Topic: DRUGS - on August 31, 2007 at 1:28:00 PM CEST
16 arrests in Marbella and Sevilla as drug runners broken up
There were nine arrests on the Cabo Pino beach in Marbella 16 people have been arrested and 2.5 tons of hashish recovered by police in Málaga and Sevilla provinces.
There were 1,720 kilos of hashish pollen and 870 kilos of actual hashish.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 31, 2007 at 1:23:00 PM CEST
Student and Professor Build Budget Supercomputer
"This past winter Calvin College professor Joel Adams and then Calvin senior Tim Brom built Microwulf, a portable supercomputer with 26.25 gigaflops peak performance, that cost less than $2,500 to construct, becoming the most cost-efficient supercomputer anywhere that Adams knows of. "It's small enough to check on an airplane or fit next to a desk," said Brom. Instead of a bunch of researchers having to share a single Beowulf cluster supercomputer, now each researcher can have their own."
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Topic: CARS - on August 31, 2007 at 11:04:00 AM CEST
And the latest must-have? An office on four wheels
The iPod has transformed the lives of commuters, shielding them from fellow humans with a wall of sound. The iPhone is helping to make businessmen accessible around the clock. Now the iCar could become the Next Big Thing: essentially an attempt to create an office and entertainment centre on four wheels, further blurring boundaries between work and private life.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on August 31, 2007 at 11:04:00 AM CEST
Top 10 Famous Hoaxes
Throughout the years many people have perpetrated hoaxes - often for publicity, and sometimes just for the hell of it. Of all the hoaxes through history, the ten in this list are the most famous. In at least two cases (the Book of Mormon, and the Priory of Sion) millions of people have been fooled - or continue to be fooled!
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Topic: TV - on August 31, 2007 at 11:03:00 AM CEST
David Bowie to appear in Doctor Who?
Bowie, 60, has reportedly agreed to "cross swords" with the Time Lord after being approached by Who chiefs impressed with his 2006 outing as an inventor in The Prestige. There are no details of the storyline, apart from the suggestion that Bowie's character will get on the wrong side of the good Doctor by kidnapping writer Agatha Christie.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 31, 2007 at 11:00:00 AM CEST
KLF: Burn a Million Quid (video) and The Manual (e-book)
BB pal Michael W. Dean recently reminded us of the work of K Foundation, the UK anarcho-prankster duo who set about to become ginormous pop stars in the 1980s, and did just that as The KLF.
In 1988, members Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty self-published a book ("The Manual") with step-by-step instructions on how anyone might do exactly the same: PDF Link to a copy of "The Manual."
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Topic: PHOTO - on August 31, 2007 at 10:56:00 AM CEST
Hedgehog and cactus
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Topic: WEB - on August 31, 2007 at 10:53:00 AM CEST
Lucky and Flo Credited for US Piracy Bust
After being deployed in Malaysia, bootleg busting dogs Lucky and Flo have come the United States. So are their days of sniffing out plastic discs over? Will they now enjoy a doggie vacation in a dog spa? Hardly.
A recent bust in the Queens district of New York saw the seizure of "thousands" of pirated DVDs from three retail outlets from the Jamaica section of Queens. Operators of these operations were also arrested.
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Topic: POLITIK - on August 31, 2007 at 10:44:00 AM CEST
Reporters Without Borders Unveil New Posters
The human rights organization Reporters Without Borders rolled out a devastating series of posters, including this one, slamming repression in China, and this one, which rips into the 15 countries that don't allow citizens access to the Internet.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on August 31, 2007 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
Pirates on ATM
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