Sunday, 9. November 2003

the end of the world as told in Flash


ending the world with style, yo ho! ....

¬> endofworld

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Feedster Cache Now Supports RSS Output
or "Friday Night Hacking Fun"


What it Is: A Way to Retrieve Post Content Via RSS

The Feedster Cache has been tremendously useful to people already but what it hasn't done is provide output via RSS. Now if you know a post's url then you can retrieve its content as a single item RSS feed. Here's the url syntax:

"feedster.com"

¬> feedster

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Pram turns up $39,000, baby and hashish


German police have arrested a suspected drug dealer after he was caught pushing a pram stuffed with 34,000 euros (23,400 pounds), a one-year-old baby and keys to a car containing 42 kg (92 lb) of hashish, authorities say.

¬> Reuters

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Plugging the RSS Usability Hole


When I see an orange button, I wonder what it does. I push it. A bunch of garbage text fills my screen, so I assume the button is broken. I don’t push the useless button again, and resent it being there.

xml version of this page

¬> Dave Shea

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A Tribute to Muhammad Ali


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¬> amazon

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Top Gun
Smith & Wesson introduces new .500 Magnum


The S&W X-frame Model 500 is a brawny handgun designed to master the most rigorous hunting fields in the world. It is not a revolver one would, or likely could, tuck into a waistband. In fact, to call it massive is an understatement.

With its 8-3/8-in. barrel, the overall length of the Model 500 is 15 in. and the empty weight is 4.5 pounds. The cylinder alone is almost 2 in. in diameter and approaches 2.25 in. in length. Thumb the cylinder open and five charge holes await. Each is 1/2 in. in diameter, and the .50-cal. cartridges they hold are almost 2 in. long.

¬> popularmechanics

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Swiss bra supports smokers who quit


A Swiss-based underwear maker has developed a high-tech bra which it claims will help women quit smoking thanks to perfumed capsules which give cigarettes an unpleasant taste and soothe withdrawal symptoms.

¬> afp

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School's in next summer as Aussie university offers surfing diploma


Surfing, considered by most Australians a pastime and privilege, was elevated to university status after a campus based on the Gold Coast's surfing strip offered a diploma course in the sport. Southern Cross University (SCU) is offering the diploma in Sports Management (Surfing Studies) at its Tweed Gold Coast campus, just metres from some of the best breaks in Australia and minutes down the highway from tourist hot spot Surfers Paradise.

¬> afp

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Videospiele im Büro fördern Produktivität


Viele Unternehmen sehen Spiele wie Solitär oder Minesweeper als reine Zeit- und Ressourcenverschwendung an und verbannen die mit Windows gelieferten Games von den Rechnern. Eine neue Studie hat nun jedoch herausgefunden, dass das Spielen einfacher Computerspiele am Arbeitsplatz nicht nur die Zufriedenheit unter den Mitarbeitern, sondern auch die Produktivität erhöht.

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Spanien will "Präventivschläge" auch im Innern


Ziel solcher "Präventivschläge" dürfte die ETA sein.

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Handy-Explosion verletzt Finnin


ine 24-jährige Frau aus Finnland ist durch ein explodierendes Handy so schwer verletzt worden , dass sie in ein Krankenhaus eingeliefert werden musste.

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1,1 Kilogramm Suchtgift in Wien sicher gestellt


Die Polizei am Flughafen Wien-Schwechat hat bei einer Routinekontrolle vor zwei Wochen im Gepäck einer Passagierin 1,1 Kilogramm Suchtgift gefunden. Zwei Personen wurden festgenommen.

¬> <a href="oesterreich.orf.at"target="_blank"> zur Geschichte

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