Topic: NEWS english - on March 16, 2005 at 8:50:00 AM CET
Kitten with Two Faces Dies
The little kitten that was born with two faces in Lake City has died.
Deuce's owner says they were forced to put the kitten to sleep on Friday after he came down with pneumonia and was not strong enough to survive.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 16, 2005 at 8:48:00 AM CET
Police arrest teenager for selling marijuana-laced brownies
Police in Florida arrested a student for selling brownies baked with marijuana outside a school cafeteria during lunch time. The student, identified as 18-year-old Andrew Perrault, was selling brownies without authorization for five dollars each.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 16, 2005 at 8:47:00 AM CET
Woman 'terrified' by effect of marijuana-laced cookie
A 64-year-old woman said Monday that she was terrified by the adverse effects she suffered last month after she unknowingly ate a cookie laced with marijuana.
But the co-worker accused of giving it to her had nothing to say.
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Topic: Bdays - on March 16, 2005 at 8:44:00 AM CET
Official praise for 115-year-old Russian birthday girl
Maria Strelnikova, a woman living in the far northwest corner of Russia, turned 115 years old, prompting birthday congratulations from the regional governor who attributed her longevity to love, work and general enjoyment.
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Topic: NEWS english - on March 16, 2005 at 8:43:00 AM CET
Snow Festival Postponed After Heat Wave
While most of Europe has shivered through an unusually cold March, a snow festival in Arctic Greenland has been postponed indefinitely because of a "heat wave."
The 11th annual international Snow Sculpture Festival in Nuuk was scheduled for March 18-21, when the average temperature in Greenland's capital would usually be well below freezing.
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Topic: MUSIK - on March 16, 2005 at 8:30:00 AM CET
Metallica news: Official board hacked
We are still having some problems with the message forum here at encycmet.com, but I am working on it att his very minute and I hope to fix it real soon.
Anyway, metallica.com have some problems too. The official message board was hacked a few days ago and I guess the webmaster over there got a shock when he found his forum down.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 16, 2005 at 8:28:00 AM CET
Page Hijack: The 302 Exploit, Redirects and Google
An explanation of the page hijack exploit using 302 server redirects. This exploit allows any webmaster to have his own "virtual pages" rank for terms that pages belonging to another webmaster used to rank for. Succesfully employed, this technique will allow the offending webmaster ("the hijacker") to displace the pages of the "target" in the Search Engine Results Pages ("SERPS"), and hence (a) cause search engine traffic to the target website to vanish, and/or (b) further redirect traffic to any other page of choice.
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Topic: Space - on March 16, 2005 at 8:25:00 AM CET
Robot Finds Life in Desert, Mimicking Skills Needed on Mars
A robot laden with sensor equipment has detected life on the arid terrain of the Chilean desert, a first for rover-based systems.
Nobody was surprise to find life there, but with the harsh conditions and sparse biological activity, the feat is likened to finding microbial creatures on Mars if any exists there.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 16, 2005 at 8:22:00 AM CET
The 91-Pound Acid Trip
How many hits of acid is that? The usual dose of LSD has fallen to about 20 micrograms in recent years, so at that dosage level, Pickard and Apperson possessed 2 billion hits of acid—enough to give every person in the Western Hemisphere two doses and still have 250 million hits left over. As I wrote in my original Slate article, 91 pounds of LSD would be worth between $2 billion and $10 billion on the street.
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Topic: FUN - on March 16, 2005 at 8:20:00 AM CET
LEGO Trucks & Construction Equipment
With this website I would like to show my hobbies and how I create my LEGO models. Next to scale modelling I also photograph the real thing. I've create a separate website with truck pictures. Do you have specifical questions, remarks or suggestions? Did you discover some typographical errors?
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Topic: Terror - on March 16, 2005 at 8:18:00 AM CET
Russia Paid $10M for Maskhadov Information
Russia paid $10 million for information that helped it track down a Chechen rebel leader who was killed last week in a special forces operation, its security service said Tuesday.
The Federal Security Service, also said it would offer the same reward for Shamil Basayev, the Chechen warlord who claimed responsibility for September's school hostage-taking in southern Russia that killed 330.
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