Ah....yeah,right.

Missing Bush administration emails (22 million of 'em) found

Some 22 million emails which vanished during the George W. Bush administration were just "apparently mislabeled." Don't expect to eyeball their contents until 2014.

Good for him....

IN NOVEMBER 2002, an obscure Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman caused a sensation in the mathematical community when he posted the first in a series of papers proving the most famous unsolved problem in topology: the Poincaré conjecture. He caused another sensation four years later when he was awarded the Fields medal - the "mathematics Nobel" - for his work, declined to accept it, and then left mathematics altogether. When last heard of, he was living a reclusive existence at his mother's home in St Petersburg

Poisoned Halloween candy is a myth


 Professor Joel Best  the researcher who combed reports of Halloween mischief going back to the 1950s and he has found not one case of poisoned candy or a razor in an apple handed out by strangers to unsuspecting children. But we are all so sure it happened one time somewhere to a friend of a friend of a friend we know.

BATTLE ARMOR..

A powered exoskeleton is a powered mobile machine consisting primarily of an exoskeleton-like framework worn by a person and a power supply that supplies at least part of the activation-energy for limb movement.

Powered exoskeletons are designed to assist and protect the wearer. They may be designed, for example, to assist and protect soldiers and construction workers, or to aid the survival of people in other dangerous environments. A wide medical market exists in the future as prosthetics to provide mobility assistance for aged and infirm people. Other possibilities include rescue work, such as in collapsed buildings, in which the device might allow a rescue worker to lift heavy debris, while simultaneously protecting him from falling rubble

yikes

Ricin- made from castor oil seeds. Considered to be one of the highest biological warfare weapons available today. Has an enormous effect due to its ease of dilution into water and air streams. Ricin is 500 times more powerful than cyanide and anyone in possession of even minute amounts is considered high alert on the Homeland Security list and usually arrested for Federal Charges.

"Civil" War

In 1862...
* Evacuation system initiated to remove wounded from battlefield. Periodic "breaks" were called to clear the field. Then they resumed fighting like civilized people.

Doing God's work?

Uganda has made homsexual acts between two people punishable by life in prison. Warren won't go so far as to condemn the legislation itself. A request for a broader reaction to the proposed Ugandan antihomosexual laws generated this response: "The fundamental dignity of every person, our right to be free, and the freedom to make moral choices are gifts endowed by God, our creator. However, it is not my personal calling as a pastor in America to comment or interfere in the political process of other nations." On Meet the , he reiterated this neutral stance in a different context: "As a pastor, my job is to encourage, to support. I never take sides."

My wife would not think this is cool...but I do.

hand-crafted in Charkow, Ukraine by artist Bob Basset is up for auction on eBay. Current high bid is GBP 190 (approx. US $372). ("Bob Basset" is the nom-de-art for a group of artists; see update below.) All of Basset's handiwork is quite incredible.

Link to eBay auction, Link to Bob Basset's blog (via Kipling West, thanks Kirsten Anderson!)

You ever get the feeling you're rowing but the boat is drifting backwards?

The median US household income in 2000 was $52,500. In 2008  $50,300.

But it's all waterfront....

The Reverend Billy Graham has stated tha Heaven is 1500 cubic miles.

A sign of the times.

24 yo Woman Broadcasts Her Death Leap
Posted on November 28th, 2009 by Akky Akimoto
Stickam Japan is a personal video streaming service, a Japanese version of US Stickam.com, which is said to be owned by Japanese.Today on Stickam Japan, a girl whose handle is _mextli attempted suicide by jumping off her balcony, the 4th floor of apartment, during her live videostream, some watchers wrote on 2 channel BBS. It seemed to happen around midnight November 28th Japan Time, police officers visit was watched by the program watcher net-users and reported on 2 channel. Those officers read up her farewell note and gave some sentiment in front of the webcam without noticing they were broadcasted, one watcher had recorded and uploaded that part on YouTube

"But, she makes me feel young"

On Sunday, a man named Sal9000 married the love of his life. Her name is Nene Anegasaki, and she lives inside of a Nintendo DS video game called Love Plus. The wedding took place during a Make: Japan meet-up held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In attendance were a live audience, an MC, the bride's virtual video game girlfriend — who made a speech — and a real human priest

"Road" shuns cgi for authenticity

Director Hillcoat shot The Road at 51 real-world locations to give the R-rated film, which opens Wednesday, an extra dose of authenticity.

“For all the spectacle of CGI,” he said, “there’s something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame. It’s enjoyable for that fantasy aspect, but the book felt so much more real.”
Hillcoat and his team spent several months in preproduction matching scenes from the book to locations in states including Pennsylvania, Oregon and Louisiana.
“We referenced all these man-made and natural disasters, then went all around looking for that stuff — it’s all out there,” Hillcoat said.

Really?

Man, I am a fan of strange cinema. I loved Eraserhead and the Audition. But this. A mad sciencetist (is there any other kind?) Well I let you read the synopsis.

Two pretty American girls are on a road trip through Europe. In Germany they end up alone at night with a broken car in the woods. They search for help and find an isolated villa. The next day they awake to find themselves trapped in his terrifying makeshift basement hospital along with a Japanese man. An older German man identifies himself as a retired surgeon specialized in separating Siamese twins. However his three "patients" are not about to be separated, but joined together in a horrific operation. He plans to be the first person to connect people via their gastric system, in doing so bringing to life his sick lifetime fantasy "the human centipede".
Check out the stills. If you are feeling brave...

I don't need it. But I want it.

USB alien with illuminated tongue
This scary realistic alien toy modeled after the Alien movie series will sporadically stick its glowing red tongue out at you if you plug it into your computer via its USB cable

Kraft Craft

"The Stygian emptiness is without form. The void between the spheres was a stellar desert, sparsely dotted with small oases consisting of frozen chunks of dust and ice. Through it was moving something of determination , a vehicle of purpose and will.
It was moving at just below the speed of light. At such velocity , it was not viewable.
Traveling as such, it was more an experiment in physics than a spacecraft. It was the pinnacle of man's technological achievement . A chalice in which the sum of his knowledge starting with the first crude chiseled hand tool to the windswept dunes of Kitty Hawk, from the first rough loomed sail to fill with a virgin breeze, to the first man to hurtle heavenward on a pillar of flame."

A "good" Patient

In 1822 a French trapper named Alexis St. Martin was wounded in the abdomen by a musket blast. The resulting injury healed but left a fistula in the digestive tract that was open , a Doctor named Beaumont was intrigued by "almost being able to see the process of digestion" that he tied various foodstuffs such as roasted and raw meat to a piece of string and lowered it into the stomach and observed and noted the process of digestion.
                                                          Think of that.......

but, they tracked me down in Sasebo Japan for the $3015.00 in student loans

In 2005 the CPA audit of Iraqi oil revenue could not account for $ 8,800,000,000 .
                                                          Think of that.....

what could happen? They have a whole team of engineers on it....

In 1999. The Mars climate orbiter, a one hundred and twenty five million spacecraft was lost because of a mismatch between meters and feet. Lockheed Martin who designed and operated the craft for Nasa operates in english units. Nasa since the 1990s uses meters. After a 286 day flight the spacecraft  fired it's engine late and caused the craft to plunge deeper into the planet's atmosphere then designed to operate.
 It caused the orbiter to plow through the atmosphere and back into space. Where Nasa believes it "could"  now be orbiting the sun.
                                                              Think of that.........

better living through chemistry

A closed study in which twenty severe ptsd patients were given ecstasy(mdma) was done. The results were then observed and recorded. Out of all twenty patients. Twenty reported improvement in symptoms.

                                                         Think of that.......