Topic: STRANGE - on May 15, 2008 at 1:46:19 PM CEST
Swiss man soars above Alps with jet-powered wing
A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Alps.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 11, 2008 at 2:19:42 PM CEST
Killerwal in Sicht - DUBAIS KÜNSTLICHE INSELN
Dubais Bauwut nimmt kein Ende. Ein riesiger Vergnügungspark soll vor der Küste des Emirats ins Meer gebaut werden. Das Eiland in Form eines Killerwals soll ab 2012 die Spitze der künstlichen Inselgruppe Palm Jebel Ali bilden.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 7, 2008 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
CIA's Psychology of Intelligence Analysis book online
The CIA has posted the full text of one of its guidebooks, "Psychology of Intelligence Analysis." The 1999 book was published by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. It's interesting to just dip into it randomly and read little bits here and there.
Of the diverse problems that impede accurate intelligence analysis, those inherent in human mental processes are surely among the most important and most difficult to deal with. Intelligence analysis is fundamentally a mental process, but understanding this process is hindered by the lack of conscious awareness of the workings of our own minds...
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 5, 2008 at 12:16:00 PM CEST
Lebanese singer causes Gulf storm
A raunchy Lebanese singer is causing controversy in Bahrain, where she is due to perform for the first time.
All but one of the members of the Gulf kingdom's Islamist-dominated parliament have approved a motion urging the government to ban Haifa Wehbe's show.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 5, 2008 at 11:34:00 AM CEST
Police: Texas man trying to cash $360 billion check arrested
Police in Fort Worth said they arrested Charles Fuller last week when bank tellers noticed the ridiculously large amount and called the woman whose name was on the check.
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Topic: STRANGE - on May 3, 2008 at 10:18:00 AM CEST
Dinosaur dung sells at NYC auction for nearly $1,000 - old shit
A pile of dinosaur dung 130 million years old sold at a New York auction Wednesday for nearly $1,000.
The prehistoric deposit fetched $960, said a spokeswoman for Bonhams New York. Its pre-auction estimate was $450.
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Topic: STRANGE - on April 29, 2008 at 1:25:00 PM CEST
The “Tree Man”
Dede, aka “Tree Man“, is an Indonesian fisherman who has been slowly changing from a human into a tree… or at least that is what it appears.
After cutting his knee as a teenager, Dede began to grow tree like warts that have baffled local doctors and medical experts for over 20 years.
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Topic: STRANGE - on April 7, 2008 at 1:54:00 PM CEST
300-Kilo-Fels stürzte in Toilette von Gästehaus
Ein rund 300 Kilo schwerer Felsbrocken ist am Sonntagabend in St. Gilgen, im Salzburg er Flachgau, auf ein Gästehaus gestürzt und hat die Toilette erheblich beschädigt. Davor war ein hinter dem Haus abgestelltes Fahrzeug getroffen worden, berichtete die Polizei am Montag. Anfang Februar war in der Nähe eine 28-jährige Oberösterreicherin von einem Stein am Kopf getroffen und schwer verletzt worden.
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Topic: STRANGE - on April 2, 2008 at 12:19:00 PM CEST
Meatwater
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 27, 2008 at 1:40:00 PM CET
Are your eyes closed? Then you must be in the Metaverse
Ranit Mishori's story in yesterday's Washington Post Health section about the new new thing in nanotech — a contact lens (above and below) that displays videos, images, email and anything else that can be rendered on a screen — right on your eyeball, in real time, heralds a whole new era.
Makes "heads-up display" seem positively last century.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 26, 2008 at 11:57:00 AM CET
Lidl ließ Mitarbeiter systematisch bespitzeln
ersteckte Kameras, seitenlange Protokolle: Lidl hat Mitarbeiter in vielen Filialen überwacht. Notiert wurden private Gespräche, Lebenssituation und Arbeitsweise der Angestellten. Dass die heimliche Bespitzelung illegal ist, schien den Lebensmittel-Discounter wenig zu stören.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 24, 2008 at 9:46:00 AM CET
Curious case of the dead scientist and the bomb experiment
A mysterious bomb-making experiment that ended with the accidental death of a government scientist has remained an official secret for more than five years, leaving his family in the dark about what went wrong.
Terry Jupp, a scientist with the Ministry of Defence, was engulfed in flames during a joint Anglo-American counter-terrorism project intended to discover more about al-Qaida's bomb-making capacities.
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