Topic: COMPUTER - on February 13, 2009 at 12:35:00 PM CET
Laugh all you want, but the Microsoft Store could be great
So Microsoft is going to have themselves a little retail space. This is, of course, ripe for mockery, and I’m sure tomorrow will bring the fruits of photoshop contests from around the web. Will it be wall-to-wall Vista boxes? Will you have to sign a license agreement to get in? Will they avoid the color “BSOD blue”? All very funny questions, but the fact is that Microsoft’s stores could be the beginning of… well, another beginning for the oft-maligned software baron. After all, despite what the web has to say, they do manufacture more than error screens.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on February 13, 2009 at 12:32:00 PM CET
"Loose" women to send knickers to Hindu group
Thousands of Indians, many fuming over a recent assault on women in a pub, are vowing to fill bars on Valentine's Day and send cartons of pink panties to a radical Hindu group that has branded outgoing females immoral.
A "consortium of pub-going, loose and forward women," founded by four Indian women on social networking website Facebook has, in a matter of days, attracted more than 25,000 members with over 2,000 posts about the self-appointed moral police.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 13, 2009 at 12:30:00 PM CET
Cocaine cheaper than lager and wine as drug price falls by half
A line of cocaine is now cheaper than a pint of lager or a glass of wine, official figures have disclosed.
The Home Office has admitted that the street price of both cocaine and heroin has fallen by nearly half in the last ten years, making the most dangerous illegal drugs cheaper than they have ever been.
Based on reports from police forces, the Home Office said that cocaine is now being sold for as little as £20 a gram in some parts of the country.
The most common price for the drug is £40 per gram. Home Office figures for 1998 show the average price was £77.
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Topic: SPORT - on February 13, 2009 at 12:29:00 PM CET
The great Atlantic Ocean swimming hoax
Over the weekend, in between depressing news about the economy and the continued sagas of Michael Phelps and Alex Rodriguez, an inspirational story appeared on the Associated Press news wire. It detailed American Jennifer Figge's accomplishment in becoming the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. Many media outlets (including Yahoo!) jumped on the story that seemed almost too good to be true. That's because it was.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on February 13, 2009 at 12:26:00 PM CET
Fossils reveal truth about Darwin's theory
Transitional creatures found include the 'fishibian' and the 'frogamander'
As key evidence for evolution and species' gradual change over time , transitional creatures should resemble intermediate species, having skeletal and other body features in common with two distinct groups of animals, such as reptiles and mammals, or fish and amphibians.
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Topic: MUSIK - on February 13, 2009 at 11:49:00 AM CET
Guitar Store
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 13, 2009 at 11:48:00 AM CET
US Nuclear Weapons Lab Loses 67 Computers
Officials from New Mexico's Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory have confessed that 67 of its computers are missing, with no less than 13 of them having disappeared over the past year alone. A memo [PDF] leaked by the Project on Government Oversight watchdog brought the lost nuclear laptops to the public's attention, but the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration dismissed fears the computers contained highly-sensitive or classified information, noting it was more likely to cause 'cybersecurity issues.
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Topic: DRUGS - on February 12, 2009 at 1:36:00 PM CET
Offiziell: Cannabis ist keine Einstiegsdroge
Die von der Regierung betriebene Internetseite drugcom.de hat im "Topthema" Dezember die Einschätzung bekräftigt, dass Cannabis keine Einstiegsdroge ist.
So neu ist das eigentlich gar nicht. Wissenschaftller reden schon lange nicht mehr von der Einstiegsdroge Cannabis. Und auch aus offiziellen Regierungsstatements ist das Argument "Einstiegsdroge" weitgehend verschwunden. Informationen, die man von der zuständigen Regierungsbehörde, der Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZGA) zu Cannabis bekommt, sagen schon länger ausdrücklich, dass Cannabis keine Einstiegsdroge ist.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on February 12, 2009 at 1:34:00 PM CET
Vatican buries the hatchet with Charles Darwin
The Vatican has admitted that Charles Darwin was on the right track when he claimed that Man descended from apes.
A leading official declared yesterday that Darwin’s theory of evolution was compatible with Christian faith, and could even be traced to St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas. “In fact, what we mean by evolution is the world as created by God,” said Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture. The Vatican also dealt the final blow to speculation that Pope Benedict XVI might be prepared to endorse the theory of Intelligent Design, whose advocates credit a “higher power” for the complexities of life.
timesonline.co.uk At 200, Darwin Evolves Beyond Evolution 200. Geburtstag von Charles Darwin
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 12, 2009 at 1:29:00 PM CET
Master of Miniatures — 'The higher goal, the greater should be the desire'
Master Microminiature Aldunin Nikolai was born September 1, 1956 in the village of South Lamovatka Voroshilovgradskoy area. Of all the natural and artificial materials from childhood love of metals and metal izdeliya.
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Topic: CARS - on February 12, 2009 at 1:19:00 PM CET
My other shoes are Lamborghinis
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Topic: STRANGE - on February 12, 2009 at 1:16:00 PM CET
Urban Mining – Gold digging in the sewers
Resource-poor Japan just discovered a new source of mineral wealth: sewage sludge. In its first month of operation, a sewage plant in Japan’s Nagano prefecture has mined 5 million yen ($56,000) worth of gold from sludge.
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