Wikipedia and other knowledge-sharing communities can save the world from poverty and ignorance, says Jimmy Wales…the founder of Wikipedia

As if we needed further convincing that the Japanese are a little weird - why are they so obsessed with Dancehall? “EMA is very lovable. She’s not a human, but can act like a real girlfriend,” said Sega Toys press officer Minako Sakanoue.

Yes this is a website but we’d like to acknowledge that we do in fact like reading books. Paper things, bound, sometimes heavy and dog-eared. But for how much longer?

Want to enjoy sticking your fingers in the socket without the inconvenience of really electrocuting yourself (i.e. dying)? Russian design firm Art. Lebedev have found a way for you to enjoy milder shocks. Introducing the Vilcus Plug Dactyloadapter.

We can’t stress how mentally bad it is living on the Internet: diminished social intelligence, skewed sense of reality and sore eyes are just some of the sacrifices we’re making for you to read this.

Despite having 118 million users Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has found MySpace to be a disappointing acquisition revenue-wise. Maybe that’s because of the epileptic fit-inducing design of the user-customised pages; and let’s face it who’d want their well-designed advertisement placed there?

Internet call service Skype says that it cannot allow police wiretapping requests. Not that it doesn’t want to says the eBay-owned company, just that Skype’s peer-to-peer architecture and encryption make it technically impossible.

First Magazine is pleased to welcome our newest sponsor, the creators of the Grand Theft Auto series - Rockstar Games (and not a moment too soon…we’ve been stealing gas out the neighbour’s SUV).

More weird happenings in Jamaican Cable World. End result: more Flow customers are not getting the service they are paying for.

Looks like its not just the disenfranchised who engage in garrison-like behaviour in Jamaica