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Was Blackout Due to Nuke Plant Sabotage?
The great blackout of 2003 should not have been possible, and power officials did not believe it could happen before it did. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio One stated that the problem began with a disruption at a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, while President Bush said that the primary cause was a lightning strike at a power plant in New York, a theory that has since been dismissed. Power officials are saying that the blackout began somewhere in the midwest, probably Ohio. We've discovered that a U.S. soldier was arrested a year ago when we was caught trying to plant an explosive at a nuclear power plant in Florida.
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Power Up!
Twenty years from now, the whole world will be sharing electricity through one grid.
Some 30 years ago, Buckminster Fuller came up with a plan to plug all the world's continents into the same electrical grid. The idea was to let power flow between, say, Siberia and the northwestern US, or Norway and Laos. Energy companies dismissed the notion as pie in the sky - and then proceeded to build such a grid. To get the most use of their generation capacity and to maintain an emergency reserve, power companies found it efficient to connect their grids to their neighbor's, who then connected to their neighbor's.
The result, according to Peter Meisen of the Global Energy Network Institute, is that the electricity grids of all the nations of North and South America should be interconnected within the next 10 years. The Eastern Hemisphere could follow a decade later, as companies like Eskom, the largest energy firm in South Africa, plow ahead with plans to install high-capacity transmission lines across Africa and into Europe.
Once the grid is fully functional, the only excuse for power shortages will be greed. When demand is high in one region, it's almost certain to be low in another. By making electric power as easily transferrable as data, analysts expect a global grid to smooth the market spikes out of the world's most useful commodity.
Also see: Experts Warned of Weak Power Grid
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Researchers close in on scientific definition of arousal
For scientists in the field of neurobiology, defining the factors that influence the arousal of brain and behavior is a "Holy Grail." Research published by Rockefeller University scientists in the Aug. 11 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition are the first to give a rigorous definition of what is meant by arousal, considered to be at the base of all emotionally laden behaviors. In particular, the researchers, led by Donald W. Pfaff, Ph.D., provide an operational definition of arousal that scientists can pursue and measure quantitatively in laboratory animals, as well as in human beings.
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Sandia team develops cognitive machines
Machines accurately infer user intent, remember experiences and allow users to call upon simulated experts
A new type of ?smart? machine that could fundamentally change how people interact with computers is on the not-too-distant horizon at the Department of Energy?s Sandia National Laboratories.
Over the past five years a team led by Sandia cognitive psychologist Chris Forsythe has been developing cognitive machines that accurately infer user intent, remember experiences with users and allow users to call upon simulated experts to help them analyze situations and make decisions.
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Upton, NY
Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY: particle acceleration, etc;
also not far from Naval Industrial Weapons Research, large facility.
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National Weather Service Radar Image - Short Range Base Reflectivity - Upton, NY
Image of the surge that caused the massive BLACKOUT.
I need sTaRe's help in discovering the mystery of that particular location.
This was left in the comments of my own site~
"I hate to admit this...but if you track the center of that emanation from it's center, utilizing ZOOM, then do a map on that area, guess what the epicenter ends up being?"
~by sTaRe him/her/itself.
I did all that, but am not clever enough to figure what I am looking for.
sTaRe HQ perhaps?
See why it took me so long to discover the Ong's Hat Mystery?
Is there a connection?
Meanwhile, I'll try to figure it out during work breaks.
I do love a good mystery!
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Power From The People
Power From The People is an award-winning documentary about the fight to distribute home-brewed renewable energy over the nation's power grid.
Witness people on the front lines of the renewable energy revolution as they lobby, litigate and subvert the status quo to bring you and your toaster some clean, green power from the people!
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"Off the Grid" Electronics Shut Down at Blackout
Scattered reports are coming in across the internet revealing two things. One, no one really knows what caused the blackouts and two, electronics that were not connected to "the grid" went down at the same time. This indicates strongly that the blackout was due to some form of electromagnetic "event".
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New Fears Around Blaster Worm
Authorities in Hong Kong, South Korea and Australia fear new strains of the Blaster worm are working their way through cyberspace, and could be more harmful than the original. Experts say other forms may lie dormant inside some computers, programmed to burst into life on Saturday.
