enters Israel is subject to regulation approval, just as in European and many other countries. The Communications Ministry has asked Apple to send the technological specs of the iPad in order to approve its usage in the Israeli market, and any iPads that were held before entering Israel will be returned to their owners."

This time The Valley Morning Star, a small paper in Harlingen, Texas, decided in mid-2009 to implement a paywall.

The paywall, which launched the week of July 15th, cost $3.95 a month, 75 cents per day, or was included if you had a subscription to the print version of the newspaper.

In any case, after 8 months, the The Valley Morning Star took the paywall down, proudly proclaiming they "will be moving back to a completely FREE Web site."

The little girl walked along the 130 metre long high wire above six hungry Siberian tigers at Changzhou Yancheng Zoo in Jiangsu province.

The little girl walked along the wire without even a pole, using just her arms for balance, as the tigers prowled below. One even jumped up towards her.

A recent study estimates that one out of every 10 meals Chinese people eat in restaurants is cooked in recycled waste oil-that is, oil that has been dumped in the sewer, scooped out, processed, and resold at low prices.

Medical research shows that a regular diet which includes recycled oil could cause developmental retardation, enteritis, swelling of the liver, heart, and kidneys.

By simple processes of filtration, heating, precipitation, and separation, the ill-smelling opaque waste becomes clear cooking oil.

It might sound like the company is out to steal your collection, but according to iPodMeister's site, the business model is successful because CDs can still fetch high prices overseas in areas where MP3 players haven't yet penetrated the market.

iPodMeister will only accept CDs in their jewel cases with all the original cover art (i.e., sending them your Case Logic binder full of discs will get you nothing in return).

Universal Music Group plans to soften the fall of CD sales by dropping prices across the board, to a maximum of $10.

Furthermore, it will be hard to justify spending $10 on a compressed digital download over $6 for an actual physical disc that can be ripped into iTunes or any other media software in a matter of minutes, and can be done using lossless encoding (if so desired).

The 32-page report entitled "Wikileaks.org - An Online Reference to Foreign Intelligence Services, Insurgents, or Terrorist Groups?" indicates the government's concern that "current employees or moles" within the Defense Department or the U.S. government "are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks."

"The identification, exposure, or termination of employment of or legal actions against current or former insiders, leakers, or whistleblowers could damage or destroy this center of gravity and deter others from using Wikileaks.org to make such information public."