Topic: War and Peace - on November 14, 2009 at 12:48:00 PM CET
War and Peace
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Topic: EU - on November 14, 2009 at 12:42:00 PM CET
"Breathtakingly Stupid" EU Cookie Law Passes
"A couple of weeks ago we discussed the EU cookie proposal, which has now been passed into law. While the original story broke on the Out-law blog from a law perspective ('so breathtakingly stupid that the normally law-abiding business may be tempted to bend the rules to breaking point'), there has now been followup from a couple of industry insiders. Aurelie Pols of the Web Analytics Association has blogged on how this will affect websites that want to monitor what people are looking at on their sites, while eConsultancy has blogged on how this will impact the affiliate industry. In all of this the general public is being ignored — the people who, if the law is actually implemented, will have to proceed through ridiculous screens of text every time they access a website. I know most of you guys hate cookies in general, but they are vital for websites to know how people are accessing the sites so they can work out how to improve the experience for the user."
webanalyticsdemystified.com out-law.com econsultancy.com via
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 14, 2009 at 12:40:00 PM CET
EFF launches international copyright news site
Danny from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "Copyright lobbyists often indulge in what's called "policy laundering" -- if you can't get an amendment to copyright in one country, just shop it around until you find somewhere that will take it.
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Topic: SECURITY - on November 14, 2009 at 12:38:00 PM CET
Ermittler-Software entschlüpft - Microsofts Schnüffel-Stick für jedermann
Ein USB-Stick, der blitzschnell und automatisch Daten von einem Rechner abzieht: Für so manchen Computer-Besitzer ist das ein Alptraum. Microsoft verschenkt an Polizisten in aller Welt eine Software, die genau das tut - nun hat jemand das Programm übers Netz in Umlauf gebracht.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 14, 2009 at 12:37:00 PM CET
Briton 'tried to smuggle 1,000 live spiders out of Brazil on aeroplane'
Brazilian police have arrested a English man who checked in for an international flight with 1000 live spiders in his luggage at Rio?s Tom Jobim International Airport in Brazil.
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 14, 2009 at 12:29:00 PM CET
Word ‘meep’ banned from US school
'Meep' has always been a four-letter word - but now it's taboo in one American school, after a high school principal banned students from saying it in the classroom.
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Topic: health - on November 14, 2009 at 12:27:00 PM CET
Staring At Breasts Is Good For Your Health, Prolongs A Man's Life
According to German research published in New England Journal of Medicine, men staring at women's breasts in fact prolong their lives with years.
"Just 10 minutes of looking at the charms of a well-endowed females is equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics work-out," said author Dr. Karen Weatherby, a gerontologist.
The team led by Weatherby was made up of researchers at three hospitals in Frankfurt, Germany, and found this results after monitoring for 5 years the health of 200 male subjects, half of whom were asked to look at busty females daily, while the other half had to abstain from doing so.
For five years, the breasts oglers presented a lower blood pressure, slower resting pulse rates and decreased risk of coronary artery disease.
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Topic: born rich - on November 14, 2009 at 12:15:00 PM CET
eBay For Millionaires
Got $2 million in assets? Then you can join BillionaireXchange; just the place to find a 2006 Bugatti Veyron with a Start Bid of $1,050,000.00. Or perhaps you are looking for a boat like the Disco Volante (from James Bond), for example the 2000 Azimut Motor Yacht, a lovely 85-footer with a Start Bid of $2,700,000.00. On the other end of the deal, did your hedge fund leave you in the lurch? This is the place to sell those extravagant toys you thought you could afford.
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Topic: FUN - on November 14, 2009 at 12:12:00 PM CET
Puppy doing a salto
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on November 13, 2009 at 11:15:00 AM CET
First Trailer: 'Serge Gainsbourg: A Life Heroic' (French-Language Version)
We've already revealed to you plenty of images and a simple video teaser from Joann Sfar's biopic, about musical French icon, "Serge Gainsbourg: Vie Héroïque" ("A Life Heroic") and today we have a lot more including the first trailer for the film.
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Topic: CARS - on November 13, 2009 at 11:11:00 AM CET
Super-Rich Idiot Moron Drives $2 Million Bugatti Veyron Into Marsh
The man, who refused to give his name, was looking at real estate in Galveston.
About 3 p.m. a low-flying pelican distracted him as he traveled north on Interstate 45 just south of the hurricane levee near Omega Bay.
The man jerked the wheel, dropped his cell phone, and the car's front tire left the frontage road and entered a muddy patch, which foiled his attempt to maneuver away from the lagoon.
The Veyron's powerful engine gurgled like an outboard motor for about 15 minutes before it died.
geekologie.com Man drives million-dollar Bugatti into pond Bugatti owner: 'Pelican made me crash' arbroath.blogspot.com
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on November 13, 2009 at 11:07:00 AM CET
2012 Debunking: The Short-Attention-Span Version
Great example of how the believers get this stuff wrong: The "facts" on the believer side of the graph are pulled directly from believer Web sites. When David from IIB sent me the original version of the graphic, I noticed that the believers had managed to misspell the name of Yale archaeologist Michael D. Coe, calling him "Michael D. Cole". They were also claiming that he was one of them. I don't have Coe's email, but I do have John Hoopes'. He's an archaeologist who has spent his life studying the ancient Maya and other ancient Central and South American civilizations...and my former professor when I was an anthropology undergrad at the University of Kansas. I contacted Hoopes to see what he knew about that claim and, according to him, it's way off. Coe, Hoopes says, does believe that 2012 would have been an important date to the ancient Maya*, and probably one they would have celebrated. But "important" like, say, Christmas is important to us. Or New Years Eve 1999/2000. Not "important" as in "the world is going to end."
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