Topic: VIDEO - on April 22, 2008 at 1:25:00 PM CEST
Elevator Video, Journeys, April 21st Issue, 2008
Accompanying video to Nick Paumgarten's piece "Up and Then Down" from the April 21st issue of The New Yorker. Footage of Nicholas White trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building.
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Topic: Space - on April 22, 2008 at 12:40:00 PM CEST
Beyond our solar system
The Milky Way galaxy suspended in a glass cube
Behold: a galaxy suspended in a glass cube.
A laser was used to etch around 80,000 of the stars in the Milky Way, using three-dimensional data from the Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory
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Topic: ART - on April 22, 2008 at 12:36:00 PM CEST
The Lost Leonardo Da Vinci
In the art world, there is perhaps no mystery more enduring than the fate of a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest mind of the Renaissance. It was an immense unfinished mural known as "The Battle of Anghiari." For centuries, it has been assumed the work was destroyed, painted over or simply faded away long ago.
Now, after three decades of battling skepticism and bureaucratic resistance, an art detective named Maurizio Seracini believes he's close to solving the Leonardo mystery by suggesting the mural hasn't been lost at all, but is right where it’s always been - for 500 hundred years.
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Topic: WERBUNG - on April 22, 2008 at 12:34:00 PM CEST
Snoop Dogg is German?
Who wants to see Snoop Dogg imitate German folk legend Roy Black and also sing in German?
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 22, 2008 at 12:31:00 PM CEST
Marijuana 101: School teaches ins, outs of pot
Ryan and Matthew Epperley awoke at 4 a.m. in Redding, loaded their Dodge Durango with clothes for the weekend and arrived in Oakland on a Saturday morning just in time to attend their first class at Oaksterdam University.
The brothers were among 20 people enrolled in the two-day course that, by Sunday evening, would teach them how to own and operate a pot club in California. They'd learn how to grow their product indoors, harvest it and cook with it, and hear from several lecturers on the legality of such a practice.
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Topic: WEB DESIGN - on April 22, 2008 at 12:29:00 PM CEST
Trick Out Your MySpace Page
Matthew Price started MySpace Hacks to “make Myspace do things that it’s not supposed to do.” These are a few of his fave tools and tips. Contents
* 1 Customize your design
* 2 Add text messaging
* 3 Share your Flickr pics
* 4 Locate your visitors
* 5 Add more friends to your main page
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Topic: SECURITY - on April 22, 2008 at 12:28:00 PM CEST
Flugpassagiere müssen Fingerabdruck bei Ausreise abgeben
Erneut verschärfen die US-Behörden die Grenzkontrollen: Künftig sollen Flugpassagiere auch bei der Ausreise aus den USA ihren Fingerabdruck hinterlassen. Damit will das Heimatschutzministerium die Einhaltung der Visumsgültigkeit überprüfen.
Zeigt her Eure Finger: Auch bei der Ausreise aus den USA werden Flug-, aber auch Kreuzfahrtpassagiere künftig ihren Fingerabdruck abgeben müssen. Das Ministerium für Heimatsicherheit hat eine entsprechende Änderung der bisherigen Bestimmungen vorbereitet, wie am Montagabend aus Kreisen des Ministeriums verlautete.
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Topic: War and Peace - on April 22, 2008 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
Russian MiG Shoots Georgian Drone
A Russian MiG 29 shot down what Georgians say was an unarmed drone used by the ministry of interior. And guess what? They've got video (the beauty of drone warfare). The Georgians, needless to say, are really mad.
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Topic: SECURITY - on April 22, 2008 at 12:24:00 PM CEST
China's botnet problems grows
Computers infected by Trojan horse programs and bot software are the greatest threat to China's portion of the Internet, with compromises growing more than 20-fold in the past year, the nation's Computer Emergency Response Team (CN-CERT) stated in its 2007 annual report released last week.
The response organization found that the number of Chinese Internet addresses with one or more infected systems increased by a factor of 22 in 2007. The report, currently only published in Chinese, estimates that, of 6.23 million bot-infected computers on the Internet, about 3.62 million are in China's address space.
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