The 1998 movie, "Fight Club', based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996, may have seemed far fetched, but it struck a chord with men who say they feel emasculated by the mundaneness of the corporate, high-tech world. ESPN reported that since 1998, a fight club has been meeting once a month in Cornell educated software engineer, Gints Klimani's, garage. Fifteen men, mostly white, middle-aged technology workers meet to beat each other using fists, toilet seats, and cookie sheets. The group improvises weapons, even stabbing each other with dulled knives.

Mistaking her for a film technician, Prince Philip gave actress Cate Blanchett the shock of her life when the royalty asked her to fix his DVD. The Oscar nominee said the Prince might have misunderstood her when she introduced herself as working "in the film industry" when she visited the Buckingham Palace recently.

A 75-year-old lady in Karlstad, central Sweden has become the first person to surf Internet at a whooping speed of 40 gigabits-per-second. Sigbritt Lothberg is equipped with what is thought to be the fastest consumer broadband connection in the world. Karlstad city officials confirmed that Lothberg's fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world while the average speed of Internet connection in United Kingdom is 8 Mbps.

A recent fake Web site in Belgium has been highly criticized by women over its claim to offer nearly 10,000 women for rent as temporary wives. Created by a DVD firm as part of a humorous campaign, the controversial Internet site offers visitors the opportunity to choose from various women. Such as Erika - an intellectual wife who is a good conversationalist and can cook dinner for your friends. If you don't want Erika, you have someone named Isabelle, who can impress your boss in minutes.

Malaysian authorities have boosted security for its two special "four-legged" investigators for they are feared to be potential targets of the country's piracy syndicates. The floppy eared investigators are actually a pair of sniffer dogs that the country has recently loaned from Ireland for a month trial in order to break down the DVD piracy racket. Lucky and Flo, the pair of black Labrador Retrievers, are notably the first animals trained to detect optical discs by their scent.