Topic: NEWS - on February 8, 2007 at 11:57:00 PM CET
Tenerife court cancels Carnival - it's too noisy
A Spanish court on Thursday canceled Carnival celebrations in the Canary Islands city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife -- one of the biggest in the world -- because they are too noisy.
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Topic: health - on February 8, 2007 at 11:53:00 PM CET
Website shows you how your job is killing you
Think your job is killing you? A humorous Web site set up by an online recruiting firm shows you exactly how bad things are.
"Age-o-Matic" lets you load a photograph, answer a few multiple-choice questions and then shows you the results on the same personal photograph, which is digitally altered to include bald pates, wrinkles and gray skin.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 8, 2007 at 11:52:00 PM CET
High Security for $100 Laptop
Millions of XO laptops are expected to go into production late in 2007, with Thailand, Brazil, Uruguay and Rwanda, among others, signed up for the launch. If all goes according to plan, that will make the XO laptop's operating system one of the more common platforms in the world. And with kids as young as 6 as target users, hackers may already be dreaming of taking computers from babies through rogue code.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on February 8, 2007 at 11:50:00 PM CET
Want to cross the road? Don't ask Google Maps
30-second walk becomes 10.4km epic road trip
Here's the scenario: you're in Oz's fine city of Sydney and you need to get from the Shelbourne Hotel at 200 Sussex Street to Google's headquarters across the road at 201 Sussex Street. Naturally, this being a potentially complex manoeuvre, it's probably best to consult Google Maps Australia to get the optimum route.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 8, 2007 at 11:25:00 PM CET
Anna Nicole Smith dead (•Y•)
Footage of the final moments of Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith's life sold for more than $500,000 Thursday after a media bidding war, according to Splash News & Picture Agency, the paparazzi outlet that sold the rights to the tape.
Paparazzi agency Splash News & Picture Agency is peddling the videotape, which shows paramedics working on the unresponsive reality star as she was wheeled from the Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Fla., Thursday.
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Topic: NAUTICAL - on February 8, 2007 at 4:40:00 PM CET
Sea Giants
With quite incredible pictures
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on February 8, 2007 at 4:16:00 PM CET
Another ancient shark [Video]
Another 'pre-historic' shark from the ocean deep has been captured in Japan.
After the discovery of the Frilled Shark researchers have landed a Goblin Shark, a creature whose natural habitat is twelve hundred meters below the sea.
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Topic: FUN - on February 8, 2007 at 4:07:00 PM CET
the BEST "while You were sleeping and Drunk"
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Topic: TV - on February 8, 2007 at 3:54:00 PM CET
Cheddarvision TV
Cheese lovers can now watch cheddar mature 24 hours a day on the internet.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on February 8, 2007 at 3:52:00 PM CET
Crystals may have aided Viking sailors
Vikings may have used special crystals called sunstones to ensure gloomy weather did not come between them and an outing to sack British villages or discover new lands to the west, scientists have discovered. Tests aboard a research vessel in the Arctic ocean found that certain crystals can be used to reveal the position of the sun, a trick that would have allowed early explorers to ascertain their position and navigate, even if the sky was obscured by cloud or fog.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 8, 2007 at 3:50:00 PM CET
Man accused of being nude on ski lift
Blame global warming. An Albany, N.Y., man is accused of riding nude in a gondola at Stratton Mountain Resort on Dec. 15. William N. Barrett III, 46, pleaded not guilty to felony lewd and lascivious conduct and misdemeanor marijuana possession Tuesday in Vermont District Court.
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Topic: POLITIK - on February 8, 2007 at 3:49:00 PM CET
Non-Austrian Becomes Honorary Austrian Consul
Toby Unwin was an unlikely choice as Austria's newest honorary consul.
He has never been to Austria, has no Austrian heritage, and doesn't speak German, the country's official language. But he is a successful businessman with a clean background, and he did ask nicely.
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