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Reign Of Fire, Santa's Reindeer Go Up In Smoke

In a major oratory blunder the Reverend Lee Rayfield explained to a packed hall full of Children (some as young as five) at St Mary's Church in Maidenhead UK that Santa was Dead. Using modern scientific evidence he explained it was physically impossible for Santa to deliver his presents in one night and if his Reindeer went at the speeds necessary they would quickly become more charred than a traditional Turkey.

Obviously there are some parents out there making verbal somersaults trying to talk there way out of this one, but what amuses me more is that here you have a guy who is a prominent member of a religion based on such un-scientific stories as virgin births, walking on water and coming back from the dead lecturing children on the myth of Father Christmas?

$hrubrub: The Saga Continues

From NWD:
Saturday, December 14, 2002
Editor claims Bush rape story ran prematurely
A news report about a court filing by a Missouri City, Texas, woman who claims President Bush raped her was posted on the Internet prematurely and without sufficient fact-checking, says the editor of the paper.

The story, published Wednesday by the Fort Bend Star, said Margie Schoedinger also claims that Bush conspired with the FBI and local police to cover up his alleged crime.
"This report wasn't supposed to go up yet," Jean Sandlin, an editor for the paper, told WorldNetDaily. Speaking of Schoedinger, Sandlin added: "I had heard she was a nutcase."
Commentary: Why does the word "backpedal" come to mind?

Here's Pravda's take on the Bush rape scandal

Lot's of links to news sources picking this up on Indymedia. Also check out the Larry Flint article linked from there.

Check Google for ever expanding sources.

and this from people working the story:

L****** K******* told me that you'd called her. L******* is not only a fellow reporter, she's my best running buddy. She's new to this reporting business. After our crime reporter quit to move to Dallas, we trained L****** to do reporting. She's been a cop most of her life so she's used to report writing. She took to news reporting like a duck to water and is truly enjoying it. You were her first out-of-town call so she was pretty excited and called me right away. By the way, L****** is a yellow dog Democrat.

I give this story no creedence whatsoever. This is Texas, William. We love and nourish our crazy people in Texas. After all, this is the state that put Ross Perot in charge of public education. People in foreign states lock their crazy uncles in the attic - in Texas, we parade them out for visitors and take great pride in them. We don't ask if you have any insanity in your family; we ask which side it's on. I'm not kidding. We don't consider insanity to be a handicap around here. It's more like a survival technique.

The lawsuit was filed in the wrong court. In Texas, County Courts can't hear matters that go to millions of dollars. The case should have been filed in District Court. It was filed pro se. The judge in the county court is Susan Lowery, another good friend of mine. I can assure you that if there is anything to this case, Judge Lowery will seek it out and stomp on all parties involved. She is to be trusted. As a sidelight, we also have two fruitcake judges here. If this was a set-up, people smart enough to do a set-up would have picked one of the fruitcake judges.

The woman who filed the suit is a registered voter in the county, and lists her address at a home owned by someone with the same last name. She is not returning either L****** or my calls. We thought about going to her house but more pressing stories have taken up our time. Besides, we're a tad worried about being shot.

One other thing about people in Texas, we can't give short answers.

Meanwhile back at the Osama Ranch...

Kola Boof: 'Net persona, writer, Bin Laden's ex-girlfriend--or hoax?
Interesting NYT story (Free Registration Required) about the controversy surrounding Sudan-born writer and web-celeb Kola Boof:

The Kola Boof story demonstrates how flashpoints are reached in cyberspace, the new forum for underground literature and politics, where fact and myth become indistinguishable and publicity campaigns become a kind of performance art. Without the imprimatur of a major publisher or a mainstream review or a public appearance, she has managed to instigate anger and discussion about her work.
Ms. Boof said a fatwa was ordered up on her in London for her stand against organized religion, but particularly against Arab Muslims. Sudanese officials in London, however, said that was not true. One of those officials did denounce her in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, a leading Arab-language newspaper in the United Kingdom. A number of well-known African-American activists have taken up her causes, which include her opposition to slavery in the Sudan and her condemnation of stoning and female castration and other harsh measures taken against African women...

