Topic: DRUGS - on October 26, 2007 at 5:51:00 PM CEST
Cannabis use down since legal change
Gordon Brown's plans to tighten the law on cannabis by increasing the penalties for possession suffered a fresh blow yesterday as the latest official figures showed the decision to downgrade the drug had been followed by a significant fall in its use.
British Crime Survey statistics showed that the proportion of 16- to 24-year-olds using cannabis slumped from 28% a decade ago to 21% now, with its declining popularity accelerating after the decision to downgrade the drug to class C was announced in January 2004.
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Topic: PHOTO - on October 26, 2007 at 5:44:00 PM CEST
USA - Coast Guard
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Topic: WEB - on October 26, 2007 at 10:30:00 AM CEST
Myths and Facts of OiNK's Takedown
The dismantling of OiNK generated an enormous amount of coverage for the file-sharing community. The private BitTorrent website was one of the largest private websites online with over 180,000 members. Currently, the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) has claimed responsibility for the take down of the website and the administrator was arrested at his flat (as the BBC report clearly showed).
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Topic: WEB - on October 26, 2007 at 10:28:00 AM CEST
Oink founder: We're just like Google
Mr Ellis declined to comment on whether users had made financial “donations” to the site.
Mr Ellis was contracted to work as an IT consultant for Virgin Media’s contact centre in nearby Stockton-on-Tees, but was dismissed on the day of his arrest.
He told The Daily Telegraph: “I haven’t done anything wrong. I don’t believe my website breaks the law. They don’t understand how it works.
"The website is very different from how the police are making it out to be. There is no music sold on the site - I am doing nothing wrong.
"When I set up the site I didn’t think I was doing anything illegal and I still don’t. There are 180,000 users and there has been an outcry about what has happened to me.
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Topic: Universe - on October 26, 2007 at 10:17:00 AM CEST
Hundreds of Black Holes Found
Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away.
The massive, growing black holes, discovered by NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes, represent a large fraction of a long-sought missing population. Their discovery implies there were hundreds of millions of additional black holes growing in our young universe, more than doubling the total amount known at that distance.
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Topic: PHOTO - on October 26, 2007 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
Elephant stomps to photo victory
A picture of a large bull elephant kicking and spraying mud in a Botswana water-hole has won the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.
Ben Osborne's image was captured during a three-week stake-out on location in the Chobe National Park
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Topic: History - on October 26, 2007 at 10:08:00 AM CEST
Che Guevara hair lock sold for $100,000
A hair lock snipped from Ernesto "Che" Guevara before his burial in 1967 sold for $100,000 at auction Thursday to a Houston-area bookstore owner who called the Marxist "one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century."
Bill Butler, 61, won the 3-inch tress clipped from Guevara's mane after placing the only bid, which matched the reserve price.
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Topic: MUSIK - on October 26, 2007 at 10:00:00 AM CEST
The World's 15 Sexiest Speakers Put Your Girlfriend to Shame
Home audio speakers are designed to sound great, but many designers take it to the next level and create something so sexy that people can't help but stare in awe at these works of art. The price of many of these sexy speakers exceeds that of high-end luxury cars and even homes in some cases. The fifteen loudspeakers below from all over the world are what we consider to be the sexiest speakers of all time. Enjoy the pictures and try not to drool on your keyboard.
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Topic: MUSIK - on October 26, 2007 at 9:58:00 AM CEST
Sex Pistols artist to return to college
An anarchist artist who designed the cover for punk band The Sex Pistols' seminal debut album will be returning to his roots.
Jamie Reid, who enrolled at the Croydon Art School in 1965, designed the now iconic artwork for the some of the band's best known releases including Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, and the singles Anarchy in the UK, God Save The Queen, Pretty Vacant and Holidays in the Sun.
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