Tue - October 14, 2003
Turn That PC Into a Supercomputer
A small chip-design firm will unveil a new processor
Tuesday it says will transform ordinary desktop PCs and laptops into
supercomputers.
Posted at 10:57 PM
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GI Letters From Iraq Are Identical
Several newspapers around the country
are recieving letters from soldiers from the
newpapers' hometown. The letters describe how things in Iraq are looking up and
the Iraqi citizens are waving and thanking the troops on a regular basis. The
letters also decribe the setting up of a new Iraqi police and fire department
and water and sewer systems. The only problem is many of these letters are
identical, right down to the word.
Posted at 02:25 AM
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Mon - October 13, 2003
Boy, 5, took £2,000 to buy sweets
A five-year-old boy shocked staff in a German petrol
station by attempting to buy sweets with more than £2,000 in cash.
Posted at 04:02 PM
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Apple to Host Music Media Event Next Week
Rumors are circulating that at the Moscone West
Facility in San Francisco on Thursday, October 16th, Apple will unveil the
Windows version of it's wildly successful iTunes software .
Posted at 03:58 PM
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Kazaa To Charge For Downloads Soon?
Kazaa has proposed a plan in which it would phase in a
payment structure where users would have to pay for the music they download from
the service.
Posted at 03:55 PM
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Sharp Debuts 3-D Display Laptop
Sharp Electronics on Monday released the first laptop
computer that can display images in three dimensions without those funky
glasses.
Posted at 03:52 PM
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Sat
- October 11, 2003
The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos
(duck)
On 5 June 1995 an adult male mallard (
Anas platyrhynchos
) collided with the glass façade
of the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam and died. An other drake mallard raped the corpse
almost continuously for 75 minutes.
Posted at 12:20 AM
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Fri - October 10, 2003
Priest had loot,Nazi stash, porn
Behind his white collar, a Queens priest kept some
dark secrets, cops said yesterday.
Posted at 11:21 PM
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Suspected penis snatcher beaten to death
year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through
sorcery has been beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia, police
say.
Posted at 11:18 PM
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CD Protection Shifts to Courtroom
update
In an abrupt reversal, SunnComm Technologies said
Friday that it will not sue a Princeton University graduate student who
published a paper that describes how to bypass CD copy-protection technology
simply by pressing the Shift key.
(see previews
article)
Posted at 11:17 PM
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Vatican says condoms don't stop AIDS
LONDON (Reuters) - The Vatican is telling its millions
of followers that -- contrary to scientific advice -- condoms can not stop the
transmission of AIDS, according to a television programme.
Posted at 12:37 PM
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Teen arrested, charged with felony for saving girlfriend's life with his
athsma inhaler
A 15-year-old faces expulsion after giving an inhaler
to his girlfriend during an asthma attack that happened at school.
Posted at 12:32 PM
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Tracking Junior With a Microchip
An RFID chip that gets implanted under a child's skin
and transmits a radio signal is being marketed in Mexico as a way to foil
kidnappers. Critics say the device is far from foolproof and raises civil
liberties concerns.
Posted at 12:24 PM
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Wed - October 8, 2003
‘Shift’ key breaks CD copy locks
A Princeton University student has published
instructions for disabling the new anti-copying measures being tested on CDs by
BMG — and they’re as simple as holding down a computer’s Shift
key.
Posted at 08:43 PM
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Tue - October 7, 2003
Steady rate of U.S. deaths in Iraq -- where is this graph in the media?
As
whatreallyhappened.com
is highlighting, a Bellingham, Washington university
sociology professor, Ed Stephan, has created the
graph
below
Posted at 01:41 PM
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The CIA recently released over 18,000 pages of their research into mind
control which has been ongoing since the 1950's. Two excerpts from the
documents are as follows:
Bush Seeks A Militarized Police Force
High School Tells Student to Remove Antiwar Shirt
Daily Computer and tech news?
Oil and gas running out much faster than expected, says study
Canadian chemical alert was a coffee spill
Lawmaker Wants to Put 'French' Back in Fries
A guy asks how to have sex on a EA sports forum
Mother charged with plotting to get teen daughter pregnant
The weel in the city bus Netherlands
Ban on Russian ads depicting euro having sex with dollar
Matrix revolusions
CIA pursues video game
Fun bush cartoons
President George W. Bush's approval rating has dropped to 49 percent
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