Ms. Boof's Web site appeared on the Internet a few months ago, presenting her as a mysterious but alluring figure, whose life provided a potent brew of international politics, diplomatic and sexual -- part Graham Greene, part Jacqueline Susann. Among other things, she claims she briefly was Osama bin Laden's mistress, in the late 1990's. Via BB

smog.net - artists, writers, photographers, curiosities and more

Why smog.net? When Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo spotted the brownish haze of Indian fires hanging above the hunting grounds of Southern California, he gave the name Bahia de los Fumos (Bay of the Smokes) to what was either the bay of Santa Monica or San Pedro. Four centuries later, on July 27, 1943, under the front-page headline: CITY HUNTING FOR SOURCE OF "GAS ATTACK," the Los Angeles Times reported the fourth assault of a "smoke nuisance." A year later, on September 18, a new word passed into the local lexicon when the paper, using an expression common in Pittsburgh, referred to the bronze pall as "smog (smoke and fog)." In October of 1995, smog.net was born into an internet community of approximately 90,000 web sites. As I type this in September of 2001, there are more than 31 million web sites. How the hell did you find us?
Commentary:Briiliant Artists and Photographers sections!

Dow and Burson-Marsteller Suing Parody Websites

Did You Know...
Dow is responsible for the birth of the modern environmental movement. In 1962, Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring about the side-effects of a Dow product, DDT, on North American bird populations. Her work created a groundswell of concern, sparking the birth of many of today's environmental action groups. Another example of Dow's commitment to Living. Improved daily.

Two giant companies are struggling to shut down parody websites that portray them unfavorably, interrupting internet use for thousands in the process, and filing a lawsuit that pits the formidable legal department of PR giant Burson-Marsteller against a freshman at Hampshire College.

The activists behind the fake corporate websites have fought back, and obtained substantial publicity in the process.

A December 3 press release originating from one of the fake sites, Dow-Chemical.com, explained the "real" reasons that Dow could not take responsibility for the Bhopal catastrophe, which has resulted in an estimated 20,000 deaths over the years. "Our prime responsibilities are to the people who own Dow shares, and to the industry as a whole," the release stated. "We cannot do anything for the people of Bhopal." The fake site immediately received thousands of outraged e-mails .
Within hours, the real Dow sent a legal threat to Dow-Chemical.com's upstream provider, Verio, prompting Verio to shut down the fake Dow's ISP for nearly a day, closing down hundreds of unrelated websites and bulletin boards in the process.

The fake Dow website quickly resurfaced at an ISP in Australia.

In a comical anticlimax, Dow then used a little-known domain-name rule to take possession of Dow-Chemical.com , another move which backfired when amused journalists wrote articles in newspapers from The New York Times to The Hindu in India, and sympathetic activists responded by cloning and mirroring the site at many locations, including http://www.dowethics.com/, http://www.dowindia.com/ and, with a twist, http://www.mad-dow-disease.com/. Dow continues to play whack-a-mole with these sites (at least one ISP has received veiled threats).

Read the Whole Story Here.

Big Tip'O The Hat to Jon at Weblogsky

The Timeship Building

The extension of life, the prolonging of youth, and the sustaining of health are among the oldest of human dreams, expressed in myths and stories of potions, elixirs, and fountains of youth.

Advances in science, medicine, nutrition, and public health over the past century have extended our expected life spans by decades, but such advances are only the beginning. The new frontiers opened up by today's DNA research will extend life further, and we may soon be able to slow and perhaps stop aging altogether.

Such visions are at the center of the Timeship project. This project has been conceived by people who have long been at the forefront of life extension research, and who realize that this is the moment to make a great leap forward.

The Timeship Building, a visionary structure covering six-acres, will be the world's first comprehensive facility devoted entirely to life extension research and cryopreservation.


