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Wednesday, April 30
The Brick Man [P.T.] Barnum knew the power of mystery. An unemployed man came to his museum and asked Barnum for a job. Barnum handed the man five bricks and instructed him to solemnly place the bricks in various places around the outside of the museum. As he went from spot to spot, he was to replace the brick at each spot with another one that he was carrying. He was to answer no questions, speak to no one, and seem to be deaf and dumb. Once an hour, he was to enter the museum, walk right next to the ticket taker, seem to pay the fee, and then proceed through the museum and out the door. A crowd began to form, watching the man and wondering what he was doing. Many of the crowds followed him into the museum just to see what was going on. In fact, the police had to ask Barnum to stop the man, because the crowds that he was creating were stopping traffic. A travel agency that specializes in clothing-optional vacations has chartered a 172-seat Boeing 727 for a flight from Miami to Cancun in May. Once the plane reaches its cruising altitude, passengers will be invited to disrobe. Castaways Travel of Spring, Texas, is touting the trip as the world's first flight for nude passengers. The crew will be clad and the temperature inside the plane's cabin will be regulated to accommodate the nudists, Castaways co-owner Jim Bailey said. "People are looking for stress relief," Bailey said. "In a nudist environment, everyone is the same." Tuesday, April 29
Cross me and I will squish you between my thumb and forefinger as I have done so many others...sooo many others.... Thursday, April 24
SARS from the stars? The suggestion is based on the work of the late astronomer Fred Hoyle and Cardiff University’s Chandra Wickramasinghe, who long contended that microbes were being delivered to Earth from space via comets. “We should keep a watch on new cases of SARS,” Wickramasinghe told The Sun. “If they are not connected with known cases, then there’s a real possibility that it has come from space.” Wednesday, April 23
Kuby said Gunderson was within her rights to be topless in her portrayal of a sea creature because her float and costume fell within the definition of entertainment. NEW YORK (AP) _ A woman arrested after she wore only a thong and body paint to the 2001 Mermaid Parade will receive $10,000 after the city settled a federal lawsuit in which she alleged she was wrongly detained. The deal between Amy Gunderson, 31, and the city was announced by her lawyer, Ronald L. Kuby. He also said she was wrongfully arrested because New York's highest court has held that female toplessness cannot, as a matter of equal protection, be deemed criminal when male toplessness is legal. "Our review proves that, in fact, the MTA has a culture of secrecy, arrogance, lack of accountability and contempt for the public," After two months of analysis, State Comptroller Alan Hevesi and his city counterpart William C. Thompson, Jr., found the MTA had a surplus in 2002 of more than a half billion dollars - far more than the $24.6 million the agency announced. "The MTA has misled the public," Thompson said at an 11 a.m. news conference, calling the agency's financial reporting "incomplete, misleading and obfuscating." Tuesday, April 22
Everyone in Britain will have to pay around £25 for a compulsory identity card under proposals being put to the cabinet by David Blunkett, the Home Secretary. The "smart" card will identify the holder using iris-recognition technology. Failure to carry the card will not be an offence but police will be able to order people to present it at a police station. One Home Office official said that the threat of international terrorism following the September 11 attacks had tilted public opinion in favour of such a scheme. "The atmosphere has changed," he said. Senior figures in the Cabinet strongly support the plan for the card, which would use a microchip to hold details including age, place of birth, home address and a personal number to identify the holder. It is also hoped that the card could be used to entitle the holder to a range of state benefits, thereby cutting benefit fraud. Mr Blunkett discussed his plan for a national ID card with Tom Ridge, the head of the US Department of Homeland Security, at a meeting in Washington earlier this month. Mr Blunkett agreed to develop a joint programme, using the same technology, with the US, which has already agreed a similar protocol with Canada. Children held at Camp Xray, US admits The US military has revealed it is holding juveniles at its high-security prison for terrorists at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, known as Camp Xray. The commander of the joint task force at Guantanamo, Major General Geoffrey Miller, says more than one child under the age of 16 is at the detention centre. Friday, April 18
