Topic: STRANGE - on August 13, 2007 at 11:57:00 AM CEST
Drunken German joyrider kills 300 chickens
Three hundred chickens died in panic early on Sunday when a drunken German teenager on a joyride crashed a van into their shed, police said.
"Apparently some of the chickens were so desperate to get away that they ran into the wall and died," the spokesman said. "Others suffered heart attacks."
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Topic: NATURE - on August 13, 2007 at 11:53:00 AM CEST
Worlds Weirdest Animals and Creatures
Our planet Earth is populated well enough with bizarre and astonishing creatures without the need for resorting to fiction. Some are rare — some are on the verge of extinction.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 13, 2007 at 11:50:00 AM CEST
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 13, 2007 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
Man plans record skydive from edge of space
A retired French army colonel is aiming to take a stratospheric leap into the record books by completing a 1000mph skydive from the edge of space.
Aiming to become the first human being to break the sound barrier in free-fall, Michel Fournier will ascend to an altitude of 25 miles in a helium-filled weather balloon before plunging to earth at supersonic speed.
After years of training, millions of pounds of funding and numerous thwarted attempts, the daredevil Frenchman is expected to make the jump over the Saskatchewan plains in Canada next month.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 13, 2007 at 11:44:00 AM CEST
Behind the Hits
Ever wonder what inspired some of your favorite songs? Here are a few inside stories about popular tunes.
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Topic: VIDEO - on August 13, 2007 at 11:40:00 AM CEST
Frank Zappa - Celebrate His Entire Catalog [video]
Frank Zappa' was so many different things { Mother of Invention, orchestra conductor, garage freak, SNL musical guest, anti-censorship advocate, home movie maker, Congressional witness, Monkee, documentary film subject, whipping boy, drug trafficker, late-night TV talk show interviewee, death wisher, composer, Dance Fever judge, master of his domain, dental floss tycoon, cosmic force, breast man, Crossfire combatant and The Walrus, among others } that the one day he was recently given by Baltimore's Mayor hardly seems enoughs.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 13, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM CEST
UN's website breached by hackers
Hackers have attacked the United Nations official website, forcing some sections to be taken offline.
Slogans accusing the US and Israel of killing children appeared on the pages reserved for statements from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on August 13, 2007 at 11:29:00 AM CEST
Videodrohnen für jedermann
Ferngesteuerte Überwachungsdrohnen sind ein beliebtes Spielzeug von Polizei, Geheimdiensten - und Hackern. Auf dem Chaos Communication Camp zeigten Freunde des fliegenden Geräts, was man mit einem Quadrocopter, einem GPS-Empfänger und einer Mini-Videokamera so alles anstellen kann.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on August 13, 2007 at 11:24:00 AM CEST
Filmmakers Chase Their Dream -- on a Segway
Josh Caldwell and Hunter Weeks were bored with their cubicle-farm jobs, making good money but feeling empty and unfulfilled. Like many white-collar workers, they dreamed of a life beyond the veal-fattening pens. But unlike most, they found a unique way to bust out of their corporate prison: They rode a Segway, at 10 mph, from Seattle to Boston, and in the process turned themselves into filmmakers.
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Topic: PHOTO - on August 13, 2007 at 11:22:00 AM CEST
Sloooow-Dancing at 3,000 Frames Per Second
Time flies when you're having fun. Unless you're photographer David Michalek. Then it practically stands still. The proof is in Michalek's latest project, Slow Dancing, which was on view this summer outside the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center. On a rainy Manhattan night, Michalek explains to me what he had to go through to create his epic work of art — super-slow-motion, hi-def films of 45 dancers leaping, pirouetting, and stomping. The images are projected on three screens, each five stories high.
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