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NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Edward Wong of The New York Times about an assassination threat aimed at the interim prime minister for Iraq, Iyad Allawi. The threat came in a taped message on a radical Islamic Web site one day after the beheading of a South Korean translator by radical Islamic militants, who demanded South Korea abandon its plan to add troops to the U.S.-led military coalition.

McSweeney's, the publishing enterprise behind several humor journals, has a new book out — a collection of its often absurd "lists" that readers send in to McSweeney's Web site. Editor John Warner talks with Madeleine Brand about the new collection.

Chatbots are artificial intelligence algorithms that lets web users type questions into a text box to be answered by a "chat robot."

The Apple iPhone is also a camera, an MP3 player, a Web browser — and it has a touch-screen keypad. Competitors are promoting phones by highlighting the features of their cell phones that the iPhone lacks. How much is too much?

In an announcement made on his Web site, Sen. Barack Obama says he will form a presidential exploratory committee. The first-term Democrat says he will go into greater detail about his White House plans on Feb. 10.

Perry Chen of San Diego is making a name for himself as a film critic with his Web site, PerrysPreviews.com. The precocious youngster tells Liane Hansen what he looks for when reviewing a movie.

With a mic in hand and video camera rolling nearby, Julian Shapiro-Barnum's priceless interviews with kids for his hit web series “Recess Therapy” demonstrates the incredible wisdom, keen observations and often hilarious insights of children.

Online hunting is the so-called "sport" of shooting live game with a gun controlled remotely over the Web. But 33 states have outlawed it, which is a success for animal activists. But few people actually hunt online — not even the NRA supports Internet hunting, calling it inhumane.

In October, a 13-year-old, Missouri girl committed suicide after she was bullied online by a neighborhood mother. It didn't take long for web users to post the name, address and phone number of the woman who was behind the harassment. Guests discuss vigilante-style justice in the digital age.

As it gets ever easier to doctor images, will the photograph lose its credibility? A digitally manipulated photo of an Iranian missile launch recently made its way onto major news Web sites, raising concerns about whether images can be trusted. Guests discuss the long history of altered images.