Topic: AUSTRIA - on November 30, 2003 at 9:09:30 PM CET
No Kangaroos in Austria
Original Email sent to various Hotels in Austria : Dear Sir,
I've been a huge fan of the Crocodile Dundee movies since I was a little kid. I have already booked my flight to Austria. I plan to arrive in a town called Vienna in December. Do you have any vacancies for the first week of December? I plan to see kangaroos, Koalas and the Sydney Opera House. Are the Austrian Aborigines a friendly people? Do you know if the Red Kangaroo is extinct in Austria or not?
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Topic: NEWS - on November 30, 2003 at 6:16:21 PM CET
Miss World 2003 - Contestants
As each contestant qualifies for Miss World 2003 by winning their own country heat, we will bring you the most up-to-date information and photographs.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 30, 2003 at 5:22:46 PM CET
Fotofinish und Skandale bei der Schachcomputer-Weltmeisterschaft
In Graz endete heute die im Rahmen der Computerspiel-Olympiade ausgetragene Schachweltmeisterschaft der Computer. Das Programm Shredder, das auch die schwedische Computerschach-Rangliste mit deutlichem Vorsprung anführt, schlug im Stichkampf das durch die Matches gegen Kramnik und Kasparow bekannte Programm Fritz mit 1,5 zu 0,5.
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Topic: ART - on November 30, 2003 at 4:26:21 PM CET
Enter this place/Discredit yourself/To lie in a new reality
US-Patent für Gedicht-Software
Unter dem Namen "Poet Personalities" hat eine dichtende Software des amerikanischen KI-Propheten Ray Kurzweil jetzt das Patent Nr. 6 647 395 erhalten. Es handelt sich um ein Programm, das durch Analyse von Gedichten eines menschlichen Poeten dessen Stil lernt und anschließend ähnlich lautende Texte erzeugt.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 30, 2003 at 4:15:33 PM CET
Parody Google Blog
It's a blog. Read from the bottom stupid. Er...we mean loyal Google searcher. I've wanted to do a blog for ages but Sergey couldn't manage to set up MovableType. Apparently it's "Just too difficult".
Anyway, the other day he suggested that it would be a thousand times easier to just buy Blogger.com.
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Topic: - on November 30, 2003 at 4:01:12 PM CET
Solar-powered air odyssey planned
PICCARD, WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED the earth in 1999 with Brian Jones of Britain, will lead a team of scientists and aviators in his attempt to fly around the world in a fuel-free plane — to be called Solar Impulse. “A century after the Wright brothers’ first flight, we look forward to adding new pages to solar aviation,” said Piccard, 54. “It is a colossal challenge.”
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 30, 2003 at 3:32:52 PM CET
Montreal 'bring your own pot' cafe opens
Montreal police were expected to keep a close watch on Saturday's opening of a new marijuana cafe in the city. That won't be difficult, because there's a police station just down the road. Owners of Chez Marijane will allow patrons to smoke pot on the premises, but they won't be selling the drug.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on November 30, 2003 at 3:23:17 PM CET
Scientists create 'perfect' toast
Food scientists at the UK's University of Leeds have developed a formula for making the perfect piece of toast. The equation - which details butter and toast temperature - took three months and cost £10,000 to develop.
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Topic: NEWS english - on November 30, 2003 at 3:18:25 PM CET
Radio burns cash, snubs charity and boob job
A radio station is under investigation after it burned 5,000 pounds rather than give it to charity -- or to a listener for her breast enlargement operation.
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Topic: NEWS english - on November 30, 2003 at 3:09:00 PM CET
Monday is World AIDS Day
If it's the only thing you do for World AIDS Day, wear the Red Ribbon on 1st December. It's the international symbol of HIV and AIDS awareness. By wearing it, you're showing your support for over 42 million people across the world who are living with a disease for which there's still no cure.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 30, 2003 at 2:56:34 PM CET
The story of an IT legend
he scene is Santa Clara Valley, California, in 1976. Two Steves are busy at work in the garage. Their goal: the world's first personal computer.
Long before IBM, Intel, and Microsoft laid the fundament for the first "Wintel" PCs, the ambitious Steven (Paul Jobs, 21) and the tinkerer Steve (Wozniak, 26) turned their vision of a computer for the rest of us into reality.
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Topic: GINGER - on November 30, 2003 at 2:53:36 PM CET
Comin' In on a Wheel and a Prayer
Bombardier, maker of planes, trains and water mobiles, forged a new way to battle wet and heavy terrain when it introduced the first snowmobile in 1942. Sixty-one years later, the transport manufacturer is again out to re-invent personal travel, this time on dry ground and congested city streets -- and on one wheel.
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