Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 10:47:54 PM CET
Man leaves treehouse after 12 years
Besh Serdahely, the self-appointed guardian of the San Mateo County mountain's lupines, owls and mission blue butterflies, asked rangers Tuesday to help him dismantle his home of 12 years from its carefully crafted niche in a huge coastal oak.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 10:24:19 PM CET
Intelligent life might be more likely in a Universe in flux
Ever since Copernicus put the Sun, rather than Earth, at the centre of the Universe, scientists and philosophers have suspected that there's nothing special about our cosmic time and place. But two physicists now suggest otherwise.
Galileo's Siderius Nuncius, 1610
¬> <a href="www.nature.com"target="_blank">Nature
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 10:18:20 PM CET
Rolling Stone Magazine's anti-RIAA ad
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 10:07:43 PM CET
Teen used fake gun to get porn tapes
Police say a Maine ninth-grader tried to get some X-rated videos with a fake gun. Now, authorities in Waterboro are deciding how to proceed in the case of the 14-year-old boy.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:35:09 PM CET
Nintendo fined for price fixing
Nintendo has been fined 149m euros (£92.1m) by the European Commission for trying to rig the computer game market. The firm and seven distributors have been found guilty by commission anti-trust officials of attempting to keep prices artificially high in some EU states between 1991 and 1998.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:33:05 PM CET
Corporate Green
Police See Pot Growing Turning Into a Big Business
It wasn't just the size of the operation — some 6,000 plants on three separate plots within a 2-square-mile area — but that the people who worked there had built shacks where they slept and cooked, had lugged in workout equipment and built an elaborate, sophisticated irrigation and misting system to keep the plants growing and blossoming.
¬> <a href="abcnews.go.com"target="_blank">ABC
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:27:40 PM CET
Flashback to the 70's
Do The Hustle.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:24:39 PM CET
Hollywood's version of Napster
DVDXCopy released next week
St. Louis-based 321 Studios, developer of DVD X Copy, plans to make the software available for download starting Monday at its site, dvdxcopy.com, for $100.
Hollywood insisted on having copy protection built into DVDs from the format's formative days. The only test was in 1999, when a Norwegian teen posted a program to get around the encryption. The Motion Picture Association of America successfully sued to have it removed from the Internet.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:17:24 PM CET
A 40,000-year-old cave painting
seen on a white silica sandstone rock shelter depicting existence of human civilization is seen in Banda district 800 kilometers,(500 miles) southeast of New Delhi, India.
¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">Associated Press
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:07:49 PM CET
Researchers sympathise with male witches
Academics say historians have ignored the suffering of thousands of male witches. Canadians Andrew Gow and Lara Apps say they have been marginalised by researchers who have focussed on the persecution of female witches. They claim 25% of the estimated 60,000 witches executed in Europe between 1450 and 1750 were men.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:05:01 PM CET
In a nutshell, sex sells in Taiwan
A young woman wearing little more than her underwear and lurid makeup sits in a glass booth waiting for customers. What's for sale here?
It's not her body. It's just betelnut, the mildly narcotic seed from the fruit of the betel pepper which trucker drivers and labourers use to help them stay awake.
¬> <a href="reuters.co.uk"target="_blank">Reuters
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 2:13:10 PM CET
Deutsche Mediziner lösen Rätsel um Narkosegas
Das gängige Narkosemittel habe sich im Blut und im Urin einer der beiden deutschen Geiseln befunden, sagten die Mediziner Thomas Zilker und Ludwig von Meyer am Mittwoch in München. "Auch die Symptome und die Verteilung in den Organen weisen auf die Verwendung hin", sagte der Rechtsmediziner von Meyer. Beide Experten gehen allerdings davon aus, dass bei der Befreiungsaktion außer Halothan noch ein zweites, nicht bekanntes Mittel eingesetzt wurde. Zilker vermutet auch, dass zur schnelleren Verbreitung des Narkosemittels ein so genanntes Treibgas benutzt wurde.
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