Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 4, 2007 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
Blame It On Nick Nolte
Perhaps Nick Nolte started a trend. What else could explain the preponderance of Hawaiian shirts appearing these days in mug shots? As seen on the following 11 pages, recent arrestees have been photographed in an apparent homage to the wild-haired actor. Of course, had any of these guys cracked a smile while posing for their booking photo, they might have appeared in last week's roundup of giddy perps.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 4, 2007 at 11:27:00 AM CEST
One Hundred Percent Off
This Faberge egg from amazon is too good a deal to pass up.
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Topic: TV - on June 4, 2007 at 11:20:00 AM CEST
Spying on the home front
In PBS's epidose of Frontline entitled "Spying on the Home Front", a good primer is developed for anyone who is interested in just one example of how the executive branch has ram shod over the Constitution and used every IT trick in the book to help them do it. If you haven't seen this episode, you need to watch it and think long and hard about the next time you use a credit card, do a search online, or browse alt.binaries.pictures.preteen. If you are already up to date on this topic, I still suggest you watch the episode for some interesting interviews. There's even additional footage that should make up anyone's mind about whether Al Gonzales is a slimeball or not.
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Topic: Green - on June 4, 2007 at 11:17:00 AM CEST
Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year
As noted, an all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. I thought I would do a little math and see what could be saved by moving a high volume site to the black format.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 4, 2007 at 11:16:00 AM CEST
Porn king offers $1m for US political sex scandal
Larry Flynt, who once ran for the White House under the slogan "a smut peddler who cares", yesterday sought to spread his own brand of love around in Washington by offering cash rewards for tales of sexual scandal.
In a full-page advertisement in yesterday's Washington Post, Mr Flynt, the publisher of Hustler magazine, offered a $1m (£500,000) reward for anyone willing to tell all about their affair with an elected official - and provide proof.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on June 4, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
Visualizing the Molecules that Cause Infectious Disease: Seeing with Supercomputers
Star Trek's "holodeck" has nothing on the visualizations of Mayo Clinic chemist, Dr. Yuan-Ping Pang. While the 3-D holographic chamber on the starship Enterprise projected imaginary interactive images, those of Dr. Pang's lab are all very real. They are scientific visualizations of molecules that cause infectious diseases; he creates them to show researchers what their quarry looks like. In this dimension of inner space, he is going where no one has gone before.
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Topic: health - on June 4, 2007 at 11:05:00 AM CEST
Tobacco's radiation dose far higher than leaves at Chernobyl
If nothing else, this should worry smokers: the radiation dose from radium and polonium found naturally in tobacco can be a thousand times more than that from the caesium-137 taken up by the leaves from the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on June 4, 2007 at 11:04:00 AM CEST
List of Google acquisitions
This is a listing of Google's corporate acquisitions, including acquisitions of both companies and individual products.
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