Topic: NEWS - on May 18, 2007 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
World's Largest Cheese
A commuter takes a photograph of a six-foot-wide, 1,323-pound wheel of cheese at New York's Grand Central Station. The Gouda-style cheese wheel was produced by the Beemster company of Holland is said to be the largest in the world.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 14, 2007 at 12:40:00 PM CEST
First A4 colour e-paper unfurled
South Korea's LG Philips LCD has developed the world's first A4-sized colour electronic-paper - a paper-thin and bendable viewing panel.
The e-paper - which measures 35.9cm across its diagonal and is just 300 micrometres (0.3 millimetres) thin - can display up to 4096 colours, the world's second largest liquid crystal display maker said in a statement.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 14, 2007 at 12:37:00 PM CEST
Meet the Next Billionaires
Sitting at the long trestle tables in Y Combinator's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters last January, the Weeblies felt wobbly. Back home at Penn State, the three undergraduates were alpha geeks, go-getters who'd capitalized on the university's requirement that students have a Web portfolio by creating software that makes it really easy for students to build a personal site. The trio—David Rusenko, Dan Veltri and Chris Fanini, all 22 years old—decided to start a company, calling it Weebly because it sounded good and the domain name was open. Then last November they heard about a company called Y Combinator that gives seed money to fledgling start-ups and imports a bunch to Silicon Valley for three months of intensive entrepreneuring. They sent off their application the day before the deadline, and made the cut.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 14, 2007 at 10:47:00 AM CEST
Swiss launch BAE inquiry over alleged money laundering
The corruption investigation into BAE's Saudi arms deals, a cause of international uproar when the Serious Fraud Office abandoned its inquiry in December last year, could be reopened after all thanks to moves by the authorities in Switzerland.
Federal prosecutors in Bern launched at the weekend their own official investigation into BAE, this time for alleged money laundering. Investigators there will be able to examine Swiss accounts held by billionaire middleman Wafic Said, who is regarded as a potential witness. Mr Said declines to comment.
Article continues Hundreds of millions of pounds are reported to have passed through the accounts, from an offshore company secretly owned by BAE called Poseidon.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 13, 2007 at 12:22:00 PM CEST
KartOO
is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 11, 2007 at 2:16:00 PM CEST
Transformers high res pix
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Topic: NEWS - on May 11, 2007 at 12:04:00 PM CEST
Man Dies Dancing in Parking Lot
A man died while trying to outdo a rival with an acrobatic move while "battle dancing," police said.
Robert Stitt, 48, and his rival were competing in a parking lot Monday night when he tried a forward flip and landed on his head.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 10, 2007 at 1:18:00 PM CEST
One Drop Toilet Smell Eater Best Invention Ever!
Depending on your point of view (man or woman) this is just a cool invention or the best thing ever. There is now a liquid drop, called One Drop, for people (mainly men we're guessing again) to use in their toilet to get rid of the smells. While we're sure this was tested by normal people with normal turds, we're curious how 2 dudes on a diet of nachos and beer with a case of the "Green Apple Splatters" will fare with this product.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 10, 2007 at 12:51:00 PM CEST
The 23 Phenomenon Robert Anton Wilson
With the release of The Number 23 earlier this year we paid tribute to the late, much lamented Robert Anton Wilson by reprinting this 1977 article from (you guessed it) Fortean Times 23.
I first heard of the 23 enigma from William S Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, Nova Express, etc. According to Burroughs, he had known a certain Captain Clark, around 1960 in Tangier, who once bragged that he had been sailing 23 years without an accident. That very day, Clark’s ship had an accident that killed him and everybody else aboard. Furthermore, while Burroughs was thinking about this crude example of the irony of the gods that evening, a bulletin on the radio announced the crash of an airliner in Florida, USA. The pilot was another captain Clark and the flight was Flight 23.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 9, 2007 at 11:59:00 AM CEST
Swiss solar-powered boat completes fuel-free Atlantic voyage
A Swiss-built solar-powered vessel arrived in New York City on Tuesday on what the group behind the project said was the first sun-powered voyage across the Atlantic.
Dubbed "sun21," the catamaran reached North Cove Marina after a journey of six months and some 13,000 kilometres from Chipiona, Spain, to the Caribbean island Martinique and then along the U.S. East Coast to New York, the Switzerland-based group transatlantic21 said in a statement.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 9, 2007 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
Curbs on public satellite photos may be needed
The director of a little-known U.S. spy agency that analyzes imagery from the skies says that the increasing availability of commercial satellite photos may require the government to restrict distribution.
"If there was a situation where any imagery products were being used by adversaries to kill Americans, I think we should act," Vice Adm. Robert Murrett, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, said Tuesday in a rare interview at his office in Bethesda, Md.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 9, 2007 at 10:24:00 AM CEST
Urinals With Views
I hate reading the ads that marketing companies post over some urinals. I would much rather have something else to look at -- like a skyline view. Here's a round-up of 13 of the world's best (urinal) views.
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