Thursday, 22. January 2004

NASA Is Not Altering Mars Colors


This article is a brief summarised explanation of how the PanCam on the Mars Spirit Rover operates, in relation to the strange appearance of the calibration sundial in some pictures. The question was first raised by ATS member AArchAngel, and has been discussed at length in this AboveTopSecret forum thread and ATSNN story:

¬> atsnn.com

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Google News Alerts (BETA) German deutsch


Willkommen bei Google News Alerts Google News Alerts werden per E-Mail gesendet, sobald Artikel online erscheinen, die mit den angegebenen Themen übereinstimmen.

¬> google.de/newsalerts

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Shit iam not young
Cheeky Chops


Jamie Oliver had long been thinking about helping unemployed young people by offering them a leg-up into the world of catering. 'Having not been the brightest banana in the bunch myself, I realised that my biggest weapon in life was the determination, enthusiasm, hands-on and "actions speak louder than words" approach my father taught me, and I wanted to get this across to others, especially those interested in food.' Jamie's ideas got whittled down to one main one: 'to train a team of unemployed kids with an interest and passion for food and to open a new first-class restaurant in London to be run by them.' And so, the charity Cheeky Chops was born.

¬> jamie oliver

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Zurich Sit-Down Protesters Seek to Disrupt Forum


Some 200 people staged a sit-down protest at Zurich airport Wednesday, trying to hamper access to this week's World Economic Forum in Davos and to disrupt what they see as a meeting of "fat cats."

¬> reuters

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Blogs Live from Davos
inner circle


¬> joi.ito.com
¬> blogs.law.harvard.edu
¬> Whiskey Bar
¬> Ethan Zuckerman
¬> u-blog.net

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Telefonieren über den Schädelknochen


Alternative Handyhaltungen sind im Kommen. Das "TS41" überträgt Töne über Schädelknochen. Das Handy wird an Stirn- oder Wangenknochen gehalten. "FingerWhisper" lässt User mit Finger im Ohr telefonieren. Handyimplantat im Zahn.

¬> <a href="futurezone.orf.at"target="_blank"> ORF

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Family fears for famous scientist Stephen Hawking


THE world's greatest living scientist, Stephen Hawking, was in hospital yesterday under round-the-clock surveillance.

His family fear he is being earmarked by a deranged attacker who might try to sabotage the equipment and medicines that are keeping him alive.

¬> heraldsun.news.com.au

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A look at secret new Apple computer


(Note: First published in the Mercury News in January, 1984)

After two years of secrecy, brainstorming and sometimes zany company maneuvering, Apple Computer Inc. will unveil a new personal computer Jan. 24 that is the size of a stack of paper and, for about the same price, contains more power than the basic IBM PC.

¬> mercurynews.com

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Microsoft: We took MikeRoweSoft too seriously


Microsoft says it may have been overaggressive in threatening Web entrepreneur Mike Rowe over the name of his Web site, Mikerowesoft.com.

Rowe, a 17-year-old student from Vancouver, British Columbia, registered Mikerowesoft.com to front his part-time Web site design business in August 2003. Three months later, he received an e-mail from Microsoft's lawyers, asking him to transfer the domain name to Microsoft. They offered to pay him a "settlement" of $10, which is the cost of his original registration fee.

¬> zdnet.com

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