Topic: NEWS english - on January 30, 2004 at 7:16:00 PM CET
ein neues handy - GSM gun
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 30, 2004 at 3:59:00 PM CET
Pickled dragon mystery
A pickled "dragon" that looks as if it might once have flown around Harry Potter's Hogwarts has been found in a garage in Oxfordshire, England.
The baby dragon, in a sealed jar, was discovered with a metal tin containing paperwork in old-fashioned German of the 1890s.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 28, 2004 at 5:50:00 PM CET
Sperm whale explodes in Tainan City
Blood and guts of 17-meter long 50-ton mammal splatter sidewalks, automobiles parked nearby. A dead sperm whale being transported through Tainan City on its way to a research station suddenly exploded yesterday, splattering cars and shops with blood and guts.
Certified by authorities as the largest beached whale on record in Taiwan, the 17-meter 50-ton carcass was being transported by a flat-bed trailer-truck to a special research location after National Cheng Kung University officials and security guards refused to allow the whale on campus.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 27, 2004 at 10:52:00 PM CET
Philips Steps up Rollable-Display Development
Based on years of groundbreaking work on polymer electronics, Philips is capable of producing prototypes of ultra-thin, large-area, rollable displays on a routine basis and intends to rapidly move towards an industrially feasible production process. The displays combine active-matrix polymer driving electronics with a reflective 'electronic ink' front plane on an extremely thin sheet of plastic. Philips publishes the current status of its technology in the 1 February issue of the scientific magazine Nature Materials.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 26, 2004 at 3:29:00 AM CET
At Davos, A Conciliatory US Leaves Critics Wary
The World Economic Forum wound up on Sunday after five days of talks that featured the US efforts at conciliation and continued barbs at Washington’s tough line policies. Top US officials’ attempts to show a kinder, gentler face, left political leaders, especially those that have faced Washington’s wrath, wondering if US President George W Bush’s administration was seeking sincere reconciliation or if the change of tone was only a tactical posturing.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 22, 2004 at 2:47:00 PM CET
MonkeyFilter
is currently a place for Metafilter lurkers to hang out while we wait for Matt to reopen registration. But honestly, there's more to it than that. (Or will be, once we figure it out.)
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 22, 2004 at 2:36:00 PM CET
The merchants of COOL
FRONTLINE journeys into the world of the marketers of popular culture to teenagers. They spend their days sifting through reams of market research data. They conduct endless surveys and focus groups. They comb the streets, the schools, and the malls, hot on the trail of the 'next big thing' that will snare the attention of their prey-a market segment worth an estimated $300 billion a year. They are the merchants of cool: the creators and sellers of popular culture, who have made teens the hottest consumer demographic in America. But are these marketers merely reflecting a growing coarseness in teen culture, or have they helped create it? Are they simply reflecting teen desires or have they begun to manufacture those desires in a bid to secure this lucrative market? And have they gone too far in their attempts to reach the hearts-and wallets-of America's youth?"
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 22, 2004 at 2:20:00 PM CET
E3 2004
The E3 Conference Program has always provided attendees with a unique perspective on the interactive entertainment industry. From focusing on trends taking place in Asia and Europe, to presenting developers and publishers on the front lines of persistent world gaming, to encouraging discussion and debate among individuals creating entertainment applications for mobile and handheld game platforms, the conference program is designed to showcase new business models and give the industry's most creative thinkers a forum to discuss their goals and methods.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 22, 2004 at 1:43:00 PM CET
Happy new year china
The year of the monkey
When is the Chinese New Year's Day in Year 2004? January 22,2004. This is the first day in the Year of the Monkey. It is Year 4701 by Chinese calendar.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 22, 2004 at 12:00:00 PM CET
Magazine directs climbers over cliff
Britain's biggest-selling hiking magazine apologized Wednesday after its latest issue contained a route that would lead climbers off the edge of a cliff on Britain's tallest peak.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 22, 2004 at 1:38:00 AM CET
Shit iam not young
Cheeky Chops
Jamie Oliver had long been thinking about helping unemployed young people by offering them a leg-up into the world of catering. 'Having not been the brightest banana in the bunch myself, I realised that my biggest weapon in life was the determination, enthusiasm, hands-on and "actions speak louder than words" approach my father taught me, and I wanted to get this across to others, especially those interested in food.' Jamie's ideas got whittled down to one main one: 'to train a team of unemployed kids with an interest and passion for food and to open a new first-class restaurant in London to be run by them.' And so, the charity Cheeky Chops was born.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 22, 2004 at 1:30:00 AM CET
Zurich Sit-Down Protesters Seek to Disrupt Forum
Some 200 people staged a sit-down protest at Zurich airport Wednesday, trying to hamper access to this week's World Economic Forum in Davos and to disrupt what they see as a meeting of "fat cats."
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