Topic: SPY - on January 11, 2007 at 3:41:00 PM CET
Canadian coins bugged, U.S. security agency says
They say money talks, and a new report suggests Canadian currency is indeed chatting, at least electronically, on behalf of shadowy spies.
Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters have mysteriously turned up in the pockets of at least three American contractors who visited Canada, says a branch of the U.S. Department of Defence.
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Topic: MUSIK - on January 11, 2007 at 2:53:00 PM CET
Download Only Song to Crack the Top 40
The BBC is reporting that next week's UK music chart may have the first sign of the end of the recording industry as we know it. From this week (7th Jan, 2006), all downloaded music sales are counted in the official UK chart, not just tracks which have had a physical media release. Now, an unsigned band called Koopa is poised to enter the top 40 without any old-world recording, distribution, or production deals.
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Topic: Universe - on January 11, 2007 at 2:10:00 PM CET
Eavesdropping on the Universe
Astronomers have proposed an improved method of searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life using instruments like one now under construction in Australia. The Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD) of the Mileura Wide-Field Array (MWA), a facility for radio astronomy, theoretically could detect Earth-like civilizations around any of the 1,000 nearest stars.
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Topic: WERBUNG - on January 11, 2007 at 2:05:00 PM CET
Mini
A real size fibreglass Mini was attached to a ramp that would move the car up and down creating a Yo-Yo effect.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 11, 2007 at 1:59:00 PM CET
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS - 1957 Rare Offprint - Ed. of 50
After publishing the fictionalized autobiography Junkie under the pseudonym William Lee," Burroughs contributed a non-fiction account of his wide-ranging drug use to the venerable British Journal of Addiction, an obscure medical journal. At his request, the Journal sent Burroughs fifty (50) copies of a stapled offprint of the article. Burroughs was, at the time, living in Tangiers and furthering his "drug research;" thus it is likely that far fewer than fifty copies survive to this day
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 11, 2007 at 1:57:00 PM CET
PC World Mag Editor Killed
Rex Farrance was a popular senior editor at PC World magazine in San Francisco, a physical-fitness buff and a family man known for his enthusiasm for life and his sensitivity to others, friends say.
But according to police, Farrance, 59, was involved with illegal drugs and possibly dealing them along with his wife at their Pittsburg home. The activity, police said Wednesday, led to a home-invasion robbery Tuesday night in which Farrance was killed and his wife, a registered nurse, was pistol-whipped.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 11, 2007 at 1:54:00 PM CET
Grocery staff finds drugs in banana boxes
Dutch supermarket staff found millions of dollars worth of cocaine stashed in banana boxes as they were unpacking them, police said.
The drugs, 50 kilos of cocaine, had a value of 5-6 million euros ($6.5-7.8 million), a police spokesman said.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on January 11, 2007 at 1:53:00 PM CET
False priest arrested for selling Pope tickets
Erivandro Ferrer de Lima had charged believers 175 reais ($81.78) in cash and another 375 reais in installments for the possibility of "getting close and touching" the Pope, Police Inspector Rosicleide de Castro said by telephone from Fortaleza in the northeastern Ceara state.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on January 11, 2007 at 1:47:00 PM CET
Google SketchUp
NEU in dieser Version: Die neueste Version von Google Earth unterstützt jetzt Texturen. Die Verwendung von Google SketchUp und das Entwickeln texturierter Modelle ist jetzt so einfach, als würden Sie ein Foto machen und es in einem 3D-Modell verwenden.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on January 11, 2007 at 1:45:00 PM CET
Jackson ruled out of Hobbit film
The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has been ruled out of making The Hobbit, the head of film studio New Line has told the Sci-Fi Channel.
Jackson is locked in a legal battle with New Line over money from The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 11, 2007 at 1:43:00 PM CET
Dead birds fall from the skies in Australia and America
THOUSANDS of birds have fallen from the skies over Esperance and no one knows why. Is it an illness, toxins or a natural phenomenon? A string of autopsies in Perth have shed no light on the mystery.
All the residents of flood-devastated Esperance know is that their "dawn chorus" of singing birds is missing.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 11, 2007 at 1:41:00 PM CET
The Fight Against Phishing: 44 Ways to Protect Yourself
It’s a scam that generates billions of dollars even when only 5 percent of the darts hit the target, it threatens the integrity of online transactions between customers and e-business houses, it’s a constant cat-and-mouse game between the perpetrators and the security guys hot on their heels – phishing, carding, brand spoofing, web spoofing – call it what you will, there’s no escaping the fact that the threat of this swindle is getting more dangerous by the day.
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