Topic: DRUGS - on May 9, 2007 at 1:39:00 PM CEST
Jim Jones exclusive new video "Lockdown,USA"
On the 34th anniversary of the harshest drug laws in the world being passed in NY -- the Rockefeller Drug Laws -- Hip Hop megastar Jim Jones' releases a new song calling for the laws to come to an end. Dipset Capo releases Lockdown, USA" which is featured in the upcoming documentary "Lockdown, USA", directed by Rebecca Chaiklin and Michael Skolnik about Russell Simmons' campaign to end the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
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Topic: VIDEO - on May 9, 2007 at 12:08:00 PM CEST
Guy catches glasses with face
No hands! No Joke.
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 9, 2007 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
Prince to play an unprecedented 21 shows in London this summer
Prince is to perform his greatest hits for the last time at a massive London residency this summer.
The star will perform for 21 nights, kicking off with seven shows at the 02 Arena on August 1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 11 and 14.
Tickets for what is being billed as the Earth Tour go on sale at 9am on Friday (May 11).
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on May 9, 2007 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Vienna library launches erotica hotline
This isn't the typical whispering you might expect to hear at a library. Vienna's City Hall has launched a "sex hotline" to raise money for the capital's main public library, officials said Tuesday.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 9, 2007 at 11:59:00 AM CEST
Swiss solar-powered boat completes fuel-free Atlantic voyage
A Swiss-built solar-powered vessel arrived in New York City on Tuesday on what the group behind the project said was the first sun-powered voyage across the Atlantic.
Dubbed "sun21," the catamaran reached North Cove Marina after a journey of six months and some 13,000 kilometres from Chipiona, Spain, to the Caribbean island Martinique and then along the U.S. East Coast to New York, the Switzerland-based group transatlantic21 said in a statement.
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Topic: Universe - on May 9, 2007 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
Huge star explodes in brightest supernova yet seen
A gargantuan explosion ripped apart a star perhaps 150 times more massive than our sun in a relatively nearby galaxy in the most powerful and brightest supernova ever observed, astronomers said on Monday.
And there is one such star in our own Milky Way galaxy that appears to be on the brink of dying in just such a supernova.
The exploding star's dramatic death may have come in a rare type of supernova reserved for "freakishly massive" stars that astronomers had speculated about but never previously witnessed.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 9, 2007 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
Curbs on public satellite photos may be needed
The director of a little-known U.S. spy agency that analyzes imagery from the skies says that the increasing availability of commercial satellite photos may require the government to restrict distribution.
"If there was a situation where any imagery products were being used by adversaries to kill Americans, I think we should act," Vice Adm. Robert Murrett, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, said Tuesday in a rare interview at his office in Bethesda, Md.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 9, 2007 at 11:08:00 AM CEST
Film piracy mushrooming in Canada
About 1 in 5 bootlegs worldwide originates from that nation. Studios begin to cancel preview screenings.
Hollywood is singing a new tune in its fight against movie theft: "Oh no, Canada."
Piracy north of the border has exploded in the two years since Congress made it a crime to use video recording devices to copy movies in U.S. theaters, according to industry officials. But with piracy laws more relaxed in Canada, bootleggers can operate there almost risk free.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 9, 2007 at 11:04:00 AM CEST
Shipped off to a foreign jail for warez ( DoD )
The USA playing global sheriff isn't new, but the reach of US laws is extending. Hew Griffiths isn't a terrorist or a violent criminal, he didn't even make any money from his crime. He pirated some software, from his home in Australia. So why is he in jail in Virginia? Some think we might as well join 'em.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 9, 2007 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
Russian teacher fined for MS piracy
A Russian headteacher has been fined half a month's wages after being controversially found guilty of buying school PCs that ran unauthorised copies of Microsoft software.
Alexander Ponosov, who was fined $195, plans to appeal following his conviction on Monday at the end of his second trial for software piracy offences.
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Topic: WEB - on May 9, 2007 at 10:46:00 AM CEST
Germany investigates Second Life child pornography
German prosecutors have launched an investigation to track down anonymous participants of the virtual computer game Second Life who are reportedly buying sex with other players who pose as children, as well as offering child pornography for sale.
Investigators in the city of Halle are acting on specific information about a German Second Life player, or avatar, who put child pornography images up for sale and paid for sex with underage players or players posing as minors.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 9, 2007 at 10:24:00 AM CEST
Urinals With Views
I hate reading the ads that marketing companies post over some urinals. I would much rather have something else to look at -- like a skyline view. Here's a round-up of 13 of the world's best (urinal) views.
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