Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 7:45:41 PM CEST
Spacewoman Stuck in Orbit with Too Much Shrimp
Peggy Whitson, the American astronaut spending her 130th day in space, said on Sunday that she was happy in orbit, but maybe she brought along too much shrimp. "Sometimes, when you come to space, your tastes change. One of my favorite foods on the ground is shrimp, and up here I can't stand it," said Whitson, the science officer on the International Space Station.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">REUTERS
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 7:25:08 PM CEST
Nikola Tesla's FBI files
Freedom of Information Act
Nikola Tesla 252 pages
General information about the electrical inventor and inquiries from members of the public about what federal agency seized his papers after his death. As of 1943, the papers were retained by the Alien Property Custodian.
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 7:22:24 PM CEST
The Scientific Legacy of Nikola Tesla
When Nikola entered the Polytechnic School in Graz, he studied 20 hours a day, reading and memorizing works by Descartes, Goethe, Spencer, and Shakespeare. Although he deservedly earned straight A+ grades during his first semester and was able to speak nine languages, Tesla never graduated from the Austrian Polytechnic School. By his third year, Tesla was gambling heavily and was not granted an extension when he was unprepared for his final exams.
¬> <a href="www.yale.edu"target="_blank">Zara Herskovits
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 7:09:42 PM CEST
How to avoid being shot by sniper
Sniper Experts Advise
People in suburban Washington trying not to get shot by a roaming gunman can flip the usual rules for staying safe, sniper experts said. Instead of avoiding dark, out-of-the-way spots, those places now may be the safest to buy groceries or pump gas, said retired Maj. John Plaster, former Army Green Beret and author of "The Ultimate Sniper," a police and military training manual.
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 7:06:22 PM CEST
Bin Laden's brother-in-law to blame for Bali?
Did Osama bin Laden have anything to do with the weekend massacre in the Indonesian paradise of Bali? No group has claimed responsibility for the two car bombs that turned the popular tourist area into a fiery inferno Saturday, killing close to 200 and injuring hundreds. But according to DEBKA's counter-terror sources, Khalifa – overall operations chief for al-Qaida in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and other parts of Southeast Asia – engineered the horror.
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 6:41:31 PM CEST
Gator grandma
Sitting back in the pontoon boat, Thomas Rutland takes a break from gazing at the cow pastures and orange groves of his boyhood summers. "Back when I was growing up, you couldn't see anything out here," he says, pointing past the glow of the DeSoto Speedway and the Manatee Dam. "That there is Bradenton. That's Sarasota. And that tower there is the water treatment plant." His mother interrupts. "Lay off the tower talk," says 71-year-old Ardith Rutland. "Let's go gator hunting."
¬> <a href="www.heraldtribune.com"target="_blank">Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 6:38:10 PM CEST
Statement attributed to bin Laden praises recent attacks
-- A statement attributed to Osama bin Laden praises attacks on U.S. Marines in Kuwait and a French supertanker off Yemen and warns Western powers to "stop their aggression on us and their support to our enemies."
¬> <a href="www.cnn.com"target="_blank">CNN
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 6:25:23 PM CEST
WHAT IS SEPAK TAKRAW ?
Sepal Takraw was created by the royal family of Malaysia about 500 years ago. The name itself comes from two languages. Sepak is "kick" in Malay, and Takraw is the "ball" in Thai. When it is born, It looked like Japanese "Kemari", and some became a circle, and a pole was kicked, and the number of times was being competed in. It looks very similar to the Japanese traditional game, "kemari" where the players form a loose circle and the number of times the ball is kicked before it touches the ground is counted. In 1965 the game was unified into the present volleyball style with the addition of a net and the adoption of international rules.
¬> <a href="www.geocities.co.jp"target="_blank">SEPAK TAKRAW
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 6:20:48 PM CEST
e-bay 11,000 YEAR-OLD ENTIRE ICE CAVE BEAR SKELETON
Museum quality ice cave bear skeleton.
Completely intact, stands seven and a half feet tall on its own custom-made stand.
A centerpiece for any office,store, game room or if you are a real affecinado--the living room.
This specimen, originally from Eastern Europe is in incredible condition.
Item # 723399473
Current bid: US $5,000.00 (reserve not yet met)
¬> <a href="cgi.ebay.com"target="_blank">e-bay
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 6:02:42 PM CEST
Palestinian militant killed by exploding phone
Mossad out of ideas?
A Palestinian militant, whose clan has been targeted previously by Israeli security forces, was killed today when a public telephone exploded in his hand - one of six Palestinians to die in a day of violence, Palestinians said.
Last time mossad used this Trick:
January 6, 1996
The January 1996 assassination of Yehiya Ayyash known as "The Engineer", responsible for a series of suicide attacks by Hamas, was killed by a bomb-rigged cellular telephone in the Gaza Strip. The killing, which was widely attributed to the Israeli secret service, turned Ayyash into a hero among young Palestinians.
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 5:58:55 PM CEST
The Pentagon’s blinding lasers
Now You See, Now You Don’t
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, who together had $20.3 billion in Pentagon contracts in 2001, are collaborating on development of “directed energy weapons”—powerful 100-kilowatt infrared lasers for use on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The JSF program, worth an estimated $200 billion, is Lockheed Martin’s crowning accomplishment. If all goes well, the Pentagon will soon order as many as 3,000 F-35s, making it the largest acquisition program in history.
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Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 5:50:37 PM CEST
Linux-based TMTA tablet PC for $600?
Get 'em before Slashdot finds out
After reviewing Acer's Tablet PC recently I mused out loud about the viability of using a more overtly tablet-like CE device for what I think of as 'proper' Tablet PC tasks. But why wait, asked reader Per Hammer - this one looks just the ticket, and it's only $600.
¬> <a href="www.theregister.co.uk"target="_blank">Register ¬> ProGear
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