UFO Sightings To Orbit The Web

France's national space agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, will place information about some 6,000 reports of UFO activity online in early 2007.

Java and Open Source

In November, Sun Microsystems moved to "open source" status for Java, after a decade of maintaining proprietary status for the portable programming language.

AOL Poll: Heroes And Villains

Not many times in American politics or history do you have a person on both a hero's list and a villain's list. In a new poll from the Associated Press and America Online News President George W. Bush is top of the list for being both a hero and a villain in 2006.

Google Defends “Meaningless” Zeitgeist

When Google put out its year-end Zeitgeist, an account of the hottest searches in 2006, bloggers immediately felt the list's creators were fudging it a little for decency's sake. Google responded on its blog saying the list was edited to save us from the boredom of constants and givens.