Topic: NATURE - on March 12, 2009 at 1:07:00 PM CET
House in Palau - Not for Rent
A few days ago I came across a pretty interesting property in Palau. Yes, Palau. Never heard of it ? Palau, officially the Republic of Palau is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles south of Tokyo. Having emerged from United Nations trusteeship in 1994, it is one of the world's youngest and smallest nations.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 12, 2009 at 1:03:00 PM CET
Pictured: The moment a diver grappled with a 12ft tiger shark to save a friend
Plunging a knife in again and again, diver Craig Clasen grapples with a 12ft tiger shark to protect a friend.
For two hours he wrestled with the giant, spearing it seven times, even drowning the beast before eventually finishing it off with a knife.
Mr Clasen was hunting yellow fin tuna with fellow fisherman Cameron Kirkconnell, photographer D.J Struntz and film maker Ryan Mcnis in the Gulf of Mexico when the encounter took place.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 12, 2009 at 1:02:00 PM CET
BBC team exposes cyber crime risk
Software used to control thousands of home computers has been acquired online by the BBC as part of an investigation into global cyber crime.
The technology programme Click has demonstrated just how at risk PCs are of being taken over by hackers.
Almost 22,000 computers made up Click's network of hijacked machines, which has now been disabled.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 12, 2009 at 12:59:00 PM CET
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
Leonardo Notarbartolo strolls into the prison visiting room trailing a guard as if the guy were his personal assistant. The other convicts in this eastern Belgian prison turn to look. Notarbartolo nods and smiles faintly, the laugh lines crinkling around his blue eyes. Though he's an inmate and wears the requisite white prisoner jacket, Notarbartolo radiates a sunny Italian charm. A silver Rolex peeks out from under his cuff, and a vertical strip of white soul patch drops down from his lower lip like an exclamation mark.
In February 2003, Notarbartolo was arrested for heading a ring of Italian thieves. They were accused of breaking into a vault two floors beneath the Antwerp Diamond Center and making off with at least $100 million worth of loose diamonds, gold, jewelry, and other spoils. The vault was thought to be impenetrable. It was protected by 10 layers of security, including infrared heat detectors, Doppler radar, a magnetic field, a seismic sensor, and a lock with 100 million possible combinations. The robbery was called the heist of the century, and even now the police can't explain exactly how it was done.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 12, 2009 at 12:57:00 PM CET
Police seize 1,200 pounds of pot in spinach cans
Police with the New Mexico Motor Transportation Division found 1,200 pounds of pot packed in cans labeled as spinach during a stop at the Gallup port of entry. An inspector noticed that only a few of the cans were labeled and that the weight printed on the side of the can didn't match the actual weight. A closer look during last Friday's bust revealed the canned drugs, which were worth an estimated $1.5 million.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 12, 2009 at 12:54:00 PM CET
Kokablatt beim Suchtstoffkommission Treffen in Wien: Tag Eins
Der erste Tag des Treffens der Suchtstoffkommission (CND) ist in der Presse geprägt von dem Auftreten von Evo Morales, dem bolivianischen Präsidenten.
UN Drogenzar Antonio Costa und Evo MoralesDieser hat vor der UN-Suchtstoffkommission eine flammende Rede über das Kokablatt gehalten - und es auch, vor versammelter Teilnehmerzahl, aus der Tasche gezogen, in den Mund gesteckt und gekaut. Weiter unten findet sich ein Interview mit Morales aus dem Österreichischen Fernsehen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 11, 2009 at 1:25:00 PM CET
10 Reasons You Should Not Switch To Linux
Every week I read a new blog post giving 10 – 25 or even 100 reasons you should switch to Linux right now. I say bah humbug to them. If you need someone to give you 100 reasons to switch your current OS of choice, you are better of sticking with it. As someone who is literally forced to use windows for work-related task, use a Mac just because I have money to blow and runs an obscure Linux distro to prove my point about my anti conformist views; I know a thing or two about why you shouldn’t switch to Linux.
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Topic: FUN - on March 11, 2009 at 1:19:00 PM CET
25 Websites To Have Fun With Your Photos
Getting a little bored how your photos are presented online? How about injecting some fun and humour into it. You don’t really need to be Photoshop literate to edit and add effects into your photos. There’re some really great sites out there that allows you to add effects to your photo by using their existing effect-templates.
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Topic: WERBUNG - on March 11, 2009 at 12:02:00 PM CET
Kreative Werbung - Photo Manipulations by Erik Johansson
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 11, 2009 at 11:52:00 AM CET
Obama to name Seattle police chief as U.S. drug czar
U.S. President Barack Obama will nominate Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske to be U.S. drug czar and remove the job's Cabinet designation, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 11, 2009 at 11:49:00 AM CET
Schmugglerin tarnt Kokain in Spraydosen
1,5 Kilogramm Kokain versuchte eine Frau von Ecuador nach Spanien zu schmuggeln. Obwohl sie sich eine ausgeklügelte Taktik einfallen ließ, flog die Spanierin bei der Kontrolle am Flughafen von Barcelona auf. Dort kennt man sich mit kreativen Schmuggelversuchen aus.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 11, 2009 at 11:47:00 AM CET
Cocaine poisoned how many people exactly?
Scattered around the Web, mostly at sites dealing with drug addiction (here and here, for example), is a "Cocaine Timeline" that includes this 1912 milestone: "U.S. government reports 5,000 cocaine-related fatalities in one year." The number seems awfully high, given that the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) counted about 4,000 "drug misuse deaths" involving cocaine in 2004, when the U.S. population was about 294 million, three times what it was in 1912.
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