Friday, 19. October 2007

Amy Winehouse - Fun


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Amy Winehouse drug arrest in Norway


The 24-year-old was arrested with her husband Blake Fielder-Civil in a hotel bedroom for possessing and using marijuana - after police received a tip off.

According to a lawyer working with police in Bergen, the couple were detained overnight with a third person.

They were released around 7am after paying a fine of 500 euros (£350).

Amy Winehouse drug arrest in Norway

telegraph.co.uk

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Amy Winehouse wegen Drogenbesitz festgenommen


Die britische Popsängerin Amy Winehouse ist in Norwegen wegen Marihuanabesitzes vorübergehend in Polizeigewahrsam genommen worden.

tagesanzeiger.ch

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Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites


Further to our earlier story on visitors to Google Blogsearch being redirected to Baidu in China, new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu.

Digital Marketing Blog posts that all requests to Yahoo.com and sub-sites are being redirected to Baidu. Google Blogscoped forums indicate that Live.com is also being re-directed to Baidu, as well as confirming the Yahoo story and our earlier Google post. The re-direct would also appear to apply to YouTube.com.

Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites

techcrunch.com

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Oil prices touch above $90 level


Oil prices have broken through $90 a barrel for the first time, lifted by the low dollar and ongoing concerns over tensions in eastern Turkey.

US light crude rose to $90.02 in late Thursday trading in New York, before pulling back to $89.54 in early Friday trade in the Far East.

Oil prices touch above $90 level

bbc.co.uk opec.org

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Civil Guard drugs haul on Cádiz coast now up to 4.6 tons


Two separate operations on Tuesday night seized 1.2 and 3.4 tons of cannabis resin

typicallyspanish.com

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Tea O Matic


is a little helper to pull out tea colander, egg or sac, when the tea brewing time is over. Controled by a computer program it finishes tea brewing just in time - automatically.

Tea O Matic

ts.md-network.de

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10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers


«The Effect of Country Music on Suicide»

«Love and Sex with Robots»

«Rectal Foreign Bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World's Literature»

«Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans»

«Safe and Painless Manipulation of Penile Zipper Entrapment»

«Pressures Produced When Penguins Poo -- Calculations on Avian Defecation»

«Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread»

«Navigation-Related Structural Change In the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers»

«Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature»

10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers

«Impact of Wet Underwear on Thermoregulatory Responses and Thermal Comfort in the Cold»

oddee.com

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Heaviest Stellar Mass Black Hole Discovered


Black holes come in two varieties: supermassive and stellar. The supermassive variety can have millions of times the mass of a star, while the stellar varieties are usually just a few times the mass of a single sun. Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, astronomers have turned up the most massive stellar mass black hole ever seen, weighing in at 15.7 times the mass of the Sun, lurking in a nearby galaxy.

Heaviest Stellar Mass Black Hole Discovered

universetoday.com

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Internet Cookies/Internet... Thing


Xeni talks to Max Weinstein of stopbadware.org about Cookie Crumbles, a contest he's co-sponsoring with the Berkman Center at Harvard University.

tv.boingboing.net

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Big media gangs up on pirates, file sharers - Media companies in copyright pact, Google absent


A large group of media giants is poised to announce a new system for copyrighting content on t'internet.

The US edition of the Wall Street Journal reports CBS, Microsoft, News Corp's Fox and MySpace units, NBC, Viacom, and Walt Disney are all part of the group.

theregister.co.uk reuters.com

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'World's smallest radio' unveiled


The world's tiniest radio is a step closer to reality.

US scientists have unveiled a detector thousands of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair that can translate radio waves into sound.

bbc.co.uk

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