Is it Prittney or Grittney? I can never remember. Google have documented 600 different spellings that searchers have attempted to find Ms. Spears with, including the aforementioned oddities.

Quite boring, yes, but some of them are a little amusing.

Link: Google

At last, an answer to the question asked a thousand times.

While only females have mammary glands, we all start out in a similar way in the embryo. The embryo follows a female template until about six weeks, when the male sex chromosome kicks in.

That’s according to New York physician Billy Goldberg, from his new book Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini, anyway. He also covers other burning questions such as why your teeth chatter when you’re cold, and whether you can really get diseases from sitting on a toilet seat.

You can order it from Amazon for about 7 quid.

Via: [Reuters]

Yahoo! have today launched an ad network for small publishers which will challenge Google’s Adsense monopoly. The service will be launched under the Yahoo! Publisher umbrella, which is currently in US-only beta.

CNet’s report (link below) says the following about the new service:

Like Google’s service, Yahoo’s self-serve product will display text ads deemed relevant to the content of specific Web pages. Advertisers pay only when a reader clicks on their ads. Yahoo and publishers will split the fees.

It also seems to be that Yahoo!’s service will be partly human-controlled, as opposed to Adsense’s all-computerised thing.

Sure to increase the heat in the Yahoo v Google battle to rule the search portals.

Via: [CNet]

The London Underground will be fully operational tomorrow morning for the first time since the 7/7 bombings, with security at its highest - but Sky reporter Jonathan Samuels managed to expose huge cracks in the UK’s border control by travelling to France on another person’s passport.

Samuels took the Eurostar from Waterloo to Paris, the same route as Hussein Osman - the alleged would-be bomber who tried to blow up Shepherds Bush tube station on 21/7. The passport, which had a largely different photo and date of birth to his own, was barely glanced at when he bought his ticket at Waterloo. Even at Paris passport control, where security is tighter, the officials crossed their arms and allowed him through.

I can understand that it is tremendously difficult for security officers to check every single bag on a tube train. It can be left there one minute, and the train could be up in smoke the next. But passport control is a completely different matter - if the picture’s different, or the date of birth is unlikely - you make investigations. You don’t let them breeze through. And I don’t mean to speculate, but perhaps if Jonathan was of Middle Eastern appearance, it would have been a completely different kettle of fish.

Sky contacted Eurostar and the Home Office to let them know of their ’success’ in their investigation. The Home Office said nothing, and according to Eurostar, it’s “not their responsibility”. Great.

Sort it out, for goodness’ sake.

Via: [SkyNews]