All the planets visible to the naked eye can be seen just after sunset for
the next couple of weeks. A lovely picture, that has annotations if you
mouseover can be found at:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020429.html
Jon
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4242976%255E2761,00.html
By Liza Kappelle
AAP
02may02
PERTH prostitutes were reeling from exhaustion following an influx of
United States sailors stressed from a stint in a war zone, a
well-known madam said today.
Mary-Anne Kenworthy said she was
From: Clinton F. Aarts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 23:34:58 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Holland lost a politician Kennedy style
Jon I know you are very critical at selecting news clips but this should
not be left unattended.
I don't know how the USA looks at Dutch
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 09:32:01 -0700
Subject: The mind is a wonderful thing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42930-2002May6.html
Against Depression, a Sugar Pill Is Hard to Beat
Placebos Improve Mood, Change Brain Chemistry in Majority of
[Editor's note: van Hoogstraten over simplifies. It isn't just the American
media who have simply called him a right-winger -- the BBC was just as
guilty of that. And on the other hand, NPR in the US did a good piece on him
the day he was killed. They not only pointed out that while some of his
From: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 23:13:10 -0400
Subject: Tractor Pulls. French Philosophy. Unprotected Sex with Strangers.
http://www.newsandopinion.com/0502/goldblatt.html
Jewish World Review May 10, 2002 / 28 Iyar, 5762
Mark Goldblatt
America's newest victims:
[Editor's note: And of course, they call it a prank, not taking matters into
one's own hands. Finding a problem and fixing it. Sheesh. -- jdcc]
http://www.latimes.com/la-050902artist.story
In Artist's Freeway Prank, Form Followed Function
Unauthorized addition to sign went unnoticed for
[Editor's note: I don't know about you, but I'd contributed to have them
saved. -- jdcc]
From: R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 01:45:54 -0400
Subject: Should Ancient Library Be Excavated?
http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/15/0514conn_print.html
Connoisseur's Guide
Should
[Editor's note: via Bruce Schneier's CRYPTO-GRAM newsletter. See
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html for details. -- jdcc]
Fun with Fingerprint Readers
Tsutomu Matsumoto, a Japanese cryptographer, recently decided to look at
biometric fingerprint devices. These are
From: Dan Kohn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 05:19:36 -0700
Subject: The Rise of the Creative Class
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0205.florida.html
Note the use of Silicon Somewhere and a great theory of what all those
Siliconia wannabes were missing:
Why cities
From: Donald Eastlake 3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 00:14:43 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [interest] FWD: Wizards Conical Hats, etc. [long]
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/17/wwiz17.x
mlsSheet=/news/2002/03/17/ixworld.html
Mysterious gold cones 'hats of
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 22:09:54 -0700
Subject: the hummer of bicycles
http://www.lickbike.com/i2787050.htm
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 00:46:27 -0700
Subject: Freaky $20 dollar trick. +more
http://egomania.nu/20.html
--
Tamzen
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/06/14/coolsc.coffee/index.html
'Killer' bees make killer coffee
Buzz from scientists: Bees improve flavor, crop yields
June 14, 2002 Posted: 10:52 AM EDT (1452 GMT)
By Marsha Walton
CNN
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/books/20SHAK.html?todaysheadlines=pagewa
nted=printposition=top
June 20, 2002
A Scholar Recants on His 'Shakespeare' Discovery
By WILLIAM S. NIEDERKORN
In 1995 Donald Foster, a professor of English at Vassar College, made a
startling case for Shakespeare's
http://online.securityfocus.com/news/497
Mitnick Testifies Against Sprint in Vice Hack Case
The ex-hacker details his past control of Las Vegas' telecom network, and
raids his old storage locker to produce the evidence.
By Kevin Poulsen, Jun 24 2002 11:25PM
LAS VEGAS--Since adult
From: Jeff E. Kinzli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:24:49 -0700
Subject: 'Astonishing' skull unearthed in Africa
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2118000/2118055.stm
Wednesday, 10 July, 2002, 18:00 GMT 19:00 UK
'Astonishing' skull unearthed in Africa
By Ivan Noble
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 18:37:12 -0400
From: Mediawatch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: nettime G8 Genoa bombs planted by cops
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Mediawatch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Difficult to understand why the followup about Genoa was not followed on
Nettime
All
From: Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10 Aug 2002 02:21:56 -0700
Subject: Re: Warning - Plastic Wrap Microwaving
Looks like this might be a little alarmist.
http://www.snopes.com/toxins/plastic.htm
Adam.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1556065069
This is the red beaded dress Kate Winset wore in Titanic. With provenance,
via J. Peterman.
