Topic: STRANGE - on September 12, 2008 at 12:50:00 PM CEST
Man Killed By Exploding Lava Lamp
Claudia and Bill Quinn drove from their home in Auburn to check on their youngest son. They thought maybe he'd just overslept. They were devastated by what they found.
"I looked around the corner and saw his body slumped there in the corner and just couldn't believe what I saw," said Quinn's father.
"There was glass from the kitchen clear to the living room," his mom told us. "They said it appeared that a piece of glass punctured his heart."
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Topic: NATURE - on September 12, 2008 at 10:51:00 AM CEST
Giant ice penis - is climate change to blame?
If there was any doubt about the terrible threat that global warming poses to humanity, then it can now be dismissed - as this shocking photograph proves that climate change is turning icebergs into giant penises.
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Topic: FUN - on September 12, 2008 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
Teacher OK after crashing into bear on a bicycle
A middle school teacher suffered some bruising and a big scratch on his back after he struck a bear while riding his bicycle to school.
Jim Litz said he was traveling about 25 mph Monday morning when he came upon a rise and spotted a black bear about 10 feet in front of him. He didn't have time to stop and T-boned the bruin.
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 12, 2008 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
Gespenstisches Meisterwerk - ESBJÖRN-SVENSSON-VERMÄCHTNIS
Wenige Wochen vor seinem mysteriösen Tod im Meer übergab der schwedische Jazzpianist Esbjörn Svensson seiner Plattenfirma ein gerade fertiggestelltes Album. Das ist nun auf dem Markt – und erscheint vielen wie die Ankündigung einer Tragödie.
Die Unendlichkeit des Weltalls faszinierte ihn schon als Kind; oft beobachtete er durch ein Teleskop den Sternenhimmel. Später begeisterte er sich für die Tiefen des Meeres. Er genoss das Tauchen; Wasser wurde "an environment he loved"; sich in die Fluten zu stürzen, bedeutete für ihn "to visit another world".
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Topic: MUSIK - on September 12, 2008 at 10:38:00 AM CEST
The biggest Record Collection in the World: For sale.... AGAIN.
Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to advancing age, financial issues, health issues and a struggling record industry Paul has been forced to sell his collection…. AGAIN.
- 3 Million Records
- 300,000 Compact Discs
- More Than 6 Million Song Titles
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Topic: NASA - on September 12, 2008 at 10:20:00 AM CEST
NASA mulls nuclear Moon reactor
The Moon is terrific as far as desolate orbiting rocks go, but by all accounts, it's rather lacking in the nuclear power generator department. Which is a shame because that means NASA needs to build one itself to juice up any future lunar outposts.
Indeed, America's space agency wants to outsource its lunar R&D operations some 384,403km above the Earth by 2020 – but it has no plans to be lighting torches and taking cold showers when it gets there. The goal is to spread civilization to the stars, after all.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on September 12, 2008 at 10:17:00 AM CEST
ScanRobot Automates Copyright Infringement
Although I’d love to be able to scan in my entire collection of comic books and take them everywhere I go, I just don’t have the time or patience. Or a scanner. Robots are great at tedious and repetitive tasks, but when it comes to scanning important manuscripts like my collection of 23.5 Tintin books, the tricky bit involves page-turning. Such a delicate and precise procedure demands either an expensive and complicated robot, or a simple idea, like the ScanRobot.
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Topic: VIDEO - on September 12, 2008 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
Why YouTube Videos Will Never Be Downloadable (Legally, Anyway)
YouTube, in its quest to make nice with copyright holders, has partnered with Nexicon, a Malibu-based digital rights management provider.
Under their arrangement, Nexicon will monitor YouTube for copyrighted material. When Nexicon identifies videos that violate a copyright, it will give the copyright owner the option to have the videos removed from the site or to leave them up and monetize them.
It's been more than a year since Google rolled out Video ID, an identification and content management system. And in that time, the company says content providers -- including Viacom -- are increasingly choosing to leave copyrighted videos up.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on September 12, 2008 at 10:08:00 AM CEST
OiNK Admin Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud
During October 2007, the popular BitTorrent tracker OiNK was shut down in a joint effort by Dutch and British law enforcement. Today, OiNK admin Alan Ellis has been charged with conspiracy to defraud. Charges against four OiNK uploaders will follow later today.
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