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During the test-drive Porsche 911 (experimental model of 2010) crashed on highway in Germany. 51-year-old engineer of the company has died. The car was traveling just 130 km per hour, on the road without a speed limit.
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I don’t know exactly what it is, but you have to see it.

A year ago, we uncovered 16 dirty little secrets the restaurant industry was keeping hidden under countertops and tucked behind boardroom doors. We exposed certain chains for refusing to disclose their nutritional content, and others for refusing to remove trans fatty acids from their foods, in spite of a flood of scientific evidence that shows how harmful partially hydrogenated oils can be. The good news is that, once exposed, some of the shamed chains moved to rectify these secrets. The bad news is that some didn’t. And the even more disappointing news is that in the year since, we’ve discovered 16 new secrets that the restaurant industry would rather you never hear about. Too bad for them.
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Fredrik Neij, one of the PirateBay admins currently on trial in Stockholm, admitted that he was hupping his servers from the courtroom while the lawyers were making closing arguments:
- A server was down and I restarted it, Neij tells expressen.se. He is one of the four founders of The Pirate Bay that stand accused of “complicity to making copyrighted material accessible” (yes, that’s the charge). That didn’t stop him from taking care of a server mishap in the middle of the trial’s closing argument.

Thepiratebay.org was down during the best part of Monday, which had a good deal of file-sharing folks worried that the website might be down for good this time. Thankfully for them, he had his trusty laptop at hand and could restart the server remotely, so that eager fileswappers could get back inside.

-We have Internet access [in the court room] so it was no problem, Neij told Expressen today (Tuesday);

-Besides, I’m keeping up with the coverage of the trial.
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In a move that will subject a number of government projects to enhanced environmental and scientific scrutiny, President Obama is restoring a requirement that U.S. agencies consult with independent federal experts to determine whether their actions might harm threatened and endangered species.

The presidential memorandum issued yesterday, which marks yet another reversal of former president George W. Bush’s environmental legacy, will revive a decades-old practice under the Endangered Species Act that calls for agencies to consult with either the Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on whether their projects could affect imperiled species. On Dec. 16, the Bush administration allowed agencies to waive such reviews if they decided, on their own, that the actions would not harm vulnerable plants and animals.
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A Holland American cruise ship was on its way back to the Mexican Riviera Sunday after docking in San Diego to drop off scores of sick passengers and disinfect the ship.

The cruise ship that sailed out of San Diego was on high alert after 106 passengers came down with the norovirus. More than 1,800 guests were on board the Oosterdam for a seven day cruise to Mexico.

“Guests who demonstrated symptoms were asked to remain in their cabins until symptoms disappeared,” Holland American Spokesperson Erik Elvejord said.

The Holland America Oosterdam ship departed San Diego a week ago for a cruise to Baja California and returned to San Diego Saturday morning.
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The Lamborghini Countach is fast, but everyone knows Bulls can’t swim, so is it fast enough to walk on water, Jesus-style?

We think not, which is why we wonder what the heck this thing is doing almost fully submerged. Anyone have any ideas? We did some searching online and couldn’t find anything.
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Author Michael Books has investigated some of the most puzzling anomalies of modern science, those intractrable problems that refuse to conform to the theories. Here he counts down the 13 strangest.
1. MOST OF THE UNIVERSE IS MISSING

We can only account for 4 per cent of the cosmos

If you’re wondering what the LHC might do for you, how’s this: it might just find a whole quarter of the universe. The collider is hoping to create some particles of what physicists call “dark matter”, an enigma that is thought to make up roughly 25 per cent of the universe. Then there is the “dark energy”, a mysterious force that seems to be ripping space and time apart. In total, a whopping 96 per cent of the universe has gone AWOL. Unless, that is, we’ve got our maths all wrong. Watch this space.
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Nina Meyer, a young, strong-willed exotic dancer at the Klassy Dolls Gentleman’s Club, informed patrons Monday that she only plans to perform nude for as long as it takes to get through the remainder of her existence on earth.

“Look, I’m not gonna be a stripper forever,” Meyer said while administering one more in an endless series of lapdances. “You better believe I’ll be out of here the minute I either die or become so old that no man will pay to see me naked.”

“I’ve got dreams a lot bigger than this dump,” Meyer continued. “I’m only doing this because there’s no way I’ll ever come close to achieving those dreams.”

Meyer, 24, accepted her current position three months ago to “pick up a little extra cash” for food, clothing, and shelter. She told reporters that stripping allows her the freedom to barely chip away at her enormous debt while still being able to save absolutely nothing for the future.
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It’s been a rough week for the RIAA as massive layoffs are about to cost many employees their job. On top of that, the anti-piracy outfit is being sued for abusing the legal system for its war on piracy, civil conspiracy, deceptive trade practices, trespassing and computer fraud.

riaaCovering the progress in the various RIAA cases has never been one of our top priorities here at TorrentFreak. The legalese and numerous cases seem to drag on forever, or end up in a settlement where the alleged ‘pirate’ pays the record labels a few thousand dollars.

Today’s coverage at both P2Pnet and Ray Beckerman’s blog, however, caught our eye. In what seems to be a classic David versus Goliath story, Shahanda Moursy from North Carolina has demanded a trial against three major record labels and the RIAA.
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Hard to believe that everything that happens in the 21 st century… Looks like the slavery. People working hard from dawn till dusk in awful conditions… No more words, just look…
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If you are going to visit India, even don’t think about drinking local alcohol. You ask why? It is bacause it is made of… well… see for yourself
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The horrific visions that open the final chapter of Alan Moore’s Watchmen haunt you long afterwards. But Zack Snyder’s movie tones down that imagery, and screenwriter David Hayter says it’s because of 9/11. Spoilers below.

As you probably already know, there’s no giant squid at the end of Snyder’s movie adaptation. But that’s not the only thing that’s missing. The film leaves out the gut-wrenching images that fill nine pages of the graphic novel, at the start of Chapter 12

In the book, a doomsday clock dripping with the blood of massacred New Yorkers is followed by in-your-face carnage. There are no words, just page after page of silent faces frozen in despair. Bodies are piled on top of bodies, hunched over street corners and splayed outside of windows. If you’re familiar with the book, you know that the world, for New Yorkers, has just ended. The visually arresting images push forward the final issue that the entire novel hinges upon: Is it okay to kill millions to save billions? It’s violent and necessary… but it’s not in the movie.
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Street graffity became more creative. Have a look on this “Hell street”. German artist named Edgar Mueller has created this painting over 5 days, working for 12 hours.

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