Topic: - on April 8, 2003 at 9:55:07 PM CEST
Man Gets Company's Logo Tattooed On Head
James Nelson auctioned off the back of his head for $7,000. Now, he's got the tattoo to prove it.
A Texas Internet company won the eBay auction, in which Nelson promised to use his head as advertisement space for the highest bidder.
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Topic: War and Peace - on April 8, 2003 at 9:50:00 PM CEST
Nuns Found Guilty of Sabotage
Three Catholic nuns have been found guilty of sabotage and malicious destruction of property for breaking into a missile silo last year in a peace protest.
One of the sisters, Carolyn Gilbert, turned to the jury as the guilty verdict was read Monday and said: "We are not guilty under God's law and international law." Another sister, Ardeth Platte, remained silent but made the sign of the cross as she looked at the jury of six men and six women.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 8, 2003 at 9:34:51 PM CEST
Computer games now playing in theaters
On the second floor of San Diego's Pacific Theaters Gaslamp 15, in Room 10, there's no movie playing.
But there are 100 computer stations on which patrons can choose from 200 PC games or the latest offerings on PlayStation 2, Xbox or GameCube.
This upscale PC arcade lets you play alone, compete with a friend or a team of buddies nearby, or against online competitors. You also can watch your action displayed digitally on the big screen.
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Topic: TV - on April 8, 2003 at 7:33:30 PM CEST
Der Geist von Ally McBeal
Kunst gibt es noch. Und unvermutet trieb sie ihr Unwesen in einer amerikanischen Fernsehserie über eine Anwältin in einer Kanzlei aus Boston. Heute Abend sendet Vox die letzte Folge der fünften Staffel der Serie Ally McBeal
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 8, 2003 at 7:28:54 PM CEST
Microsofts Leitfaden gegen Linux
Einige Unternehmen haben von Microsoft eine Broschüre zum Thema "Windows versus Linux" zugeschickt bekommen. Es handelt sich um einen Argumentationsleitfaden für Verkäufer, damit diese "das Gespräch steuern können und es zu einem erfolgreichen Verkaufsabschluss bringen". Als Hauptargumente für die Vorteile von Windows werden unter anderem angeführt, dass es bei Linux keine klare Roadmap gebe, die Produktweiterentwicklung nicht sichergestellt sei und Linux-Lösungen meist schlecht skalierbar seien.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on April 8, 2003 at 6:58:49 PM CEST
MATRIX2
Bullet Time was just the beginning. F/x guru John Gaeta reinvents cinematography with The Matrix Reloaded. I'm sitting in a former naval barracks in Alameda, California, watching the digital assembly of a human face. Bones, teeth, glistening eyes. Layer upon layer. Finally the hair and skin, the creases and tiny scars that make us who we are. The face blinks and breathes. Then it snarls, and my skin crawls.
Agent Smith is back, and he's pissed.
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Topic: NASA - on April 8, 2003 at 6:53:03 PM CEST
Air Force Launches Military Communications Satellite
The U.S. Air Force launched a military satellite Tuesday that will join a space-based network which provides secure, jam-resistant communications between the president, the Department of Defense and U.S. military forces around the world.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 8, 2003 at 6:51:03 PM CEST
InterVideo Tabbed by Microsoft to Port Windows Media to Linux
InterVideo, Inc. announced today that Microsoft has chosen the company as a provider of its Windows Media Technology for Linux-based consumer electronics. Under the agreement InterVideo is licensed to take the components of the Windows Media Format, port them over to Linux and provide them to manufacturers who are interested in running Windows Media Technology on Linux-based consumer devices such as set-top boxes, personal video recorders and other hybrid multimedia devices.
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Topic: BLOG - on April 8, 2003 at 6:38:51 PM CEST
Noted War Blogger Cops to Copying
Like any number of webloggers trying to make their mark with commentary on the war in Iraq, Sean-Paul Kelley knew geography and career experience didn't favor him.
Kelley -- the man behind the wildly popular site The Agonist -- lives in Texas, worlds away from the war's front lines. And his reporting résumé added up to a mere three weeks at a local paper. Still, for the last few weeks, he had managed to post several dozen war-related news items a day on his site. The only problem: Much of his material was plagiarized -- lifted word-for-word from a paid news service put out by Austin, Texas, commercial intelligence company Stratfor.
"You got me, I admit it.... I made a mistake," Kelley said. "It was stupid."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 8, 2003 at 6:33:39 PM CEST
Windows CE to outship PCs in five years - researcher
In five years' time, more Windows CE devices will be shipping than Windows PCs. So reckons PC and PDA market researcher eTForecasts.
So while 2002 saw 126 million PC shipments worldwide and nine million WinCE device shipments, come 2008 and 190-200 million PCs will ship compared to 200-220 million WinCE devices, according to eTForecasts' numbers.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on April 8, 2003 at 6:28:08 PM CEST
Tellers laugh robber out of bank
Police say they aren't sure what charge is appropriate for a man arrested after tellers laughed him out of a bank he apparently tried to rob.
"Put the money in the bag," he demanded.
Instead, one of the two tellers told him the bank was out of money, and the other teller laughed and offered the man deposit slips. She told police that made the intruder angry, and he left without any money in his bag.
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Topic: W A R - on April 8, 2003 at 6:18:16 PM CEST
Greeting card company creates a line of cards specifically for troops in Iraq
On the cover of the card is a departing military ship with the caption, ''I miss you.'' Inside, the message reads: ''Kick Saddam's butt and get yours back here!''
In an industry that prides itself on a message for every occasion, American Greetings has produced a line of patriotic cards intended to boost morale of U.S. troops in Iraq.
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