Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 26, 2003 at 11:14:12 AM CET
The butler and the secret that could bring down the royals
Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, is poised to become one of the bestselling authors of all time. It emerged last night that his US publishers have ordered an unprecedented initial print run of one million copies for the hardback edition of his book.
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Topic: 911 - on October 26, 2003 at 10:27:20 AM CET
Al Qaeda Training Manual Complete
In the year since the September 11 attacks, few more chilling documents have emerged than "Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants," a how-to terrorism manual that investigators believe has been used by followers of Osama bin Laden.
The 180-page volume, seized from the Manchester, England home of a bin Laden disciple, offers jihad members guidance on subjects such as assassination, forging documents, and preparing poisons in its 18 chapters.
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Topic: Terror - on October 26, 2003 at 10:23:16 AM CET
THE STOVEPIPE
Since midsummer, the Senate Intelligence Committee has been attempting to solve the biggest mystery of the Iraq war: the disparity between the Bush Administration’s prewar assessment of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and what has actually been discovered.
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Topic: SECURITY - on October 26, 2003 at 3:32:51 AM CET
Watching you
In our high-tech world, machines track personal records, see through walls, and screen facial features. Will electronic surveillance mean better security, or an end to privacy?
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Topic: Terror - on October 26, 2003 at 1:52:00 AM CEST
North Korea's Gulags
Even babies aren't spared from Pyongyang's regime of torture and murder.
The latest hallucination of geopolitics has it that if only we can make North Korea's Great Leader Kim Jong Il feel safe from the fate of Saddam Hussein, maybe he'll stop testing missiles and making nuclear bombs. So the experts--whose ranks have now swelled to include, alas, even President George W. Bush--have been scrambling for ways to make Kim feel more secure.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on October 26, 2003 at 1:19:01 AM CEST
2003 All Breed Best In Show & Reserve In Show
Won by Betty Chu's English Angora Rabbits
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Topic: TV - on October 26, 2003 at 12:48:19 AM CEST
Big Screens Open Windows on World
An Austrian firm is developing a giant video-conferencing system that will be deployed in public spaces in London and Vienna next year, allowing people in the two cities to meet and talk eye-to-eye.
Standing in front of the 10-foot-high, cylindrical TV screen is like looking directly into the heart of a foreign city, its inventors say.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on October 26, 2003 at 12:43:13 AM CEST
Not coming to a theater near you:
Open-source film
Nothing So Strange is an open-source film. While the filmmakers' final cut of the movie is protected by an "all rights reserved" copyright, the raw footage that makes up the film is not.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 26, 2003 at 12:38:05 AM CEST
Leader of the Free World
How Linus Torvalds became benevolent dictator of Planet Linux, the biggest collaborative project in history. Linus Torvalds wants me to believe he's too boring for this story. The creator of the Linux operating system portrays himself as a mild-mannered soul leading a humdrum life, just another guy lucky enough to own a McMansion in the hills above San Jose courtesy of the money-mad late '90s. Before agreeing to meet me, Torvalds sent an email imagining that I'd be overwhelmed by the tedium of hanging around with the likes of him.
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Topic: MUSIK - on October 26, 2003 at 12:29:07 AM CEST
8-Bit Punk
Malcolm McLaren, the subculture hacker who created the Sex Pistols, discovers the new underground sound. It's called chip music. Can you play lead Game Boy?
We live in a karaoke culture. The Japanese word means "empty orchestra" - a lifeless musical form unencumbered by creativity and free of responsibility. Simple, clean fun for the millennial nuclear family. You can't fail in a karaoke world. It's life by proxy, liberated by hindsight.
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Topic: NASA - on October 26, 2003 at 12:23:53 AM CEST
The earth had two moons for awhile this year
The motion of J002E3, showing how the object was captured into its chaotic orbit around the Earth by passing near the L1 point, looping around the Earth for 6 orbits, and then leaving Earth's orbit. The Sun is to the left in these animations. Animations created by Paul Chodas and Ron Baalke.
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Topic: LOST - on October 26, 2003 at 12:19:41 AM CEST
£3bn Iraq rebuilding cash 'goes missing'
A NEW Iraq scandal erupted today as a report claimed billions of dollars earmarked for rebuilding the country have vanished after being handed to the United States-controlled governing body in Baghdad.
At least $5 billion (£3bn) has been passed to the ruling Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), a leading UK aid agency has calculated.
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