Why Macs suck

2006-05-29 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/31000/Why_Macintosh_Sucks.html True or not, its pretty funny. xponent Crash Different Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Chavez: Imprison 'genocidal' Bush

2006-05-15 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/15/britain.chavez/index.html Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused George W. Bush of committing genocide and said the U.S. president should be imprisoned by an international criminal court. The leftist leader made his remarks on Monday at a joint

Poll: Clinton outperformed Bush

2006-05-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/12/bush.clinton.poll/index.html In a new poll comparing President Bush's job performance with that of his predecessor, a strong majority of respondents said President Clinton outperformed Bush on a host of issues. The poll of 1,021 adult Americans was

Pink Is the New Red

2006-04-21 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
As President Bush's Popularity Falls, the Nation's Color Divide Adds a Few Hues http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/16/AR2006041600858_pf.html http://tinyurl.com/l8roz It seems that only yesterday American politics appeared to have found its true colors: Republican

Re: Hello (hello, hello)

2006-04-17 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
On 4/17/2006 6:38:03 PM, Deborah Harrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: snip who has many more posts in this thread yet to peruse, and wonders if anyone mourned the loss of Shannon the dog, who got washed out to sea -- maybe she found

The Gospel Of Judas

2006-04-17 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
This has been on my mind a bit lately. I read the news reports over the last couple of years and saw the NGEO documentary a couple of times over the last few weeks. Today I took a foray over to Pat Mathews blog and read what Pat thinks (http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/). I don't #strongly#

Re: three paradigm shifts?

2006-04-17 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
On 4/17/2006 10:34:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how do you explain cats? Cats are a perfect example of non-domestication. We have certainly bred them to be smaller and tamer but they are not domesticated in the way that dogs are domesticated. They do not connect with humans in the

Re: Hello (hello, hello)

2006-04-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
On 4/13/2006 2:14:12 PM, Deborah Harrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: and some Kenny Loggins ('Heartlight' frex), Neil Diamondinnit? xponent Can Play And Sing Dannys Song Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Huzzah for chocolate milk

2006-04-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
On 4/13/2006 7:16:09 PM, Dave Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: Matthew and Julie Bos wrote: On 4/12/06 4:04 PM, Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read about this a couple of weeks ago and started to drink more of the stuff.

Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room

2006-04-10 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70619-0.html?tw=rss.index ATT provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching

Re: Tales From Earthsea.........Anime!!!!!

2006-04-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
On 4/9/2006 5:02:53 PM, Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Robert Seeberger wrote: (I'd provide a link but Wiki seems to be down) AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH! AAAIGH!

Tales From Earthsea.........Anime!!!!!

2006-04-08 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.animenewsservice.com/ As reported yesterday the Studio Ghibli website has relaunched, their new URL is http://www.ghibli.jp/. Via the revamp, the studio has revealed their next animation film project will be Gedo Senki (with English subtitle TALES from EARTHSEA) directed by Goro

Re: Tales From Earthsea.........Anime!!!!!

2006-04-08 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
On 4/9/2006 12:38:26 AM, David Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I read Le Guin at the same time in my life when I was listening to Baby I'm-a Want You and Please, Mister, Please and thinking they were really good stuff, so I'm reluctant to be too excited about this, but Holy Flaming Snot

Former Head Of Star Wars Program Says Cheney Main 9/11 Suspect

2006-04-07 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/8662/Former_Head_Of_Star_Wars_Program_Cheney_Main_9_11_Suspect http://tinyurl.com/nsmel The former head of the Star Wars missile defense program under Presidents Ford and Carter has gone public to say that the official version of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory

Delay steps down

2006-04-03 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
The news seems to be that Tom Delay is dropping out of the race for Congressional re-election. Having been recently absorbed into his collective I'm breathing a sigh of relief. xponent Politics Today Maru rob ___

Brin: A New James Morrow

2006-04-03 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
In The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow covers some of the same territory Doctor Brin points us toward and should be a novel of interest. http://www.scifi.com/sfw/interviews/sfw12472.html Quote: A second tributary feeding the cataract that became Witchfinder was the creeping theocracy,