Be sure to read the 'News Update' which is an article from an Italian magazine 'Oggi'. -chiaroscuro

Black Holes Guilty of All Catastrophes on Earth
Warning to military men: Do not down UFOs, your grand-grandchildren might be in them

Scientists often say that the things in the past discovered by science were just meager bits that interpreted the world in a wrong way. Those scientists who try to step aside from dogmas ask this humble question: “Maybe you are right, but is there any other explanation?”

When British scientists started their tests of creating black holes in their labs in January of 2001, no one was surprised. Everyone thought that it was simply another lie. A black hole is formed after a star’s explosion. Its mass squeezes into a supermass, which does not let light pass through it. This supermass is of incredible density, which sucks in huge objects. If the Sun blows up, the solar system will be squeezed into the size of Moscow, and it will suck in huge planets, bigger that Jupiter.

Is possible to create this under lab conditions? And what for? Professor Ulf Leonhardt and a group of English physicists think that it is rather possible. The professor will not create a huge galactic black hole. He wants to make a small one, an otone. Furthermore, it was officially announced that the creation of an otone is meant to develop the theory of quantum gravity. Everyone settled down, as common people do not care about such theories.

About that "Sexual Lawsuit"

If you were really on the conspiratorial side, you might say that, hypothetically speaking, the filing of a ludicrous court petition charging George W. Bush with rape -- and we are just speaking hypothetically of the future (not of any existing lawsuit) -- would benefit Bush in the long run.

It's called "innoculating" an issue.

Karl Rove brilliantly "innoculated" Bush against the widespread rumors that he had abused cocaine while in the Texas Air Force Reserves. Indeed, it was the contention of Jim Hatfield, author of the legendary "Fortunate Son," that he was set up to leak "evidence" of Bush's cocaine use. Why? According to Jim's theory, Rove then undercut the claim by providing the media with information damaging to Hatfield's credibility. By revealing Hatfield's past, the cocaine rumors were put to rest because the messenger had been discredited.

UPDATE: Woman files lawsuit against President
From The Fort Bend Southwest Star

...Furthermore she states, "Throughout this conversation, she learned that there was no time that the Defendant (Bush) ever stopped watching Plaintiff’, nor did he stop having sex with Plaintiff. The sole concern of the Defendant and his representatives was whether Plaintiff could actually recall whether Plaintiff could actually recall, the individual sex crimes committed against Plaintiff and Plaintiff’s husband, utilizing drugs.

Section VII of the lawsuit states; "Whether or not Plaintiff’s husband was raped remains in question, as Plaintiff was drugged after she was raped and her husband was drugged before her rape. Plaintiff can only state that these men purported to be FBI agents raping her for the purpose of covering for how many times they had drugged her and allowed the Defendant to rape her in the same manner." ...

The Science of Life

• Tiny transistors to lift lid on cell life: The sensors are transistors fashioned from silicon stripes that conduct electricity. Each stripe is just a few millionths of a millimetre wide. When molecules stick to their surface, the current flowing through can change. To tune a stripe to respond to one molecule only, the researchers plan to fix a chemical group to the stripe's surface that bonds exclusively to that molecule.



• Remote-control for bacteria- Radio waves switch proteins on and off: Remote-controlled bacteria could be just around the corner. Researchers have found a way to switch cell processes on and off with radio waves.
  
  Cells could be equipped with a toolbox of 'software' - such as the ability to glow periodically. Remote-controlled enzymes could cut and paste these modules as if downloading a particular program into the cells. This is a long way off, but the components are taking shape.



• New theory for origin of life- Mineral cells might have incubated first living things: Life on Earth may have begun in rocks on the ocean floor. More than 4 billion years ago, tiny cavities in minerals may have served as the first cells, two biologists are proposing1. Other researchers argue that the idea leaves many questions unanswered.
  
  The key to the new theory is iron sulphide. Hot springs deposit a honeycomb of this mineral on the ocean floor, with pockets a few hundredths of a millimetre across. This would have been the ideal place for life to get going, say William Martin, of Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany, and Michael Russell of the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre in Glasgow, UK.



• Designer baby techniques get mixed review: Most Americans approve of using designer baby' technology to avoid genetic diseases but not to pick such traits as sex, physical strength or intelligence, according to a public opinion poll released Monday.
  
