An well-meaning email circulating on the net claims that coughing might just save your life if you're suffering a heart attack. The science behind it is questionable, and some sources say it could actually kill you.

An e-mail promising free Applebees gift certificates for forwarding it to your friends is a hoax. The e-mail is similar in spirit and syntax to a Cracker Barrel hoax that's also circulating. And like that piece, the only thing this bit of annoying net-flotsam is good for is annoying your friends.

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They're out there. Lurking in the shadows. Waiting to strike at a moments notice. They're renegade medical students, and they're hell bent on stealing your kidneys and selling them on the blackmarket! Or not. The infamous kidney thieves are a classic urban legend, transported on to the net and given new life in the 21st century.

How good is Gran Turismo 3. Well, consider this: I don't like racing games - they've always seemed repetitive and boring. I don't drool of cars, and aside from my Jeep Wrangler, I've never had much interest in them. I'm your typical geek, more interested in computers and RPGs than horsepower and RPMs. And I love this game.

It's not often that I pick up a role-playing game rule book that's so compelling a read that I have a hard time putting it down. Fading Suns is one of those games.

iDisk is Apple's net-based disk drive that's mountable to any Mac, and accessible from any computer running Windows 98 or better or Unix. And it rules.