Topic: MUSIK - on February 17, 2007 at 1:13:00 PM CET
Why I Miss Frank Zappa
Celebrities and artists defending the First Amendment is nothing new. After all, they have the most to lose if speech and artistic expression are censored. But when I hear most celebs defend the First Amendment these days, it just makes me cringe. They typically come off sounding like complete morons.
That's why I miss Frank Zappa so much. When he was with us, he was one of the most passionate and articulate defenders of freedom of speech--not just in the entertainment industry--but in all of America. And this man knew his history. He understood why the First Amendment was so important to America's founding and why it remains one of the cornerstones upon which all other human liberties rest.
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Topic: MUSIK - on February 17, 2007 at 1:00:00 PM CET
OMFG BRITNEY SHEARS CHOPPED OFF HER HAIR
Britney Spears takes a razor to her own scalp, shaving her head until she is entirely bald.
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Topic: MUSIK - on February 17, 2007 at 12:46:00 PM CET
Britney Checks Into Rehab
TMZ has learned that while Britney Spears checked-in to rehab, she refused to stay and checked out -- less than twenty-four hours later!
As "EXTRA" first reported, the pop star entered a rehab facility two days ago. Now TMZ has learned that the center was located outside of the country, and she refused to stay. PEOPLE confirms that Brit was at Eric Clapton's Crossroads rehab facility in Antigua.
tmz.com Britney Shaves Her F&*%ing Head!!! BRITNEY'S CRY FOR HELPBritney Spears Finally Gets Help, Enters Rehab Britney's New Look Is Bald Britney Spears Checks Into, and Out of, Rehab
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Topic: History - on February 17, 2007 at 12:40:00 PM CET
TV remote inventor dies aged 93
Robert Adler, a US inventor best known for the creation of the couch potato's dream device, the TV remote control, has died at the age of 93.
He received an Emmy award in 1997 for the 1956 invention jointly with fellow engineer Eugene Polley.
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Topic: VIDEO - on February 17, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM CET
Great video!
Shot at 2000 frames per second, and well worth it. Vitalic supplies an amazing dance track, too!
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Topic: WERBUNG - on February 17, 2007 at 11:58:00 AM CET
Ideas from toilets
Ideas from toilets? Just some ads for annual ad bathroom media ad contest.
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Topic: STRANGE - on February 17, 2007 at 11:56:00 AM CET
OIL RIG DISASTERS
A listing of major offshore oil and gas drilling-related incidents, with details and photographs of the drilling rigs involved. The Rig Incident List is an on-going project listing all major rig incidents and accidents researched so far.
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Topic: Bastard pop - on February 17, 2007 at 11:53:00 AM CET
lou reed vs. björk
Take Bjork on the Wild Side with this mash-up
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Topic: VIDEO - on February 17, 2007 at 11:50:00 AM CET
Hip replacement
Few people would admit it, but cinema owes a great debt to Fatboy Slim. Not to mention Bjork, the Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Air, Massive Attack, Aphex Twin and a handful of other acts. If it wasn't for the fact that, Bjork aside, the titans of trip hop and big beat were all knob-twiddling, un-photogenic, slightly nerdy blokes, we might never have had such a gaping void to fill on MTV, and thus a golden age of music video. In the past, videos were all about making their stars look athletic, rich and beautiful, preferably in slow motion. But these faceless 1990s acts just needed something clever and arty, preferably without them in it.
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Topic: LONGEST - on February 17, 2007 at 11:48:00 AM CET
Paraglider survives after soaring to 32,000 feet
A German paraglider was encased in ice and blacked out after being sucked into a tornado-like thunderstorm in Australia and carried to a height greater than Mount Everest. She survived.
“The glider kept climbing, climbing and I couldn’t see anything," recalled Ewa Wisnerska. "Then it got dark."
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Topic: WERBUNG - on February 17, 2007 at 11:47:00 AM CET
VW drops suicide ad
Mental health organisations in America have successfully persuaded Volkswagen to withdraw a television ad in which a man preparing to kill himself has a change of heart after learning that he can afford a cut-price German car.
A commercial called "jumper" shows a man teetering on the ledge of a tall building.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on February 17, 2007 at 11:44:00 AM CET
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
It is estimated that over 90% of all new information produced in the world is being stored on magnetic media, most of it on hard disk drives. Despite their importance, there is relatively little published work on the failure patterns of disk drives, and the key factors that affect their lifetime. Most available data are either based on extrapolation from accelerated aging experiments or from relatively modest sized field studies. Moreover,larger population studies rarely have the infrastructure in place to collect health signals from components in operation, which is critical information for detailed failure analysis.
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