Topic: STRANGE - on November 1, 2006 at 8:33:00 PM CET
EBay building bombed: Exclusive IMs from an eBayer inside the building
Firefighters rushed to eBay's San Jose headquarters last night after an explosion in a four-story eBay building. First thought to be a transformer, the cause is now being reported as a bomb.
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Topic: WEB - on November 1, 2006 at 6:38:00 PM CET
Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites
There were just 18,000 Web sites when Netcraft, based in Bath, England, began keeping track in August of 1995. It took until May of 2004 to reach the 50 million milestone; then only 30 more months to hit 100 million, late in the month of October 2006.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 1, 2006 at 5:56:00 PM CET
MPAA: If You Sue People, Make Sure you OWN the Copyright!
Shawn Hogan has received plenty of attention in the last year for his decision to fight the MPAA over the lawsuit they filed against him, claiming he had shared the movie Meet the Fockers via a file sharing program. The problem? Hogan didn't actually share the movie, has never downloaded it, and actually owns the DVD of the movie in question. The MPAA made it clear that if he just paid them $2,500, they would forget the whole thing -- which certainly has the feel of extortion.
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Topic: TV - on November 1, 2006 at 5:48:00 PM CET
Lost Moon landing tapes discovered
For years 'lost' tapes recording data from the Apollo 11 Moon landing have been stored underneath the seats of Australian physics students. A recent search has uncovered them.
They were nearly thrown out with the rubbish. But a last minute search instead has scientists in Western Australia dusting off several boxes of 'lost' NASA tapes which record surface conditions on the Moon just after Neil Armstrong stepped into space history on 21 July 1969.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 1, 2006 at 5:34:00 PM CET
Lawyer arrested after dressing as bin Laden
A Maine attorney who released information in 2000 about President George W. Bush's drunken driving conviction was arrested on Tuesday after he dressed up as al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and waved a fake gun at traffic.
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Topic: W A R - on November 1, 2006 at 5:32:00 PM CET
Depleted uranium risk 'ignored'
UK and US forces have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings they pose a cancer risk, a BBC investigation has found.
Scientists have pointed to health statistics in Iraq, where the weapons were used in the 1991 and 2003 wars.
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Topic: ART - on November 1, 2006 at 11:40:00 AM CET
Jackson Pollock
Create sophisticated, valuable Jackson Pollock artworks by dragging mouse.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 1, 2006 at 10:54:00 AM CET
Lebanon war puts damper on Israeli pot smokers
Israel's recent war with Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas has sent cannabis prices sky high in the Jewish state. Boosted security on the Lebanon frontier brought a drastic reduction in drug smuggling, with the cost of cannabis in Israel up eight-fold, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported.
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