Topic: Online-Fahndung - on November 26, 2007 at 3:31:00 PM CET
Schnüffelhilfe vom Staat
Die Diskussion um die Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist längst nicht beendet: Die Musikindustrie freut sich über Schützenhilfe vom Bundesrat. Der will auch Firmen Zugriff auf Bürgerdaten erlauben - und diese länger speichern lassen. Das und mehr im Überblick.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 26, 2007 at 3:25:00 PM CET
Red alert: Amy Winehouse's scarlet nose hints that recent troubles are taking their toll
She's said to be on the verge of finally going to rehab - and as these pictures show Amy Winehouse is in dire need of it.
With a cigarette hanging out of her mouth and her bony frame unsightly in a tiny dress, the troubled singer frightened fans with her appearance on Saturday night.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 26, 2007 at 3:22:00 PM CET
Thanksgiving für Cannabis
Für das Panoptikum zeichnet Steven Hager verantwortlich, der 1987 Chefredakteur der „High Times“ wurde und den „Cannabis Cup“ sogleich ins Leben rief. Hager nennt diesen ein Erntedankfest: „Es gibt ein Thanksgiving für Mais, Sojabohnen, Weizen, für alle Pflanzen der Erde. Also warum nicht für Cannabis?“ An der Wand hinter ihm hängt ein Poster von „Cannabacchus“, der Gottheit des Cannabis, die im vergangenen Jahr eigens für den „Cannabis Cup“ geschaffen wurde, wie Hager erläutert. Cannabacchus sieht aus wie eine Kreuzung aus Karl Marx, Salman Rushdie und dem Weihnachtsmann. Hager hingegen, man kann es nicht anders sagen, sieht aus wie das Klischee eines Kiffers - eines Kiffers allerdings, der seine besten Jahre weit, weit hinter sich gelassen hat.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 26, 2007 at 10:42:00 AM CET
World's First Fully Digital Accordion Boasts Self-Contained 51 Speaker System
The Roland FR-7 is touted as the world's first fully digital accordion, featuring a self-contained 51-speaker system, 40 programmable accordion tones, and 22 orchestral sounds. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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Topic: CARS - on November 26, 2007 at 10:18:00 AM CET
Bei Tempo 50 knödelt der Pneu
Um Autofahrer zur Einhaltung der Höchstgeschwindigkeit zu ermuntern, hat die zentraljapanische Provinz Aichi einen Tunnel mit besonderem Straßenbelag versehen. Bei Erreichen der Höchstgeschwindigkeit erzeugen die Reifen eine Melodie.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 26, 2007 at 10:00:00 AM CET
The Peace Drug
Post-traumatic stress disorder had destroyed Donna Kilgore's life. Then experimental therapy with MDMA, a psychedelic drug better known as ecstasy, showed her a way out. Was it a fluke -- or the future?
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 26, 2007 at 9:59:00 AM CET
Málaga lorry driver arrested for smuggling cargo of cannabis
A Málaga lorry driver is under custody in Toledo, after a police swoop on an industrial estate in Valmojado early on Saturday where five other suspects from Morocco were arrested as more than 18 tons of cannabis resin were being unloaded from his refrigerated lorry.
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Topic: food - on November 26, 2007 at 9:56:00 AM CET
Mari Miyazawa's lunchbox art
Ms. Miyazawa, one of the most recognized lunchbox artists in lunchbox art-crazy Japan, has hosted e-obento.com since 2004, guiding it to its preeminent position as one of the country's premier Internet destinations for all things bento-related.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 26, 2007 at 9:47:00 AM CET
Paint fragment from Belmont Art Park
This is an extreme closeup scan (2400 dpi) of a paint chip retrieved from the ruins of Belmont Art Park by Amy McKenzie earlier this year. The fragment is about 1cm thick, and appears to consist of about 150-200 layers of paint. (For a sense of scale, note the ridges of my fingerprint in the lower right.) This should give you an idea of the staggering number of pieces painted in this spot over the decades.
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 26, 2007 at 9:42:00 AM CET
How to spot someone who's not telling the truth
In a famous fairy story, Pinocchio's nose grew longer when he was telling a lie. Surprisingly, most of us give off signals when we are not being truthful which are just as obvious.
Personnel managers in companies are learning to look for these give-away signs to pick out dishonest employees. They hope to take credit for weeding out a future Nick Leeson, the man blamed for ruining Barings Bank, before their firm suffers a similar fate.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on November 26, 2007 at 9:40:00 AM CET
MI6 seeks budding Bonds through Radio 1
The Secret Intelligence Service, more commonly known as MI6, is mounting a recruitment drive this week to attract budding James Bonds, though without the licence to kill.
Like its sister agency, the domestic Security Service, MI5, it wants, in the words of an official, to "broaden its staff base" to "better reflect the ethnicity of the community we serve".
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Topic: ROBOT - on November 26, 2007 at 9:38:00 AM CET
Super Suit Gets Serious
Raytheon, the giant defense contractor, recently bought up Utah technology firm Sarcos' robotics business. And it wasn't because of Sarcos' work on the Bellagio's fountains, I suspect.
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