Posted on January 15th, 2007 by BRiT
ACFI is a group of people working for the peoples right to it’s Internets. We have made progress in Ladonia and are now working on the Micronation of Sealand.
Recently it was made clear that this country is for sale. To make sure the owners will be kopimistic and that the country won’t be governed by [...]
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Posted on January 15th, 2007 by reflex
The grizzly man is back, and this time he’s ready to take on bullets and bombs.
Troy Hurtubise, the Hamilton-born inventor who became famous for his bulky bear-protection suit by standing in front of a moving vehicle to prove it worked, has now created a much slimmer suit that he hopes will soon be protecting Canadian [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2007 by Elizabitch
UK scientists have developed genetically modified chickens capable of laying eggs containing proteins needed to make cancer-fighting drugs.
The breakthrough has been announced by the same research centre that created the cloned sheep, Dolly.
The Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, says it has produced five generations of birds that can produce useful levels of life-saving proteins in egg [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2007 by reflex
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — A woman who competed in a radio station’s contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner’s office said Saturday.
Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the “Hold Your [...]
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Posted on January 12th, 2007 by Jason
When Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the much-hyped iPhone this week, he left one detail hanging: the rights to the iPhone name.
Network equipment giant Cisco Systems owns the trademark. Wednesday, Cisco sued Apple in U.S. District Court, asking for an injunction against its Silicon Valley neighbor.
Apple spokesman Steve Dowling calls the lawsuit “silly.” He says [...]
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Posted on January 12th, 2007 by Jason
CAPE CORAL, Fla. - A man who tried to keep bees off his property accidentally set fire to his house instead, causing at least $500 damage.
Franklyn Pigott Jr. set his home ablaze Wednesday while attempting to destroy a nest of bees that had formed outside the home, the Fort Myers News-Press reported Thursday.
When Pigott, 38, [...]
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Posted on January 12th, 2007 by Jason
KINSHASA (AFP) - A pilfering worker in a Congolese diamond mine was caught in the act when he walked past a security scanner with 126 of the sparkling gems stashed up his rear end, a mine spokesman has said.
The would-be thief, a cleaner, “hid the small stones” — valued at 5,000 dollars (3,900 euros) — [...]
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Posted on January 11th, 2007 by Jason
WASHINGTON - Money talks, but can it also follow your movements?
In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.
The government said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. [...]
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Posted on January 9th, 2007 by reflex
PHILADELPHIA, Jan 8 (Reuters Life!) - New Jersey is to consider cutting the word ‘idiot’ from its constitution so that people with some mental disabilities won’t be barred from voting.
State Senate President Richard Codey introduced a bill on Monday that would remove language from the New Jersey constitution that was designed more than 150 years [...]
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Posted on January 9th, 2007 by MaxPower
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist is theorizing.
The Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life, so they didn’t recognize it, a geology professor at Washington State University [...]
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