Topic: NEWS english - on January 12, 2007 at 6:10:00 PM CET
Buy Sealand? Is it possible?
Recently it was made clear that this country is for sale. To make sure the owners will be kopimistic and that the country won’t be governed by people that do not care about it’s future, we have come up with a plan.
With the help of all the kopimists on Internets, we want to buy Sealand. Donate money and you will become a citizien.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 12, 2007 at 12:34:00 PM CET
'Dracula Castle' put up for sale
The descendants of the Habsburg monarchy have confirmed they want to sell a Transylvanian castle mythically linked to the fictional Count Dracula.
The family were turfed out of Romania's 14th-Century Bran Castle by the communists after World War II.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 12, 2007 at 10:51:00 AM CET
New toilet is flush with fish
The Fish 'n Flush is a clear two-piece toilet tank that replaces a standard toilet tank, with a see-through aquarium wrapping itself around a conventional toilet tank.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 10, 2007 at 2:18:00 PM CET
Italian film producer Ponti dies
Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, the husband of actress Sophia Loren, has died in Geneva at the age of 94.
He produced a number of classic films including Federico Fellini's La Strada, David Lean's Dr Zhivago and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 10, 2007 at 2:16:00 PM CET
The Five Funkiest New Gadgets
In 1970 it was the VCR. It 1981, CD players debuted. Satellite radio was the story in 2000. So what are the coolest new tech toys bowing in at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show CES, this week's digital smorgasbord? Here's a breakdown of the most interesting novelty gizmos.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 10, 2007 at 1:24:00 PM CET
The World's Smallest Thinker
Using lasers, Korean researchers have crafted a microscopic version of Rodin's famed sculpture "The Thinker" just about twice the size of a red blood cell at 20 millionths of a meter high.
Muscles and even toes are visible in the tiny model.
The new technique could help develop novel biosensors and other complicated microscopic devices, the scientists said.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 8, 2007 at 9:35:00 AM CET
Government Documents Are Declassified in Name Only
Starting in the new year, the government declassified 270 million pages of FBI files -- but if you tried to access them, you'd have been told that none of them are available, and won't be, maybe for years.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 8, 2007 at 9:05:00 AM CET
For sale - world's smallest country
A FORMER World War II fort in the North Sea, which was settled 40 years ago and declared a state with its own self-proclaimed royal family, is up for sale.
The tiny Principality of Sealand, which began life as Roughs Tower in 1941, is a 550 sq m steel platform perched on two concrete towers 11km off the coast of Harwich, eastern England.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 8, 2007 at 8:21:00 AM CET
This year's must-have: a £4,000 book for the designer coffee table
If City traders can spend thousands on a night out, then why not on a special-edition book that lasts a lifetime? At least that's the theory behind Gloria.
The two-year-old publisher is about as niche as they come. Its first book, a 12kg tome on the footballing icon Pele, came out last summer and its plans are for just one title a year.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 6, 2007 at 12:09:00 PM CET
Cost of living and earnings around the world - compared
Rankings of cities around the world are published regularly: best place to live, best place for business, best place for expats, cheapest or most expensive city, etc. Generally, they are based on an index comprising several indicators. When you look at the raw data, however, you discover that the differences among variables can be significant, and the index, or the average, can't possibly reflect them according to each individual's priorities and needs.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 5, 2007 at 1:50:00 PM CET
Boy, 7, electrocuted in Thai hotel while charging game
A mother whose 7-year-old son was killed in a Thai hotel when he unplugged his Gameboy from an electrical socket has described the horror of finding his body.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 3, 2007 at 1:37:00 PM CET
CNN apologizes for Obama gaffe in Bin Laden graphic
During the Jan. 1 broadcast of Wolf Blitzer's nightly news program, a pre-commercial preview of the show's next segment included a story on the hunt for Al Qaeda's leadership. Over a photo of Osama Bin Laden and his second-in-command Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Blitzer stated, according to the transcript, "Plus, a new year, but the same mission. Will 2007 bring any new changes in the hunt for Osama bin Laden?"
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