http://www.acidpepper.com/greenblog Your news collector for the news that most people dont hear or most people don't want to hear. mrgreenish@hotmail.com © Mr.green Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:57:57 +0200 Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:58:04 Europe/Amsterdam iBlog 1.3.1 A small chip-design firm will unveil a new processor Tuesday it says will transform ordinary desktop PCs and laptops into supercomputers. ]]> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:57:35 +0200 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. ]]> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 02:25:47 +0200 A five-year-old boy shocked staff in a German petrol station by attempting to buy sweets with more than £2,000 in cash. ]]> Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:02:14 +0200 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 . ]]> Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:58:38 +0200 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. ]]> Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:55:06 +0200 Sharp Electronics on Monday released the first laptop computer that can display images in three dimensions without those funky glasses. ]]> Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:52:04 +0200 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. ]]> Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:20:01 +0200 Behind his white collar, a Queens priest kept some dark secrets, cops said yesterday. ]]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:21:06 +0200 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. ]]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:18:11 +0200 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) ]]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 23:17:10 +0200 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. ]]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:37:53 +0200 A 15-year-old faces expulsion after giving an inhaler to his girlfriend during an asthma attack that happened at school. ]]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:32:09 +0200 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. ]]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:24:37 +0200 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. ]]> Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:43:16 +0200 As whatreallyhappened.com is highlighting, a Bellingham, Washington university sociology professor, Ed Stephan, has created the graph below ]]> Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:41:35 +0200