  Apparently uneasy with the possibility of abuse, a sizable majority of those polled want the government to regulate such pre-birth manipulations to assure quality and safety. The survey of 1,211 adults in the United States was conducted for the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University.
  
  The possibility of choosing the genetics of early embryos is only now emerging, more than two decades after the first test-tube baby' was born using a technique called in vitro fertilization, in which a woman's egg is fertilized by sperm outside the body and then implanted in the womb.

The Voice and Face of God (vis-a-vis U.S. Spook Technology)

We are in Baghdad in 1991, and something strange is happening. A hush falls over the city as a huge shimmering face materialises in the sky. Soldiers and citizens prostrate themselves as each hears the voice of Allah, commanding them to overthrow the evil and treacherous Saddam Hussein. Within minutes an angry mob is storming the palace as the guards flee...

This highly imaginative scenario was proposed by US Air Force (USAF) planners for a bloodless victory in the Gulf conflict. The idea of putting words in God's mouth is not new. In the second century AD Lucian described a statue of the god Aesculapius that spoke to believers, aided by a hidden priest with a speaking tube.

DARPA To Support Development Of Human Brain-Machine Interfaces

DURHAM, N.C. -- Devices including "neuroprosthetic" limbs for paralyzed people and "neurorobots" controlled by brain signals from human operators could be the ultimate applications of brain-machine interface technologies developed under a $26 million contract to Duke University sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

The contract is part of DARPA's Brain-Machine Interfaces Program which seeks to develop new technologies for augmenting human performance by accessing the brain in real time and integrating the information into external devices. Via Technoshamanic & Memes

Mystery of the Silver Rings

The young dolphin gives a quick flip of her head, and an undulating silver ring appears--as if by magic--in front of her. The ring is a solid, toroidal bubble two feet across--and yet it does not rise to the surface! It stands erect in the water like the rim of a magic mirror, or the doorway to an unseen dimension. For long seconds the dolphin regards its creation, from varying aspects and angles, with its vision and sonar. Seemingly making a judgement, the dolphin then quickly pulls a small silver donut from the larger structure, which collapses into small bubbles. She then "pushes" the donut, which stays just inches ahead of her rostrum, perhaps 20 feet over a period of up to 10 seconds. Then, stopping again, she regards the twisting ring for a last time and bites it--causing it to collapse into a thousand tiny bubbles which head--as they should--for the water's surface. After a few moments of reflection, she creates another.Via CDC

Dubya Subpoenaed For Texas Rape of Minor (link is to a PDF)

It says in this court document on the Office of the County Clerk, Fort Bend County Texas site that Dubya has been accused legally of having sex with a minor, and then using his powers as President to harass her into committing suicide. Here's a copy of the subpoena.

Wonder if this will make the media? You can be sure that if it was Slick Willie or Michael Jackson being accused the Media Droids would see to it that it did, that's all we're sayin...

Link to an HTML version of the subpoena and the complaint for the PDF impaired.

Editorial: Well, we only got about 8 gajillionzillion emails outta that one! Metafilter boiled over, so they pulled the debate, however these folks seems to have gotten down to it and started checking the facts.

Scientists try to spot elusive gravity waves

Scientists this fall began trying to measure one of nature's strangest phenomena -- gravity waves. These are ripples in the fabric of space itself, like wind-whipped ruffles in the walls of a tent, that are caused by massive star explosions, collisions between galaxies and other such cataclysmic events.

Astronomers think these exotic waves will open a new window on the cosmos, revealing things that cannot be observed with present technology. Just as X-rays show things that can't be seen in ordinary light, so gravitational waves might show objects or processes that can't be seen by other means.

For more information on the Web, go to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory page at www.ligo.caltech.edu or the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna home page at lisa.jpl.nasa.gov

Secret blasts rattle Cheney's neighbors

Neighbors of Vice President Dick Cheney are being shaken and rattled at least once a day by mysterious blasts on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory where Cheney lives. The Navy says the explosions are part of a construction project that has been going on for several months now, but won't say more because the project is classified.
Ok, WTF is going on over there?