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Officials in the dark about cause of electrical outage
NERC said in a statement that the problem "appears to have been largely caused by the loss of several major power lines in the upper Midwestern United States."
The Associated Press reported Friday that indications pointed somewhere along Lake Erie in Ohio, citing the industry-sponsored group that monitors the transmission system.
"That's where the information is starting to point,'' Ellen Vancko, a spokeswoman for NERC, told The Associated Press. She said it would take time to pinpoint the cause.
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Whale flatulence stuns scientists
It's one of the unfortunate consequences of being a mammal - flatulence. And, more unfortunately for a group of whale researchers, nature took its course right under their noses - literally.
The researchers claim this is the first photograph of a minke whale letting one go in the icy waters of Antarctica. It was taken from the bow of a research vessel.
"We got away from the bow of the ship very quickly ... it does stink," said Nick Gales, a research scientist from the Australian Antarctic Division.
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Libertythink EXCLUSIVE: Draft text of VICTORY Act
Libertythink has obtained from Washington contacts adraft copy of the "Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003," also known by the Orwellian sobriquet "VICTORY Act."
Attorney General John Ashcroft is currently putting on a little road show to garner support for the bill, as well as for the USA PATRIOT Act, which had two of its more Draconian provisions targeted for defunding by the House of Representatives in late July.
(Though it does contain similar provisions, the VICTORY Act is not the same bill as the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, popularly known as PATRIOT II, which was leaked in January.)
The draft obtained by Libertythink is dated June 27, and word in the Beltway is that the VICTORY Act is still being retooled over the August recess before it is introduced in the Senate. Although this may not be the final form of the act, Libertythink encourages its readers to study the bill and hit Ashcroft with hard questions when and if he comes to your town.
Measures in the 89-page draft include:
- Creation of a new category of crime called "Narco-terrorism."
- Radical expansion of asset forfeiture powers for the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security.
- Expansion of the definition of money-laundering to several kinds of transactions, including offshore banking as a means of tax evasion.
- Creation of a ludicrous new "crime" of "reverse money-laundering."
- Longer jail terms for a number of nonviolent drug and nondrug offenses.
- Expanded opportunities for judge-shopping in wiretap cases.
- Expansion of nonjudicial "administrative subpoenas" for "terrorism" investigations as broadly defined in the USA PATRIOT Act.
. . . and that's just a partial listing.
(Originally posted by Total Information, 08/14/03, 1:43 PM, Server time)
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Eigenradio - The top 20 singular values all day, every day!
All those stations, playing all that music, all the time! There's at least 40 different songs being played every week on most radio stations! Who has enough time in the day to listen to them all? That's why we've set up banks of computers to do the listening for us. They know what you really want to hear. They're trading variety for variance.
Eigenradio plays only the most important frequencies, only the beats with the highest entropy. If you took a bunch of music and asked it, "Music, what are you, really?" you'd hear Eigenradio singing back at you. When you're tuned in to Eigenradio, you always know that you're hearing the latest, rawest, most statistically separable thing you can possibly put in your ear.
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Disney's new rocket ride 'very realistic,' real astronaut confirms
Walt Disney World bills its new Epcot thrill attraction -- Mission: SPACE -- as being as close to a rocket ride as most humans will ever get.
While most riders will never have the chance to know for sure, at least one does: retired NASA astronaut Winston Scott, a Coconut Grove, Fla., native who is now executive director of the Florida Space Authority in Cape Canaveral.
At the Miami Herald's request, Scott strapped in and tried his hand at the controls of this new motion simulator -- and decided Disney has a winner.
It's an "exciting experience," Scott said -- thanks to the ride's big centrifuge, coupled with the high-tech visuals, vibrations and sounds. Though the ride officially opens Aug. 15, it has been open off and on for previews for a few weeks.
But was theX-2 Deep Space Shuttle like the real thing?
The ride's liftoff certainly was, said Scott, who has twice thundered off the seaside launch pads at the Kennedy Space Center on his way to 25 days, 10 million miles in space. He did three spacewalks. In one of them, Scott helped capture a satellite with his gloved hands.
