A California graphic artist decides to catalog the colorful and unusual rantings of the official North Korean News Agency, KCNA. Reuters reports KCNA is the only regular source of the views of the secretive government of Kim Jong-il available to diplomats, journalists and scholars. But, there was no way for them to search the archives of KCNA until Geoff Davis, fighting boredom during a rainy San Francisco spring, decided to hone his Web design skills on a topic he followed in news reports on the North Korean nuclear crisis.

A Seattle entrepreneur says he's found an inexpensive, highly visible tool to plug his website- an innovation he calls "bum-vertising. "Ben Rogovy, a 22-year-old University of Washington graduate, sees the homeless and panhandlers as an untapped labor force, which he says he's putting to work.

The beer brewed by monks at a Belgian abbey is so good, it was voted the world's best. The problem? It soon sold out. The abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren in western Belgium is home to 30 Cistercian and Trappist monks who live a life of seclusion, prayer, manual labor-- and brewing frosty suds.

The beer brewed by monks at a Belgian abbey is so good, it was voted the world's best. The problem? It soon sold out. The abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren in western Belgium is home to 30 Cistercian and Trappist monks who live a life of seclusion, prayer, manual labor-- and brewing frosty suds.

A highly popular British pop band storms out of its debut performance on BBC TV's The two siblings who make up the group The Magic Numbers, refuse to perform their single on Sunday's edition of the show after taking offense to comments made by guest host Richard Bacon.