Oldest American writing found in dump
Mexican script may show the roots of Central American civilizations.

Archaeologists may have found the oldest example of writing from the Americas. The find gives clues to how the ancient civilizations of Central America developed, they say. Others dispute that the objects discovered bear writing.

The finds - a clay seal and fragments of jewellery - date from 650 BC, 350 years before the next oldest script. They come from the Olmec civilization, which built the Americas' first cities, in central Mexico.

Hail the Humble Mouse
Will science and medicine accelerate now we have the genetic sequence of the lab mouse?

TextArc Offers Special Thank You and Response To incuBLOGula Readers Requests.
(It seems many of our readers wrote and requested info on this, so here it is.)

NeuroSlop's Viral Marketing Attempt: It's ALL About the Timing Boys...

You may remember a story we ran recently , describing some new trends in marketing. One of the culprits was a company called NeuroPop. Today we received this email in response to our article:

From: "ChapD@neuropop.com"
To:teamblogula@incunabula.org
Subject: Warning Re: NeuroPop
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:22:59 -0500
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Dec 2002 16:23:00.0065 (UTC) FILETIME=[67F07510:01C2A068]

I saw your notice re: NeuroPop and I'm sending this in the hopes it may help and as a warning. I used to work for them (www.neuropop.com); I'm still using my old email address until it gets noticed and killed by the sysop so they can't trace me from my home email address. These guys were an auditory neuroscience team formerly with Brown University now working with major clients on neural marketing and non-lethal personnel control technology. They had a patent which basically covered a large chunk of the human brain, which suddenly disappared from the patent and trademark archives. The problem is they've created a technology which doesn't need implants or any type of invasive hardware or line-of-sight to modify people's mental states - they can embed it in any soundtrack. Before I left, they were in contact with the BIGGEST names in media and marketing in the world. I think all the sudden news about "neural marketing" and "psychological branding" being based on demographic and academic studies is crap - these guys have been around for the last 3 years and have not stopped working since day one. This is just very scary stuff and I'm glad I'm out of it - they were attracting attention from some VERY heavy people who were VERY interested.

DC

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Ok, we were intrigued and since we happened to be on-line when the original "warning" was sent we instantly sent a reply to "DC" and requested an interview, even offering to preserve their anonymity.

Here's the auto reply we received instantly:

Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:35:41 -0500
From: "ChapD"
Reply-To:
To:
Subject: This is no longer a valid email account. The individual to whom this account was assigne
X-Mailer:
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Dec 2002 16:35:42.0965 (UTC) FILETIME=[2EA9C250:01C2A06A]

This is no longer a valid email account. The individual to whom this account was assigned is no longer with the organization because of abuse of information privileges. Please remove this address from your records. Thank you.

Make of this what you will. Our suspicion is that this is a bungled attempt at Viral Marketing. Take some notes here NeuroPop lads:

• The original email was a nice touch. You even went so far as to have it sent through mail2web.com, which would seem to corroborate your story of: "I'm still using my old email address until it gets noticed and killed by the sysop so they can't trace me from my home email address." Also, the originating IP that the email was sent from: 129.49.150.79 traces to State University of New York at Stony Brook. Again, nice touch. A student? Those familiar with the principles of Viral Marketing will automatically recognize the slight give away here: Get other people to do your rumor-milling in a seeming casual way. Pay them to spread the word innocuously.
  
• We were on-line when you sent it so we responded immediately. The similarly immediate autoresponse we recieved gave it away.
  
• What you should have done was have a person or chatter-bot reply at least once or twice and then during the dialogue, bring down the hammer on the account. Looks less fishy that way. As it was, it all transpired in a matter of seconds, therefore your slip was showing.
  
• You may want to look up some of those unemployed Majestic programmers, they had their sh*t together.
  
• Oh yeah, don't forget to take this into account while you're at it.
  
• Read the wording of the two emails in question. Pay attention. The wording gives it all away. Oh what the hey, your slip was showing. (Just wanted to do that again)
  
• Anyone with half a business brain knows that the wording of the above auotreply from NeuroPop would compromise them legally if in fact any of this were real.
  

