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Unicorn sings Gangsta....What??-> 0

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LuserOnFire

on Saturday April 02 2011, @05:18PM

LuserOnFire writes "So remember when Coolio was unhappy "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied Gangsta's Paradise? Clearly he's had a change of heart. There is now a Juicy Fruit ad where a unicorn does a music video for the song. No really."
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Saturn Is The Only Planet Visible In April-> 0

Submitted by RedEaredSlider on Saturday April 02 2011, @02:34PM

RedEaredSlider writes "The planet Saturn will reach opposition on Sunday, April 3, and be not only among the brightest planets in the sky but the only one visible for most of the night.

Opposition is when a planet appears on the opposite side of the sky from the Sun. As Saturn takes 29 years to make a single circuit of the Sun, this happens once a year (it actually takes a year and a few extra days because Saturn moves against the background sky a bit — the last opposition was on March 22, 2010).

But this time opposition is a bit different. Saturn happens to be one of the only planets visible in the sky for most of the night. Mercury is lost in the Sun's glare until late in the month when it will be visible before sunrise. Venus rises at about 5:23 a.m. (Eastern) on April 1, and will stay visible in the predawn sky for the whole month. Mars, like Mercury, is too close to the sun in the sky to see, as is Jupiter."
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CD ripper "incites law breaking"-> 4

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Barence

on Saturday April 02 2011, @08:46AM

Barence writes "A British firm has been banned from advertising a CD ripping device because it "incites law breaking". The Brennan JB7 is “a CD player with a hard disk that stores up to 5,000 CDs”. The adverts for the Brennan highlight the convenience of ripping your entire CD collection to the device – much like we’ve all been doing for years on our PCs, iPods and other MP3 players. The Advertising Standards Authority has banned the ads after concluding "that the ad misleadingly implied it was acceptable to copy CDs, vinyl and cassettes without the permission of the copyright owner"."
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