The Globalists have a tactic whereby they will bind with a poison pill and piggyback kooky things with real factual evidence. They have a plethora of overnight nationally syndicated talk show hosts on air all week and every weekend, television and movie scripts, which discuss thing like FEMA taking over and putting us all in camps and tyrannical world government. But then it will be followed with something like ‘it’s run from the South Pole by aliens’ or ‘it’s run out of Area 51 by demons’ – just incredibly ridiculous stuff. Then you have popular authors who will write about how the Federal Reserve is private and run for profit or how there is a Bilderberg group but will then go on to say ‘oh, by the way, it’s blood-drinking reptoid lizards from the 4th dimension, they run the whole show’. This kind of drivel is promoted and given airtime by the establishment. You can see it on shows like The X-Files – FEMA’s in control, there’s a secret government, but it’s the aliens. So then when I get on the air and read out of UPI about FEMA’s plans for mass round-ups, the average person listening has been inoculated against what I’m saying. They automatically say ‘oh you mean space aliens, ha ha ha’. Wednesday, April 16
From an older interview with Tom Waits in The Onion: Tom Waits: I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites. [Laughs.] Onion: For yours, or for all songs? TW: Oh, all songs. Most of them fail miserably. I go looking in other people's songs for their sailors and their towns. I don't know, everybody has things that they gravitate towards. Some people put toy cars or clouds or cat crap. Everybody puts something different, and it's entirely up to you what belongs and what doesn't. They're interesting little vessels of emotional information, and you carry them in your pocket like a bagel. Onion AV Feature Tuesday, April 15
NTT DoCoMo to Market WRISTOMO, Wristwatch-style PHS Mobile Phone 
NTT DoCoMo announced that it will soon begin marketing the WRISTOMO, the world's first commercial wristwatch-style Personal Handyphone System (PHS) mobile phone. An actual waterproof wristwatch, the phone opens up into a functional PHS handset when buttons on either side of the watch face are pressed. The WRISTOMO is compatible with the "PALDIO E-mail" service, which enables users to connect send/receive e-mails up to 6,000 alphanumeric characters via the Internet without having to sign up for a provider. The wrist phone transfers data at up to 64 kbps. The WRISTOMO can access the "Browserphone Content" web pages of DoCoMo's service, as well as sites based on a subset of HTML, designed for mobile internet services such as (compatibility will depend on the site). The WRISTOMO is also equipped for DoCoMo's "Location based Web Sites," which provide information about restaurants, weather, transportation and other content based on the user's current location. 
The WRISTOMO comes with an information synchronization feature that automatically exchanges information with PCs, such the address book or journal in Microsoft. Whenever information stored in the WRISTOMO or PC is changed, the other device is automatically updated either via the mobile Internet or an optional cable. www.wristomo.com Thursday, April 10
My new favorite band!! CAPTURED BY ROBOTS!!! 
"musician -scientist JBOT, unable to get along with other humans, built 2 robots, GTRBOT666 and DRMBOT 0110, too be his bandmates. Unfortunately, he underestimated the power of his creations.They took control of our hero with an implanted "Biocerebral Chip"and now torment JBOT physically and verbally as they rock out in front of his human peers. He later added a friendly, tambourine-playing robotic gorilla called The Ape Which Hath No Name. JBOT is a slave. " Wednesday, April 9
Female Couch Potatoes Beware Study: Obesity, TV linked Doctors have studied the television habits of thousands of women and found a strong relationship between how much television they watched over six years and their risk of becoming obese and developing diabetes. Women who reported one hour of television a week had an average body mass index (BMI) of 25; women with 40 hours a week television time had an average BMI of 28. (BMI is a person's weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. A number over 25 is considered overweight; over 30 is obese.) Hu found that those who spent more time watching TV ate more red meat, snacks, refined carbohydrates and sweets and were less likely to eat fruits and vegetables. In other news, studies also show that breathing oxygen is necessary for human life. Tuesday, April 8
