Topic: VIDEO - on October 18, 2006 at 3:22:00 PM CEST
The Amazing YouTube Tools Collection
YouTube is the most popular site to visit for viewing online videos, sharing your favourite videos with people and commenting on videos you like. Recently YouTube was acquired by Google for a few billion dollars. Here is a collection of several YouTube third party tools which enhance your YouTube experience.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 18, 2006 at 3:19:00 PM CEST
Nevada to vote on pot shops
Gambling, prostitution, and now pot? Organizers of a Nevada ballot measure hope voters in a state where almost everything goes will go one better and legalize marijuana.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 18, 2006 at 1:49:00 PM CEST
Project Blackbox
The Blackbox is a prototype of the world’s first virtualized datacenter built into a shipping container from Sun Microsystems. It can accommodate 250 x64-based servers with 1000 cores, provide 1.5 petabytes (= 1,500 TB) of disk storage, 7 terabytes of memory and handle up to 10,000 desktop users simultaneously.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 18, 2006 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
One giant step for home entertainment?
Is this the way we will all be 'enjoying' our television programmes and computer games in the future?
In this astonishing photo, a model is wearing a new gadget, from electronics manufacturer Toshiba, that enables the wearer to experience a full 360-degree view on a 40 centimetre dome-shaped screen.
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Topic: ART - on October 18, 2006 at 12:31:00 PM CEST
Wynn Elbowed $40 Million Picasso Painting
Steve Wynn began to tell the story of the Picasso’s provenance. As he talked, he had his back to the picture. He was wearing jeans and a golf shirt. Wynn suffers from an eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa, which affects his peripheral vision and therefore, occasionally, his interaction with proximate objects, and, without realizing it, he backed up a step or two as he talked. “So then I made a gesture with my right hand,” Wynn said, “and my right elbow hit the picture. It punctured the picture.” There was a distinct ripping sound. Wynn turned around and saw, on Marie-Thérèse Walter’s left forearm, in the lower-right quadrant of the painting, “a slight puncture, a two-inch tear. We all just stopped. I said, ‘I can’t believe I just did that. Oh, shit. Oh, man.’ ”
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 18, 2006 at 9:39:00 AM CEST
Windows virus worms onto some Apple iPods
The company said that a small number of video iPods made after Sept. 12 included the RavMonE virus. It said it has seen fewer than 25 reports of the problem, which it said does not affect other models of the media player, nor does it affect Macs.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 18, 2006 at 9:31:00 AM CEST
Why Woz left Apple - an extract from his new autobiography
AFTER the US festivals and graduating from Berkeley * I went back to Apple as an engineer. I didn't want to be an executive. I wanted just to design circuits and apply clever ideas.
But it was weird because I was in the media mainstream and had so much other stuff to do.
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Topic: Space - on October 18, 2006 at 9:23:00 AM CEST
Colliding galaxies make love, not war
A new Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters.
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