Telstra, 2600 Australia & Villians

Telstra said a core router linking Sydney and Los Angeles was causing degraded performance to Internet traffic between Australia and the United States. While their broadband service has had a 13-hour outage preventing BigPond Cable and ADSL customers accessing the most basic of Internet services — e-mail.

Hacker group 2600 Australia today warned soft drink maker Coca-Cola Amatil to increase the security of online competitions after today publishing part of the process it says the company uses to verify competition entries.

Villains have all the fun. Even when it comes to kid's stuff. As Mitchel Resnick of the MIT Media Lab pointed out, the movie Toy Story says a lot about what our culture lauds and what it disapproves of in children. The story's hero, Andy, has a bedroom full of well-kept toys — frequently played with but never adapted or modified. The arch-nemesis Sid, on the other hand, turns everything he can into ghastly hybrids like a spider with a baby doll's head and Erector Set legs.