Topic: STRANGE - on April 30, 2010 at 10:56:00 AM CEST
Man eats 1,500 lightbulbs
Wang Xianjun, 54, of Sichuan Province, started to snack on broken glass because he says it is 'crispy and delicious.'
He recalls: "I accidentally swallowed a piece of thick fish bone, but nothing happened. With curiosity, I tried several pieces of broken glasses secretly and nothing happened also."
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Topic: STRANGE - on April 30, 2010 at 10:54:00 AM CEST
Lehrerin verklagt Schülerin wegen Hasenzeichnung
Wer hat Angst vorm Mümmelmann? Meine Lehrerin, behauptete eine Schülerin in Vechta: Die Pädagogin drehe durch, wenn sie Hasen sehe oder "Hase" höre, erzählte sie Mitschülerinnen. Kurz darauf waren Hasen auf die Tafel gezeichnet, die Lehrerin hat Klage eingereicht.
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Topic: Green - on April 30, 2010 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2010 Finalists announced
Buckminster Fuller would be proud. The annual challenge held in his name is not some pie-in-the-sky design competition where the slickest rendering wins; instead the Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks "workable solution[s] to one of the world's most significant challenges such as water scarcity, food supply, and energy consumption." 215 entrants from around the world threw their hats into the ring this year, and competition was reportedly stiff.
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Topic: ART - on April 29, 2010 at 10:24:00 AM CEST
Stadtreinigung übermalt Banksy-Graffito
Sie waren ausgezogen, um gegen Schmierereien anzugehen - und zerstörten ein Kunstwerk: In Melbourne haben Mitarbeiter der Stadtreinigung versehentlich ein Graffito des britischen Starkünstlers Banksy auf einer Mauer übermalt. Die Stadt bekannte sich schuldig.
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Topic: POLITIK - on April 29, 2010 at 10:22:00 AM CEST
Anti-Piracy Group Says: 'Child Porn Is Great' Since It Gets Politicians To Block File Sharing Sites
For many years, we've seen the entertainment industry make totally bogus and unsubstantiated claims about file sharing sites being hotbeds of child pornography in an effort to get them to regulate or shut down those services. Of course, the actual evidence shows that file sharing porn is no worse than what's on the wider internet. But that doesn't stop the entertainment industry from making such bogus claims -- and it seems like they're gleefully admitting it these days.
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Topic: TV - on April 29, 2010 at 10:21:00 AM CEST
Hulu bricht Verhandlungen ab
Mit dem Abbruch der Verhandlungen mit britischen TV-Sendern liegen Hulus Pläne, den populären Web-TV-Dienst nach Europa zu bringen, auf absehbare Zeit auf Eis. Was Europas Sender ihren Zuschauern im Web zu bieten haben, werden die sich weiter mühselig zusammensuchen müssen.
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Topic: FUN - on April 29, 2010 at 10:17:00 AM CEST
Somos tan diferentes ... ?
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Topic: Apple - on April 26, 2010 at 10:45:00 AM CEST
Steve Wozniak’s iPhone Prototype T-Shirt
During last week’s iPhone leak saga, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, reached out to us with a story: The morning of the iPad launch, an engineer showed Woz an iPad for two minutes. For this he was fired.
It’s a story that paints Apple as many people already see the company: ruthlessly secretive, and even vindictive. It also sheds some light on the story of Gray Powell, an Apple engineer whose breach of secrecy was at once less intentional, more severe and infinitely more public—until now. In the words of Woz:
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on April 26, 2010 at 10:41:00 AM CEST
Police ban men with enlarged genitals
Forget about getting a job as a police officer in Indonesia's Papua if you have had your penis enlarged. You won't get it, according to the Papua police chief.
An applicant "will be asked whether or not his vital organ has been enlarged," said Papua police chief Bekto Suprapto said. "If he has, he will be considered unfit to join the police or the military."
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 24, 2010 at 11:30:00 AM CEST
Photos From Malcolm McLaren's Funeral Fit For A King...
This is the kind of funeral every goth and punk dreams of when they cuddle into their totally ironic Disney Princess sheets at night. British punk legend Malcolm McClaren’s funeral procession went through London today and it was an extravagant spectacle. You wouldn’t expect anything less.
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Topic: ART - on April 24, 2010 at 11:29:00 AM CEST
Banksy graffiti feud given a fresh coat
The history of art has been coloured by fierce and often glaringly public feuds between celebrated artists of the day. From Turner and Constable to Whistler and Ruskin, long-standing and public battles have kept generations of art lovers engrossed, outraged or simply amused.
But few artistic spats have been played out in such a public manner as the current standoff between Banksy, the internationally renowned bestselling graffiti artist, and King Robbo, one of the founding fathers of London's graffiti scene.
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Topic: POLITIK - on April 24, 2010 at 11:28:00 AM CEST
Bolivian president Evo Morales blames sex problems on chickens
Morales told an environmental conference on Tuesday that chicken producers inject the birds with female hormones, which he said can lead to baldness and sexual issues in men who eat the chicken.
There's an amount of confusion over exactly what Morales said, depending on which translation you read. The Associated Press reported that he said 'and because of that, men who consume them have problems being men' - suggesting he was talking about chickens causing impotence.
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