Topic: DRUGS - on July 31, 2009 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
Pot plants found 30 feet up holly tree
Police make marijuana busts every day. But a drug seizure in Westport has even the police scratching their heads. Several marijuana plants were discovered growing in a holly tree, about 30 feet in the air.
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Topic: TV - on July 31, 2009 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Im "Summer of 69" wurde die Hippie-Bewegung endgültig zum Mainstream.
"Vielleicht war Woodstock nichts anderes als eine glorifizierte Party, bei der weiße Kids aus den Vorstädten Campen im Regen und Haschrauchen entdeckten", hat jüngst die "New York Times" provokant am Rande eines Interviews mit dem Woodstock-Veteranen Arlo Guthrie spekuliert.
Woodstock gilt heute als Synonym für die Hippie-Kultur. Dabei war das Megafestival im "Summer of 69" einer der letzten Höhepunkte der auseinanderdriftenden Bewegung. Der ORF widmet sich dem Thema ab Sonntag mit einem Programmschwerpunkt.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on July 28, 2009 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
Bacteria make computers look like pocket calculators
Biologists have created a living computer from E. coli bacteria that can solve complex mathematical problems
Computers are evolving – literally. While the tech world argues netbooks vs notebooks, synthetic biologists are leaving traditional computers behind altogether. A team of US scientists have engineered bacteria that could solve complex mathematical problems faster than anything made from silicon.
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Topic: TV - on July 28, 2009 at 11:10:00 AM CEST
Recherche? "FAZ" fällt auf falschen Schmidt rein
Seit Monaten ist bekannt und im Web leicht recherchierbar, dass unter @BonitoTV weder Harald Schmidt noch sein Team twittert. Und doch fiel jetzt jemand auf eine fiktive Pressekonferenz rein - und das ausgerechnet bei der ehrenwerten "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung".
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 28, 2009 at 10:54:00 AM CEST
Kid Koala Takes Psych-Rock 'The Slew' to the Road
Recently Koala & Dylan met the former rhythm section of Grammy Award-winning Australian rock band Wolfmother and began telling them all about the film and its lost music. Chris Ross and Myles Heskett loved the clips and urged that the material had to be heard; subsequently Kid Koala and the guys decided to put a show on the road.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on July 28, 2009 at 10:47:00 AM CEST
Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum
Several readers sent us updates from the Boston courtroom where, mere hours before the start of trial, a federal judge ruled out fair use as a defense. Wired writes that "the outcome is already shaping up to resemble the only other file sharing trial," in which the RIAA got a $1.92M judgement against Jammie Thomas-Rassert. The defendant, Joel Tenenbaum, has already essentially admitted to sharing music files, and the entire defense put together by Harvard Prof. Charles Nesson and his students turned on the question of fair use. The judge wrote that the proposed defense would be "so broad it would swallow the copyright protections that Congress has created." Jury selection is complete and opening arguments will begin tomorrow morning. Here is the Twitter feed organized by Prof. Nesson's law students.
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Topic: WERBUNG - on July 28, 2009 at 10:39:00 AM CEST
Mit dem Dienstwagen im Urlaub?
Gewohnt schnell hat Sixt auf die deutsche Dienstwagenaffäre rund um Gesundheitsministerin Ulla Schmidt reagiert: Autovermieter wirbt mit Diebstahlsicherung inklusive
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Topic: LEGO - on July 27, 2009 at 1:15:00 PM CEST
Top Gear star to build Lego house
Top Gear presenter James May is looking for volunteers to help him build a new house in Surrey - made entirely out of Lego bricks.
As part of his BBC series James May's Toy Stories, he plans to build a two-storey house in the middle of the Denbies Wine Estate, in Dorking.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on July 27, 2009 at 12:47:00 PM CEST
Is John Travolta cracking up?
There are dark mutterings that if he carries out private threats to leave the Church of Scientology, the organization will go public with embarrassing details of his private life, including, it is claimed, allegations of past homosexual relationships.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 27, 2009 at 12:07:00 PM CEST
TV-Tipps: 40 Jahre Woodstock
Gestern abend feiert 3Sat 40 Jahre Woodstock (eigentlich ist das Hippie-Jubiläum erst am 15. August, aber egal). Um 21:45 Uhr läuft die Doku „Woodstock – Wie der Mythos entstand“, um 0:15 Uhr folgt dann der Directors Cut des Konzertfilms „Woodstock: Three Days of Peace & Music“.
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Topic: NAUTICAL - on July 27, 2009 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
An Economic Analysis of the Somali Pirate Business Model
The rough fishermen of the so-called Somali coast guard are unrepentant criminals, yes, but they're more than that. They're innovators. Where earlier sea bandits were satisfied to make off with a dinghy full of booty, pirates who prowl northeast Africa's Gulf of Aden hold captured ships for ransom. This strategy has been fabulously successful: The typical payoff today is 100 times what it was in 2005, and the number of attacks has skyrocketed.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 27, 2009 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Germans can now grab poolside chairs even earlier
Sunbed-stealing Germans are now grabbing their poolside recliners before they've even left home.
Travel giant Thomas Cook is offering holidaymakers from the country famous for taking prime spots the chance to reserve it in advance.
And Europe's second largest travel company has been swamped with requests.
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