Topic: NEWS - on April 26, 2007 at 2:59:00 PM CEST
Ewe've been conned ladies
THOUSANDS of rich women were conned by a firm into believing LAMBS were valuable miniature POODLES.
Entire flocks were imported to Japan from the UK and Australia then sold by the internet company as the latest “must have” pet.
The bizarre scam was rumbled when Japanese movie star Maiko Kawakami complained on a talk show that her new poodle refused to bark or eat dog food.
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Topic: NETZ Tools - on April 26, 2007 at 12:56:00 PM CEST
Your credit card details please
Amazing
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Topic: NEWS english - on April 26, 2007 at 12:51:00 PM CEST
Pensioner making tea is unharmed as house explodes around him
A pensioner had a miracle escape when a gas blast destroyed his home while he stood in the kitchen - and walked away unharmed.
Pensioner Jimmy Brown, 70, had just returned from a walk with his dog Bessie when he lit a gas ring to make a cup of tea - and his 500-year-old stone cottage exploded.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on April 26, 2007 at 11:58:00 AM CEST
The Month-Long Party Begins: Happy Birthday, Star Wars
On a sidewalk far, far away, outside the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre, fanboys showed up in numbers but not in costumes Monday night for the 30th-anniversary screening of Star Wars. Notably missing from the sold-out show? Wookiees and Princess Leias in metal bikinis.
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Topic: POLITIK - on April 26, 2007 at 11:51:00 AM CEST
Contest: imitate the CA Governor issuing a warning
My nine-year-old daughter met Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on a class trip to Sacramento. He met with the students for about 20 minutes, and told them that one of his favorite acting roles was playing Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin.
He also handed out photos to the kids. He looks very serious in the photo, and the sticker on the back has a similarly serious warning:
I don't want to break the Governor's rules by holding a promotional contest for the funniest photoshop alteration of the Governor's photo. But ....
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Topic: SPY - on April 26, 2007 at 11:49:00 AM CEST
Heir 'hired firm to spy on wife'
American banking heir Matthew Mellon paid private detectives to hack into the e-mails of his estranged wife prior to their divorce, a court was told.
He asked the "Hackers Are Us" branch of Active Investigation Services (AIS) to snoop on spouse Tamara, head of the Jimmy Choo shoe empire, jurors heard.
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Topic: SPY - on April 26, 2007 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Detective agency 'paid to spy'
A private detective firm earned tens of thousands of pounds by hacking into people's computers and bugging telephones, a court has heard.
Active Investigation Services (AIS) had a number of "lucrative sidelines" under the title "Hackers Are Us", Southwark Crown Court was told.
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Topic: TV - on April 26, 2007 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
The End of Broadcast TV
No homage to the annual NAB confab, held last week in Las Vegas, would be complete without invoking the "end of broadcast TV" cliché. Today, though, it's time to tune in to a new take on that old story.
The over-expounded media dinosaur extinction theory usually implies the word "broadcast" as a synonym for linear, or time-based television. In other words, the hypothesis covers the terminal trajectory of tuning into a program on the television set at a scheduled air time. No shocker there.
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Topic: MAKE - on April 26, 2007 at 11:41:00 AM CEST
Inkjet Printed Film Process
Video frames printed onto transparency film and cut down to Super 8 or 16mm film dimensions
Introduction
In the fall of 2005, I had an idea to make a small film projector out of a VHS cassette, as a mash-up of video and film sensibilites. I thought 16mm film could be used, or if this was unavailable, content would be printed on a strip of plastic. This project was not pursued due to a lack of enthusiasm.
However, during the summer of 2006, I was driving to work and it hit me: Print out Super 8 film itself and use a standard movie projector for playback.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 26, 2007 at 11:40:00 AM CEST
RIAA Seriously Smacked Down (Again) By Judge
The RIAA's track record in court hasn't been so great lately. After being forced to drop various lawsuits once it was pointed out to the RIAA that the suits were targeted incorrectly, the RIAA has tried (and failed) to get out of paying the legal fees of those they incorrectly sued. The latest ruling comes from a judge who already told the RIAA it needed to pay fees. Now he's reaffirmed the decision and explained it quite clearly to the RIAA. The quotes are absolutely worth reading at that link, as the judge highlights the fact that copyright isn't solely for the benefit of the content creator/owner, but for enriching the public domain, and that gives anyone accused of infringement strong defenses to their use of the content.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 26, 2007 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Virus Writers Taint Google Ad Links
Virus writers have been gaming Google's "sponsored links" -- the paid ads shown alongside search engine results. They are aiming to get their malicious software installed on computers whose users click onto ad links after searching for legitimate sites such as BBBonline.org, the official Web site of the Better Business Bureau.
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Topic: Phone - on April 26, 2007 at 11:34:00 AM CEST
10 Skype tips for the Advanced
Riny Heijdendaal, Harry van Oosterveen, Dorine Ruter and Simon Koolwijk have shared some skype tips, so together it makes for a list of 10 Skype tips for the Advanced skype user.
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