Boy, 3, buys £9K car on eBay

A three-year-old boy went on his parents' computer - and bought a £9,000 car.

Jack Neal made a successful bid for the Barbie pink Nissan Figaro on eBay.

Jack's parents, Rachel and dad John, found out about the car when they got a message from the internet auction site to congratulate them.

According to The Sun Rachel, 36, said: "We couldn't understand. So we checked and saw it was a Barbie pink car which we'd bought for £8,999.99."

Rachel, of Sleaford, Lincs, says Jack was able to log on to her eBay account as she left her password in her computer.

She added: "Jack's a real whiz - he's been able to log on since he was two.

Dad John phoned the seller and explained the error.

The Mystery of the Cross-Eyed ShoZu Chihuahua

A photograph of a chihuahua taken by a camera thief has stirred up a lot of Internet discussion. The camera was stolen on an Amtrak train from Ben Clemens, a web designer and Yahoo Inc. employee. The camera has software from ShoZu on it that allows any pictures taken to be automatically uploaded to a photo sharing website. In this situation the photographs were uploaded to Clemens' Flickr account. The thief clearly did not know about the ShoZu software and several photos taken by the camera thief, including the one of a cross-eyed chihuahua in a filthy room, showed up on Clemens's Flickr account.

The worst spyware infestation that you will ever see!

Many Internet Explorer add-on toolbars monitor the user's activity. When installed and run without the user's consent, such add-ons count as spyware. Here multiple toolbars (including both spyware and innocuous ones) overwhelm an Internet Explorer session.

Paris Hilton Releases Tinkerbell Linux

New York, NY - The Linux world grew by yet another distribution this summer, as Paris Hilton announced the release of Tinkerbell Linux.

On her MySpace blog, the New York socialite announced the release named after her famous Chihuahua, Tinkerbell.

"First," she writes, "I think The Open Source Movement is, like, really hot. I've been dabbling with coding for ages, but it's taken me some time to find the courage to release it. As you know, I'm a shy and modest person, and wasn't sure if it was good enough for the strict standards of the coding community."

So far, reviewers of the distribution have been positive. Avis Blackshire from Teen People writes that "this software is no dog! Like its creator it has a flashy and highly polished feel to it while remaining easily accessible - both front-end and back-end."

Many Linux users said they appreciate the exposure a star like Paris Hilton can give to the Linux movement, and added that they can "appreciate someone who can compile without panties on.
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Stolen dinosaur fossils found on ebay

Stolen fossilised dinosaur footprints, 200 million years old and from a protected site, have been found after being advertised on eBay.

The three-toed prints, from coastline near Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, had been offered for sale online and in a shop at Lyme Regis in Dorset.

The Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) realised they could have come only from the Bendrick Rock site.

A man described as a local amateur geologist has been cautioned by police.

The police had worked alongside the CCW and the fossils were recovered after a raid on the shop in Lyme Regis.
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