Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 3:49:35 PM CET
Top 10: Things You Never Want Her To Say
There are certain things a man never wants to hear from his lady. "Let's go shopping" is one of them, as those words usually herald a whole afternoon wasted near the women's fitting rooms. "You're acting like your father" is another, much harsher statement. Even worse, "You're acting like my father"; that one just hurts.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 3:46:43 PM CET
Fish drags angler to death
A fisherman was dragged to his death in the Thames by a powerful fish pulling on his line, an inquest has heard.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on December 8, 2003 at 3:43:46 PM CET
Sharman Networks zwingt Kazaa Lite in die Knie
Seit dem Wochenende ist auf der Homepage des werbefrei gepatchten P2P-Clients Kazaa Lite (K++) keine Spur mehr von der Applikation zu finden. Nach Angaben des P2P-Newsportals PeerGuardian hat Sharman Networks, Anbieter des offiziellen FastTrack-Clients Kazaa, die Kazaa-Lite-Entwickler dazu gezwungen.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on December 8, 2003 at 3:40:45 PM CET
Kazaa shuts down Kazaa Lite
This weekend users of Kazaa Lite K++ learned that almost every download site of the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing application had disappeared, including the links on its own home page.
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Topic: - on December 8, 2003 at 1:55:59 PM CET
Buy the shirt, then Fix The System
I was preparing for an international trip, and I thought, "what can I do tell as many people as possible in other countries that many Americans vehemently disagree with the policies of our own government?" So I made this shirt, and various wonderful people translated it into all of the official UN languages, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, and Russian. Buy one for your own international travels.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 1:38:40 PM CET
Braille movie system developed for visually impaired
The system, the first of its kind in the world, was produced by Osaka manufacturer Askk Co., with assistance from film producer Planning 21, and is due to be unveiled this month.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on December 8, 2003 at 1:31:16 PM CET
Cool Weather May Be Stradivarius' Secret
The secret of a Stradivarius violin's heavenly sound may actually have celestial origins. Now a tree-ring dating expert at the University of Tennessee and a climatologist at Columbia University offer a new theory — the wood developed special acoustic properties as it was growing because of an extended period of long winters and cool summers
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 1:21:53 PM CET
Burning Man 2003
Seventeen years old and going strong, the Burning Man festival attracts upwards of 30,000 free spirits to the remote Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, where they assembled for this year's mass meditation, art festival and fiery bacchanal. Chronicle photographer Frederic Larson took it all in through his lens.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 1:19:10 PM CET
Transvestite potter wins Turner
Pottery artist Grayson Perry, who creates vases depicting subjects like death and child abuse, has won this year's Turner Prize.
Perry accepted the award in a dress, as his female alter-ego Claire, thanked his wife and said he was "stunned".
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Topic: SEX - on December 8, 2003 at 2:54:18 AM CET
Penis- statt Blumendekor
Der heiß umstrittene Turner-Preis sorgt auch dieses Jahr wieder für Aufregung. Der mit 30.000 Euro dotierte wichtigste europäische Kunstpreis wurde am Sonntagabend an den als "Transvestit der Kunstszene" bekannten Grayson Perry vergeben.
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