"When you're lying on your back and see all the smoke billow up around the windows before you rocket off, that's just like it is inside the space shuttle," Scott said.
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Huge power blackout from New York to Detroit
A huge power blackout hit U.S. and Canadian cities Thursday, driving workers in New York and Toronto into the streets, shutting subways in blistering heat and closing four nuclear power plants in Ohio and New York state.
Also see:Dollar Slips After U.S. Blackouts Blackout Rattles New Yorkers, But City Is Calm
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today in LA
today in read, in the coffee shop,
the Los Angeles Times, which is now charging for
content, reporting that the crowds in
the stands during the races in the film
Seabiscuit were not people. The crowd was made of
an army of inflatable dolls. i liked this idea and wanted
to post a link from STARE.
but the Los Angeles Times wishes
each person reading about their inflatable
dolls to register and pay 4.95 USD a month.
although there was an article about a mcdonald's retrospective
of some sort in the same issue, i got annoyed.
(i like the word retrospective in the same
sentence with mcdonald's. it makes me think
of cheeseburgers on pedestals, in
large dark rooms guarded by very earnest
individuals in khaki and navy who spend time
thinking about Art.)
sorry for digressing.
i think my point is that i don't understand
why the LA times wants to charge for content
or why a person would consent to pay for
content, especially if they have to register
to get it.
we all, i think, know about data warehousing.
because we know about this, we know that
it is likely that personal information will be
collected during the registration process.
we suspect that this information has
value to the LA times (or
any other content monger). what i am
trying to say is that i think a person's personal
information is worth more than 4.95 a month.
my proposal therefore is that people attempt
to negotiate a deal with content mongers.
see if you can get them to give you a break.
tell them: my personal information + my use
patterns are worth N amount of money. you
may rent my information. perhaps you can
think of something better. information has
value. it ought to be traded, like any other
asset.
i do think, though, that no one ought to
pay a corporation for the privilege of being
harvested.
ok bye.
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The Economist: Blogging, to the horror of some, is trying to go commercial
A simpler idea is therefore to run member-only blog pages and charge advertisers to sponsor them. This is the model that Tony Perkins, a founder of Red Herring, a now-deceased “new economy” magazine, is pursuing for his new firm, AlwaysOn. Meant to be a “super blog”, says Mr Perkins, AlwaysOn will let only good, insightful bloggers (if such can be found) post journal entries on its pages. This will draw “a higher demographic” of readers and thus better online responses to posts, says Mr Perkins. He expects sponsors to put their logos on blog pages just as they display them in conference halls and at golf tournaments. Some firms—including Accenture, KPMG and Microsoft—are already giving it a try. Mr Perkins expects over $2m in sponsorship revenues this year.
Ur-bloggers, of course, are outraged by all this. “Tony doesn't understand what a blog is; he's the opposite of a blogger,” says David Winer, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Centre, founder of UserLand and one of the first and longest running bloggers around (his site is www.scripting.com). The key attribute that makes a blog a blog and not some ordinary piece of web publishing is amateurism, says Mr Winer: if it is in any way edited, it is not a blog. From this, incidentally, Mr Winer extrapolates that blogging has “the potential for revolution,” democratising and liberating the world. Mr Perkins in turn feels, wearily, that he has heard such “religiously libertarian anarchists with ponytails screaming and yelling” before, in the early days of the internet. Like many in Silicon Valley nowadays, he is more interested in profits than revolutions—though that change, in its own way, is revolutionary.
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Sign the Petition to Roll Back FCC Media Ownership Rules!
Because 2.3 million Americans — conservative and liberal — decried the FCC's lifting of media ownership caps, Congress will soon vote on a rollback of the new rules. Big media lobbyists are fighting back.
Another massive wave of public pressure is essential to move Congress to act. This petition will be delivered to Congress shortly before the crucial vote in September.
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Virtual Soldiers? Dream on, Darpa
Heart, lungs, and liver, nerves, veins and bones -- the Pentagon wants to digitally recreate every element of a soldier's body, and embed it all on a chip in the soldier's dog tags.
Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, claim that sometime in the future this Virtual Soldier program could help battlefield medics make quicker, more accurate diagnoses of combat trauma. And that should help save soldiers' lives.
Don't hold your breath, many medical technologists say. The Virtual Soldier program is, to put it lightly, grandly ambitious, they contend. It'll require unprecedented amounts of money and processing power to realize its far-reaching aspirations.
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John Bell Across Space and Time
John Stewart Bell (1928–1990) was one of the leading physicists of the 20th century, a deep and serious thinker. He worked at CERN in Geneva on the physics of particle accelerators, made a number of impressive contributions to quantum field theory and became famous for the discovery of a phenomenon he called nonlocality. However, the most remarkable thing about him was perhaps that he was a realist.
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In refugee camp, a P2P outpost
Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank, a new file-swapping service is daring record labels and movie studios to turn their piracy-hunting into an international incident.
Dubbed Earthstation 5, the new file-swapping network is openly flouting international copyright norms at a time when many older peer-to-peer companies are trying to establish themselves as legitimate technology companies. One of the brashest of a new generation of file-trading networks, it is serving as a new test case for the ability of high-tech security measures and international borders to preserve privacy on the Net.
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Amateur Astronomer Locates Powerful Stellar Explosion Before The Pros
Armed with a 12-inch telescope, a computer, and a NASA email alert, Berto Monard of South Africa has become the first amateur astronomer to discover an afterglow of a gamma-ray burst, the most powerful explosion known in the Universe.
The discovery highlights the ease in tapping into NASA's burst alert system, as well as the increasing importance that astronomy enthusiasts play in helping scientists understand fleeting and random events, such as star explosions and gamma-ray bursts.
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I hear drums rolling, I can't stop laughing...
Microsoft Gears for 'Blaster' DoS Attack Microsoft Braces as Web Worm Prepares to Attack Worm should make Microsoft squirm Experts: Web attack may hit Microsoft Saturday
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Path of the Skinwalker
Some very strange things have happened at the precise spot where I'm sitting. It is here that a visitor was accosted by a roaring but nearly invisible creature, something akin to the Predator of movie fame. It is here that a Ph.D. physicist reported that his mind was invaded, literally taken over, by some sort of hostile intelligence that warned him that he was not welcome. It is here that an entire team of researchers watched in awe as a bright door or portal opened up in the darkness and a large humanoid creature crawled out before quickly vanishing. And it is here that several animals--cattle and dogs--were mutilated, obliterated or simply disappeared.
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Game show plan for governor race
The battle to become governor of California is to be turned into a game show by a United States television channel.
The Game Show Network will pick five of the 193 candidates who have registered to challenge current governor Gray Davis.
The chosen five will then battle it out in challenges that could include an obstacle course dodging lobbyists with briefcases of money. The winner will be chosen by an online viewers' vote, and will receive $21,200 (£13,200) toward campaign funds. The show - called Who Wants To Be Governor of California? - will be broadcast on 1 October.
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Supernovae are egg shaped: Astronomers should correct for asymmetry of dying stars' explosions.
The blast waves from exploding stars called supernovae are egg-shaped not spherical, new observations suggest.
Correcting for this small asymmetry should make supernovae even better tools for measuring cosmic distances and for inferring the presence of gravity's mysterious counter force, dark energy.
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Movie Trailer for Philip K. Dick's "Paycheck" @ apple.com
It's too early to make any judgements, but the effects look good. John Woo's made a name for himself in the action film genre, and Paycheck promises to deliver more of the same, I'm sure. Philip K. Dick has been reduced to the "author who brought you Blade Runner and Minority Report..." in the trailer. I hope this isn't a sign of how much PKD is left in the script.
Personally, I'm still waiting to see what becomes of A Scanner Darkly.
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The whole world is blogging
Last week, a company called Six Apart launched a new blogging service called Typepad (www.typepad.com). It is slick, sophisticated and stylish, allowing anyone to have a very professional-looking blog up and running in minutes.
