Television host Jeremy Clarkson has no one to blame but himself for losing money after publishing his bank account details in his newspaper column. Clarkson, who hosts the show "Top Gear," revealed his account numbers as he tried to downplay an incident involving the loss of 25 million people's personal details on two computer discs. But apparently, he was proven wrong after he discovered someone, who presumably read his column, used the details to charge a $986 donation to the charity Diabetes U. K. against his account just days after he published the details of his account at Barclays in his column at The Sun

A computer technician driving on the directions of a rental car's Global Positioning System found himself jumping out of the way as a train came barreling through his vehicle. The driver, Bo Bai, on the orders of the GPS system, turned his vehicle right, crossing train tracks. Upon doing so, the car was caught on the tracks, as the Harlem line train was chugging towards it. Bai attempted to wave to the engineer, but failed to catch his attention.

Consumer electronics giant Sony unveiled a prototype hand-powered digital camera called the "Twirl N' Take. " In the same vein as previous hand-powered radios and flashlights, 15 seconds of movement generates enough power to snap a photo. According to reports, the "Twirl N' Take" is shaped like a pizza cutter and includes 3-megapixel mobile phone digital camera technology. Sony doesn't plan to market the device.

"W00t," an exclamation of joy or excitement used by online gamers and hardcore Internet chat enthusiasts, is the word that best sums up 2007, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The word took the Word of the Year prize in Merriam-Webster's annual poll of favorite new terms such as "facebook," a verb that means to look up someone's profile on the popular online social networking site Facebook, and "blamestorm," to hold a meeting in order to find out who to blame.

In a test of short-term memory, young chimpanzees have been proven to be better than adult humans. Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against college students in a numerical skills challenge and the animals won hands down.