Topic: ART - on March 22, 2007 at 11:51:00 AM CET
Pierre Matter - Sculptures
“Impressive these sculptures of this artist, are of great format, very beautiful and a little I am strange. Mixture, since Giger does, the sculpture with technological elements giving an appearance as of cyborg to its work.
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Topic: ART - on March 22, 2007 at 11:41:00 AM CET
Lemon Marilyn may fetch $19m
A US collector who bought an Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 for $US250 ($312) is offering the painting for sale in May and can expect to fetch over $US15 million ($18.7 million), auctioneers Christie's said on Monday.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 22, 2007 at 11:28:00 AM CET
Austria’s Five-Star Prison
If you look at these figures comparing crime in Austria and crime in the U.S. you’ll notice something odd: although the U.S. has higher crime rates in virtually every category (murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, etc…) the Austrians triumph in one category: burglary. But why? Why is the rate of burglaries in Austria a whopping 40% higher than in the U.S.? I’ll tell you why: because Austrian minimum security prisons are fucking awesome! If you’re in Austria, and have a working brain, you should be trying to get into one right now!
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 22, 2007 at 11:12:00 AM CET
Will Viacom Kill the Video Star?
The Viacom vs. YouTube throwdown got more interesting this week with the arrival of Mark Cuban at ringside.
"In aggregate, YouTube screwed up and they are in big trouble," he told Wired News Tuesday. "I think there is a very good chance that YouTube gets shut down for a period until they start filtering out copyrighted videos."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 22, 2007 at 11:10:00 AM CET
Oops! Techie wipes out $38 billion fund
Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.
That’s what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account — one of Alaska residents’ biggest perks — and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on March 22, 2007 at 11:03:00 AM CET
UCLA Scientists Create World's Smallest Alphabet
UCLA professor Thomas G. Mason and chemistry graduate student Carlos J. Hernandez produced microscale particles shaped like each letter of the alphabet. Graduate student James Wilking used "laser tweezers" to pick up the letters 'U, C, L, A' and move them in order "like skywriting in solution."
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Topic: SCIENCE - on March 22, 2007 at 10:59:00 AM CET
Organism Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex
A tiny creature that has not had sex for 100 million years has overturned the theory that animals need to mate to create variety.
Analysis of the jaw shapes of bdelloid rotifers, combined with genetic data, revealed that the animals have diversified under pressure of natural selection.
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Topic: TESLA - on March 22, 2007 at 10:55:00 AM CET
Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
Welcome to Nikola-Tesla-Banned*-Genius-1856-1943-Special-Study-Page
- Banned from most of our (scientific) History Books find out WHY !!!
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Topic: TESLA - on March 22, 2007 at 10:51:00 AM CET
Prodigal Genius Biography of Nikola Tesla
"SPECTACULAR" is a mild word for describing the strange experiment with life that comprises the story of Nikola Tesla, and "amazing" fails to do adequate justice to the results that burst from his experiences like an exploding rocket. It is the story of the dazzling scintillations of a superman who created a new world; it is a story that condemns woman as an anchor of the flesh which retards the development of man and limits his accomplishment--and, paradoxically, proves that even the most successful life, if it does not include a woman, is a dismal failure.
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Topic: TESLA - on March 22, 2007 at 10:38:00 AM CET
The Electric Wizard
On the 150th anniversary of the birth of brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla, Mark Pilkington explores the enigma of the man who lit up the world.
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