Monday, 20. January 2003
Topic: - on Monday, 20. January 2003, 15:50
Doubts on Diva's Airplay Numbers
Mariah Carey's new single, "Through the Rain," has stirred up a squall in the radio world with suggestions that the pop singer's record label tried to revive her career by inflating airplay figures.
Island Def Jam Music Group bought radio spots containing 53 seconds of the song, which fooled the computers that monitor and measure airplay, or "spins," for the recording industry. As a result, the ballad seemed to be building momentum in markets across the country when in fact it was losing steam.
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Topic: - on Monday, 20. January 2003, 15:17
Sauna SAAB 900
On this page you will find a little story about some (crazy?) nordic people, an old SAAB 900 Classic 5-door and a common desire to have a sauna.
This is not the first sauna in a SAAB, I know of at least one SAAB 96 made into a sauna in Finland.
However, this is probably the only sauna built into a Classic 900...
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Topic: - on Monday, 20. January 2003, 15:01
1.3 Megapixel Video Camera Accessory Module for Mobile Phones and PDAs
Atsana Semiconductor Corp., a leader in the development of power-efficient, programmable processors for multimedia devices, today announced the availability of a 1.3 Megapixel Video Camera Accessory Module reference design for mobile phones and PDA manufacturers.
The comprehensive reference design connects to existing mobile handsets to offer MPEG4 and H.263 video along with Megapixel JPEG and audio capabilities. OEMs now have a ready-to-market, production-ready design that provides add-on Megapixel still image and video camera functionality to mobile phone handsets.
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Topic: - on Monday, 20. January 2003, 14:48
Shirtless woman joyrides in stolen police cruiser
A woman who played police officer for two hours in a stolen Loveland cruiser Saturday night wasn't wearing a gun or a badge.
Or a shirt.
But police said that didn't stop 22-year-old Amanda Briles - who has a lengthy arrest record - from pulling at least two people over and giving them verbal warnings.
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Topic: - on Monday, 20. January 2003, 14:25
Algeria hijack bid foiled
An attempt to hijack an airliner in Algeria has ended without injury to the more than 160 passengers and crew aboard.
The Algerian news agency said three men had burst into the cockpit of the Air Algerie Boeing 737 during a flight from the eastern city of Constantine to the capital, Algiers, and demanded to see senior officials on landing.
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Topic: - on Monday, 20. January 2003, 13:40
No sex please, we are too busy
Today's women have less sex than their 1950s counterparts, a survey suggests.
Researchers in the United States believe the demands of modern life are to blame - leaving women with little time or energy.
Fifty years ago, most women were stay-at-home mums with more free time. Few had jobs and television sets were rare.
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Topic: - on Monday, 20. January 2003, 13:35
Cubans Vote in One-Party General Elections
Cubans voted in one-party general elections on Sunday, with President Fidel Castro saying the election showed defiance against U.S. efforts to destroy the country's communist revolution.
Dissidents dismissed the poll as a fraud and urged people to boycott it, but authorities said that 7.4 million people, or 89.6 percent of registered voters, had cast their ballots by early.
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Topic: - on Monday, 20. January 2003, 12:52
Coyote Linux
This product is a single floppy distribution of Linux that is designed for the sole purpose of sharing an Internet connection. The floppy can be created using either a Microsoft Windows "wizard", or by using a set of Linux shell scripts. In addition to being designed to have very low hardware requirements, the floppy release of Coyote Linux is able to provide the performance and uptime that is expected from any Linux based system.
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