Topic: NATURE - on March 11, 2010 at 10:12:00 AM CET
HDR Photo of Rainbow in San Francisco
Scott Meinzer shot a beautiful HDR photo of a rainbow over San Francisco after yesterday’s rain and hail.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 11, 2010 at 10:11:00 AM CET
Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives
With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here's how to wipe them clean.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 11, 2010 at 10:06:00 AM CET
The goat woman: Chinese grandmother, 101, grows mystery horn on forehead
An elderly Chinese woman has stunned her family and fellow villagers by growing from her forehead a horn than resembles a goat’s.
Grandmother Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Linlou village, Henan province, began developing the mysterious protrusion last year.
Since then it has grown 2.4in in length and another now appears to emerging on the other side of the mother of seven’s forehead.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on March 11, 2010 at 10:05:00 AM CET
Kinderpornos - Polizei fand 400 Dateien bei Pfarrer
Rund 400 Dateien mit kinderpornografischen Material hat das Landeskriminalamt Niederösterreich (LKA) auf dem Computer des niederösterreichischen Pfarrers aus dem Vikariat Unter dem Wienerwald gefunden. Gegen den Geistlichen wird seit Mitte Februar ermittelt, so LKA-Leiter Franz Polzer. Die Bilder und Videos von vorwiegend Buben soll der Geistliche auch an andere weitergegeben haben, selbst aber nicht an der Produktion beteiligt gewesen sein.
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Topic: born rich - on March 11, 2010 at 10:03:00 AM CET
It’s time for some island shopping in Greece!
As the world has been focusing on the tragic economic crisis engulfing Greece, the call for a Big Fat Greek Auction to repay some of the country’s debt is louder than before. The auction would include ancient artifacts, stakes in state-owned companies and assets, such as uninhabited islands. Of the 6,000 Greek islands, scattered across the Aegean and Ionian seas, only 220 are inhabited and many are already up for sale.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 11, 2010 at 10:00:00 AM CET
Woman tries to shut down Large Hadron Collider over apocalypse fears
The country's highest court said that the woman — whom it didn't identify — had failed to demonstrate any connection between experiments at the CERN collider outside Geneva and the apocalypse.
The Federal Constitutional Court in the western Germany city of Karlsruhe threw out the woman's appeal because she was "unable to give a coherent account of how her fears would come about."
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