Topic: Terror - on July 17, 2004 at 9:37:00 PM CEST
Man killed while trying to blow up Iraqi gas pipeline
A saboteur attempting to plant a bomb Saturday under a natural gas pipeline set off the explosion early and killed himself, authorities said.
The explosion that occurred early Saturday in Riayd, about 45 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Baghdad, did not damage the line, said Col. Sarhat Qader of the Iraqi police in Kirkuk.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 17, 2004 at 7:49:00 PM CEST
Fender's iconic Strat guitar turns 50
"It's the sound of the instrument and the way the neck feels. It's unlike any other instrument."
So says Bryan Adams of the Fender Stratocaster. "My pride and joy is a 1960 cherry sunburst that I bought 20 years ago. It is my finest guitar and sounds better than all of them. I can't explain why, it just does."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 17, 2004 at 7:38:00 PM CEST
Firexplorer
The project is to produce a version of Firefox which looks almost exactly like Microsoft Internet Explorer (including theme, application name, icons etc.), but is based on Firefox’s more secure codebase.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 17, 2004 at 7:03:00 PM CEST
Jamestown Wine Cellar Believed Unearthed
Eight glass bottles have been unearthed in a brick-walled space that may have been the wine cellar of a house dating from the close of the 1600s in Jamestown.
The intact, gourd-shaped bottles, which were found without corks, were likely empty when they were stored in the cellar, said Bill Kelso, director of archaeology for the Jamestown Recovery Project. Archaeologists initially believed they contained remnants of wine.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 17, 2004 at 6:49:00 PM CEST
Man's Finger Lodged in Gas Tank at Shopping Mall
In Lincolnwood, Ill. firefighters were called to the scene of a most unusual and bizzare incident...a man with his finger stuck in the gas tank of a car.
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Topic: Apple - on July 17, 2004 at 6:45:00 PM CEST
British defense ministry bans iPods
Britain's Ministry of Defence has become the latest organization to ban the iPod music player due to high-tech security risks. The ministry will no longer allow the device into most areas of its facilities in the UK and overseas.
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Topic: health - on July 17, 2004 at 6:43:00 PM CEST
U.S. cholesterol guide was corrupted by pharmaceutical industry
onsumer groups blasted a cholesterol guide authored by the American Heart Association and the government as tainted by money from Big Medicine -- at least six of the doctors writing the study have been paid by cholesterol med makers, they said.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 17, 2004 at 6:40:00 PM CEST
“Kerry Bumperstick Groper” Molesting Women
Police in Pougkeepsie, NY are searching for a man who allegedly molested two women using “John Kerry for President” bumper stickers. The incidents happened within minutes of each other in parking lots around the Poughkeepsie Galleria Mall on June 8.
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Topic: TV - on July 17, 2004 at 6:23:00 PM CEST
TV with printer
When TVs with built-in VCRs came out on the market, it was a novelty at first, but eventually became the norm. Now, Epson is chaning the norm again with a TV featuring a built-in printer and multi-memory card slot.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 17, 2004 at 6:17:00 PM CEST
Sheriff says strip searches were lawful
Sheriff's deputies were acting within the law when two former Marin women were strip-searched on separate occasions at the Marin County Jail, according to the county sheriff.
Sheriff Robert Doyle said yesterday the two women who filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the searches violated their constitutional rights may not clearly remember the circumstances of their detention.
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Topic: SEX - on July 17, 2004 at 6:10:00 PM CEST
Lesbian sells virginity on the Net
THEY must have made an incongruous trio as they drank together in a wine bar in London's West End.
Rosie, a tubby, 19-year-old virgin in sloppy student clothes; Jess, her 27-year-old, crop-haired lesbian lover; and Tom, the besuited, middle-aged businessman keen to pay more than $20,000 to fulfil his lifetime ambition of sleeping with a virgin.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 17, 2004 at 6:08:00 PM CEST
Losers of the Week U2
1st Police: Monsieur Bono, could you please describe theese album?
Bono: Hmm, it's like a cross between Boy and Achtung Baby.
Adam: Aww, it's all yer fault, Larry. If wuh have to tell yoo one more time about All That You Can't Leave Behind!
2nd Police: (enters station) Yes, I think I have located the missing r'cord. (Cues up CD on player)
Edge: (listens intently to chiming guitar) Nah! That's Coldplay!
2nd: Mon dieu! But I thought you said to round up zee usual suspects!
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