• A study has found that no one behaves normally in 'cyberspace'. 'Cyberspace'. That's the space where 'cybersex' happens. No one outside the media or academia has used the prefix 'cyber' to apply to anything else in at least five years. Also typing 'cyber' more than a few times in a paragraph makes it look ridiculous. Cyber cyber cyber. Syba. The team told New Scientist that it hopes their findings will 'inspire better models of online behavior' and 'improve network security'. What they forgot to mention was the major application of the data modeling: attracting fatarsed advertising dollars.
• The G8's worried oil prices may stunt growth, meanwhile back at home the Reserve Bank is happy oil prices are stunting growth. For a while OPEC and oil speculators will be the bad guys.
• A dude in Sydney lost 217 cannabis plants and his freedom when he didn't invest in enough Glade and incense.
• Apparently the scent of coffee alone can help to get you up and moving. It does this by activating genes that otherwise might be slacking off and not performing their needed functions properly. The team hopes to identify the specific molecules that trigger the gene expression so they can be duplicated suggest 'pumping them into factories to help revive tired workers who can't sip coffee while operating machinery'. The next project for the team will be to discover genes that allow human beings to be curious and imaginative. They estimate a serious improvement in factory efficiency once these are removed from the worker castes.