Topic: STRANGE - on May 29, 2004 at 11:53:00 PM CEST
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 29, 2004 at 11:39:00 PM CEST
Nachdem die Federal Communications Comission der USA beschlossen hat unter anderem den Gebrauch des Wortes 'Fuck' in Sendungen zu verbieten, hat Eric Idle von Monty Python eine Antwort musikalischer Natur verfasst: The FCC Song (MP3, 3.1MB).
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 29, 2004 at 12:23:00 PM CEST
Coffee Prices Have Biggest Weekly Gain Since 1999 on Brazil Supply Concern
Coffee futures in New York soared 18 percent this week, the biggest gain in more than four years, as speculators increased purchases at the beginning of winter in Brazil, the world's largest grower.
Hedge-fund purchases increased amid forecasts for colder weather to reach southern growing areas of Brazil. Forecaster Meteorlogix LLC said temperatures will start to warm next week. Coffee futures have climbed 41 percent in the past year as Brazil's output fell following a record crop last year.
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Topic: W A R - on May 29, 2004 at 12:03:00 PM CEST
AP, Reuters, can't bring themselves to say "10,000" dead Iraqis
Pedestrians walk among some of the over 100 coffin-shaped boxes placed in Federal Plaza during a protest over the war in Iraq Thursday, May 27, 2004, in Chicago. Organizers of the protest say each of the coffins draped in black represent 100 Iraqis killed since the beginning of the war. The eight coffins draped in the American flag represent the roughly 800 U.S. soldiers killed during since the start of the conflict.
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Topic: Nick Berg - on May 29, 2004 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Who killed Nick Berg?
Conspiracy theories about how the kidnapped American died in Iraq are flying around the world. Richard Neville explores the explanations.
Iraq in flames, Washington an object of disgust. What to do? At this pivotal moment, CNN and Fox News are tipped off to a clip of an American citizen being beheaded. The victim is a 26-year-old idealist from Pennsylvania, Nick Berg. Despite the perpetrators being masked, the vile deed is deemed the work of al-Qaeda.
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Topic: ART - on May 29, 2004 at 11:44:00 AM CEST
Police Weed Out Art Exhibition
A Swedish art exhibit featuring cannabis plants may have to be canceled after police confiscated the plants in a drugs bust.
The exhibition, due to open on Saturday in the university town of Lund and titled "Counterclockwise Circumambulation," was partially destroyed when police cut the plants to take them away as evidence, artist Sture Johannesson said.
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Topic: NATURE - on May 29, 2004 at 11:42:00 AM CEST
Giant Mushroom Baffles Experts in Congo
A giant three-tiered mushroom which measures a meter (yard) across and was found in the tropical forests of the Republic of Congo has left experts in the capital Brazzaville scratching their heads.
"It's the first time we've ever seen a mushroom like this so it's difficult for us to classify. But we are going to determine what it is scientifically," Pierre Botaba, head of Congo's veterinary and zoology center, told reporters on Thursday.
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Topic: Blog probs - on May 29, 2004 at 11:23:00 AM CEST
The Memory Hole Banned in Iraq
I've received email from a person with an [army.mil] address. This person is stationed in Iraq, and he/she tells me that The Memory Hole is blocked on military computers. Trying to get to the site results in the following message:
Access Denied (content_filter_denied)
Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Extreme;Politics/Religion"
For assistance, contact your network support team.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 29, 2004 at 10:44:00 AM CEST
Is David Hasselhoff Making a Rap Album?
When I read this article I got really scared, because I figured that if such a thing were to happen, it would definitely be a sign that the end was near. But thankfully it appears to be a hoax. On his website, Hasselhoff denies the reports that he's making a rap album. Thank God for that.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 29, 2004 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Online dating firm patents cupid's arrow
The US patent office has outdone itself this week, awarding dating company eHarmony a patent covering online matchmaking.
In patentese, US patent no. 6,735,568 describes a computer implemented method for "identifying people who are likely to have a successful relationship".
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 29, 2004 at 10:40:00 AM CEST
Web-cheat student to sue university
A student who was booted off his degree course for plagiarism is to sue the university. He says tutors at the University of Kent should have spotted what he was doing and stopped him sooner.
Michael Gunn, a 21-year-old English student, freely admits using material downloaded from the Internet to complete his assignments. He told the Times: "I hold my hands up. I did plagiarise. I never dreamt it was a problem."
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 29, 2004 at 10:33:00 AM CEST
Bizarre tale of boy who used internet to plot his own murder
The final internet chatroom exchange took place on 28 June last year. "U want me 2 take him 2 trafford centre and kill him in the middle of trafford centre??" said one message. "Yes," came the reply.
Less than 24 hours later, a 14-year-old boy was critically ill in hospital with stab wounds in the chest and stomach. At first it seemed as though a brutal, but straightforward, robbery had gone wrong. But yesterday the young "victim" became the first person in this country to be convicted of inciting their own murder.
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