Topic: FUN - on November 16, 2006 at 5:03:00 PM CET
Fish body/face-art
Cool body/face-art, sent by Alexei. Author unknown.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 16, 2006 at 5:01:00 PM CET
Malware goes to the movies
Online attackers have started to experiment with embedding malicious code or links to such code in different video formats.
On Tuesday, anti-virus firm McAfee warned Windows users that the company had discovered a worm, dubbed W32/Realor, actively infecting Real Media files. The infected video files do not contain an exploit for the RealOne or Real players, but a hyperlink that points to a malicious website. When infected files are opened, the victim is referred to the web ite, which attempts to compromise their computer using a previously patched flaw in Internet Explorer.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on November 16, 2006 at 4:59:00 PM CET
ESA adds stunning satellite images to Google Earth
Google Earth users can now view stunning satellite images of volcanic eruptions, dust storms, colliding icebergs, and other natural phenomena, thanks to a deal between Google and the European Space Agency (ESA).
ESA announced that it has made 130 satellite images available to Google Earth to create a new layer of content. As well as the images, ESA is providing detailed scientific explanations and theories to explain the phenomena, and facts and figures about man made landmarks, such as the Palm Island in Dubai.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on November 16, 2006 at 1:44:00 PM CET
Geheimcode-Suche in Bachs Sonaten
Hat Johann Sebastian Bach mathematische Geheimbotschaften in seinen Werken versteckt? Eine Musikwissenschaftlerin glaubt, in den Sonaten des Komponisten religiöse Hinweise entdeckt zu haben. Was war Absicht, was ist Zufall?
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Topic: MAKE - on November 16, 2006 at 12:48:00 PM CET
Make a DVD Burner into a High-Powered Laser
The laser pictured above has a peak output measured at 225 mW (average output 200 mW). It's a visible red at about 650nm. It can light matches, pop balloons, cut electrical tape, and so forth. It can do pretty much anything a Pulsar 150 from Wicked Lasers can do, because it's basically the same thing. The only differences? This laser was home-made, and cost about 1/3 the price.
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Topic: FUN - on November 16, 2006 at 12:04:00 PM CET
Foaming fountain puts the fizz into science
It is an experiment that has taken the world by storm. The simple but spectacular Diet Coke and Mentos explosion has sprung up on video sharing sites and scientists are hoping the experiment's popularity will inspire hard-to-impress youngsters to study science.
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Topic: Space - on November 16, 2006 at 11:47:00 AM CET
Sombrero Galaxy
The Sombrero Galaxy (also known as M104 or NGC 4594) is an unbarred Sa spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. It has a bright nucleus, an unusually large central bulge, and a prominent dust lane in its disk. The dark dust lane and the bulge give this galaxy the appearance of a sombrero. This 8th magnitude galaxy can easily be seen with small telescopes.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on November 16, 2006 at 11:01:00 AM CET
Our daily bread
Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds - a cool, industrial environment which leaves little space for individualism. People, animals, crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistics of this system which provides our society’s standard of living.
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Topic: NEWS english - on November 16, 2006 at 10:58:00 AM CET
OJ Simpson reveals how he would have killed his wife
More than 12 years after the murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Goodman, OJ Simpson will revive memories of the case that gripped America with a controversial TV appearance later this month.
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Topic: logisch - on November 16, 2006 at 10:50:00 AM CET
Peak Oil Theory – “World Running Out of Oil Soon” – Is Faulty
In contrast to a widely discussed theory that world oil production will soon reach a peak and go into sharp decline, a new analysis of the subject by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) finds that the remaining global oil resource base is actually 3.74 trillion barrels -- three times as large as the 1.2 trillion barrels estimated by the theory’s proponents -- and that the “peak oil” argument is based on faulty analysis which could, if accepted, distort critical policy and investment decisions and cloud the debate over the energy future.
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