From: Fearghas McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 08:29:12 +0100
Subject: English Standards Body tries to kill the haggis
FOOD WATCHDOG THREATENS END OF THE GREAT CHIEFTAIN
THE great chieftain o' the puddin' race may finally have met its match.
Gushing entrails of haggis, as Scottish
From: Fearghas McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:00:00 +0100
Subject: Romans went to war on diet of pizza, dig shows
http://news.scotsman.com/archive.cfm?id=946522002rware=HYWVPODJPXMVCQ_CUR_
DOCUMENT=1
Romans went to war on diet of pizza, dig shows
John Innes
ROMAN soldiers
From: InfoSec News [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 10:06:31 -0700
Subject: [ISN] Hackers beg boring people to stop encrypting email
Forwarded from: John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.satirewire.com/news/aug02/encryption.shtml
San Jose, Calif. (SatireWire.com) - In an unusual worldwide
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-956285.html
New 'entertainment' PCs restrict copying
By Joe Wilcox
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
September 3, 2002, 5:58 AM PT
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday released additional details
about digital entertainment PCs coming for the holidays. But new
From: Bill Scannell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:35:39 -0500
Subject: Waiter, is there a fly in my soup?
http://www.unsicht-bar.de/
Pitch Dark Bar Opens for Blind Dates Thu Sep 5,10:09 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - Diners at Berlin's newest restaurant cannot see what they
are eating
From: Andrew Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:47:27 +0700
Subject: Anti-matter
From Science section of the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/19/science/19HYDR.html?ex=1033531200en=23a7
51ca58cb8419ei=5062partner=GOOGLE
More Sci- Than Fi, Physicists Create
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/november6/archimedes-116.html
Stanford Report, November 6, 2002
Scholars decode ancient text, shake up pre-calculus history
BY JOHN SANFORD
Reviel Netz, an assistant professor of classics, might not have actually
shouted Eureka! on a visit last
From: Matt Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 10:19:04 -0800
Subject: Sousveillance
http://www.wired.com/news/holidays/0,1882,56185,00.html
Ronald Deibert, a University of Toronto associate professor of political
science, wants people to grab their cameras and hit the shopping malls
[Editor's note: Forwards removed. The Office of Information Awareness
already knows about me. -- jdcc]
http://www.bordc.org/get_well_cards.htm
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 02:35:32 -0800
Subject: lost underground stations
http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/
From: Barry Tannenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:13:00 -0500
Subject: A very cool web page
From: Goodsell, Ian
From: Ihsanullah, Naveed
Courtesy of Mr. Allen Mobbs,
http://www.alterfin.com/dominique/index.html
From: Gen Kanai [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:07:01 -0500
Subject: Fwd: F-1 750HP Engine sings a song!
When the Saints Go Marching In
According to Tim Blair in Oz, the Asiatech folks have programmed their F-1
engine to play music. I quote:
Load the link and press play.
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:06:48 -0800
Subject: Those wacky Finns
http://mbjork.home.cern.ch/mbjork/gase/events/saunaab_test/saunaab_test.htm
Or how to build a Sauna in your Saab 900.
From: Deborah Elizabeth Finn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:20:48 -0500
Subject: Found in the in-box...Lord Of The Peeps
==
http://www.lordofthepeeps.com/
Feel free to skip this one, if you don't think there's anything
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:49:29 -0700
Subject: Volare from Outer Space!
UFO lights were 'a prank'
A former US security policeman has said he was responsible for
strange lights in a forest which sparked claims of a UFO sighting.
He said a patrol car - and
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 16:54:33 -0500
From: Roya [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: too funny!
Google on weapons of mass destruction and hit I'm feeling lucky..
this rocks.
Love and Laughter,
Roya, Spirit-Dancer
From: Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:51:54 -0400
To: ip [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IP] Where Have All the CDs Gone?
-- Forwarded Message
From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:41:01 -0700 (PDT)
To: Dave
From: Bill Scannell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 00:56:03 -0500
Subject: Arrrh.
The weekly piracy report. Reads like a maritime police blotter, but with
maps.
-Bill
http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/weekly_piracy_report.asp
··· --- ··· ··· --- ···
They that can give up
From: Patty A. Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:45:20 -0700
Subject: Is Writing the product of Counting?
See the excerpt from How Writing Came About at the University of Texas
Press web site:
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exschhop.html
One can envision a step prior to
From: Donald Eastlake 3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 23:57:59 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [interest] FWD: Was the Antikythera an Ancient Instrument for
Longitude Determination?
