Friday, 21. May 2004

Web Site for Things You Can't Find on Google


A man named Wayne Radinsky has put up a web site where people post items they haven't been able to find on Google. People can comment if they know where to find search results for the queries.

Nonserious posts which have nothing to do with the site will get deleted by the site's moderators. You can find the list of queries at www.cantfindongoogle.com

¬> cantfindongoogle.com

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Madonna at her most shocking


MADONNA is planning her most shocking stage performance yet – by being ”executed” live on stage.

Backstage insiders have lifted the lid on the Queen of Pop’s explicit new Re-Invention tour, which hits the UK this summer.

¬> thesun.co.uk

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Madonna lässt sich auf elektrischem Stuhl hinrichten


Provokant, freizügig, lasziv, so kennen wir die Großmutter des Pop-Business. Doch mit ihrer neuen Bühnenshow sprengt Madonna (45) endgültig die Grenzen des guten Geschmacks. Die englische Zeitung „Sun“ berichtet heute: Die neue Tournee (startet Montag in Kalifornien) wird schockierend.

¬> bild.t-online.de

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Google, Microsoft take battle to the desktop


Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are staking claims on each other's core markets.

But even as Google aims for the desktop and Microsoft turns to Web search, industry experts question just how heated the clash between the No. 1 Web search company and the world's largest software maker will get.

¬> forbes.com

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Middle school principal on leave after arrest on pot, alcohol charge


Kathy White, the highly-regarded principal of Eliot Middle School, faces charges of drunken driving and possession of marijuana after a concerned motorist tracked her meandering passage from Interstate 95 through Clinton.

Police said a glass half full of wine was found in the cup holder in her car, and a bag containing marijuana and half-smoked marijuana cigarettes was in plain view on the front seat when she was stopped Sunday night.

¬> zwire.com

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Al-Qaeda targeted Olympics, Jews: court


Al-Qaeda planned an attack during the Sydney Olympics and to target the Jewish community, according to notes revealed during the trial of an Australian man accused of plotting to bomb the Israeli embassy in Canberra.

A notebook seized from Jack Roche's Perth home in 2002 describes in Indonesian how al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Malaysia planned the attacks. The Melbourne Jewish leader, businessman and football identity Joseph Gutnick was identified as an important target.

¬> smh.com.au

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Yet more photos of US brutality published


The video begins with three soldiers huddled around a naked detainee, his thin frame backed against a wall. With a snap of his wrist, one of the soldiers slaps the man across his left cheek so hard that the prisoner's knees buckle. Another detainee, handcuffed and on his back, is dragged across the prison floor.

¬> guardian ¬> antiwar.com¬> washingtonpost.com

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A proposal to help fight deceptive Internet software


At Google, we put a lot of thought into improving your online experience. We're alarmed by what we believe is a growing disregard for your rights as computer users. We've seen increasing reports of spyware and other applications that trick you in order to serve you pop-up ads, connect your modem to expensive toll numbers or hijack your browser from the site you're trying to visit.

¬> google

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US airport fake ID study 'was found in al-Qaida cave'


The US House Aviation Subcommittee yesterday heard how congressional investigators used false IDs to gain access to a series of federal buildings and two commercial airports, and how a copy of the report detailing their success was later found in an al-Qaida cave in Afghanistan. The investigators were 100 per cent successful in getting past security, but apparently less so in the case of their own report's security.

¬> theregister.co.uk

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Man Files Police Complaint Against Elephant


The father of a 10-year-old boy filed a police complaint after a circus elephant trampled his child's bicycle, a police spokesman said.

¬> sfgate.com ¬> newsday.com

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