Filed under: Video Games With all of the recent uproar over a lesbian's being banned from Xbox Live and a cartoon penis in 'Grand Theft Auto IV,' we've grown accustomed to the media's stern look and wagging finger. But Winda Benedetti, MSNBC's 'Citizen Gamer,' is using all ten of her fingers, not to...

Filed under: Video Games A former Xbox Live user has been banned by Microsoft because her profile stated that she was a lesbian, according to a report in The Consumerist. Identifying herself only as Teresa, the woman told her story in an e-mail to the site, reading, "[My] account was suspended becau...

Filed under: Computers, eBay The French Web site of online auctioneer eBay has temporarily changed its policy due to a user complaint linking the site's ranking system to a symbol of Nazi Germany, according to an AFP report in Yahoo! News. Earlier this month, Dominique Bellamy wrote to the site, com...

Filed under: Computers, Advice, Tech Tips You deserve no pity when your hard drive dies if you don't bother to regularly back-up your music, photos and important documents. The average drive dies after 3.1 years, so plenty die before then. A CD or DVD sells for pennies, and easy-to-use external hard...

After years of arduous research and fierce debate regarding the 'Nature vs. Nurture' dialectic, social scientists and theorists have finally stumbled upon authoritative evidence that solves the puzzle: Dweebs are made, not born. [From: Wired Blog] 'Nature Vs. Nurture' Sociological Debate Is Laid to ...

Filed under: Computers A recent study indicates that women are more likely to be victims of identity theft than men, Forbes reports. Published this week, the study, which was conducted by Javelin Research, claims that women are 26-percent more likely to fall victim to identity theft. Last year saw 4...

Filed under: Computers As we've mentioned before, there is no Internet experience quite as mortifying as having your folks find you on Facebook. In fact, one ten-day-old Web site -- aptly titled 'Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook.' -- is solely devoted to airing the embarrassment, we learned today...

Filed under: Computers While their men sit in front of financial Web sites sobbing, Wall Street wives and girlfriends are now logging onto their own Web sites and commiserating, according to the London Times. The blog, called Dating a Banker Anonymous, affords "DABA Girls" the opportunity to bemoan ...

Filed under: Celebrities, MySpace, Google Grammy-winning rapper and producer Kanye West is the latest celebrity victim of hackers, according to the Register. The MC announced last Thursday, via his blog, that hackers had gained access to his Gmail and MySpace accounts, spreading rumors of -- among o...

Filed under: Cell Phones, Cameras Six Greensburg, Pennsylvania high-schoolers, found out to be exchanging nude pictures of themselves via text message this past November, have now been charged with child pornography, according to FOX News. Three unidentified girls between the ages of 14 and 15 alleg...