Re: Delay steps down

2006-04-03 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
On 4/3/2006 11:09:31 PM, Julia Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Robert G. Seeberger wrote: The news seems to be that Tom Delay is dropping out of the race for Congressional re-election. Having been recently absorbed into his collective I'm breathing a sigh of relief. xponent

Anime tonight

2006-03-25 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Of course princess Mononoke is on right now. But the good news is that FullMetal Alchemist restarts with the first episode tonight. Everybody really should check this out. After 5 or 6 episodes not only will you be hooked, but you will find it tasty and filled with meaty goodness. (In other

Semi-OTC Lasers

2006-02-23 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://wickedlasers.com/ For the last few months you have been able to buy lasers that could pop balloons, melt trash bags, cut electrical tape, and melt through plastic. It is a fairly interesting advance in materials science that allows consumers to do such things with an over-the-counter

A Second Conviction

2006-02-23 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Several years ago, way back when the list was hosted by a major university, we had a conversation about our personal brushes with death or encounters with killers or somesuch. At that time I related 2 stories about my encounters with people who had or would soon murder others. The unrelated

Urban Legend Recap

2006-02-19 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.rofl.name/flash/newsoapbox2 xponent Cute Flash Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

THE STEEP PRICE OF DEFEATING TERROR

2006-02-18 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
THE STEEP PRICE OF DEFEATING TERROR a href= http://www.MelvinDurai.com/warcost.htm Web Column/a President Bush has asked Congress for $72.4 billion to fund the Global War on Terror through fiscal year 2006. About $65 billion will go toward the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing total spending

THE VICE PRESIDENT'S DECLASSIFICATION AUTHORITY

2006-02-16 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Is it your view that a Vice President has the authority to declassify information? Vice President Cheney was asked yesterday by Fox News' Brit Hume. There is an executive order to that effect, replied the Vice President. This was a simple answer to a straightforward question, but the matter is

Spin

2006-02-16 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Just finished a great new book, Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson. http://tinyurl.com/77uqp if you want to read some Amazon reviews of Spin. I've read both of Wilsons previous efforts and they were good reads but lacked something and left me feeling somewhat indifferent about what I had read.

TV comedians target Cheney hunting accident

2006-02-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Television talk shows took aim Monday at U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney's accidental weekend shooting in Texas of a hunting companion. Here's a few of the jokes. Late Show with David Letterman, CBS: -Good news, ladies and gentlemen, we have finally located weapons of mass destruction: It's

Forced Evolution (for Dan)

2006-02-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=37383nfid=rssfeeds Viruses and humans have evolved together over millions of years in a game of one-upmanship that, often as not, left humans sick or worse. Now, a University of California, Berkeley, researcher has shown that viruses - in

Shot By Cheney

2006-02-12 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.click2houston.com/news/6979300/detail.html?treets=houtml=hou_natlbreakts=Ttmi=hou_natlbreak_1_02540202122006 http://tinyurl.com/a768o Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas. Fellow hunter and attorney Harry

Bombing Mastermind Escapes

2006-02-05 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.click2houston.com/news/6757988/detail.html?treets=houtml=hou_natlbreakts=Ttmi=hou_natlbreak_1_09110102052006 http://tinyurl.com/9t8px Interpol said Sunday that a man considered to be a mastermind of the USS Cole bombing is among those who have escaped from a prison in Yemen. The

China Leaps Forward (with nuclear power)

2006-02-05 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
The people's republic is embarking on the world's biggest nuclear building spree. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11080908/site/newsweek/ American businessman Edwin deSteiguer Snead went to China seeking a future for nuclear energy. He's pretty sure he found it. On a recent bitterly cold day,

New 'planet' bigger than Pluto

2006-02-05 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/02/01/tenth.planet/index.html German astrophysicists have concluded a space body located in the outer reaches of the solar system has a diameter 435 miles (700 kilometers) larger than Pluto, the smallest planet. Their research puts more pressure on the

