Saturday, 5. October 2002

e-bay NEW INVENTION ALLOWS HUMANS TO LIVE FOREVER


The "Immortality Device". Ridiculous, isn't it? His simple device is supposed:

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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.

¬> Ha`aretz

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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.

¬> Straits Times

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Depressed web server 404


¬> 404

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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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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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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!)

¬> WebmasterWorld

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Korean Google Blog


Seok Wan Yang is tracking Google in Korean.

¬> Seok Wan Yang

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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.

¬> C|net

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Hardware update


Finally, they've increased capacity and introduced a new mid-range GB-5005 (a cluster of 5 Google search appliances) which can handle 150 queries a minute.

¬> <a href="www.google.com"target="_blank">GOOGLE

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Google News Updates


Google has updated their search appliance line. Google Search Appliance Offers New Secure Search Capabilities, Increased Performance and New Hardware: New Customers in Government, Health, Education and Biotech.

¬> GOOGLE

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Alle haben sich totgelacht


Die Regisseurin Gurinder Chadha, 42, über ihren Film "Kick It Like Beckham", der von einem indischstämmigen Mädchen erzählt, das Fußballprofi werden möchte.

¬> SPIEGEL

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