Everyone say hi to "DC"

Damned Dollies

We can all remember fun times with Barbies, G.I.Joe, My Buddy or Cabbage Patch kids. But those toys also came with cookie cutter personalities, blank face identities, plastic smiles and cheesy polyester outfits. Now that we're older, where do we find the dolls with edge, a bit of quirky personality, and a dash of witty sarcasm? Just because we're so-called "grown-ups", doesn't mean we don't need our own little dollies.

Enter Canadian Dana DeKuyper's Damned Dollies. These dolls could knock Barbie and Skipper to the ground. With names like Mavis, Maude, Hortence and Agnes, and faces reflective of those hair splitting moments that contort our faces into twisted and maniacal grimaces, Damned Dollies emit the true crankiness, insanity, and eccentricity that spice up grown-up life. Each Damned Dollie comes with its own little stand and traveling box.

Will the real Commander X please stand up?

Back, way back in history, or say, the 80s, Xerox culture was king. Latching on to this inexpensive publishing technology as a new form of samizdat, many underground writers who endure to this day got their start in the Xerox scene, which in turn empowered existing movements like Mail Art and Zines .

Among the denizens to crawl from this toner tinged primordial ooze: Val Valerian, INCUNABULA, Bob Lazar, Xandor Korzybski and Commander X. Out of all of those quirky examples, Commander X endures to this day as a shadowy figure, wrapped in a riddle, containing a mysterious nougat filling and topped with a zesty enigma frosting.

Who is Commander X, really? According to the "official" bio: Commander X is a former military intelligence operative with connections to the CIA and the Defense Department, on a number of occasions he witnessed the testing of highly classified, super TOP SECRET, black project aircraft engaged in maneuvers over Area 51 in the Nevada desert. Furthermore, this national whistle-blower claims he actually sat at the helm of one of these ships as it bio-located from one place to another...INSTANTLY! What was so unusual about these flights over Area 51 is the fact that the technology being tested involved principles of teleportation gleaned from reverse engineering of alien spacecraft which have crashed on Earth.

Ok. As things go in this arena that claim isn't really that far out. However I would like to point out that it has been reported that: James Keith, conspiracy author and researcher, died Tuesday September 7th while undergoing surgery at Washoe County Medical Center in Reno, Nevada. According to the Coroners report, Keith suffered a fatal blood clot while surgeons attempted to repair a broken leg. The explanation doesn't sit well with friends and colleagues, as mystery and intrigue surround the demise of the conspiracy icon. Now that Jim Keith has passed away, one of his secrets can be revealed: Jim Keith was Commander X.

Well, not completely: Commander X, the author of a group of spooky books dealing with subjects ranging from Tesla free energy, the Philadelphia Experiment, and alien overlords who rule our society, was actually a pen name for various authors. Keith was one of them: Timothy Beckley is another.

However this has been disputed by one source.

If Jim Keith alone was Commander X then it's interesting to note that he continues to write from the afterworld.

Of course for a multi-talented gent like the good Commander that wouldn't be an impossibility, now would it?

The Alchemy Web site
Alchemical symbolism, imagery and music

Imagery and symbolism are important facets of alchemy. Alchemical writers used beautiful imagery as a means of illustrating their ideas. Manuscripts and printed books are full of symbolism, emblems and imagery, often elaborated into complex sequences.

Was ‘Bigfoot’ hoax meant to scare thieves?
In the wake of purported hoaxster’s death, former co-worker tells his tale

The 16-inch footprints credited by some with reviving the legend of Bigfoot were really meant to scare away thieves. That’s according to a co-worker of the man credited with making them in 1958. WHEN RAY L. Wallace died late last month at the age of 84, family members revealed his role in making the 1958 footprints, which drew national attention to Humboldt County, Calif.
But 71-year-old John Auman of Glenoma, Wash., said that he was working nearby at the time and remembers the tracks — which Wallace made with the aid of big, wooden feet strapped to his boots — as a theft deterrent, not just a joke.