Human-Animal Hybrid Ban

2006-02-04 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://tomburka.com/archives2/2006_02.php#000900 White House Staff Hit Hard By Human-Animal Hybrid Ban Chickenhawks at Risk, Among Others A ban on human-animal hybrids announced by President Bush in his State of the Union address has many senior White House staffers panicked, and the NIH,

Sciencey

2006-02-04 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
From Eschaton: After sending a bunch of 24 year olds from the Heritage foundation to help fuck up Iraq, the Bush administration has given 24 year old campaign interns the authority to tell scientists what science is. A week after NASA's top climate scientist complained that the space

The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet

2006-01-22 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/AR2006012100094.html?nav=rss_technology http://urlx.org/washingtonpost.com/b814 Do you prefer to search for information online with Google or Yahoo? What about bargain shopping -- do you go to Amazon or eBay? Many of us make these

Wierdness Abounds

2006-01-18 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
I'm home sick today, and all the local news channels have for the last couple of hours been focused on a car chase. The police have chased this assault perp through at least 3 counties starting out in Dan's end of town, circulating all over the north and western extremes of Harris County. The

SCI FI To Air New Doctor Who

2006-01-17 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue456/news.html SCI FI Channel announced Jan. 12 that it will air the first season of the BBC's hit SF series Doctor Who, starting in March. The 13 episodes, starring Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, will air as part of SCI FI

The State Of The Blog message

2006-01-14 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
The following is a post that pretty much sizes up the state of blogland in Q1 2006. http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2006/01/loneliness-of-keyboard-kommando.html After reading Jim Wolcott's beatdown of the

My Uncles Website

2006-01-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.wormanizer.com/ Its..well.its a worm call. For fishing worms. No kidding! And it worksG Just don't let Jim's kids take it to the art museum.G xponent Floored By My Relations Maru rob ___

Electric Hurricanes

2006-01-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Three of the most powerful hurricanes of 2005 were filled with mysterious lightning. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/09jan_electrichurricanes.htm?list175116 xponent Shock And Ouch Maru rob ___

Electric Hurricanes

2006-01-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Three of the most powerful hurricanes of 2005 were filled with mysterious lightning. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/09jan_electrichurricanes.htm?list175116 xponent Shock And Ouch Maru rob ___

Don't eat anything without a face...

2006-01-08 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.petv.org/ People for the ethical treatment of vegetables. xponent Self Explanatory Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Google: creator of the universe = FSM #1hit......News at 11

2006-01-08 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.venganza.org/ I am surprised at how often this site changes and how much it has grown. I end up back there about every 6 weeks or so and it seems to greatly grow in content everytime I visit. The funniest thing is the merchandising and the screensavers/desktops. The worldwide

Why can't I own a Canadian?

2006-01-04 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2002/WhyCantIOwnACanadian_10-02.html October 2002 Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to

URLx

2006-01-04 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Try this link to see if it works. http://urlx.org/amazon.com/0375 This is from http://urlx.org/ , a new service that addresses a problem with TinyURL and the like. With the other services people can send you porn and you wouldn't have a clue until you clicked the link. URLx adds the domain

Texas Wins!

2006-01-04 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Wow! What a great game! Anyone could have won in the last few minutes. One of the best games I've seen in years. xponent Vince Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction

2006-01-01 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.13wham.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=422B960A-26BA-4891-9E60-21C8818788D4 http://tinyurl.com/3mfx3 A former U.S. Marine who participated in capturing ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated. Ex-Sgt. Nadim Abou Rabeh,

Hunters Of Dune ------ Sandworms Of Dune

2006-01-01 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
It may be time for some re-readingG The text of the dustjacket of Hunters Of Dune: HUNTERS OF DUNE Frank Herbert's epic continues Since 1986, millions of readers have longed to know the ending of the uncompleted story which began in Heretics of Dune and continued in Chapterhouse: Dune.

