Topic: NATURE - on February 11, 2005 at 10:06:00 PM CET
Dozens of birds get drunk on holly berries, crash into office building, die
Dozens of birds got drunk from eating holly berries, then crashed into the glass of an office building and died.
"It was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," worker Denise Wilkinson said. "It was spooky. You could hear them where they flew into the glass."
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Topic: SEX - on February 11, 2005 at 10:00:00 PM CET
Gay penguins won't go straight
A German zoo's plans to tempt its gay penguins to go straight by importing more females has been declared a failure.
The female penguins were flown in especially from Sweden in an effort to encourage the Humboldt penguins at the Bremerhaven Zoo to reproduce.
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Topic: SEX - on February 11, 2005 at 8:37:00 PM CET
Condom bill raises eyebrows
The Norwegian military has been taking a lot of heat lately, for budget overruns and questionable accounting practices. Now it's emerged that a bill from a leading condom retailer kicked up a fair amount of fuss last year.
"The bill has been accepted, and paid," confirmed General Major Egil Johansen, head of the military staff's personnel operations unit. He wouldn't comment much beyond that.
The bill, for NOK 2792 (about USD 460), came from the company called "Kondomeriet," which also runs a retail outlet on Oslo's main shopping street. It caused a stir when it opened in the early 1990s.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on February 11, 2005 at 7:33:00 PM CET
Google Maps
I'm normally a little suspicious and hesitatnt when Google offers yet another service because I've already seen Yahoo! go down that road and spread itself too thin. It always felt like Y! was 50 square miles, but only two inches deep. Well, let's just say that Google did it right when they set out to do maps! Nobody has ever done it right in the history of civilization until now. Google managed to make the interface five times simpler than anyone else, yet still twice as useful.
Google Maps find Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 11, 2005 at 7:27:00 PM CET
Liechtensteins Kühe dürfen keinen Hanf mehr fressen
Für Liechtensteins Kühe sind die rauschhaften Zeiten bald endgültig vorbei: Wie das Amt für Lebensmittelkontrolle und Veterinärwesen mitteilte, dürfen alle Nutztiere des kleinen Fürstentums ab dem 1. März keinen Hanf mehr fressen.
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Topic: SECURITY - on February 11, 2005 at 6:48:00 PM CET
House backs major shift to electronic IDs
The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Thursday a sweeping set of rules aimed at forcing states to issue all adults federally approved electronic ID cards, including driver's licenses.
Under the rules, federal employees would reject licenses or identity cards that don't comply, which could curb Americans' access to airplanes, trains, national parks, federal courthouses and other areas controlled by the federal government. The bill was approved by a 261-161 vote.
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Topic: INVENTIONS - on February 11, 2005 at 5:19:00 PM CET
Rite in the Rain
Rite in the Rain will sometimes not take a regular ball point pen's ink because the ball gets stuck. The smooth surface is not rough enough to get it unstuck. Easy solution: write quickly on a normal piece of paper or the back of your hand. Once the ball is unstuck, the pen will write on Rite in the Rain paper. Note: Standard ball point pens will skip when writing on any wet surface. For a pen that writes better while wet, try our all-weather pens.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on February 11, 2005 at 5:10:00 PM CET
Google Inc. has made a proposal to host some of the content of the Wikimedia projects.
The terms of the offer are currently being discussed by the board. The developer committee has been informed of some of the details via email. A private IRC meeting with Google is planned for March, 2005.
Please note that this agreement does not mean there is any requirement for us to include advertising on the site.
See Wikimedia partners and hosts for details of other current and proposed hosting arrangements.
wikimedia.org Google From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dan Gillmor on Wikipedia Criticism
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