Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 6, 2004 at 12:46:00 PM CEST
Cops Free Chicken From Windshield Wiper
Not only did this chicken not make it across the road, but it wound up in a motorist's windshield wipers.
Yuba City Police Lt. Bill Ollar said a man reported that he was driving along a Highway 99 frontage road Tuesday night when a chicken flew by and became entangled in the wipers.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 6, 2004 at 12:45:00 PM CEST
Mysterious Killings Continue
A fourth brown bear was reported dead and left to rot this week near a popular bear-watching and fishing stream along the northern border of Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve as rangers continued a criminal investigation into a series of bizarre and apparently illegal kills.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 6, 2004 at 12:43:00 PM CEST
Holy Drug Lab?
A trustee stopping to deliver towels at a rural North Dakota church last week wondered why church doors were locked. Later that evening, congregants expecting a service instead found sheriff's deputies officials with guns drawn.
"Who would have thought somebody would turn an active church into an active amphetamine lab?" asked Rick Majerus, a Cass County, N.D., sheriff's lieutenant.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 6, 2004 at 12:42:00 PM CEST
Prisoner glues hand to his girlfriend
A German prisoner in Madrid and his girlfriend glued their hands together during a jail visit in an attempt to fight the man's possible extradition to Germany, judicial sources said Thursday.
The pair were taken to hospital, where doctors were considering whether to operate or use a powerful solvent to separate the man's left hand from the woman's right.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 6, 2004 at 12:14:00 PM CEST
Chinese nationalists sabotage Japan, Taiwan websites
Chinese hackers struck back over a cyber attack by Japanese activists by hacking into dozens of official websites in Japan and Taiwan, China's official newspaper Wen Wei Po's Hong Kong edition reported Friday. The newspaper said powerful hacker groups organized 1,900 hackers to launch a massive attack on more than 200 official websites in Japan and Taiwan on Monday.
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Topic: W A R - on August 6, 2004 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
Hiroshima remembered
Japanese children look up at the gutted A-bomb dome in Hiroshima. The city observes the 59th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb used in warfare on August 6.
The bomb devasted Hiroshima and instantly killed 70,000, with a death toll rising for generations from radiation-induced illnesses.
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Topic: SEX - on August 6, 2004 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Prostitutes rated online
Norwegian sex customers are getting organized and are taking dramatic steps to ensure that they get what they pay for. One advanced web site with prostitute ratings and discussion groups for sex clients has 3,300 registered users, newspaper Dagsavisen reports.
Norwegian 'johns' are tired of paying a lot of money and not feeling fully satisfied and are creating their own consumer guides on the Internet.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 6, 2004 at 11:58:00 AM CEST
Doom 3 MOD's Pack
Doom 3 has only been out in the US in a couple of days, but the MOD community has already given us a lot of MOD's for the game.
We have gathered seven of the best for you here.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 6, 2004 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Google advertising piracy?
Open eyed Neowin readers managed to snap a very interesting shot of the front page this week; no, not another impressive exclusive, but an advert. Neowin 'sub-contracts' it's advertising requirements to search giant Google and its program, Google Adsense. Widely used and widely regarded as getting the online advertising industry back on its feet, the program has seen large adoption and sucess in the online community.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 6, 2004 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
Google IPO: No longer a sure thing?
Google's aura of invincibility is faltering as the company draws nearer to its initial public offering.
Fresh concerns about shares issued improperly to insiders and signs of weaker-than-expected demand are creating last-minute reservations about the deal--an oddball offering that's nevertheless expected to be among the largest and highest-priced in recent history, if it proceeds as planned.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 6, 2004 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
The return of the dotcom yuppie?
Budding entrepreneurs are increasingly keen to start up online businesses, suggesting that the dotcom downturn is over, new research has found. A survey of MBA students by Palo Alto Software found that 74 per cent were planning to set up a business after graduation, with six in ten of those wanting to start up on the Internet.
According to the research, young entrepreneurs appear to have learnt the lessons of the dotcom boom and bust, with three quarters claiming that their top priority would be "planning ahead for opportunities and challenges rather than following mad hype".
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Topic: ART - on August 6, 2004 at 11:43:00 AM CEST
Artist sculpts with own fat
An Argentine artist is selling sculptures made out of her own fat which was taken out during a liposuction.
Two kilos of the fat were transformed in two sculptures of the female naked body and are being sold for £250 each.
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