'You need a licence to strum stairway to heaven'

2005-12-25 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://tinyurl.com/be36r STRICT copyright officials banned guitar shop customers from playing classic riffs like Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven - just like in the film, Wayne's World. The Performing Right Society (PRS) told Regent Guitars in Leamington it would need to buy a licence if

Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'

2005-12-11 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act. Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked

Richard Pryor.......Dead at 65

2005-12-10 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Comedian Richard Pryor died Saturday of a heart attack, his wife told CNN. He was 65. Pryor had been ill with multiple sclerosis. Pryor became a legend of comedy by tapping his rage and agonies for laughs. He was the biggest name in standup comedy in the 1970s, winning Grammy awards for his

Voice Of God Revealed To Be Cheney On Intercom

2005-12-07 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Telephone logs recorded by the National Security Agency and obtained by Congress as part of an ongoing investigation suggest that the vice president may have used the Oval Office intercom system to address President Bush at crucial moments, giving categorical directives in a voice the

The Ultimate in Christmas lights

2005-11-30 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/45390/wizards_of_winter/ This is awesome! This guy has his Christmas lights controlled by computer and set to music..TrasSiberianOrchestra's Wizards Of Winter. He also broadcasts the music over low power FM so it can be heard on car radios for about a block.

Santa Claus air traffic will delay flights - no, really

2005-11-25 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1125santaflights25-ON.html Norwegian aviation authorities on Thursday warned that Santa Claus flights could cause delays for airline passengers in December. It's not St. Nick or his flying reindeer sleigh that cause the problem each year, but thousands

Bush claim revives al-Jazeera bombing fears

2005-11-25 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1648988,00.html Claims that George Bush planned to bomb the Arabic TV news station al-Jazeera have fuelled concerns that an attack on the broadcaster's Baghdad offices during the war on Iraq was deliberate. An international journalists group today

Star Trek: TOS *Season 4*

2005-11-25 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.newvoyages.com/ Well...a group of fans set themselves to finish the last two seasons of TOS original 5 year mission. It is being written up in the new Wired. (Pretty big article actually) I just watched ep2 (it is the only ep of the 3 made so far that is currently

Bubp Denies

2005-11-23 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051122/NEWS01/511220352 Three days after Rep. Jean Schmidt was booed off the House floor for saying that cowards cut and run, Marines never do, the Ohioan she quoted disputed the comments. Danny Bubp, a freshman state representative who is

Curveball

2005-11-20 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/11/20/12242/343 John Goetz has been working on the Curveball story for a long time now. It is published today in the Los Angeles Times. I am proud to say that I did what I could to help him and his partner Bob Drogin with this. This story is a massive

Brin: Army to Halt Call-Ups of Inactive Soldiers

2005-11-19 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
As Dave said, the corner has been turned. In answer to allegations that it is only hippies, leftists, or traitors who hold dissenting opinions... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111701735.html The Army has suspended plans to expand an

Time Waster 2

2005-11-19 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.gieson.com/Library/projects/games/matter/ Sort of an intelligence test. xponent Too Slow Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Return of The Prisoner

2005-11-19 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/til/jsp/modules/Article/print.jsp?itemId=20960466 Cult classic The Prisoner is set to return almost 40 years after it first hit TV screens Sky One is in talks to bring back the adventure series, which starred Patrick McGoohan as Prisoner Number 6. The series,

What is Web 2.0? You redefine the paradigm

2005-11-14 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/11/web_two_point_naught_answers/ This is funny enough to be worth reading all the way through. People are so witty! xponent Rob 2.0, Now With DiHydrogen Oxide Maru rob ___

All the air, all the water

2005-11-14 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Go to the site to see. http://adamnieman.co.uk/vos/ All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) and all the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it). These images depict the total volume of air and water in the world. Surprisingly small quanties when you

'The Matrix' is a step closer to reality

2005-11-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.physorg.com/news7879.html In the sci-fi movie The Matrix, a cable running from a computer into Neo's brain writes in visual perceptions, and Neo's brain can manipulate the computer-created world. In reality, scientists cannot interact directly with the brain because they do not

The Emperor Doesn't Disclose

2005-11-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.prwatch.org/node/4059 Like much news that's damaging to the Bush administration, the report came out on a Friday. Since then, it's gotten little media attention -- just 41 mentions in U.S. newspapers and wire stories, according to a news database search on October 11. That's

Methodist Bishops Repent Iraq War 'Complicity'

