Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 7:23:37 PM CEST
Japanese save the whale - IRONIC ?
Residents of a city not far from one of Japan's last whaling villages have turned out to help a beached whale successfully make its way back to its ocean home, using their hands and a fishing boat. The eight-metre (26-foot) whale was found stranded at Iwanuma, some 300 km (190 miles) north of Tokyo, by a man taking an early morning walk on Saturday.
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 9:40:20 AM CEST
Quantum system keeps secrets safe
Encryption key transmitted via mountaintop light beam. Satellites are increasingly relied upon for military and intelligence use but securely transmitting voice, image and other communications remains troublesome. Now, British military researchers have improved an emerging method of secure transmission for the encryption keys that protect such data — a method that relies upon quantum physics.
¬> MSNBC
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 9:35:42 AM CEST
Nasal spray better than Viagra?
Better than Viagra? That's what some researchers are saying about a nasal spray that causes both men and women to become sexually aroused. But unlike the male impotence pill Viagra, PT-141 is a synthetic hormone that works for sexually dysfunctional people of both sexes by stimulating receptors in the central nervous system to quickly spark desire.
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 9:32:58 AM CEST
e-bay NEW INVENTION ALLOWS HUMANS TO LIVE FOREVER
The "Immortality Device". Ridiculous, isn't it? His simple device is supposed:
- to stop and reverse aging;
- to heal several diseases;
- to give a large amount of energy.
¬> e-bay
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 2:49:09 AM CEST
Wife of EU Central Bank president sued for anti-Semitic remarks
Duisenberg-Bedier de Prairie, who openly supports the Palestinian cause, recently began a petition against Israeli military action against the Palestinians. The radio reporter asked her how many signatures she hoped to collect. After a brief pause, she replied: "Six million," and laughed.
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 2:47:22 AM CEST
Office chair that cleans the air around you
Scientists are considering 'smart furniture' to protect workers from air pollutants and even anthrax. 'The idea is to build into the furniture the ability to actually clean the air in a breathing zone, the air immediately around the individual,' said US researcher Alan Hedge.
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 2:27:31 AM CEST
Depressed web server 404
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 1:52:42 AM CEST
VeggieTales takes $14M movie gamble
The star is an asparagus. His buddies include a tomato and a cucumber. And they're featured in a movie based on the biblical tale of Jonah, the guy who got swallowed by a whale.
¬> <a href="www.cnn.com"target="_blank"> CNN
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 1:49:20 AM CEST
100th anniversary
Today's the day the teddy bears have a picnic. For thousands of teddy bears in Japan, the weekend will be a huge party. A two-day exhibition with 5,000 teddy bears from around the world will start on Saturday in the western city of Osaka to celebrate the classic stuffed animal's 100th anniversary.
¬> <a href="uk.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">REUTERS
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 1:21:18 AM CEST
Visual Basic Google API Rank Checker Program
I was quite pleased to find Brett's excellent program. Unfortunately, it requires PERL, which I don't have on my Windows-based PC. I wanted to know if there was a way to do something like this in Windows from Visual Basic, without requiring Visual Studios .NET (expensive!)
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 1:20:43 AM CEST
Korean Google Blog
Seok Wan Yang is tracking Google in Korean.
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 1:20:12 AM CEST
Perspective: Who needs editors anyway?
The media navel-gazing over Google's News is getting to be a bit much. Ever since the Google News site launched last month, some media types have worked up a sweat over whether the robot-generated news page means the end of editors. Who could imagine that you don't need an editor to select the top stories of the moment? "No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this page," boasts Google. In media circles, that boast is pure heresy. It's just not right, editors exclaim. "Where's the news judgment?" some of them wonder.
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