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Topic: MUSIK - on September 18, 2008 at 12:17:00 PM CEST

Norman Whitfield ist tot

Mit "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" verhalf Norman Whitfield den Temptations zu einem ihrer größten Hits. Jetzt starb der Songwriter, Musikproduzent und zweifache Grammy-Gewinner im Alter von 65 Jahren.

spiegel.de wiki

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Topic: MUSIK - on September 18, 2008 at 12:15:00 PM CEST

Motown songwriter Whitfield dies

Motown songwriter and producer Norman Whitfield, whose credits include hits I Heard It Through The Grapevine and War, has died in Los Angeles.

bbc.co.uk wiki

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Topic: ART - on September 18, 2008 at 11:30:00 AM CEST

PER ANHALTER DURCH DIE GALAXIS - Eoin Colfer schreibt Fortsetzung

"Keine Panik" leuchtet es dem Leser in großen freundlichen Buchstaben auf der Umschlagsseite von "Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis" entgegen. Und "Keine Panik" dürfte auch die Botschaft sein, die Autor Eoin Colfer derzeit an die Fans der Kultbuchserie hat.

spiegel.de

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Topic: ART - on September 18, 2008 at 11:24:00 AM CEST

And another thing...

All the characters have been blown to pieces, and the trilogy is already two books too long.

But the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has never had a problem with highly improbable events.

Douglas Adams died in 2001, having written five of the enduringly popular Hitchhiker books - still inaccurately dubbed a trilogy.

About 16 million copies of the books have been sold worldwide, but fans were left disappointed when it seemed as though Adams' early death ended the series with all the main characters seemingly meeting a grizzly end.

bbc.co.uk theregister.co.uk Eoin Colfer to write sixth Hitchhiker's Guide book

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Topic: FUN - on September 18, 2008 at 11:17:00 AM CEST

Inside Obama's Emails

FAKE

theonion.com

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Topic: POLITIK - on September 18, 2008 at 11:09:00 AM CEST

Hack of Palin e-mail

Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail account was hacked, and some of its contents posted on the internet Wednesday.

The internet griefers known as Anonymous took credit for the intrusion, and screenshots of e-mail messages and photos belonging to the Alaska governor have been published by WikiLeaks. Threat Level has confirmed the authenticity of at least one of the e-mails.

wired.com arstechnica.com wikileaks.org The story behind the Palin e-mail hacking Palin E-Mail Hacker Says It Was Easy

LOL

Bill O'reilly wants Wikileaks shut down and owner arrested over Palin E-mails.

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Topic: ART - on September 18, 2008 at 11:06:00 AM CEST

Jackson Pollock

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Topic: WEB - on September 18, 2008 at 11:04:00 AM CEST

Turkey bans biologist Richard Dawkins' website - The Root of All Evil?

Turkish internet users have been blocked via a court order from accessing the site of prominent British biologist Richard Dawkins after complaints from lawyers for Islamic creationist author Adnan Oktar, the website of Turkish television station NTV reported on Wednesday.

monstersandcritics.com

The Root of All Evil? is a television documentary, written and presented by Richard Dawkins, in which he argues that the world would be better off without religion. The documentary was first broadcast in January 2006, in the form of two 45-minute episodes (excluding advertisement breaks), on Channel 4 in the UK. Dawkins has said that the title "The Root of All Evil?" was not his preferred choice, but that Channel 4 had insisted on it to create controversy.[1] His sole concession from the producers on the title was the addition of the question mark. Dawkins has stated that the notion of anything being the root of all evil is ridiculous.[2] Dawkins's book The God Delusion, released in September 2006, goes on to examine the topics raised in the documentary in greater detail. The God Delusion explores the unproven beliefs that are treated as factual by many religions and the extremes to which some followers have taken them. Dawkins opens the programme by describing the "would-be murderers . . . who want to kill you and me, and themselves, because they're motivated by what they think is the highest ideal." Dawkins argues that "the process of non-thinking called faith" is not a way of understanding the world, but instead stands in fundamental opposition to modern science and the scientific method, and is divisive and dangerous.

wiki Richard Dawkins

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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 18, 2008 at 11:02:00 AM CEST

Bayerntrojaner: Hausdurchsuchung bei Piratenpartei

Bayerische Polizeibeamte haben die Privaträume des Sprechers der "Piratenpartei Deutschland", Ralph Hunderlach, durchsucht. Sie fahndeten nach einem Informanten aus dem bayerischen Justizministerium, der den Datenschützern und Computerexperten Informationen über einen vermutlich illegal eingesetzten staatlichen Trojaner zum Abhören von Skype-Telefonaten zugespielt hatte.

golem.de spiegel.de

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Topic: LOST - on September 18, 2008 at 11:00:00 AM CEST

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Loses 418 Laptops

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (now, with Explosives!) LOST 418 LAPTOPS and 76 weapons during a five year period ending in 2007. Sounds like they need to focus more on the tobacco and firearms, and lay off the alcohol.

reuters.com

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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 18, 2008 at 10:54:00 AM CEST

LHC Fails Thunderstorm Test

Nature had her own ideas about testing LHC safety. A thunderstorm last Friday knocked out some transformers at the LHC near Geneva that are part of the helium cooling system, that cools the magnets that keep the proton beams travelling (near light speed) on a circular path through the collider. Technicians have been scrambling to fix the problems, but not before some magnets warmed well above standard operating temperatures, some reaching almost 7K from the usual ultra cold 1.9K .

timesonline.co.uk tdg.ch

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Topic: SCIENCE - on September 18, 2008 at 10:50:00 AM CEST

Large Hadron Collider Renaming Contest

After a full week of operation, the Large Hadron Collider has yet to swallow the world, leaving humanity free to concentrate on its rather geeky name.

Unimportant, you say? Well, people who were excited when physicists flipped the LHC's switch might be less enthusiastic if, a year or two down the line, nobody's actually found Higgs bosons or sparticles or gluinos or other assorted dawn-of-the-universe dust bunnies.

wired.com

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