Topic: e-bay - on November 2, 2007 at 12:16:00 PM CET
Buy a Texas town on eBay
Bobby Cave, owner of a town called Albert, decided this year to sell. Then a friend mentioned the online auction site eBay Inc. Now, with the click of a mouse — and at least $2.5 million — Albert could be yours.
After spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up and restore the 13-acre town about 50 miles north of San Antonio, Cave said he’s ready to move on to his next venture.
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Topic: e-bay - on November 2, 2007 at 12:11:00 PM CET
Elvis is Alive Museum closing, contents for auction on EBay
If Elvis were here today, he might say: "Thank you, thank you very much" for the 17 years an odd Missouri outpost has been making the case the King never died.
But the burden of proof soon will fall on someone else's shoulders.
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Topic: PHOTO - on November 2, 2007 at 11:55:00 AM CET
Following The Sun
A panorama picture showing the Arctic Circle where the sun does not set during many days of the year.
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Topic: MAKE - on November 2, 2007 at 11:48:00 AM CET
Open-Source 3D Printer Lets Users Make Anything
Picture a 3D inkjet printer that deposits droplets of plastic, layer by layer, gradually building up an object of any shape. Fabbers have been around for two decades, but they've always been the pricey playthings of high-tech labs — and could only use a single material. A Fab at Home kit costs around $2400 and allows users to print anything from Hors d'Oeuvres to flashlights.
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Topic: WEB - on November 2, 2007 at 11:38:00 AM CET
Want To See How Pointless Shutting Down OiNK Was?
When the file sharing system OiNK was shut down last week, we pointed out how silly it was for the recording industry to go after such a site. The RIAA has been shutting down sites like that regularly for years, each time claiming that it was a significant blow against piracy... but then many more new services would pop up, each one more underground than the last, and the amount of file sharing would increase.
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Topic: WEB - on November 2, 2007 at 11:36:00 AM CET
Pirate Bay aims to sink BitTorrent
The buccaneers of Pirate Bay are working on a replacement for the BitTorrent protocol in fear their access to free music, video and software could be blocked by commercial interests.
The Swedish anti-copyright collective is building a new P2P system aimed at reducing the influence of BitTorrent's inventor Bram Cohen and the company he founded. The new protocol is also being designed to avoid malware, spam and the attentions of law enforcement.
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Topic: WEB - on November 2, 2007 at 11:34:00 AM CET
Cheat the Music Industry: Never Pay for Music
Despite the continual legal pursuit of music file-sharing "criminals" by the "RIAA ( )"<>, the ability to find great music and create a significant music library at virtually no cost is still quite feasible. So we'll start by dividing this into categories and giving a few examples of what we know. But it's up to you to fill in the blanks.
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Topic: NEWS english - on November 2, 2007 at 11:33:00 AM CET
A quantum theory of dreams?
A physicist claims to have come up with the first successful use of quantum theory to explain features of consciousness in research hailed as a landmark in efforts to bring mathematics to bear on the mysteries of the human mind.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 2, 2007 at 11:27:00 AM CET
Hingis fails cocaine test and makes hurried exit
Switzerland's Martina Hingis, five times a grand slam winner and the youngest No1 in modern tennis, revealed yesterday that she had tested positive for cocaine during this year's Wimbledon and was retiring immediately. "I have never taken drugs and I feel 100% innocent," Hingis said. "The reason I have come out with this is because I do not want to have a fight with anti-doping authorities."
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 2, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CET
Mexico calls cocaine seizure biggest in nation’s history
Mexican authorities said Thursday they had seized 23.6 metric tons (26 tons) of cocaine from a ship in the port city of Manzanillo in one of the biggest drug busts on record.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 2, 2007 at 11:05:00 AM CET
24 Tonnen Kokain in Mexiko beschlagmahnt
Die mexikanische Polizei hat auf einem Schiff im Hafen von Manzanillo 23,6 Tonnen Kokain beschlagnahmt. Es war den Angaben zufolge der größte Drogenfund in der Geschichte Mexikos.
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