A lot of websites now offer amazing and innovative online pool games, and even provide an unprecedented level of multi-player functionality.

But sometimes it is fun to just get back to basics, especially when you just need to kill a little bit of time.  And in the end, all these games are about just killing time, but doing it in an enjoyable manner.

So it was with a slight tinge of excitement that I recently found some sites are continuing to develop single-player online pool games that keep enough of the simple, original feel of those early games while just tweaking the gameplay enough to keep them current.

SC Magazine has announced that it will hold its second annual SC World Congress Enterprise Data Security Conference at a New York hotel later this year.

The conference is quickly becoming an important event for businesses and corporations serious about securing their data against the rapidly growing number of threats.

Data security today is a major concern, and a major industry, and knowing exactly how to secure yourself and your business and what software and hardware to use can be a daunting prospect. But with the help of the professionals that will be gathered at the SC conference, that task becomes much easier.

New York City police are hunting down whoever stole $1,200 worth of lip gloss from a local Victoria's Secret store, reported The Journal News.

That may sound like quite a haul, but with prices as high as they are at stores like Victoria's Secret, in reality only 74 tubes of the particular lip gloss were taken.

The Neat Company has unveiled its new NeatScan To Office portable scanner, promising that it goes far beyond the functionality of your typical portable scanner.

Most portable scanners do a good job at what they do - scanning. But they do not in any way process the information they are scanning.  To the typical portable scanner, a text document is no different than a high-resolution photograph.

But the NeatScan To Office portable scanner actually processes what it is scanning, and then sends it directly to the corresponding Microsoft Office application.

Staff at an aquarium in Cornwall, England recently discovered a dangerous giant worm prowling about one of their large display tanks.

The Daily mail reports that for months the staff was confused over how the large coral reef and fish in the tank were constantly being eaten, harmed or destroyed.

So they decided to put the tank under constant observation, and eventually the huge 4-foot worm revealed itself. The worm, now named Barry, is believed to have arrived as a much younger specimen along with a shipment of coral rock.

Barry is capable of devastating coral reefs and fish populations, and has fleshly thorns that can inflict permanent numbness on humans.