Topic: STRANGE - on November 3, 2006 at 5:22:00 PM CET
Prison inmate in Austria delivered to freedom
A 36-year-old Bosnian escaped from an Austrian prison by getting himself shrink-wrapped with some parts for street lamps made by inmates and trucked out, the mass-circulation Kronen daily said.
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Topic: e-bay - on November 3, 2006 at 5:12:00 PM CET
'Sexist' Austrian urinals dumped on eBay
Four "sexist and misogynist" urinals have been removed from a public toilet in Vienna and offered for sale on eBay, Reuters reports.
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Topic: NATURE - on November 3, 2006 at 4:17:00 PM CET
22 Ways To Overclok Your Brain
The brain is a three-pound supercomputer. It is the command and control center running your life. It is involved in absolutely everything you do. Your brain determines how you think, how you feel, how you act, and how well you get along with other people. Your brain even determines the kind of person you are. It determines how thoughtful you are; how polite or how rude you are. It determines how well you think on your feet, and it is involved with how well you do at work and with your family. Your brain also influences your emotional well being and how well you do with the opposite sex.
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Topic: LEGO - on November 3, 2006 at 4:07:00 PM CET
10 Coolest Lego Creations
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 3, 2006 at 3:54:00 PM CET
British believe Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il
Carried out as US voters prepare to go to the polls next week in an election dominated by the war, the research also shows that British voters see George Bush as a greater danger to world peace than either the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, or the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Both countries were once cited by the US president as part of an "axis of evil", but it is Mr Bush who now alarms voters in countries with traditionally strong links to the US.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 3, 2006 at 3:53:00 PM CET
Spanish judge says downloading is legal
A judge in the northern city of Santander in Spain dismissed a case against an anonymous 48-year-old man who shared digital music on the net.
Judge Paz Aldecoa of No. 3 Penal Court ruled that under Spanish law a person who downloads music for personal use can not be punished or branded a criminal. He called it "a practised behaviour where the aim is not to gain wealth but to obtain private copies".
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 3, 2006 at 10:49:00 AM CET
NSA chooses Linux
The NSA maintains a custom build of Linux: "Unfortunately, existing mainstream operating systems [that's Windows] lack the critical security feature required for enforcing separation: mandatory access control. The results of several previous research projects in this area have been incorporated in a security-enhanced Linux system.
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Topic: ART - on November 3, 2006 at 10:27:00 AM CET
Sketch Furniture
Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space?
The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined.
Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture.
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Topic: Space - on November 3, 2006 at 10:23:00 AM CET
Top 100 photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
- a singularly talented photographer.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 3, 2006 at 10:21:00 AM CET
I want a Firefox Extension to ...
200+ extremely useful firefox extensions that save time and effort.
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Topic: ART - on November 3, 2006 at 10:13:00 AM CET
Mexican splashes out record $140m for Jackson Pollock's drops of genius
If the price that has been reported is accurate, every square foot of the piece of fibreboard that was sold in New York this week cost more than $4m (£2.1m). But then it was covered in an intricate web of lines in reds, yellows, blues and greys, splashed on to it by a man called Jackson Pollock.
The $140m quoted as the price obtained by Sotheby's for Pollock's Number 5, 1948 would make it the highest figure known to have ever been paid for a painting.
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