Topic: - on April 17, 2003 at 10:29:41 AM CEST
Thousands head for computer 'Gathering'
More than 5,000 computer enthusiasts streamed into the Norwegian town of Hamar on Wednesday, ready to spend the next five days surfing and nerding about. "The Gathering 2003" claims to be the largest such festival in the world.
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Topic: SPORT - on April 17, 2003 at 10:24:24 AM CEST
Milking cows could help Schumacher
World Champion Michael Schumacher could better his performance on the track by getting his wife pregnant, taping a picture of his family to his steering wheel or milking cows to improve his finger work. Those were among the top 25 tips from among several thousand suggestions sent to German newspaper Bild by worried fans eager to help Schumacher overcome a nightmare start to the Formula One season with just eight points from three races.
"Schumi should give Ronaldo a call and get him to explain how 'passive sex' before football matches helps," wrote Bild reader Hubert Hink. "That should help."
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 17, 2003 at 10:19:25 AM CEST
Coca-Cola, Swedish Family Fight Over Name
Swedish law prohibits registration of trademarks that use someone else's family name. But the Court of Patent Appeals ruled in favor of Coca-Cola last month, saying the English word "urge" was more commonly known than the family name, which is pronounced "OOR-geh."
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Topic: SCIENCE - on April 17, 2003 at 10:11:35 AM CEST
Gamma-ray burst mystery solved
Scientists may have solved one of astronomy's major puzzles - the origin of powerful gamma-ray bursts.
For a few seconds a gamma-ray burst can pour out more radiation than anything else in the Cosmos.
About once a day a flash of high energy radiation coming from deep space and lasting only a few seconds is detected by satellite observatories orbiting the Earth. The enormous power of the energy bursts has long mystified astronomers.
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Topic: - on April 17, 2003 at 9:51:23 AM CEST
Golden feces wipes smile
Some may pooh-pooh the claim, but with over 2 million sold, golden turds are the latest hit consumer product to raise a stink in fad fetish Japan, according to Shukan Asahi. Ryukodo, a Kyoto-based decoration manufacturer, has trouble pushing out enough of its golden turds to keep up with demand.
The blistering pace at which they've sold since hitting souvenir stores and clothing outlets across Japan since June 2000 seems to vindicate the old adage that nothing is as grossly overrated as awful sex and nothing as underrated as laying a decent log.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 17, 2003 at 1:38:05 AM CEST
60 Jahre LSD
Ein "intensives, kaleidoskopartiges Farbenspiel": So beschreibt Albert Hofmann seinen ersten LSD-Trip. Der Schweizer Chemiker entdeckte die Droge vor genau 60 Jahren zufällig in seinem Labor. Seit damals wollten sich unzählige Künstler, Musiker und Literaten von den psychedelischen (aber seit 1970 weltweit verbotenen) Halluzinationen inspirieren lassen. Mediziner debattieren noch immer über die therapeutische Wirkung der Substanz. Cary Grant empfahl hingegen nach einem Selbstversuch, dass alle Politiker LSD nehmen sollten.
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