DENVER -- A federal jury convicted three Roman Catholic nuns Monday of defacing a missile silo by swinging hammers and painting crosses on it with their own blood. Sisters Ardeth Platte, 66, Jackie Hudson, 68, and Carol Gilbert, 55, were arrested for breaking into a Minuteman III missile silo site on Colorado's northeastern plains Oct. 6. They were charged with interfering with the nation's defense and causing property damage of more than $1,000. The nuns are peace activists and have said they were compelled to act as war with Iraq moved closer and because the United States has never promised not to use nuclear weapons. Their defense lawyers argued the nuns' action was symbolic and never jeopardized national security. Jurors deliberated for about three hours Friday and about three hours Monday before delivering the verdict in U.S. District Court. After the verdicts were read, the women spoke to the jury. "They will discover that we are not guilty under God's law," Gilbert said to jurors. Platte made the sign of the cross and said, "Bless the jury." All three, dressed in bright orange prison jumpsuits, sang a religious song as they left the courtroom. They could be released without bond, but have chosen to return to jail until their sentencing July 25. In the war in Iraq, there have always been these two fronts: The open conflict between us and them, and the interior one between us and us. There was never serious doubt about the outcome of the us-them war. The internal war, however - the one about ideas - was an epic embodied in the persons of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who favored pre-emptive and unilateral action to remove Saddam Hussein, and Secretary of State Colin Powell, who wanted at least the moral support of the UN before U.S. troops were sent to invade a country that had never attacked us. In Powell's vision, the United States is the pre-eminent member of the world community, a leader; but also a willing partner in building consensus among nations. Rogue nations are held to account by the world community, in the body of the United Nations, by the enforcement of rules of law. In Rumsfeld's vision, the United States has got to do what the United States has got to do. Those who wish may come along, and the rest may go to hell. Rogue nations are held to account by us, for reasons of our choosing, at times of our choosing. If we choose to, we may assassinate (or "decapitate") the leader (or "command and control") of any nation that we consider "evil." Courtesy of Newsday columnist Paul Vitello. Read the whole thing. Monday, April 7
I wonder if Jesus is gonna be mad when he wakes up and there is still snow on the ground? 
"What the F--...is that snow!?" Hmmm...a blizzard in April? That reminds me... Haarp Project see specification SS-HAARP- 02 Patent 4,686,605 Dated 8/11/1987 Method and Apparatus for altering a region in the earth's Atmosphere, ionosphere, and/or magnetosphere. "Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device. ...molecular modifications of the atmosphere can take place so that positive environmental effects can be achieved. Besides actually changing the molecular composition of an atmospheric region, a particular molecule or molecules can be chosen for increased presence. For example, ozone, nitrogen, etc. concentrations in the atmosphere could be artificially increased..." -Bernard J. Eastlund (Patent Holder) Avalanches of energy dislodged by such radio waves could hit us hard. Their work suggests that technicians could control global weather by sending relatively small 'signals' into the Van Allen belts (radiation belts around Earth). Thus Tesla's resonance effects can control enormous energies by tiny triggering signals. Friday, April 4
I've been toying with the idea of putting out some kind of mailing list. Maybe to let all y'all know when I've updated. Let me know if this is a Good Idea? Let me know if this is a Bad Idea? Oh my God! I just drank a huge coffee, and a Red Bull back to back and I think my head is going to explode! Either that or my bowels will open and loose terror upon the workplace. 
G-g-g-g-g-g... Thursday, April 3
"Bull sperm is like gold." Two men have been arrested in Russia following the theft of enough bull sperm to inseminate 500 cows. The 51-year-old man and his 28-year-old accomplice confessed to police in the Stavropol region of Russia. They admitted staging the dawn raid on a dairy farm in which two containers containing litres of bull sperm were stolen. A police spokesman said the men had been planning to sell the sperm on the black market, Interfax news agency reported. He said: "Bull sperm is like gold. These men would have told some hapless farmer that the sperm was from a prize bull. "They would have charged him up to £100 for the privilege of using it on his cows, if their scheme had gone according to plan they would have been very rich men." Man drops world's biggest rubber band ball out of a plane A Welshman spent five years creating the world's biggest rubber band ball - then dropped it out of a plane to see if it would bounce. Tony Evans, 54, from Swansea, dropped the one-tonne record-breaking ball from a mile up over Arizona. It took 20 seconds to hit the ground and created a 4ft wide crater and a 20ft cloud of dust - but did not bounce. Wednesday, April 2