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Where "runnin' on empty" is A-OK
It´s already looking like the MDI Air Car will be one of the major technological discoveries of the new century. Inventor Guy Négre has developed a car capable of a top speed of 110 km/h, 300 kilometres on one tank of fuel (air) and at a cost of just a penny per kilometre. All of this at "zero pollution". In fact the car cleans the air it uses!
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Linux on a mission : SRI teaches robots how to communicate
The robots, known as Centibots, look barely more impressive than vacuum cleaners, rolling around on bright red bases topped with square computer boxes.
But under the hood, they have technology that allows them to create and read maps, make decisions and -- most important -- communicate with one another. All this runs on the open-source Linux operating system.
The Centibots are pioneers in a new field known as distributed robotics, in which teams of robots -- usually just five or six -- work together. Using the wireless technology that allows people to surf the Net from Starbucks, the Centibots can scout a large area as a group and pool their information into one shared map.
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Torturing The Telemarketers
The comedian and jingle-writer goes on the offensive on "A Wake-Up Call for Telemarketers," his new CD being released Tuesday. Last year, Mabe traveled to Washington, D.C., for a telemarketers convention and stayed at their hotel. He waited until the wee hours of the morning -- and started dialing.
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ANTIQUITIES OF THE ILLUMINATI, Version 5.0, 12 AUGUST
Plus: New Text Collections, New General Editorial and Second-Hand Book-stall Pages , New Gallery pages, Archives Page, Acknowledgments Page and lots more.
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Welcome to Brainwashington D.C.
A friend of mine coined the term 'Brainwashington' after watching the media-coverage in the wake of the 9-11 terror attacks on New York and Washington. A joke at first, but now, nearly 2 years after these attacks, and after investigating and writing on this case since Sep 12th - I have to admit: it's quite serious. I think we all have become witnesses and victims of the biggest brainwashing operation in history. (via)
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The Safety of Dissent
Antiwar activists all over are losing their jobs. This has been going on for some time now, and I was hoping that maybe this was a newspaper from the US reporting this - but no, it's from Toronto. Reporters at the US news sources (all 5 of them) are not doing much reporting of it...likely out of fear of being ass-tossed themselves. The question remains: what can be done about it? Politics start getting unimportant to people who are hungry - at least the politics of foreign policy issues.
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Boing Boing Links to Little Green Footballs
If you're not familiar with Little Green Footballs, I suggest that you follow this link to a little movie which gives special thanks to the "great" Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs at the end. This can give you some idea about the kind of thinking that Charles helps and inspires. Or you can check out LGF's comment sections to hear his followers routinely refer to the Palestinians as "Paleos" (dehumanizing an entire race is definitely a sign of pro-ethnic-cleansing philosophy at work, or just watch the movie to see the ethnic-cleansing viewpoint openly espoused), and gleefully expounding upon their fervent desire to piss upon Rachel Corrie's grave whenever her name is brought up.
Frankly, it's a whole lotta racist, fundamentalist bullshit to me, and I'm more than a little surprised that Boing Boing has taken it up. Hopefully it's some kind of naive mistake, otherwise I think they oughta revise their slogan to Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things Which May Or May Not Include Links to Fundamentalist Pro-Ethnic-Cleansers.
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constitute acquired rifles Pius variableness
mixers Gatlinburg wailed commodore prolonged visibly Winsett podia than roundworm reassembling bouncy Canaan gamed filled compensates genders suds snout metaphysics forgotten lulled flashed read
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Jump in the Pool and Bull by the Head
Perhaps a more instructive title would have been "Scamming the Scammers". A long (but very, very engaging) history of an email conversation between a would-be Nigerian-419-scammer and the Ebola Monkey Man.
Sure, ad-hoc identities are commonplace, especially on the Internet. But when it works this well, it's worthy of attention. Kudos.
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Conspiracy Theory on Hyundai Heir's Death Spreads Online
An e-mail, purportedly sent by the president of Hyundai Corp., claiming that Hyundai Asan chairman Chung Mong-hun didn't commit suicide but was murdered recently circulated around the Internet.
Hyundai officials denied sending the e-mail, temporarily dampening the conspiracy theory on the death of the Hyundai heir.
