Topic: BLOGLIFE - on January 6, 2004 at 12:38:00 PM CET
Scamming Technorati
Here's the deal. Since time began and before I ever heard of Technorati, I've been putting links to Roller developers Lance Lavandowska, Matt Raible, and myself in the page templates that ship with Roller. Some folks remove those links, but most don't and so now most every new Roller-based blog boosts our standings on Technorati. As JRoller grew to thousands of users, folks started to notice this. A couple of weeks ago, everybody was amazed to see my modest little weblog hovering around #80.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 6, 2004 at 12:07:00 PM CET
Burning Man, the Simulation
Every year, in the week leading up to Labor Day, 30,000 artists, musicians, clowns, Santas and other counterculturalists converge on Nevada's Black Rock Desert for the annual Burning Man festival.
To many of the people who attend the bacchanalia -- which takes place in the makeshift Black Rock City, replete with roads and complex infrastructure, full-scale pirate ships, 100-foot dragons, roving bunny slippers, 25-foot tall chandeliers fallen from the sky and people in costumery of all kinds -- there is no place like it on Earth. To the denizens of Black Rock City, this place, lovingly referred to as "the playa," is home.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 6, 2004 at 11:27:00 AM CET
iTunes DRM cracked wide open for GNU/Linux. Seriously.
Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen, who broke the DVD encryption scheme, has opened iTunes locked music a tad further, by allowing people to play songs they've purchased on iTunes Music Store on their GNU/Linux computers.
"We're about to find out what Apple really thinks about Fair Use," Johansen told The Register via email.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2004 at 3:25:00 AM CET
was soll ich sagen ?
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 6, 2004 at 3:21:00 AM CET
the luminous toilet seat
The transparent toilet seat GALACTIKA is equipped with tiny ultra bright Chip-LED in 5 cols.: pole-white, sundance-yellow, scarlet-red, amparo-blue and emerald-green. The energy is supplied by 4 pcs. AA 1,5V batteries, that you find in an inconspicuous batterycase taped with a velcro at the backside of the closet or at the wall under the cistern. The real clou of the luminous toilet seat is the very tricky elektronic processor. When opening the cover the LED light will be dimmed on slowly and kindle their full power after 5 seconds.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 6, 2004 at 2:31:00 AM CET
Mozbot news
Mozbot 2.4 is out! Things to look for since the last release:
- The KookBot module ("Think about the tyranny, malignant and unjust, and how it compares with truthful rational approach.").
- An XML Logging Module (see the sample output).
- A Conversion module (for converting hex to decimal, Fahrenheit to Centigrade, and so on).
- A Magic Eight Ball module.
- Mozbot now checks to see if it really joined a channel instead of blindly assuming it has.
- Added friendliness in the Infobot and Greeting modules.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2004 at 2:20:00 AM CET
Französische Steinzeithöhle als Schnäppchen
Touristenattraktion mit 17.000 bis 24.000 Jahre alten Wandmalereien um eine Million Euro zu verkaufen
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Topic: - on January 6, 2004 at 1:24:00 AM CET
Lock-Bücher
Weblogs sind online Tagebücher. Aber auch Politik und Wirtschaft entdecken das neue Medium.
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Topic: ROBOT - on January 6, 2004 at 1:16:00 AM CET
Wir sind die Roboter
Roboter waren bis vor kurzem nicht mehr so recht hip, weder bei den Entwicklungsabteilungen der Elektronik- noch denen der Kulturindustrie. Die ungelenken Blechdeppen hatten definitiv Staub angesammelt, man gestand ihnen allenfalls den Retrocharme eines uneingelösten Versprechens aus den Vierzigern und Fünfzigern des letzten Jahrhunderts zu. Seitdem die ersten halbwegs ernsthaften robotischen Produkte für den Massenmarkt erschienen sind, ändert sich das nachhaltig. Was die Roboter angeht, ist das "öffentliche Unbewusste" bei einer Durchdringung der realen Jetztzeit und der imaginären Baldzeit angekommen, die Schwindel erzeugen kann.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on January 6, 2004 at 1:15:00 AM CET
Norwegerin vergewaltigt schlafenden Mann
Man stutzt - und liest die Meldung ein zweites Mal. Schließlich wird nicht allzu oft ein Mann von einer Frau vergewaltigt. Doch eine Norwegerin wurde jetzt verhaftet, weil sie "sexuelle Handlungen" an einem schlafenden Mann vornahm.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2004 at 12:41:00 AM CET
All set to make a splash
This is the RINSPEED SPLASH, a car the Swiss company claims can drive, swim and FLY across the water.
The concept motor is set to be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show 2004 in March and certainly looks like something out of Q’s lab from the spy films.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on January 6, 2004 at 12:36:00 AM CET
Woman Charged With Stealing 50 Glass Eyes
Police charged a woman Friday with stealing 50 antique glass eyes from a hospital display case on Christmas Eve.
Melissa Jane Wink, 36, of Owensboro, was charged with theft by unlawful taking over $300.
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