Topic: MUSIK - on December 21, 2007 at 11:52:00 AM CET
Fit To Burst! [mp3]
Fit to burst are a host of British comedians and comedy actors who all made records between 1959 and 1979. There was a tradition among British funny men (and women) to make records, not just replications of their act, but specially composed songs or comic covers of standards. Some are from singles others are album tracks. But I have opted for the more obscure. Some of these names may be familiar to you and need no introduction, others may not be so familiar.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 21, 2007 at 11:48:00 AM CET
Picasso stolen from Brazil museum
Thieves in Brazil have stolen two paintings said to be worth $100m (£50m) in a dawn raid on Latin America's most renowned museum.
Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, and The Coffee Worker by Brazil's Candido Portinari, were taken from the Museum of Art of Sao Paulo.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 21, 2007 at 11:45:00 AM CET
The Swiss Miss Who Stole Christmas
Residents in a small Swiss town expect a merrier Christmas now that local police have nabbed a woman suspected of stealing Christmas decorations from several gardens.
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Topic: SEX - on December 21, 2007 at 11:41:00 AM CET
Ogilvy and Mather's award winning Durex campaign
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 21, 2007 at 11:35:00 AM CET
Kaspersky false alarm quarantines Windows Explorer
A faulty signature update from Kaspersky Lab on Wednesday flagged up Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) as infected with a low-risk virus, Huhk-C. As a result the core Windows component was quarantined or worse.
Kaspersky released a revised update alongside advice on how to recover legitimate system and application files from quarantine (the default setting) within two hours. But that's not much consolation for users that had set their software to auto-delete infected files, who found themselves with hosed systems.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 21, 2007 at 11:33:00 AM CET
Antivirus protection gets worse
German computer magazine c't studied 17 antivirus programs and exposed them to completely new samples of malware. What they found wasn't encouraging. Detection rates sank to 20-30 per cent, from 40-50 per cent in a similar test last year.
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Topic: Green - on December 21, 2007 at 11:29:00 AM CET
1 Gallon of Gas, 100 Miles — $10 Million: The Race to Build the Supergreen Car
Standing on the roof of a boxy old Buick, Kevin Smith has a great view of the vast boneyard at Kertow Auto Salvage, outside Taylorville, Illinois. He's here looking for the key to America's super-fuel-efficient future. "Found it," he says to me, spying a cluster of mid- to late-'90s Dodge Neons in the middle distance. He stomps down off the trunk and, followed by three buddies, converges on 11 promising carcasses. They pick through gaping engine compartments and weedy wheel wells, searching for an intact manual transmission — its rudimentary design should be easy to fit to Smith's custom-fabricated hybrid engine. "The geometry has already been engineered," he says. "There's no need to reinvent the wheel."
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Topic: FUN - on December 21, 2007 at 11:24:00 AM CET
A New Film By Al Gore ‘SUPERNOVA’
The following video is from TBS’s Frank TV, broadcast on December 18, 2007
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 21, 2007 at 11:20:00 AM CET
Police serve hashish cake to suspected cannabis grower
Police in the Dutch town of Goes say they'd seized the hash cake earlier in an unrelated investigation and stored it in a refrigerator - close to lunch packets served to suspects in custody.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 21, 2007 at 11:18:00 AM CET
Police Arrest 2 Cops For Keeping Confiscated Drugs
Undercover detective Sean Johnstone's wire became his undoing. Johnstone, 34, is facing serious criminal charges, after prosecutors allege he was caught on tape using racial slurs while describing how he tampered with drug evidence.
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