Topic: NEWS - on April 12, 2007 at 2:24:00 PM CEST
Oops - Dropping £45,000 piano 'was the worst thing that's ever happened to me'
A removal man who let a £45,000 concert piano slip off the back of his lorry and plunge down a bank described the monumental gaffe as "the worst thing that's ever happened to me".
Brian Haigh made a humiliating public apology to the instrument's owner and told how the experience left him lost for words.
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Topic: NEWS english - on April 12, 2007 at 2:22:00 PM CEST
Thai king pardons spray-painting Swiss man
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej has pardoned the Swiss man sentenced to 10 years' jail for defacing images of the revered monarch, the BBC reports.
Oliver Jufer was recently sentenced to a lengthy spell in chokey for spray-painting over images of Adulyadej in the city of Chiang Mai last December. He'd apparently been refused alcohol on the king's 79th birthday and took out his sobriety on portraits of Adulyadej.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 12, 2007 at 2:15:00 PM CEST
Charles Mingus Cat Toilet Training Program
First, you must train your cat to use a home-made cardboard litter box, if you have not already done so. (If your box does not have a one-piece bottom, add a cardboard that fits inside, so you have a false bottom that is smooth and strong. This way the box will not become soggy and fall out at the bottom. The grocery store will have extra flat cardboards which you can cut down to fit exactly inside your box.)
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Topic: Bastard pop - on April 12, 2007 at 12:47:00 PM CEST
Brewski TV!!
As well as being streamed on MashuptownTV, you'll also be able to watch my videos on my very own music video channel called Brewski TV!
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Topic: Bastard pop - on April 12, 2007 at 12:44:00 PM CEST
Tunes - Mash Up!!
Here are 2,747 mashups, or bastard pop, for you to enjoy. If you’d like to check out the complete song list, you can view it here.
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Topic: WEB - on April 12, 2007 at 12:41:00 PM CEST
Speed boost plan for file-sharing
Movies and music could be shared faster over the net thanks to a system pioneered by researchers in the US.
The speed of current services, like BitTorrent, is limited by the number of people sharing a specific file, such as a movie or song.
Similarity-Enhanced Transfer (SET) works by spotting chunks of identical data in files that are an exact or near match to the one needed.
Using SET the researchers have seen speed increases of up to 500%.
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Topic: Space - on April 12, 2007 at 12:39:00 PM CEST
US businessman makes $9m selling lunar real estate
Dennis Hope has been claiming ownership of the Earth's Moon - and seven planets and their moons - for over 20 years. So far, he says he has sold more than 1.6m sq km (400 million acres) netting him $9m (£4.5m). A further eight billion acres are still up for grabs.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 12, 2007 at 12:36:00 PM CEST
Darfur genocide mapped from space
Google and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum today launched the "Crisis in Darfur" Google Earth initiative which offers users a handy guide to the systematic destruction of the Darfur region of Sudan as a result of an ongoing conflict between local rebel groups and pro-government militias.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 12, 2007 at 12:30:00 PM CEST
Police raid ex-Rastafarian temple
Police have arrested 23 people during a raid on a former Rastafarian temple in south London in the early hours.
About 60 armed officers targeted St Agnes Place in Kennington, just after 0300 following suspicions of "serious criminality" at the site.
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Topic: NEWS english - on April 12, 2007 at 11:50:00 AM CEST
Kurt Vonnegut - RIP
American author Kurt Vonnegut combines satiric social commentary and black comedy with surrealist and science fictional elements. His best known works are Player Piano (1952), Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969; film, 1972), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). Known for his outspoken political opinions, Vonnegut has also produced a host of essays, articles, and short stories. A number of his works have been translated into television or film, and he has graced a few of these with cameo appearances. Vonnegut is also a graphic artist, and has illustrated a number of his works himself.
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