Topic: ART - on August 1, 2008 at 12:08:32 PM CEST
Justin Reed
If we receive enough inspiration going forward, we'll try and post one of these up every now and again, but for now, allow me to introduce a very cool movie artist that I came across a few months ago, whom I think many of you might also dig.
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Topic: Space - on August 1, 2008 at 11:59:24 AM CEST
Going For The Lunar X Prize? Want To Take Photos? NOAA May Require You To Get A License
The Google-sponsored Lunar X Prize has received plenty of attention. Similar to the original X Prize for a privately built manned spaceship, the focus of the Lunar X Prize is to get a privately built spaceship to the moon with a robot (so, unmanned), then have that robot travel 500 meters and then send video and images back to Earth. Cool, right?
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Topic: FUN - on August 1, 2008 at 10:35:53 AM CEST
Chuck Aaron, the only FAA-certified stunt helicopter pilot
Yes, it does back flips. It is a Eurocopter BO-105 CBS 4 Twin engine helicopter. Stock model with a Rigid Rotor system, the fixed rotor is why it can do aerobatics.
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Topic: WEB - on August 1, 2008 at 10:33:52 AM CEST
Britische Politiker fordern Sendezeiten fürs Internet
Manche Politiker haben eine niedliche Vorstellung vom Internet: Pappen wir einfach digitale Altersbeschränkungen auf pornografische oder gewaltverherrlichende Webvideos, und schon lassen die Kinder ihre Finger von dem bösen Zeug - das schlagen britische Parlamentsmitglieder vor.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 1, 2008 at 10:22:36 AM CEST
Is Afghanistan a Narco-State?
On March 1, 2006, I met Hamid Karzai for the first time. It was a clear, crisp day in Kabul. The Afghan president joined President and Mrs. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Ambassador Ronald Neumann to dedicate the new United States Embassy. He thanked the American people for all they had done for Afghanistan. I was a senior counternarcotics official recently arrived in a country that supplied 90 percent of the world’s heroin. I took to heart Karzai’s strong statements against the Afghan drug trade. That was my first mistake.
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Topic: food - on August 1, 2008 at 10:19:04 AM CEST
World’s oldest chocolate found at Paso de la Amada in Mexico
Chemical traces from an ancient pottery vessel from southeastern Mexico showed that it had been used for a chocolate beverage more than 3,500 years ago, produced in the region which the Aztecs conquered for its rich orchards of cacao trees.
Although cacao (or cocoa) beans are grown today in many parts of the world, the tree which bears the seed pods, Theobroma cacao, is native to southern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. The Spanish conquistadors remarked that a drink made from the toasted and ground beans, whisked, frothed and flavoured with hot chilli peppers, was consumed by the elite of the Aztec Empire. Other parts of the pod, including its soft inner pith, were fermented into various beverages.
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