Monday, 6. January 2003

Hollywood ready to close digital locks


Lying dormant in virtually every digital cable box in America is technology that can prevent viewers from recording certain programs to watch them later. Soon, several Hollywood studios are planning to tell cable operators to flip the switch.

¬> New York Times

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Latest trend on the net
Bonsai Potato


Your work will be inspected by a panel of Bonsai Potato artisans who will rate it based on originality, visual presentation, and the amount of your "optional" donation to the Judges' Early Retirement Fund.

After your work is reviewed it will be put up on the web site, because I will pretty much put up any image that is even halfway decipherable. Bonsai Potato is about the potatoes, not the photographs. You can click most of the images below to see a larger version of each potato.

¬><a href="www.bonsaipotato.com?"target="_blank">bonsaipotato

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Husband's sperm kills woman


A Romanian woman has died from an allergy to her husband's sperm. He told doctors they knew about her allergy to proteins in semen but didn't always use a condom when they had sex.

¬> Ananova

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MTV to play same 10 music videos over 300 times per week


MTV announces bold resolution for the New Year: to shorten its music video playlist and concentrate on playing the same 'Big Ten' videos in heavy weekly rotation.

¬> Stupid

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The Genuine Haiku Generator


hoping angrily borderland rusting ice floats riding hoping pike

¬> Haiku

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FedEx dude delivering Segway


Grr not mine Grr
¬> 43 pics

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What's worse than a clone? How about five of them?


The doctor who says she has produced two cloned babies in the past weeks has told the BBC three more cloned children will be born by February.

¬> BBC

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