Topic: PHOTO - on September 6, 2007 at 1:30:00 PM CEST
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Topic: PHOTO - on September 6, 2007 at 1:22:00 PM CEST
Li Wei
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Topic: NEWS - on September 6, 2007 at 1:14:00 PM CEST
D.C. Hands Out Defective Chinese Condoms
100,000 of Chinese-made condoms distributed by the city of Washington, D.C., have been returned because their packaging falls apart and expiration dates are unreadable. The rest of the 1 million Defective Condoms were not returned and may still be used.
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Topic: NEWS - on September 6, 2007 at 1:12:00 PM CEST
Chinatown's urban legend
One of Fresno's best-known urban legends isn't just a legend anymore: There really are tunnels under Chinatown.
A group working to preserve Chinatown is shining a light on what many considered to be just a rumor, opening the doors to a dimly lit network of basements and tunnels under Kern Street.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on September 6, 2007 at 1:03:00 PM CEST
3,000-year-old beehives found in Israel
Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.
The findings in the ruins of the city of Rehov this summer include 30 intact hives dating to around 900 B.C., archaeologist Amihai Mazar of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University told The Associated Press. He said it offers unique evidence that an advanced honey industry existed in the Holy Land at the time of the Bible.
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Topic: NEWS - on September 6, 2007 at 12:54:00 PM CEST
Ein Grab für alle Menschen
Die Große Pyramide dient potentiell jedem Menschen als Grab oder Erinnerungsstätte. Sie steht Angehörigen aller Nationalitäten und Religionen als ebenso monumentale wie preiswerte Grabstätte zur Verfügung. Wer nicht sein Urnengrab dort finden kann oder will, kann einen Erinnerungsstein für sich setzen lassen. Jedem steht es frei, seinen Stein zu gestalten, sei es mit Farben, Bildern oder als Relief. Stein um Stein wächst die Große Pyramide und kann das größte Bauwerk der menschlichen Kultur werden.
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Topic: NEWS - on September 6, 2007 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
Germans plan 578m-high überpyramid
A German consortium has announced its plan to build the world's largest structure - a 578m-high "Giant Pyramid", designed to offer paying customers the chance to "outlast personal physical existence", as the group's website puts it.
The plan is pretty simple: build a big pyramid where anyone willing to stump up about €700 can get a burial spot.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on September 6, 2007 at 12:43:00 PM CEST
Universal Sues Video-Sharer Veoh, Alleging Copyright Violations
Universal Music, the world's largest music company, filed suit in federal court Tuesday against Veoh Networks, a video- and file-sharing site, accusing it of massive copyright infringement that deprives the company and its artists of sales and royalties.
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Topic: WEB - on September 6, 2007 at 12:39:00 PM CEST
Save YouTube Videos To Your Hard Drive
YouTube and other video sharing sites provide endless hours of wholesome, time-wasting entertainment. But what if you want to watch movies without the browser? There's no direct or easy way to download YouTube videos from the site, but thankfully there are ways to make a local copy for personal use. A number of tools exist to save a video for playback on your computer, iPod, iPhone, PSP and even your boring old DVD player.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 6, 2007 at 12:37:00 PM CEST
Cover-up allegation over Chinese hackers
Ministers were accused yesterday of trying to cover up the extent of Chinese cyber-attacks on Whitehall and urged to adopt a more robust approach to Beijing about the incidents.
The Guardian yesterday reported that Chinese hackers, some believed to be from the People's Liberation Army, have been attacking the computer networks of British government departments. The attackers targeted the network at the Foreign Office and other departments.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 6, 2007 at 12:35:00 PM CEST
Hacker Marks 25th Anniversary of First Computer Virus
What began as a ninth-grade prank, a way to trick already-suspicious friends who had fallen for his earlier practical jokes, has earned Rich Skrenta notoriety as the first person ever to let loose a personal computer virus.
Although over the next 25 years, Skrenta started the online news business Topix, helped launch a collaborative Web directory now owned by Time Warner Inc.'s (TWX) Netscape and wrote countless other computer programs, he is still remembered most for unleashing the "Elk Cloner" virus on the world.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 6, 2007 at 10:55:00 AM CEST
Google Search Tricks
A few months back, I wrote an article on how to find files such as pdf, mp3 etc by using Google search engine but I now realized the article barely touched the surface. After rummaging through the Youtube, I found a nice tutorial that shows in detail on how to specifically find a particular file.
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