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Spring03/Antikythera.html
Was the Antikythera an Ancient
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:33:14 -0700
Subject: diamond semiconductors
very long but super interesting article on two companies who now can
make and sell synthetic diamonds cheap cheap cheap.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:13:16 -0700
Subject: Stuart and Tim are running for Governor.
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/recall/6453609.
htm
Site asks Californians to run for governor
By Mary Anne Ostrom
Mercury News
A Silicon
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6947020%255E421,0
0.html
Whale flatulence stuns scientists
By Simon Benson
14aug03
IT'S one of the unfortunate consequences of being a mammal - flatulence.
And, more unfortunately for a group of whale researchers, nature took its
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:57:18 -0700
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: French Secrets to Staying Slim
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/72/81854.htm?z=1728_0_1000_ln_01
French Secrets to Staying Slim
Updated 8/22/2003 8:37:30 PM
By Jeanie Lerche Davis
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2948761136
From: Margaret [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 14:47:50 -0400
Subject: Madame Curie, scientist, Nobel Laureate and grammar school teacher.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1028379,00.html
Forgotten lessons of Marie Curie revealed
Paul Webster, Paris
Sunday
From: Adam Shostack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:41:37 -0400
Subject: Have you flown Jet Blue?
Hi,
As you may have heard, Jet Blue has recently fessed up to handing over
all of their travel records to a small DOD contractor for data mining.
That contractor bought credit records
From: Len Sassaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:35:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Have you flown Jet Blue?
Greetings,
Bill Scannell asked me to host the PDF file he obtained which reveals Jet
Blue's privacy violations so that he might lessen the bandwidth load on
the main DontSpyOnUs
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60502,00.html
JetBlue 'Fesses Up, Quietly
By Ryan Singel
02:00 AM Sep. 19, 2003 PT
JetBlue Airways began sending out apologetic e-mails Thursday to
customers who are infuriated that the airline gave 5 million passenger
records to a defense contractor
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/science/19DIET.html
September 19, 2003
Low-Calorie-Diet Study Takes Scientists Aback
By GINA KOLATA
Scientists know that very strict low-calorie diets can prolong life. But
now they report that it does not matter when you start that diet -- at
least if you are
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/
Lick Me, I'm A Macintosh
What the hell is wrong with Apple that they still give a damn about
design and packaging and feel?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, October 1, 2003
Oh right like you even care.
Like careful sexy product design even
From: Charles Richmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu Oct 2, 2003 9:34:49 AM US/Pacific
Subject: Rain of Frogs
http://www.boston.com/news/daily/02/odds_frogs.htm
From: Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu Oct 2, 2003 2:13:37 AM US/Pacific
Subject: [IP] CAPPS II -- The new Maginot line?
[Editor's note: If you want to read the original, the username/password
cpunks/cpunks will work, as it does at many sites. -- jdcc]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5087875.html
Story last modified October 7, 2003, 10:58 AM PDT
A Princeton University student has published instructions for disabling
the new anticopying measures being tested
a few bucks. Paypal makes it easy, if you use
it. -- jdcc]
From: Bill Scannell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri Oct 10, 2003 10:08:31 AM US/Pacific
To: Jon Callas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What You Can Do -Right Now- To Stop CAPPS II
Dear Patriot,
For the past seven months, I have been fighting
[See link for pictures as well.]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3120950.stm
The fossil remains of a gigantic rodent that looked something like a
monster guinea pig have been identified by scientists in Venezuela.
The 700-kilogram beast - about the size of a buffalo - lived among the
From: Earl Wajenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu Oct 16, 2003 2:25:58 PM US/Pacific
Subject: Kicking around the cosmic soccer ball
I *did* say, Stay tuned.
Physicist At The Center Of Debate Over Soccer-shaped Universe
Competing theories about the shape and size of the universe are going
head
[Editor's note: Thomas is an Eristocrat, and writer, and great guy to
party with. He has a new book out, so I thought I'd blurb him here. --
jdcc]
Thomas Fischermann
Next Economy
The technology bubble has burst, and the so-called New Economy has
turned out to be a joke, but the internet is
From: Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue Nov 4, 2003 12:37:20 PM US/Pacific
To: Man-Bytes-Dog [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [mbd] Lunar Eclipse Sat 8th
For us on the east coast
Moon enters Earth's shadow 6:32 p.m.
totality begins 8:06 p.m.
totality ends 8:31 p.m.
