An IT engineer who attempted to dispatch a spider with an improvised flamethrower ended up on the wrong end of his own can of deodorant, the Sun reports.

Yesterday, August 15th, was India's independence day. Google had a beautiful logo up for the day, it was animated and done very well. Expect, there was one small problem, when you clicked through, you received a "did you mean" result, because it was spelled wrong.

In the past year, one in five iPhone users insured with Protect Your Bubble made a claim. What for? Since you ask...

When it comes to getting laid, put your Blackberry back in your hip holster and don't get caught touching an Android. The iPhone gets results.

What happens when you pump a whopping 10,000 volts of juice into a helpless watermelon? Instant watermelon salad, that's what. You'll just need to gather up the pieces from the blast radius.

According to a blog post at the New York Times 'The Antenn-aid' is the brainchild of two designers who took someone else's idea, merged it with a meme, and launched their own version of it. The NYT said that they are flying off the shelves like hotcakes.

The YouTube parody of an iPhone-craving customer is a certifiable hit at more than 4 million views and counting. It's pretty obvious why.

A Tory website which was set up to ask Brits which stupid laws they would like repealed seems to have had an overwhelming response calling for the end to the law of thermodynamics.

We've scoured the Internet for the finest examples we could find of the geeky marriage proposal; and they involve video games, gadgets and even Google Street View. Take a look at our collection of super-cool geeks who made that extra effort to incorporate their passion for tech and online life into securing the all-important “yes” from the person they love.

There's an inner geek inside all of us. Some of us try to hide our geeky obsessions, and others totally embrace it.

Microsoft's Bing may be way behind Google when it comes to search dominance, but this doesn't mean it should go on a campaign of self-loathing. Unfortunately that's exactly what seems to have happened if the site's auto-complete is anything to go by.

Sometimes lawyers don't always spend their time in the most productive ways. Indeed, one wonders whether the lawyers at the firm of Faegre and Benson spent their time productively in reportedly sending out a 12-page cease and desist letter to the japesters at ThinkGeek.com.

An Apple fanboy convinced by the marketing that the iPad was everything he would ever need decided that the best way forward was to sell something important. According to AZ Family Jacob Walker, 20, decided that the only way forward was to flog his treasured iPhone on Craig's List along with his dope collection to act as a sweetener.

This is one of those weapons you'd expect the bad guy in a movie to start laughing at, only to get his eye taken out by the surprisingly powerful miniature cannon. The itty bitty brass cannon is fully functioning and can absolutely destroy a decent sized beer mug.

Two guys on the side of the road saw a Google Streetview car approaching, and acted quickly to make the most out of the opportunity!

After trawling the internetz, here are a few prize screen-grabs of when Google Adsense has got it wrong..

The BBC has been busy putting together an in-depth analysis of Gordon Brown's legacy, as he prepares to to the right thing take the long walk into political oblivion. We have to say, it's one of the Beeb's better pieces of work.

It makes you angry, doesn't it? Over here in Britain, the iPad hasn't arrived because there's "too much demand" in the US, but Americans are just turning theirs into skateboards. What a waste of a good gadget.

Denver residents are set to vote in August on whether to allow a commission to investigate if the government has covered up the existence of aliens, but another group of Coloradans is attempting to put a stop to the probe, KDVR reported late Thursday.

Planet Earth has not (yet) been destroyed by today's terrifying Boobquake experiment - one Indiana student's response to Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi's insistence that immodestly dressed women provoke earthquakes.