Topic: BOARD NEWS - on January 18, 2004 at 11:57:00 PM CET
Tokyo gov't to consider ban on panty trade
The Tokyo metropolitan assembly will deliberate a ban on trade in girls' underwear by sex shops as well as other proposals on juvenile issues drafted by a government advisory panel, officials said Sunday.
The panel will present the proposals on Monday, and legislators are expected to deliberate major revisions to a Tokyo law on the upbringing of youth in a legislative session to convene in February.
Some of the proposals could be the first of their kind to be included in an ordinance by a local government in Japan.
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Topic: MUSIK - on January 18, 2004 at 10:28:00 PM CET
The Wau-Wau Sisters
have been wooing audiences all over New York and across the land since this sibling duo took the stage together three years ago.Their singular and saucy combination of aerial and circus skills, original songwriting - from country to rock to rap - audacious costuming, "home cooking" and hilarious use and misuse of props, propriety, cocktails and cliche make for a night of careening surprises and titillating fun. Big on talent, tricks and tan lines, they can mix martinis in a handstand, while smoking Pall Malls and thinking impure thoughts! They'll fill your hearts and your bellies, and then some! Always on the run and dogged by a trail of incriminating Polaroids, they take solace in their imagined celebrity, arriving in their hot-pink Buick, matching disguises, and gin-soaked smiles, claiming to feats unmatched and unimaginable acts at every turn. There's no trick these sisters can't turn for the right price!
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Topic: FUN - on January 18, 2004 at 6:55:00 PM CET
Own a piece of 21st Century history…
saddamsand.com offers you the opportunity to own a piece of Iraqi and international history. We travelled to al-Dawr village, some 180 kilometers to the North of Baghdad, to the tiny farmhouse owned by a farmer called Jasem al-Namash. The underground chamber the former Iraqi leader had secreted himself in was 1.8 meters by 2.4 meters deep, with enough space for a person to lie down, and an air vent and extractor fan.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on January 18, 2004 at 6:27:00 PM CET
Ein Ort für alle Fälle
Öffentliche Bedürfnisanstalten, unentbehrliche Requisiten einer Großstadt, im Test.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on January 18, 2004 at 6:24:00 PM CET
"Spülen nicht vergessen": Deutschland von hintern
Platz für Kunst ist in der kleinsten Hütte: Eine Diplomarbeit im Studiengang Kommunikationsdesign an der Fachhochschule Düsseldorf spielt in Toilettenkabinen und wurde dafür vom "Art Director's Club Deutschland" ausgezeichnet.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on January 18, 2004 at 6:23:00 PM CET
Forscher entdecken Löwenmumie im Grab der Maia
Im Grab der Amme von Pharao Tutanchamun gelang Archäologen ein überraschender Fund. Die Forscher fanden in den Katakomben das über 2000 Jahre alte, unversehrte Skelett eines mumifizierten Löwen.
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Topic: BLOGLIFE - on January 18, 2004 at 6:22:00 PM CET
Seismograph der deutschen Blogger-Szene
Ein neuer Dienst listet die beliebtesten Blogs und Weblog-Beiträge der letzten 24 Stunden.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on January 18, 2004 at 6:15:00 PM CET
Opfer des Wandels
Mit edel gestylten TV-Geräten trafen Loewe und Bang & Olufsen jahrelang den Geschmack zahlungskräftiger Kunden. Nun stürzt der Trend zum Flachbildschirm die Spezialisten in die Krise.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 18, 2004 at 2:26:00 PM CET
Kampfanzug in der Provinz oder Grüzi in Davos
Besondere Ereignisse müssen besonders gewürdigt werden: Die Metropole des Oberaargaus bekam heute gleich doppelten Besuch,Zum einen wurden Demonstranten erwartet, die gegen das Kapitalistenfest im Mammondorf Davos protestieren wollten. Zum anderen fuhren Polizeigrenadiere in voller Kampfmonitur ein und bewachten die beiden Grossbanken Credit Suisse und UBS - es wäre ja möglich gewesen, dass da unter den Demonstranten auch Bankräuber gewesen wären.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on January 18, 2004 at 1:06:00 PM CET
German Toilets
Whenever folks who have lived or traveled in Germany gather for a beer, sooner or later one subject is sure to rear its ugly head: what is the deal with those toilets?
German toilets are quite extraordinary. Other European toilets - well, the ones that aren't merely holes in the floor - work much like their North American cousins. They are shaped a little differently, but the basic principle is the same: the excrement either lands directly in the water or it slides down a steep slope into the water, before being flushed away. Simple, effective and clean. See?
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Topic: VIDEO - on January 18, 2004 at 1:00:00 PM CET
InterVideo Debuts "Instant On" PC
InterVideo Inc. hopes to bring its "Instant On" PC to U.S. shores this year, company executives said Friday. Equipped with InterVideo's technology, an Instant On PC can be booted in about ten seconds, far faster than a Windows-based computer.
InterVideo's InstantON technology allows a Windows PC to be transformed into an optimized media player that works with InterVideo's own software. The software, however, will be provided to OEMs and not sold at retail, InterVideo executives said.
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Topic: MUSIK - on January 18, 2004 at 12:58:00 PM CET
Canada cool with happy penis song
A song lauding the joys of an "enormous penis" is not obscene because the object of the lyric's affection isn't necessarily sexual, a Canadian regulator has ruled.
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council was reacting to a complaint from a Calgary radio listener to a joke song that declared: "I've got the cure for all of my blues/I take a look at my enormous penis/And my troubles start a-meltin' away."
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