Hugh Freeze, recently ousted as football coach at the University of Mississippi, has explained the telephone calls to an escort service that led to his departure. He wanted to see more effective techniques for the quarterback to get up under the center. Freeze resigned after the institution threatened to fire him for illegal use of hands and having an uncovered end. ... In his later years in the assisted living center, Frodo, still thinking he has a ring of power that renders him invisible, is constantly found in the women's quarters with a plastic ring on his finger. ... Across the nation this week, tragedy abounded when National Take Your Hamster to Work Day inadvertently coincided with National Take Your Python to Work Day. ... An IBM project involving machine learning has been quietly ended after it was discovered a small number of computers was copying its results from other devices. IBM snatched some comfort from results, asserting this proved machines were becoming more like people. "We are only a few years away from software that can actually lie," a spokesman commented.