2005-11-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175245,00.html Ninety-five bishops from President Bush's church said Thursday they repent their complicity in the unjust and immoral invasion and occupation of Iraq. In the face of the United States administration's rush toward military action based on

Legalese Rootkit

2005-11-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php If you thought XCP rootkit copy-protection on Sony-BMG CDs was bad, perhaps you'd better read the 3,000 word (!) end-user license agreement (aka EULA) that comes with all these CDs. First, a baseline. When you buy a regular CD, you own it. You

Al-Qaeda calls Queen an enemy of Islam

2005-11-13 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1869849,00.html AL-QAEDA has threatened the Queen by naming her as “one of the severest enemies of Islam” in a video message to justify the July bombings in London. The warning has been passed by MI5 to the Queen’s protection team after it obtained

Math Idol

2005-11-12 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/041025_greatest_equations.html If the writers of equations had an Academy Awards or a Pullitzer Prize, the finalists might be Maxwell, Euler, Newton, Einstein, and whoever can take credit for ‘1+1=2.’ Robert Crease, a professor of philosophy at the

WTC fishiness

2005-11-12 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html There are still unresolved questions with regard to the WTC building collapses. I don't believe that the official explanations sufficiently cover all the bases. Excerpt: The rapid fall of the Towers and WTC7 has been analyzed by several

Work photos

2005-11-10 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ These are pictures of a project I have been working on, off and on, over the last few months. xponent Lots Of Pipe Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

What Does 'Almost Nothing' Weigh?

2005-11-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/physics-05zq.html If subatomic particles had personalities, neutrinos would be the ultimate wallflowers. One of the most basic particles of matter in the universe, they've been around for 14 billion years and permeate every inch of space, but they're so

White House Ghosts

2005-11-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed. He awakens to see George Washington standing by him Bush asks him, George, what's the best thing I can do to help the country? Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did, Washington advises, and then fades away

For Alberto

2005-11-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Donald Rumsfeld is briefing president Bush: Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed. Oh no! exclaims the president, that's terrible! His staff is stunned at this unprecedented display of emotion, watching as Bush sits, head in hands. Finally, he looks up and asks, How many is a

The Tweel

2005-11-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.fastcoolcars.com/airless-tires.htm The first airless tire. xponent Huh? Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Fun For Dan

2005-11-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.blacklightpower.com/applications.shtml This is a fairly slick site that outlines an improbable new power source. It is likely a humongous scam or hoax, but it is fun because it makes even bigger claims than Pons and Fleishman ever did with Cold Fusion. A lot of work went into this

A Time Waster

2005-11-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.iol.ie/~dluby/escape.htm I made it to 20.5 seconds. Not too bad so far. xponent Simple Games Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Michael Piller

2005-11-02 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=59082 I've just read the sad news of the death of Michael Piller - co-creator of Deep Space Nine, Voyager and The Dead Zone, at the unfairly young age of 57. It's not been a good year for Trek, with James Doohan's loss still fresh in our

Halloween Humor

2005-10-31 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Little Johnny was on a park bench stuffing all of his Halloween candy in his mouth. An old lady came over and said. Son, don't you know that eating all of that candy will rot your teeth, give you acne, and make you sick? My grandfather lived to be 105 years old! replied Johnny. Did he eat five

Beer For Geeks

2005-10-31 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Beer for Geeks DOS Beer: Requires you to use your own can opener, and requires you to read the directions carefully before opening the can. Originally only came in an 8-oz can, but now comes in a 16-oz can. However, the can is divided into 8 compartments of 2-oz each, which have

Rick Smalley

2005-10-29 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
On the passing of a scientist who helped change chemistry and material sciences to the benefit of everyone. His contributions will be felt for many years to come. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/news/3424406 Richard Errett Smalley, a gifted chemist who shared a Nobel Prize

White House to Onion: Stop using seal

2005-10-27 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/26/odd.onion.reut/index.html The White House is not amused by The Onion, a newspaper that often spoofs the Bush administration, and has asked it to stop using the presidential seal on its Web site. The seal was still on the Web site www.theonion.com on

IS THIS THE DEATH OF AMERICA?