On Christmas morning, they will rise up and kill...

Bush doll spouts policy, famed malapropisms
Meet George W. Bush, the talking action figure. Conservative-friendly media sources are hailing the toy president as a hot stocking stuffer.

By George, it's the Dubya doll
''Press the button on George's back to hear him say 17 powerful and patriotic phrases,'' says the website of the Talking Presidents company, adding that the soundbites of Bush are ''in his own voice.''

Tohoku Univ. scientists find new neutrino

"An international team researching particle physics at Tohoku University has observed a new kind of neutrino --one of the building blocks of the universe--and almost certainly confirmed that the particles have mass, it was learned Tuesday."

"If it is confirmed that neutrinos do have mass, it will necessitate the rewriting of conventional theories about the components and origin of the universe, according to experts."

Here's an older article on the subject:

"The SuperKamioka detector consists of a huge 50,000 ton double layered tank of ultra pure water, observed by 11,146 twenty inch diameter photomultiplier tubes. This amounts to a total of about 1 acre of photocathode...."

And the site for Tohoku University (check the 'Detector' button for cool pictures) - Chiaroscuro

pseudodictionary - the dictionary for words that wouldn't make it into dictionaries

we're compiling a different sort of dictionary here. the words you find on this site won't be found in Websters or Rogets or Oxfords. the words on this site are words that regular (and we use this term loosely) people like you use everyday.

Asteroids prompted Martian flash floods

The torrential downpours and flash floods that carved the gigantic river valleys on Mars may have resulted from a ferocious asteroid bombardments billions of years ago.

Which Personality Disorder Do You Have? - Quizilla

New!! LibertyThink For Kids

The World According to David Icke

Earlier that day, sitting at a lonely, windswept bus stop having travelled to the Isle of Wight on the understanding that he would pick me up when I rang, I found myself leaving more and more frantic messages on his phone, which was permanently on call minder, cursing his name and those of all conspiracy theorists. Icke, I began to assume, was avoiding me. He had, perhaps, had an intuition -- from everything I knew about him, I understood this was the way he conducted his life -- and had come to the conclusion I was in league with the reptilians.

Well, who knew? Maybe I was. In Icke's alternative vision of reality, the planet is ruled by bloodline conspiracies in which the Queen, George Bush, Tony Blair, Hillary Clinton, Kris Kristofferson and others, are really multi-dimensional shape-shifting reptilian entities who practise secret paedophilic satanic rituals.

If you're new to the "Reptoid" paradigm, here's a little primer to catch you up a wee bit.

MIT AI Lab Research Projects

Like a yuppie housewife lost in a oceanic post orgasm-like shopping ecstasy deep in the heart of Needless Markup, I could just browse this site all day.

Fun with FedEx: Santa Stalked and Found?
Is there a Santa Claus?

This week, I was sending a package to St. Petersburg, Florida and started thinking about how FedEx gives minute by minute tracking information. I began wondering how far a letter addressed to Santa would travel.

Would make it out of Michigan? Would it make it all the way? Who would sign for it if I requested a delivery signature? Inquiring minds want to know! Don't forget to track the actual delivery route.

Project Bluebeam?: 5.6 Airborne Holographic Projector

Brief Description
The holographic projector displays a three-dimensional visual image in a desired location, removed from the display generator. The projector can be used for psychological operations and strategic perception management. It is also useful for optical deception and cloaking, providing a momentary distraction when engaging an unsophisticated adversary.

Capabilities

• Precision projection of 3-D visual images into a selected area
  
• Supports PSYOP and strategic deception management
  
• Provides deception and cloaking against optical sensors

Enabling Technologies (MCTL)

• 4.1.4, Image Processing (holographic displays)
  
• 10.1, Lasers
  
• 10.2, Optics
  
• 10.3, Power Systems

http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume4/chap03/b5_6.htm

Also see: Project Bluebeam: Good Lord! What in heaven's name is that?
Also see: When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing
Also see: PROJECT BLUE BEAM AND THE NEW WORLD RELIGION
(via Libertythink)