Topic: - on October 17, 2002 at 1:26:24 AM CEST
Stone skimming formula adds new spin
Everyone knows a stone bounces best on water if it is round and flat, and spun towards the water as fast as possible. Some enthusiasts even travel to international stone-skimming competitions, like world champion Jerdone Coleman-McGhee, who made a stone bounce 38 times on Blanco River, Texas, in 1992.
¬> <a href="www.newscientist.com"target="_blank">New Scientist
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Topic: - on October 17, 2002 at 1:05:13 AM CEST
Scientists Confirm Massive Black Hole in Milky Way
Scientists said Wednesday they have discovered at the center of our galaxy a huge black hole, a mysterious celestial object that sucks in everything around it including light.
By observing the orbit of a star around the invisible gravitational field, an international team of scientists has eliminated other possibilities of explaining the phenomenon. "It is a great step forward," Dr. Reinhard Genzel, of the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics near Munich who led the team, told Reuters Wednesday.
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Topic: - on October 17, 2002 at 1:02:05 AM CEST
Freed hacker Mitnick debunks myths
World famous hacker shares secrets in new book The world's most notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick claims that false accusations of breaking into top secret US installations were used to demonise him by law enforcement agencies in their fight to bring him to justice.
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Topic: - on October 17, 2002 at 12:50:12 AM CEST
Israeli intelligence:
Bin Laden is dead, heir has been chosen
Osama Bin Laden appears to be dead but his colleagues have decided that Al Qaida and its insurgency campaign against the United States will continue, Israeli intelligence sources said. Al Qaida terrorists have launched a new campaign of economic warfare and are targeting shipping in the Middle East, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
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Topic: - on October 17, 2002 at 12:47:10 AM CEST
Laser could scan skies for black holes
Astronomers could scan the skies for black holes using a super-powerful laser, two physicists are suggesting1. Black holes close to our Solar System would reflect the light back to Earth, the pair calculates, despite the popular image of these holes as omnivorous astrophysical objects from which not even light can escape.
¬> <a href="www.nature.com"target="_blank">Nature
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Topic: - on October 17, 2002 at 12:43:28 AM CEST
Read the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft
The Lovecraft Library eagerly accepts contributions to the content of this site. If you have copies of anything written by H. P. Lovecraft that is not here, please consider sharing it with your fellow fans of the Gentleman from Providence.
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Topic: - on October 16, 2002 at 11:45:14 PM CEST
Horse named Budweiser falls into hole
Some men'd do anything for a Bud on a hot day
The horse -- named Budweiser -- slipped hind-end first into the backyard tank's circular opening after breaking through a plywood covering and a layer of dirt. The animal had to be hoisted out with a strap hooked to a county skiploader. In between, the horse waited calmly with his head and front legs stuck out of the hole, munching on carrots, getting cooled off with a garden hose and being petted by firefighters and animal control officers.
¬> <a href="www.dailynews.com"target="_blank">2002 Los Angeles Daily News
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Topic: - on October 16, 2002 at 11:35:52 PM CEST
Man has to come to US or go to Jail, Denied visa to do same
Man has to come to US or go to Jail, Denied visa to do same. Dmitry Sklyarov, the Russian programmer at the centre of the first Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prosecution, has been denied a US visa in a move that jeopardises his requirement to testify in the forthcoming trial of his former employers, ElcomSoft. ElcomSoft's chief executive, Alexander Katalov, has likewise been denied a visa, Planet PDF reports, in a move that surely means the already delayed October 21 start of the trial will be put back still further.
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Topic: - on October 16, 2002 at 11:22:08 PM CEST
4 Parcel Bombs Explode in Pakistan
Four small parcel bombs exploded within minutes of each other at police and government offices in the volatile port city of Karachi on Wednesday, injuring at least nine people, police said. A fifth bomb was sent to a police station but did not go off. At least one of the parcels had "From Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal," written on it, said Sindh province Home Secretary Mukhtar Ahmad Sheikh, a reference to the United Action Front, a coalition of anti-American religious parties that made unprecedented gains in last week's national elections. Sheikh said, however, that authorities had no reason to believe the group was actually behind the attacks.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">Associated Press
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Topic: - on October 16, 2002 at 11:18:49 PM CEST
Inflate Britany's Pairs
There's been loads of talk about whether or not Britney's had a boob job, but here at TSWNN we can give you the exclusive opporunity to give Miss Spears' figure as much enhancement as you like!
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Topic: - on October 16, 2002 at 11:14:59 PM CEST
Windows Messenger is new spam vector
The forces of evil have produced a devilish tool whereby spam can be sent to thousands of Windows users in minutes, in the guise of system alerts. This was brought to our attention by reader Mike MacNeill, who sent us a screenie of a Windows system alert offering him the university diploma of his dreams with "no required tests, classes, books or interviews," in the classic manner. Below is a smaller example:
¬> <a href="theregister.co.uk"target="_blank">Register
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Topic: - on October 16, 2002 at 11:13:07 PM CEST
Japan to conduct experimental launch of prototype space shuttle
Japan is to conduct an experimental flight of a prototype space shuttle, the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) announced Tuesday. The unmanned vehicle, to remain within the earth's atmosphere, was to be launched Thursday on Christmas Island in the Pacific nation of Kiritimiti. It is to be the first flight experiment of the High Speed Flight Demonstration program, the NASDA said.
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