Moon exits Earth's
From: Matthew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed Nov 5, 2003 12:58:23 PM US/Pacific
Subject: US Crackdown on bioterror research backfiring
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4345
This week, a respected biologist was led into a Texas courtroom. He
faces no
fewer than 68 charges
From: Matthew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue Nov 18, 2003 10:37:57 AM US/Pacific
Subject: Shredded Stasi documents could be assembled in 5 years
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/63/34041.html
The last secrets of the East German State Security Service (Stasi), torn
into shreds and stored
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:52:57 -0500
From: Quotation of the day editor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Quotation of the day mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Quotation of the day for December 14, 2003
If you go to one of the major hospitals here in Boston for brain
surgery, you're going to have a
We got Carmina Burana from the iTunes music store last week. I was
looking it over and one of the track names is:
Carmina Burana, XIX, Si Puer C*m Puellula
Are you laughing yet? Cringing? I laughed because I remembered the
subject matter of Si Puer Cum Puella and it is (courtesy of
From: Vinnie Moscaritolo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat Dec 20, 2003 8:14:13 AM US/Pacific
Subject: HAPPY DEC 20 DAY!
HRROI 1,[ASCIZ /HAPPY DECSYSTEM 20 DAY/]
PSOUT
HALTF
JRST .-1
--
Vinnie Moscaritolo ITCB-IMSH
PGP: 3F903472C3AF622D5D918D9BD8B100090B3EF042
From: Earl Wajenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: December 23, 2003 11:10:53 AM PST
Subject: Dark Energy in Doubt
Has European Space Agency's XMM-Newton Cast Doubt Over Dark Energy?
ESA's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has returned tantalising new data
about the nature of the Universe. In a survey of
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: January 3, 2004 3:51:41 PM PST
Subject: The Lord of the Rings : A Source-Criticism Analysis
http://www.mark-shea.com/LOTR.html
Experts in source-criticism now know that The Lord of the Rings is a
redaction of sources ranging from the Red Book of
From: Jim Reisert AD1C [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: December 19, 2003 8:25:18 AM PST
Subject: Yamaha Oragami Motocycles
Too cool!
http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/eng/papercraft/
[Editor's note: Excerpt of the page below. Full article well worth
reading. Besides, you're going to want to see the pictures. -- jdcc]
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: January 8, 2004 5:28:45 PM PST
Subject: fascinating article on what can turn up on eBay
[Editor's note: I don't know anyone who would do something like this.
-- jdcc]
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/01/08/foil/index.html
Jan. 8, 2004 | OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- What kind of friends coat your
apartment -- and nearly everything in it -- with tinfoil while you're
away? Here's a
From: clbence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: January 9, 2004 10:23:41 AM PST
Subject: Re: Man's apartment encased in aluminum foil
Photos of foil covered apartment -
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20040107/southsound/8191.shtml
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: January 15, 2004 10:49:01 PM PST
Subject: Arachnophobia
From an interview with Peter Jackson
http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1074211360
[Question courtesy of Ruth McHugh, Austereo Sydney] How much did the
creation of Shelob the giant spider
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/
content_objectid=13832640_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-FTHE-
NAZIS--SAYS-CHURCHILL-S-PARROT-name_page.html
F*** THE NAZIS, SAYS CHURCHILL'S PARROT
Jan 19 2004
EXCLUSIVE
By Bill Borrows
SHE WAS at Winston Churchill's side during Britain's
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: January 21, 2004 10:47:36 PM PST
Subject: Oops. Not that way.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/01/21/offbeat.hiking.mistake.ap/
index.html
Magazine directs climbers over cliff
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's biggest-selling hiking magazine apologized
From: Donald Eastlake 3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 February, 2004 8:06:29 PM PST
Subject: [interest] FWD: Microbial Gold Concentration...
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/
0,5478,8515126%255E421,00.html
Scientists dig in to grow gold nuggets
By Michelle Pountney
28jan04
GOLD
From: Matthew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 March, 2004 11:35:15 AM PST
Subject: High tech roulette scam easy to set up
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4815
An alleged high-tech roulette scam that saw three people walk out of a
London casino with ý1.3 million recently
From: Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 April, 2004 6:27:23 AM PDT
Subject: Chunnel borer on ebay. Be the first on your block!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3284949854
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 April, 2004 1:45:23 PM PDT
Subject: Quicktime movie of the 1882 transit of Venus
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/sun/article_1187_1.asp
In late 1882, Massachusetts astronomer David Peck Todd traveled to
California to photograph the
From: Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 April, 2004 4:04:13 AM PDT
Subject: [IP] Einstein, the first spin doctor
Einstein, the first spin doctor
An experiment to test the theory of relativity could rock the science
world
Paul Davies
Saturday April 10, 2004
The Guardian
From: Matthew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 April, 2004 11:09:37 AM PDT
Subject: Calculate effects of meteor hit on earth
Earth Impact Effects Program
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
This program will estimate the seismic, blast wave, and thermal effects
of
an impact as well as the
UCLA Geophysicist Warns 6.4 Quake To Hit LA By Sept 5'
Los Angeles - Apr 15, 2004
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/tectonics-04d.html
A US geophysicist has set the scientific world ablaze by claiming to
have cracked a holy grail: accurate earthquake prediction, and warning
that a big one will hit
From: Bill Scannell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 April, 2004 2:07:10 PM PDT
Subject: The most powerful photo I've seen in a long time
Soldiers form an honor guard and say a prayer as, almost nightly,
coffins
are loaded for the trip home.
