Showing posts with label program. Show all posts
Showing posts with label program. Show all posts

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Naomi Campbell Arrested Again

The model Naomi Campbell has been arrested in London at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 for assaulting and spitting on a police officer. She already pleaded guilty in January of 2007 to misdemeanor assault for throwing her cell phone at her maid during an argument over a missing pair of jeans. She was then ordered to do community service and attend a two-day anger-management program.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Dog Barks Translated By Computer

There are scientists at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary that has recorded more than 6,000 dog barks, which were by 14 different Hungarian sheepdogs, and fed the sounds to a computer program which was able to categorized the barks into categories that included “stranger,” “fight,” “alone,” “ball,” “walk,” and “play.” The computer also was able to pick out different dogs by their bark.

Read More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/01/16/scidog116.xml

Monday, December 10, 2007

Fight World Hunger For Free Online

Free Rice is a website that fights world hunger by asking you vocabulary questions. For each question that you get correct the site donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program. The rice is paid for by advertisers and other supporters. The more questions you answer the more is donated to poor and hungry people.

Visit This Link: http://www.freerice.com/

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Man Exchanges Missile Launcher for Shoes

It is reported in Orlando, FL that a man showed up at Kicks for Guns and exchanged a 4 foot long launcher for Reebok sneakers for his daughter. Luckily, the exchange program has a no-questions-asked policy, so the man didn’t get in trouble. The said that he found the weapon in a shed he tore down last week and he didn’t know what to do with it so he brought it to the weapon exchange program.

Along with the missile launcher, police collected more than 250 guns that were exchanged for $50 gift certificates or sneakers.