Topic: SCIENCE - on February 14, 2004 at 11:55:00 PM CET
Ein Manuskript, das niemand lesen kann
1912 ist das "Voynich-Manuskript" wie aus dem Nichts aufgetaucht und hat seither Historiker und Code-Spezialisten ebenso fasziniert wie Rätselfans und Verschwörungstheoretiker. Doch nun scheint das Geheimnis des Buches, das seit über 400 Jahren niemand lesen kann, entschlüsselt. Die Lösung führt zurück in das Prag von Kaiser Rudolf II.: Der britische Computerspezialist Gordon Rugg will beweisen können, dass der schwermütige Habsburger Opfer eines Betruges wurde - und auch den Betrüger glaubt Rugg zu kennen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 14, 2004 at 2:44:00 AM CET
Pre Rendered Tree Map Views of All Usenet and Microsoft.public
This view demonstrates the hierarchical relationships of Newsgroups in the Usenet. The relative sizes of the boxes are based on the number of Posts per Newsgroup for a month. Variations in color indicate the change in the number of Posts for this month compared to last month. Green means that the number of Posts in that Newsgroup increased; red means that the number of Posts decreased. The higher the intensity, the larger the change in Posts.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on February 14, 2004 at 2:37:00 AM CET
Scientists clone 30 human embryos
South Korean scientists have cloned 30 human embryos to obtain cells they hope could one day be used to treat disease.
Seoul National University's Woo Suk Hwang, and colleagues, took the genetic material from normal cells in women donors and combined it with their eggs.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 14, 2004 at 2:35:00 AM CET
What is Pornzilla?
The goal of the Pornzilla project is to make Mozilla into a great porn browser. We contribute to Mozilla directly, promote bookmarklets and extensions that enhance porn surfing, and maintain a list of bugs that impact porn surfing. Pornzilla is not an official mozilla.org project.
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Topic: MUSIK - on February 14, 2004 at 2:33:00 AM CET
Michael Jackson Faces Cash Crisis
Michael Jackson is near insolvency as he continues to pile up debt, sapping his last credit reserves, several close financial advisers say.
Mr. Jackson faces an immediate cash crisis with a $70 million loan from the Bank of America that is due on Tuesday and has no money to repay it, the advisers said. But Al Malnik, a Miami entrepreneur who is helping repair Mr. Jackson's finances, said that he was trying to have the loan extended.
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Topic: BLOG - on February 14, 2004 at 2:16:00 AM CET
Disney Enterprise Weblogs and Wikis
Mike Pusateri, Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman at Disney shares their enterprise blogging initative. Its very similar to the experience we have had with Socialtext, without the integration of blog and wiki with enterprise requirements in mind. The focus on blogging for project communication instead of just individual expression is spot on.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 14, 2004 at 1:47:00 AM CET
Maths secrets of M&Ms revealed
M&M sweets pack together more densely than perfect spheres when randomly jumbled in a container, scientists say.
Same-sized spheres were previously thought to have the highest "packing fraction" - the relative density of objects when shoved in a container.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on February 14, 2004 at 1:36:00 AM CET
MONTY PYTHON - OPEN AUDITIONS
Can you "silly walk" as well as John Cleese? Nudge-nudge, wink-wink better than Eric Idle? Or, do you just freakishly resemble one of the six members of MONTY PYTHON, the most brilliant and influential comedy group of all time?
If so, then we want to meet you. We are looking for the perfect six people to portray the young members of Monty Python (age range: 18-35) in GIN AND TONIC - a theatrical film bio of the late Graham Chapman, founding member of Monty Python - set to begin shooting in London later this year.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 14, 2004 at 1:32:00 AM CET
The Underwater Mouse Project
has one simple goal. We plan to build a habitat strong enough to withstand the pressures associated with being completely submerged in water, while luxurious enough to accomodate two mice for extended periods of time in total isolation. Current Death Toll: 11 mice
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