Topic: Terror - on May 18, 2007 at 1:42:00 PM CEST
EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2007
A large number of various types of terrorist organisations have an active presence in the EU. Some of them aim at Member States or Third State targets situated in Member States, whereas some others who conduct their campaigns mainly outside the EU, use the EU as their logistical base or for fundraising.
Altogether 498 attacks were carried out in the EU in 2006.The vast majority of them resulted in limited material damage and were not intended to kill. However, the failed attack in Germany and the foiled London plot demonstrate that Islamist terrorists also aim at mass casualties.
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Topic: ART - on May 18, 2007 at 1:30:00 PM CEST
Banksy Was Here
The British graffiti artist Banksy likes pizza, though his preference in toppings cannot be definitively ascertained. He has a gold tooth. He has a silver tooth. He has a silver earring. He’s an anarchist environmentalist who travels by chauffeured S.U.V. He was born in 1978, or 1974, in Bristol, England—no, Yate. The son of a butcher and a housewife, or a delivery driver and a hospital worker, he’s fat, he’s skinny, he’s an introverted workhorse, he’s a breeze-shooting exhibitionist given to drinking pint after pint of stout. For a while now, Banksy has lived in London: if not in Shoreditch, then in Hoxton. Joel Unangst, who had the nearly unprecedented experience of meeting Banksy last year, in Los Angeles, when the artist rented a warehouse from him for an exhibition, can confirm that Banksy often dresses in a T-shirt, shorts, and sneakers. When Unangst is asked what adorns the T-shirts, he will allow, before fretting that he has revealed too much already, that they are covered with smudges of white paint.
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Topic: ART - on May 18, 2007 at 1:16:00 PM CEST
Eduardor Relero's Chalk Drawings
Eduardor Relero has made these amazing chalk drawings in the streets of Spain. However, this don't look like your average Julian Beever drawings, each one could contain a hidden message about poverty or death such as "Amnesty International", but I'm stumped for what these pictures could mean. I especially like the rich man or women holding the gun, it took me a while to see that. I also like the baby head and the skull drawings because they're done so well! I appreciate the skull one more though, because if you look closely at the background the sun appears to be right above the drawing, but the drawing itself seems to create its own light source. How amazing is that?
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Topic: NEWS - on May 18, 2007 at 1:12:00 PM CEST
Pair of Melons sell for 2 Million
A pair of melons from the Japanese city of Yubari — better known lately for going bankrupt than for its farm produce — fetched a record 2 million yen at the season’s first auction on Tuesday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 18, 2007 at 1:11:00 PM CEST
Bud Bundy Busted For Pot!
David Faustino, The 33-year-old actor best known for playing "Bud Bundy" on TV's "Married With Children," was arrested Saturday on pot possession and disorderly intoxication charges. Actually, we should say only known for the "Married" show. He hasn't done shit since.
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Topic: DRUGS - on May 18, 2007 at 1:09:00 PM CEST
8-Year-Old Finds Pot In Happy Meal
Keith and Andrea Irelan got quite a surprise on Monday night when they went through a McDonald's drive-thru in suburban Chicago and ordered three Happy Meals for their children.
One of the packages contained a bag of marijuana. But the Irelans didn't notice that until after they got to a nearby park for a picnic. That's when their 8-year-old daughter noticed a few odd things in her package.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 18, 2007 at 12:16:00 PM CEST
Google overhauls main search page
Google is overhauling its search system so it returns "universal" results not just those from webpages.
The change means users will also get results from news sites, blogs, video services and other relevant places.
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Topic: WEB - on May 18, 2007 at 12:15:00 PM CEST
Global net censorship 'growing'
The level of state-led censorship of the net is growing around the world, a study of so-called internet filtering by the Open Net Initiative suggests.
The study of thousands of websites across 120 Internet Service Providers found 25 of 41 countries surveyed showed evidence of content filtering.
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Topic: ROBOT - on May 18, 2007 at 12:11:00 PM CEST
Robot Soccer Competition
Students and designers for the Harbin Institute of Technology Robot Soccer Team watch a match in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province, May 14, 2007. The 8th National Robot Soccer Competition recently kicked off in the city, attracting 86 teams from across the country. The winners will represent China at the Federation of International Robot-soccer Association World Cup in San Francisco on June 13.
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Topic: WEB - on May 18, 2007 at 12:09:00 PM CEST
More Firefox Bloat? Say It Ain't So, Mozilla
When Firefox launched in beta release five years ago, it burst on the open-source browser scene like a young Elvis Presley -- slim, sexy and dangerous.
Since then it has attracted millions of users, generally set the agenda for browser development and unseated Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the de facto monopoly in the field. But, with Firefox 3.0 poised for release later this year, the "IE killer" is in danger of morphing into an early Fat Elvis, if increasing numbers of die-hard fans turned reluctant critics are any guide.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on May 18, 2007 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
Let There Be Light
The sun is always shining somewhere in Innsbruck. Unless, of course, somebody turns it off. That's because the Austrian city has the Bartenbach LichtLabor artificial sky. Equipped with 3,000 computer-controlled fluorescent, halogen, and LED bulbs, the 14-foot-tall dome can simulate daylight conditions - from a clear summer morning to a stormy winter afternoon - anywhere on Earth.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 18, 2007 at 12:00:00 PM CEST
Sea monster cast ashore
Details are sketchy on these photographs of what is being labeld a Mystery Giant Marine Turtle (or is it a decomposing whale), thusfar, other than they are a record of a body from a recent Pacific Ocean beaching. Look for updates, but, for now, I wanted to rush these photos here, for your attention.
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