Topic: MAKE - on February 12, 2007 at 1:29:00 PM CET
Low-Cost 3D Laser Range Scanning for Everyone...
DAVID is a freeware software for laser range scanning. All you need is a PC, a camera (e.g. a webcam), a background corner, and a laser that projects a line onto the object you want to scan. So everyone can use it to scan objects without high costs; this is the big advantage over commercial solutions which are rather expensive.
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Topic: ART - on February 12, 2007 at 1:28:00 PM CET
Is charity shop find a lost Picasso?
A CHANCE find in a charity shop could turn out to be more than just a pretty piece for a bargain hunter, who believes he may have found a Picasso.
Graham Duncan bought an oil painting in the new Relief for Romania charity shop on York Road, Twickenham, and is appealing for the person who donated it to come forward.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 12, 2007 at 1:26:00 PM CET
Cannabis stronger now 'than in the 70s'
An increase in intensive indoor cannabis cultivation in the UK since David Cameron's schooldays is widely believed to have increased the availability of more potent varieties.
Some high-profile reports have said that modern cannabis is now 10 or even 20 times stronger than that available in the 1970s.
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Topic: NEWS - on February 12, 2007 at 1:25:00 PM CET
Angry German tourist drops pants at airport X-ray machine
A 66-year-old German tourist, annoyed by stringent security at Manila's airport, dropped his pants before walking through an X-ray machine, newspapers said Monday.
Authorities were not amused.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 12, 2007 at 1:24:00 PM CET
'Space potatoes' grown from mutated seeds latest food fad in Shanghai
Having boldly gone where no spud has before, Chinese space potatoes are now the latest culinary fad to hit the country's ultra-trendy commercial hub of Shanghai.
Slightly sweet and purple in colour, the potatoes, named Purple Orchid Three, are bred from seeds that mutated while being carried aboard a Chinese spacecraft, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported Monday.
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Topic: MUSIK - on February 12, 2007 at 1:21:00 PM CET
Brötzmann Rarities (MP3)
My first encounter with free jazz giant Peter Brötzmann happened more than 20 years ago, at the 1985 Total Music Meeting in Berlin. At the time I was a rather naive teenager visiting (West) Berlin, and I saw that Wolfgang Dauner was playing at the Quartier Latin. I didn't know what to make of the name "Total Music Meeting" and had never heard of any of the other musicians who were playing that night, but I really liked Dauner, so I decided to go and let myself be surprised. And surprised I was. I had never really listened to free jazz before, so it was quite an experience to see Phil Minton, Peter Brötzmann, and Hugh Davies going berserk on stage, with lots of energy and no discernible rules or structure. At least that was the impression it made on me at the time.
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Topic: WEB - on February 12, 2007 at 12:34:00 PM CET
Welcome to OscarTorrents
OscarTorrents is the Oscars as it should be -- everyone can download the year's nominations using the popular BitTorrent service, watch the movies, then use our rating system to choose their favourites. Why restrict the voting to a few bought-off jurors when the whole world can have their say?
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 12, 2007 at 12:24:00 PM CET
Teacher Snorts Drugs In Front Of Kids
Police said a substitute teacher accused of snorting cocaine in front of her fourth-grade pupils will face charges that could send her to jail for up to three years.
Lewiston-Porter School District substitute Joan M. Donatelli, 59, has been charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
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Topic: FUN - on February 12, 2007 at 12:20:00 PM CET
The Wonder of Soap Bubbles
Adults too are pulled into the wonder.
As a bubble artist it's my job to use science, research and my imagination to explore how bubbles work and what we can do with them.
Then I create performances filled with enthusiasm and bubbles like none you've ever dreamed possible...
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Topic: NASA - on February 12, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM CET
What’s happening on Jupiter’s moon Io?
Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io in this color composite image from the robotic Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. At the image top, over Io’s limb, a bluish plume rises about 140 kilometers above the surface of a volcanic caldera known as Pillan Patera.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on February 12, 2007 at 12:13:00 PM CET
Phylogenetic Tree Visualisation - Tree of life - Picture
This picture is a visualisation of the entire tree of life. The tree of life (cellular organisms) has three main branches:
* The bacteria (unicellular prokaryotic microorganisms) which are in focus in this picture and represented by orange nodes.
* The archaea which are probably more closely related to the eukaryotes than they are to the bacteria even though they lack a cell nucleus and represent some of the most extreme forms of life on earth. They are represented by red nodes and near the top and in the background of the picutre
* The eukarya (all cellular organisms with a cell nucleus) represented by yellow nodes and are located on the left hand side and in the background of the picture.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on February 12, 2007 at 12:11:00 PM CET
Karma Calculator - Are You a Good Person?
Ever wonder, “Am I a good person?” Thanks to Intelligent Giving, a small London-based nonprofit company, you can now measure your karma by using the Karma Calculator.
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