Now who is calling the kettle black? From: commondreams.org Bush Approves Use of Tear Gas in Battlefield Weapons experts fear violation of law by Nicholas Wade and Eric Schmitt New York Times President George W. Bush has authorized American military forces to use tear gas in Iraq, the Pentagon says, a development that some weapons experts said could set up a conflict between American and international law. "Riot-control agents, such as C.S., better known as tear gas, are non-lethal and may be used by U.S. forces only when authorized by the president and only under specific, well-defined circumstances, to protect non-combatants," a Pentagon spokesperson, Lt. Col. Dave Lapan, said in response to questions Friday. Use of the agents for defensive purposes to save lives "would be consistent with the Chemical Weapons Convention, which prohibits the use of riot control agents as a method of warfare," he said. American medium Margery (Mina Stinson Crandon, 1889-1941) producing a teleplasmic hand from her vagina.  U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV The U.S. Air Force has hit Iraqi TV with an experimental electronmagetic pulse device called the "E-Bomb" in an attempt to knock it off the air and shut down Saddam Hussein's propaganda machine, CBS News Correspondent David Martin reports. The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power outages and disable the electronic ignitions in vehicles and aircraft. Officially, the Pentagon does not acknowledge the weapon's existence. Asked about it at a March 5 news conference at the Pentagon, Gen. Tommy Franks said: “I can't talk to you about that because I don't know anything about it.” CBS.com It’s official: The U.S. government’s juvenile conduct regarding some of its allies’ difference of opinion regarding war in Iraq has reached ridiculous heights. Tuesday, by order of Republican legislators, the cafeterias in the U.S. House began serving “freedom fries” and “freedom toast” instead of French fries and French toast. Meanwhile, across the ocean, a French Embassy spokeswoman responded to the silly new boycott with these words: “We are at a very serious moment dealing with very serious issues and we are not focusing on the name you give to potatoes.” The Web portal Lycos reported that "Al-Jazeera" and variant spellings became its top search term last week, with three times more searches than "sex." Al-Jazeera drew intense interest from Web surfers after it carried Iraqi TV footage of dead and captive U.S. soldiers in Iraq. U.S. television networks had decided not to air footage of the corpses. Al-Jazeera later honored a U.S. request to stop until families could be notified, a statement from the network said. The Internet's leading search engine, Google, said "Al-Jazeera" was the term that showed the greatest increase in the week ending March 31. Google does not report absolute rankings of search terms. CNN.com WAR VIDEO GAME SALES COLLAPSE IN EUROPE (AGI) - Rome, Italy, March 27 - The Iraq conflict has caused a huge decrease in interest in videogames including arms, missiles, and strategic missions, while sales of fantasy world games are preferable, according to 8 European youths out of 10. The top three videogames sold in Europe are currently the Metroid Prime, the Big Brother type simulation by Sims, and the Fantasy world of Rayman. The only videogame with a war theme on the European top ten is Generals, in tenth place. Why? Experts say the constant images of war on television make players want to escape into a fantasy world. The data, published recently by the most authoritative European source in the sector, Computer & Videogames, leaves no room for doubt, and a survey carried out by Eta Meta research on 200 European videogame vendors confirms that 78 pct of young people pass on videogames with reference to war. More popular choices are adventure (65 pct), fantasy world or cartoons (53 pct), simulation games (43 pct), or sports (35 pct). "This data confirms the fact that by seeing the war on television, young people are so saturated with it that they prefer to escape to a fantasy world - explained development age psychologist from Rome's Sapienza University Anna Oliverio Ferraris - they have had enough of the war reality on TV and are looking for videogames that provide an escape from it". When there is no war, war games are used as a way to release aggression - explained psychologist Maria Rita Parsi - When the world becomes that playground, young people are bothered by it. (AGI) Tuesday, April 1
They glued small jet packs to the backs of Central American death's-head roaches and watched what happened when the running bugs were pushed momentarily aside. Full and Jindrich, who is now at the Harvard School of Public Health, filled the one-inch-long plastic rockets with gunpowder and rigged them to electrical wires so they would explode on command. When the researchers triggered the bursts, they found that the jolted roaches could begin to recover their stride within 10 milliseconds--faster than a nerve can fire. That result indicates that the stabilizing movement is not a reflex. Rather, the insect's legs are built like springs, ready to rebound whenever they are perturbed. "It's just like the pattern you'd see with a pogo stick," Full says. Discover "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American people." -Theodore Roosevelt |
