Topic: NATURE - on February 23, 2007 at 12:32:00 PM CET
Chimpanzees sharpen spikes for bush baby killings
Chimpanzees in West Africa have been observed using sharpened branches as "spears" to hunt other primates.
A report in the journal Current Biology documents 22 instances of chimps in Senegal creating tools to stab their bush baby prey. Bush babies are tiny and much more primitive primates related to the lemurs found in Madagascar.
theregister.co.uk bbc.co.ukwashingtonpost.com Video: Chimps Make and Use "Spears" to Hunt
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 23, 2007 at 11:56:00 AM CET
DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail
After spending nearly 3 years in a detention center fighting his extradition from Australia, a leader of notorious warez group ‘DrinkorDie’ was yesterday arraigned before a U.S. District Court to face charges of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of actual criminal copyright infringement. If found guilty he faces 10 years in jail & a $500,000 fine.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 23, 2007 at 11:27:00 AM CET
Jury Orders Microsoft to Pay $1.52B
Microsoft Corp. must pay $1.52 billion in damages to telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA for violating two patents related to digital music, a federal jury ruled Thursday.
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Topic: NATURE - on February 23, 2007 at 11:23:00 AM CET
When Giant Hornets Attack
SWARMS of giant hornets which wipe out honey bees are set to invade Britain — due to global warming.
The 1.8 inch monster insects have already devastated bee populations in huge areas of France.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 23, 2007 at 11:15:00 AM CET
BBC - BREAKING NEWS TEMPLATE
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on February 23, 2007 at 11:05:00 AM CET
The Top Ten Most Misunderstood Movies Ever Made
We’re not talking about abstract, BS French art films or something. We’re talking Pulp Fiction, The Godfather, Scarface. The kind of movies that you assume you understand on a thematic level, but you really don’t. You need someone to clear things up for you: that’s why we’re here.
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Topic: FUN - on February 23, 2007 at 11:02:00 AM CET
The Ultimate Science Tattoo
Yeah, I did it. I brought my Griffiths E&M textbook to the Tattoo Factory on north Broadway, opened it to the endpaper, pointed at Maxwell's Equations, and said "How much to get this tattooed on my upper arm?"
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Topic: NATURE - on February 23, 2007 at 11:01:00 AM CET
Glaciers Not On Simple, Upward Trend Of Melting
The variability over such a short time, reported online Feb. 9 on Science magazine's Science Express, underlines the problem in assuming that glacial melting and sea level rise will necessarily occur at a steady upward trajectory, according to lead author Ian Howat, a post-doctoral researcher with the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory and the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center. The paper comes a year after a study in the journal Science revealed that discharge from Greenland's glaciers had doubled between 2000 and 2005, leading some scientists to speculate such changes were on a steady, upward climb.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 23, 2007 at 10:55:00 AM CET
Linq to ASCII Art
Last night I was searching for an audio version of Painters and Hackers by Paul Graham. Pretty soon I had completely forgotten about the book and found myself reading the Wikipedia article about Hackers. Isn't Internet search great?
Of all of the things in the article, the one thing that captured my attention was the ASCII picture of Adrian Lamo. I immediately thought, "How cool is that!?" So instead of popping off my current stack frame and returning to searching for Painters and Hackers, I began thinking about how to create such a picture. I certainly did not want to create it by hand. I didn't even want to pick which characters or colors would be printed to the screen. So accordingly, I began thinking of writing a program to do it for me.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 23, 2007 at 10:52:00 AM CET
Building a Ray-Tracing 3D Renderer from Scratch Over a Weekend
I've always liked the idea of ray-tracing to render 3D images with crazy accuracy. On Saturday night (being a huge nerd) I decided I'd try to write one from scratch for the hell of it.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 23, 2007 at 10:42:00 AM CET
More Creative and Beautiful Wallpapers
Wallpapers can be creative, inspiring, gorgeous and hilarious. Recently we’ve posted an overview of Selected Wallpapers for Desktop and Web Design and Christmas Wallpapers. Now it’s time for something fresh, original and creativie. Let’s take a look at some more creative and beautiful wallpapers for your personal desktop.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 23, 2007 at 10:40:00 AM CET
Seven arrests and more than 1000 kilos of Hashish recovered
The drugs were brought to Spain from Morocco by speed boat, according to the Civil Guard, who found 1,100 kilos of the drug inside a warehouse in Lorca.
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