Topic: NAUTICAL - on May 2, 2007 at 2:14:00 PM CEST
Soundwaves
The Sea Organ is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first pipe organ that is played by the sea. Simple and elegant steps, carved in white stone, were built on the quayside. Underneath, there are 35 pipes with whistle openings on the sidewalk. The movement of the sea pushes air through, and – depending on the size and velocity of the wave – musical chords are played. The waves create random harmonic sounds.
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Topic: VIDEO - on May 2, 2007 at 1:34:00 PM CEST
BBC to launch on-demand media
Britain's publicly-funded broadcaster the BBC is to launch a range of web-based on-demand TV and audio services which could revolutionize the way people watch television.
The BBC Trust, which oversees the corporation, said on Monday it had approved the service after examining the public demand and any impact it would have on commercial rivals.
Broadcaster Channel 4 said on Monday that its on-demand service had been used by "well over" one million people watching a total of 20 million programs since it was launched six months ago, far exceeding expectations.
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Topic: VIDEO - on May 2, 2007 at 1:29:00 PM CEST
VBS.TV - Your Utopian Internet TV
VBS.TV is an online broadcast network. They stream original content, free of charge and 24 hours a day. They carry a mix of domestic and international news, pop and underground culture coverage, and the best music in the world. People have used words like eclectic, smart, funny, shocking, and revolutionary to describe VBS, but we kind of just snapped our fingers in their faces and went, “Whatever. Tell us something we don’t know.”
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Topic: COMPUTER - on May 2, 2007 at 1:22:00 PM CEST
One man writes Linux drivers for 235 USB webcams
A LONE HOBBYIST programmer sitting at his home in France is responsible for adding 235 USB webcams to the list of those supported by Linux. He tells the INQUIRER about this often unknown and unrecognised achievement.
Near three years ago, I purchased the cheapest USB webcams - actually, pair - I could find at the time, without taking into consideration whether those webcams worked with Linux or not. I ran one desktop PC with Win2K and one of the webcams was plugged to that box. I quickly found out several things: first, "Made in China" webcams surely are cheap, but that comes at a price of often having no support web site, no physical address of the manufacturer, and no updates to its drivers. The Win2K drivers for the "DigiGR8" 301P had apparently a memory leak under Win2k, forcing me to reboot the win2k box on a daily basis. Basically it just stopped working after a dozen hours of continuous use, and rebooting was the only solution.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 2, 2007 at 1:17:00 PM CEST
Criminalising the consumer
IS IT legal to make a copy of that DVD you’ve just bought so the family can watch it around the home or in the car? In one of the most watched copyright cases in recent years, a judge in northern California ruled last month that copying DVDs for personal use was legal, given the terms of the industry’s licence and the way the copies were made.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 2, 2007 at 1:06:00 PM CEST
20 tons of hashish recovered in Almería
Three Civil Guards have been arrested among a total number of 39 detained in an anti-drug operation in Almería.
20 tons of hashish was recovered as an international drug running group was broken up.
The gang ran the drugs from Morocco to Almería and had the collaboration of certain members of the Civil Guard to protect them.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 2, 2007 at 1:04:00 PM CEST
Marijuana triggers psychotic symptoms, doctors say
New findings on marijuana's damaging effect on the brain show the drug triggers temporary psychotic symptoms in some people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors say.
British doctors took brain scans of 15 healthy volunteers given small doses of two of the active ingredients of cannabis, as well as a placebo.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 2, 2007 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
Hashish the cause of plugged courthouse toilet
Courthouse maintenance workers responding to a complaint about a clogged toilet found 14 kilograms of hashish in a pipe leading from a restroom used by prisoners, officials said Monday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 2, 2007 at 12:59:00 PM CEST
Prayers answered with pot
Often people pray to make a request or seek guidance. Confusing times then for a Kentucky congregation, who returned to their cars after a prayer service to find bags or marijuana on their car windscreens.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 2, 2007 at 12:37:00 PM CEST
Colombia cuts drugs haul figure
The authorities in Colombia have revised the total of drugs seized in a haul on Monday from around 25 tonnes of cocaine to just over 13 tonnes.
It was found in 1,000 separate packages near the town of Pizarro, west of the capital, Bogota, buried in an estuary accessible only by sea.
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Topic: War and Peace - on May 2, 2007 at 11:43:00 AM CEST
Who Killed Cryptome.org?
It's the one secret radical open information activist John Young can't crack: what drove his ISP, Verio/NTT, to finally pull the plug on his website, Cryptome.org, where for years he's posted every sensitive document, photo or map he could get his hands on.
Young -- a 72-year-old architect in New York -- has hosted countless government documents with the "For Official Use Only" markings intact; exposed the names of long-ago CIA collaborators; the alleged identities of current British intelligence agents; compiled a travelogue-style guide to the Pennsylvania mountain believed to be the vice president's "undisclosed location"; and even put up a map showing where major Manhattan gas pipelines are buried, which he posted ahead of the Republican National Convention in New York.
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Topic: VIDEO - on May 2, 2007 at 11:29:00 AM CEST
Joost opens online video service
Joost, the on-demand online video service backed by the founders of Skype, has launched commercially.
The internet television service boasts more than 150 content channels - from cartoons to music videos and films.
Services like Joost may change the way viewers consume media and revolutionise the business model of broadcasters.
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