http://tinylink.com/?oa3r5AYKgg
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/20/science/20NECK.html?
ex=1083462188ei=1en=c6005ee6dce107f9
Tiny Shells May Be Oldest Known Beads
April 20, 2004
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
It was a long time ago and far away from Tiffany. But even then, 75,000
years ago in a cave in southern Africa, people
From: Matthew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 May, 2004 10:26:15 AM PDT
Subject: Amateur rocket reaches space
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3724841.stm
An amateur unmanned rocket has been launched into space from the Nevada
desert - the first time this has been achieved by a
From: Wajenberg, Earl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 May, 2004 7:52:53 AM PDT
Subject: Science news clips
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3729487.stm
There's microbiology, which is the study of microscopic organisms, and
cryptobiology, which is the study of organisms whose existence is
From: Bill Scannell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 May, 2004 3:09:41 PM PDT
To: Jon Callas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Alaskans to Sue Over CAPPS II
Jon,
Outside government bureaucrats think we need their permission before we
can
get on a plane.
We think they're wrong, so we're turning to the US
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 May, 2004 3:38:29 PM PDT
Subject: papers please -- MBTA set to begin passenger ID stops
MBTA set to begin passenger ID stops
Effort part of national rail security program
By Mac Daniel, Globe Staff | May 22, 2004
MBTA transit police confirmed
Eric Idle's new song about the FCC. Note -- broadcast of this song
could subject you and him to fines.
http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/FCCSong.mp3
From: Paula Burch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 June, 2004 5:19:59 PM PDT
Subject: Draft to begin June 2005
This time it's for women as well as men, and running off to Canada
won't work.
There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills:
S 89 and HR 163) which will time the program's
From: Tamzen Cannoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 June, 2004 1:40:22 AM PDT
Subject: There'll always be an England
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3776091.stm
Schools warned over sunny trips
Children are used to being told a trip is being postponed because of
the vagaries of Britain's rainy
http://www.venusvoordezon.nl/index_en.htm
[Editor's note: St. James Infirmary is one of my favorite songs; like
Rob Walker, I have a number of versions of it. One of the miracles of
modern musical technology is that I can irritate the people around me
by playing them all in succession. The Streets of Laredo is another
one, I don't
From: Jeff Kinzli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 June 2004 1:41:06 PM PDT
Subject: Speed of light may have changed recently
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns6092
Speed of light may have changed recently
19:00 30 June 04
Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/index_new.shtml
Old cast reassembled, except for those who have died. Douglas Adams
playing a part in the new series, in spite of having died.
Jon
From: Matthew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 July 2004 1:02:50 PM PDT
Subject: Hawking cracks black hole paradox
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns6151
After nearly 30 years of arguing that a black hole destroys everything
that
falls into it, Stephen Hawking is saying he was
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2004/07/27/558388.html
Baring all for Canada
FOREIGN STRIPPERS MUST SUPPLY NUDE STAGE PHOTOS TO OFFICIALS
By TOM GODFREY, TORONTO SUN
IMMIGRATION OFFICERS are having to pore through naked pictures of
hundreds of exotic dancers to keep impostors out
From: thom newlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 August 2004 6:24:43 AM PDT
To: Jon Callas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: england seeks court jester
England is looking for a court jester (
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/04/britain.jester.ap/index.html
) .
No word on benefits, salary
From: Fearghas McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 9 September 2004 11:10:06 AM PDT
Subject: KON-TIKI TO SAIL AGAIN
for the Eristocracy ?
KON-TIKI TO SAIL AGAIN
Oslo, Norway: Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed across the
Pacific Ocean in an epic journey aboard the balsa raft Kon-Tiki, a team
From: Matthew Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 September 2004 12:19:39 PM PDT
Subject: Mars laser telecoms
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns6409
A laser that can beam data from Mars to Earth at 10 times the rate of
current radio links will be sent to the Red Planet in 2009, say
Really. This is no joke.
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Jon
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