Topic: NEWS english - on March 8, 2007 at 11:44:00 AM CET
Captain America Dies on the Page
Captain America has undertaken his last mission at least for now.
The venerable superhero is killed in the issue of his namesake comic that hit stands Wednesday, the New York Daily News reported. On the new edition's pages, a sniper shoots down the shield-wielding hero as he leaves a courthouse.
It ends a long run for the stars-and-stripes-wearing character, created in 1941. Over the years, some 210 million copies of Captain America comic books, published by New York-based Marvel Entertainment Inc., have been sold in 75 countries.
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Topic: FUN - on March 8, 2007 at 11:28:00 AM CET
Some ironic ad placement.
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Topic: SECURITY - on March 8, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CET
How to clone a biometric passport while it's still in the bag
They are the "safest ever", according to the Government. But the Daily Mail has revealed how easily a person’s identity can be stolen from new biometric passports.
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Topic: SECURITY - on March 8, 2007 at 11:04:00 AM CET
Italy tops global wiretap league
Britain may have more CCTV cameras per head than anywhere else in the world but when it comes to electronic surveillance the country is way behind Italy, the Netherlands and even Sweden.
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Topic: e-bay - on March 8, 2007 at 11:01:00 AM CET
eBay goes hacker hunting in Romania
More than two months after breaching eBay's employee servers, a hacker who calls himself Vladuz remains at large, despite the best efforts of the online auctioneer's security team and officials with law enforcement agencies in the US and eastern Europe.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 8, 2007 at 10:40:00 AM CET
Cuban gets stuck into YouTube, demands it squeals
When Google bought YouTube last year, Cuban famously sniped the $1.65bn swoop was "moronic". The attention deficit disorder-pleasing video vault's popularity was utterly dependent on illegal distribution of copyrighted material, he asserted.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 8, 2007 at 10:29:00 AM CET
Turkish court bans YouTube access
Access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube has been suspended in Turkey following a court order.
The ban was imposed after prosecutors told the court that clips insulting former Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk had appeared on the site.
Following up on news today that the government of Turkey has blocked YouTube, an anonymous Turkish BoingBoing reader shares some background.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 8, 2007 at 10:27:00 AM CET
Sony unveils its new 3D universe
Sony is hoping to replicate the success of social networks and Second Life with a feature called Home.
Playstation 3 gamers will be able to meet, chat and share content with friends inside a 3D universe.
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Topic: NATURE - on March 8, 2007 at 10:21:00 AM CET
'Lost' bird found after 140 years
A bird species not seen for almost 140 years has been rediscovered in Thailand, conservationists confirmed today.
The large-billed reed warbler, described by the charity Birdlife International as "the world's least-known bird", was first discovered in India in 1867 when a single specimen was collected in the Sutlej valley.
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Topic: Terror - on March 8, 2007 at 10:08:00 AM CET
Dolphins Massacre in Japan
WARNING: If you love animals (and dolphins in particular), this WILL disturb you!
Every winter, thousands of dolphins are confined and brutally killed in small towns across Japan. Fishermen often injure a few captives by spear thrust or knife slash to retain the group since dolphins never abandon injured family members. Dolphin meat are later marketed and often mislabeled as whale meat. Very Graphical.Warning, the images in this video are highly disturbing!
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