Now, however, netizens are arguing the entire government, including the prosecution, was behind the late Hyundai Asan chairman¡'s death. Although a memorial service was held yesterday at Mt. Kumgang, theories on Chung's death abound.
Note: If anybody finds a seemingly valid English translation of this email, send us a pointer.
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Anarchy rules!
Flash mobs -- big, spontaneous crowds that celebrate organized chaos -- are fast growing around the world. Their mission: to have fun. Their message: There isn't one.
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orlan
mentioned by paul virilio in
his excellent book GROUND ZERO, orlan
practices what she calls "carnal art"
and re-arranges her appearance
through plastic surgery.
http://www.artandculture.com/arts/artist?artistId=685
http://www.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Orlan/Orlan.html
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/transcript/volume2/issue2_2/orlan/orlan.htm
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Stormy Weather - The Government's Top-Secret Efforts To Control Mother Nature
As a followup to root.cellar's excellent chemtrail post below, I thought I'd post this alternate theory.
The scientist claims that the two most common substances being sprayed into chemtrails are aluminum oxide and barium stearate. When you see planes flying back and forth marking parallel lines, X-patterns and grids in a clear sky, that's aluminum oxide, according to the scientist. The goal is to create an artificial sunscreen to reflect solar radiation back into space to alleviate global warming. In some cases, barium may be sprayed in a similar manner for the purpose of "high-tech 3-D radar imaging. The barium can be used for a 'wire' to shoot an electromagnetic beam through to take 3-D images of the ground far over the horizon," according to the scientist.
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23 skidoo
I want to start out with a slight disclaimer: I'm not a sports person and spent about an hour researching this. Any additional comments or corrections are more than welcome.
That being said, I was flipping through channels this evening and for whatever reason, stopped on one showing football. I did this out of concern because there was an injured man laying on the ground, but soon noticed that his jersey was adorned with a #23 (Kevin Mathis). I also noticed at the moment of his injury in the third quarter, the Redskins had a score of 23-10against the Saints.
Well, by now you're saying, "sure, saucer, but that isn't much of a coincidence, now is it?" It gets weirder, trust me.
The man Mathis was hurt by in the process of tackling? Running-back, Ki-Jana Carter, also #23. I'd like someone to help coroborate this, but if my eyes didn't deceive me, the injury happened at or near the Saints' 5 yard line (2+3).
While researching my report for the Earth Coincidence Control Office, I discovered yet another 23... It was the date in July of 2002, when Mathis failed his pre-training camp physical, and was cut from the team.
*saucer cues some spooky music
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principia cybernetica project web
the following URL will take you to the principia cybernetica project
web. this web addresses the evolution of complexity and other
high-level questions about evolutionary transition and consciousness.
the web is the work of scholars at the Leo Apostel center affiliated
with the Free University of Brussels.
enjoy.
http://lanl.gov
link to Leo Apostel
http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/
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Nation Defense Department funding brain-machine work
The $24 million enterprise called Brain Machine Interfaces is developing technology that promises to directly read thoughts from a living brain -- and even instill thoughts as well.
The research, some of which is being done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is already surprisingly advanced. Monkeys in a laboratory can control the movement of a robotic arm using only their thoughts. And last year scientists in New York announced they could control the skittering motions of a rat by implanting electrodes in its brain, steering it around the lab floor as if it were a radio-controlled toy car.
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Media Whores Online
Media Whores Online takes an unbiased, in-depth look at the vast myriad of whores who call themselves "journalists." MWO casts a garish spotlight on the relentless screaming heads of television, the babbling paranoids of squawk radio, and the crayon scribblings of lazy print media "journalists."
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Sunday Comics
Tapestry is a series of RSS feeds for online comics. They help you keep up to date with within your favourite news aggregator, especially if you happen to miss a few days.
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| "I got really into this "time-travel cult" called Ong's Hat when a computer-game programmer I know told me she was contacted by a physics scholar who said that a bunch of her recent games reflected their canon. This dude told my friend that someone from Ong's Hat had befriended her and inspired her to create certain games without her realizing it. Whoa, right?" - Jane Magazine |
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