BENTONVILLE, AR — Corporate conglomerate Wal-Mart is now offering two of the most commonly-prescribed birth control pills at $9.00 for a thirty day supply. The company slashed the price on the generic versions of Ortho-Cyclen and Ortho-Tricyclen — Sprintec and...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — A burglar broke into a neighbor’s house and used a bottle of toilet cleaner and a vacuum cleaner as sex toys.The court recently got to hear how Jamie Lacey, stoned on something or other, went through the house he broke into in late 2004. Lacey scattered...

KANSAS CITY, KS — It doesn’t take much to get some people riled up these days, as three Jackson County businesses have learned after being handed obscenity indictments by the local District Court. According to the Kansas City Star, not only adult business Priscilla’s in...

CHATSWORTH, CA — AVN Media Network has announced that the 2008 winter Internext will be going off the grid – or at least slightly west of the famous Las Vegas Strip and inside of the mega hip Palms Casino Resort on W. Flamingo Road.The Palms, which Vegas.com bills as “the...

CYBERSPACE —The concept of cities enabling their residents to go online through a government-provided network has been working out well in some places.Minneapolis built its wi-fi system to connect city agencies together and as an assist tool for public safety efforts and...

WARSAW, POLAND — Candidates from Poland’s newest political party appear in the buff on a poster recently released to promote their agenda.Seven candidates of the Women’s Party appear in the poster holding a sign that reads, “The party of women. Poland is a woman.” The...

CUPERTINO, CA — For a company that started in a garage and once encouraged its supporters to “think different,” Apple has grown to be impressively corporate. Hackers and crackers have generally been kind to the marketplace mini giant, but with the release of the uber spendy...

WASHINGTON PARK, IL —A man visiting a Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club claims to have been brutally beaten by eight bouncers and is suing the club and the bouncers for more than $150,000.Seth Jarman claims to have asked for his money back after the club’s power went out on...

PHILADELPHIA, PA —This week, top drug maker GlaxoSmithKline announced that its HPV-prevention vaccine Cervarix has been approved for use by the European Commission in 27 countries.GlaxoSmithKline has also submitted Cervarix to the U.S. FDA for approval in the states....

CYBERSPACE — According to a study, women are the majority online, making up more than 51-percent of the virtual population. eMarketer.com estimates that this total will increase by a slight amount– 0.2 percent by 2011.Estimates from other research sources agree that...