Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 17, 2009 at 3:05:00 PM CEST
Hitler-Saluting Gnome Sparks Outrage
Great art or bad taste? A "Nazi" garden gnome in Nuremberg has prompted a public investigation and a renewed debate on what constitutes art.
The humble garden gnome is usually associated with quaint tradition rather than progressive art. Nonetheless, a gallery owner in the German city of Nuremberg has caused controversy by displaying in his window a golden gnome making the Nazi salute.
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Topic: NATURE - on July 17, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM CEST
Tiger Reserve Has No More Tigers
An Indian state government has admitted that its tiger reserve has none of the animals left.
Madhya Pradesh Forest Minister Rajendra Shukla said that no tigers were found in the Panna Tiger Reserve during a Wildlife Institute of India survey conducted in May.
The national park had about 40 tigers six years ago.
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Topic: logisch - on July 17, 2009 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
The Meaning of Life
What’s life for? That question stirred as I contemplated two rhesus monkeys, Canto, aged 27, and Owen, aged 29, whose photographs appeared last week in The New York Times.
The monkeys are part of a protracted experiment in aging being conducted by a University of Wisconsin team. Canto gets a restricted diet with 30 percent fewer calories than usual while Owen gets to eat whatever the heck he pleases.
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Topic: STRANGE - on July 17, 2009 at 11:24:00 AM CEST
Güle güle, Wasserpfeife!
Eine jahrhundertealte Tradition steht vor dem Aus: Für viele Türken ist die tägliche Wasserpfeife im Teehaus ein Stück Lebensqualität. Doch ab Sonntag herrscht strengstes Rauchverbot. Hunderttausende Cafébesitzer fürchten um ihre Existenz - und manche suchen originelle Auswege.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on July 17, 2009 at 11:23:00 AM CEST
Ungläubiges Staunen über Gesetz gegen Gotteslästerung
Es wirkt wie ein Rückfall ins Mittelalter: Gotteslästerern drohen in Irland künftig bis zu 25.000 Euro Strafe. Weil es die Verfassung so vorschreibt, argumentiert die Regierung. Doch schon bildet sich Widerstand. Kritiker wollen das Gesetz absichtlich brechen.
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Topic: FUN - on July 16, 2009 at 1:09:00 PM CEST
VISA Card Users Charged $23 Quadrillion
Several people rocking VISA prepaid credit cards got a peculiar $23,148,855,308,184,500 charge this week when using their VISA BUXX cards. That's 23 quadrillion dollars. To put that figure in layman's terms, it's almost double what I'm suing Disney for.
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Topic: Free - on July 16, 2009 at 1:06:00 PM CEST
The best things in life aren't free*
That's the take–home message I got from a very interesting piece in last week's (September 5) New Yorker "Talk of the Town" section by Michael Agger.
It's entitled "Car Seat Lady" and profiles Ms. Alisa Baer, a 25–year–old medical student in New York City who is an expert on car seat installation. (She's installed an estimated 5,000 in her career to date.)
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 16, 2009 at 1:03:00 PM CEST
Hasch lässt Farben schmecken: Gewerkschaft der Polizei im Jahre 2009
Wer mal unreflektierte und völlig nonsense Propaganda von vor 50 Jahren lesen möchte, sollte zu dem Organ der Gewerkschaft der Polizei, Ausgabe Juni 2009, greifen.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 16, 2009 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
Border Patrol seizes record amount of pot in Ariz
Agents in the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector have seized a record 1 million pounds of marijuana, with an estimated street value of $800 million, so far this fiscal year, federal officials said Tuesday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 16, 2009 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
Ballmer Goes Nuts again
Steve Ballmer loves to play a lot of roles at Microsoft, and one that he takes great pleasure in is being a cheerleader to everyone who reports to someone who reports to someone under him. This ain't the right way..
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Topic: FUN - on July 15, 2009 at 1:54:00 PM CEST
Science Fiction Cuisine: Share and Enjoy
It’s been a while since I, your self-appointed geek chef, have bestowed any culinary oddities upon you, dear readers. I do hope you’ve managed to eat something in the meantime. This time, I’ll install a tap in Douglas Adams’ brain and serve up something cool and froody.
To say Douglas Adams was funny is like saying Bruce Lee was pretty good at punching people. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, overflowing with Adam’s innovative approach to space adventure and philosophical absurdity, is among the most beloved works of science fiction and a high water mark in humor writing. One could argue that Bruce Lee was the Douglas Adams of kung fu.
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Topic: TV - on July 15, 2009 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Satire über die Volksmusik - ORF-Sitcom "Die Gipfelzipfler"
"Volksmusik ist eine gelebte Lüge, ein Ablenkungsmanöver von der Realität, eine Gehirnwäsche" - Tramitz: "Faszination des Grauens" - Echtzeit-Sitcom ab 2010 im ORF
Seit einer Woche laufen die Dreharbeiten zur ersten ORF-Echtzeit-Sitcom "Die Gipfelzipfler" in der Filmstadt Wien. Christian Tramitz und Roland Düringer in den Hauptrollen spielen die Volksmusikanten Frank und Mick, die zehn Folgen zu je 25 Minuten Zeit haben einen Hit namens "Gute Besserung" zu schreiben, der ihnen den Aufstieg in den Volksmusikhimmel garantieren soll. Voraussichtlich 2010 soll diese "Satire über die Volksmusik", so Düringer beim heutigen Setbesuch, im ORF ausgestrahlt werden. Das Drehbuch von Murmel Clausen ("Der Schuh des Manitu") wird von Harald Sicheritz inszeniert.
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