2005-10-27 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
America's sense of itself - its pride in its power - has been profoundly damaged. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16223364method=fullsiteid=94762headline=the-saturday-soapbox--is-this-the-death-of-america---name_page.html http://tinyurl.com/cjw5q THIS week Karen Hughes, long-time

Times all time 100 novels

2005-10-27 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html Some notable sci-fi in there. xponent Read Some Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Mindbending Shadow

2005-10-26 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Here is a picture of a sculpture of the shadow of a 4D Octacube that is going on exhibit at Penn State. Simply awesome! http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/photos/miscphotos/sculpturePhotoLG4.jpg And here is a little info about it. Very little actually, but I doubt many people understand higher

Transparent Aluminum

2005-10-21 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131 10/17/2005 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Engineers here are testing a new kind of transparent armor -- stronger and lighter than traditional materials -- that could stop armor-piercing weapons from penetrating vehicle windows.

The World's Fastest Electric Sedan

2005-10-21 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/car-tech-05u.html Japanese researchers on Thursday unveiled the world's fastest electric sedan - an eight-wheeled prototype with a top speed of 370 kilometres (almost 230 miles) per hour. A new version of the Eliica car was developed by researchers at Tokyo's

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-10-19 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
WOOO HOOO!!! xponent Chicago Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Near Miss

2005-10-11 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Here is a photo I took after Rita. This is the result of a tornado that struck about 150 feet from my apartment. My home was untouched as were the apartments in the background. The debris that crushed the carport is the roof of the building the

Cow Beats The Crap Out Of Dogs

2005-10-09 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.livejournal.com/users/drugoi/1468288.html?thread=29096832 No captions required. xponent Visual Language Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Brin: Welcome to the Hackocracy

2005-10-08 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=aRdkNvZ9I0U9Fs%2BCKniV3y%3D%3D You know what it is about! G xponent As Seen On Internet Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Return Of The Champions

2005-10-06 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
After work today, I stopped in at Best Buy to buy a trackball to replace a broken one at home. I'd been there for 30 minutes or so when I heard Queen playing over the store PA. I looked up and on the store TV monitors is an ad for the new Queen + Paul Rodgers (Tie Your Mother Down). Huh? I'd

Murder Capital Of the World

2005-10-04 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Chuck was sitting in an airplane when another guy took a seat beside him. The new guy was an absolute wreck... pale, hands shaking, biting his nails and moaning softly in fear. Hey, pal, what's the matter? Check asked. Oh, man... I've been transferred to Detroit, the other guy answered.

Evacuation

2005-09-20 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
The town of Nassau Bay, where I live, has declared a voluntary evacuation. And warn that tomorrow at 6PM they may call for a mandatory evacuation. xponent Way Over 800 Miles Away Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

$500 Million

2005-09-19 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://tinyurl.com/bd2sx xponent Gratitude Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

New trigonometry is a sign of the times

2005-09-18 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://physorg.com/news6555.html Mathematics students have cause to celebrate. A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit. What's more, his simple new

Sick Joke Of the Day

2005-09-15 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Q: What is George W. Bush's position on Roe v. Wade? A: He really doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans xponent Ewww Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Bush on TV tonight

2005-09-15 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
My God! Bush is starting to sound like Bill Clinton! xponent Centrist Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Brin: The Military Coup Of 2012

2005-09-12 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/1992/dunlap.htm Preface: The letter that follows takes us on a darkly imagined excursion into the future. A military coup has taken place in the United States--the year is 2012--and General Thomas E. T. Brutus, Commander-in-Chief of the Unified

California Driving Test

2005-09-12 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
For those of you who are not fortunate enough to live in California, here is a copy of the California Driver's Exam, and for those of you who do, study real hard. This is a new Exam. Since driving conditions (and culture) are unique in California, you may not have realized that the California

Two Moons Passing in the Night

2005-09-11 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050909a.html Taking advantage of extra solar energy collected during the day, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit settled in for an evening of stargazing, photographing the two moons of Mars as they crossed the night sky. It is incredibly cool

Interface

2005-09-10 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/anthropomorphized The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme xponent Ahhh The Hilarity Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

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