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2002-11-18
Don't listen
##################### MORE BOGANDOV'S... HOAX HOAXED? ##################
Slashdot picks up that the NYtimes picked up on the Bogandov Bros and their
science:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?J2D312662
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/arts/09PHYS.html
This sheds some light on what it can take to make a theory respectable:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-11/uot-orw111102.php
Arkadiusz Jadczyk tries to tease out some of the details:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/bogdanovs.htm
In particular in the following pages:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/bogdanov2.htm
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/bog-werk.htm
While incunabula
http://www.incunabula.org/blog/
Highlights a parody of the cassiopaea site
http://www.paymenow.net/
Looking at their site stats, i came across the searchengine referrers...
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=leitrim+aliens
Something strange IS going on. Maybe like in Kent...
Peculiar idea of "facts", footage from police helicopter is... nebulous!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/fun_stuff/weird/ufo.shtml
##################### GOD ###############################################
http://www.godmagazine.org/
##################### POOH PRIMES #######################################
A bear that "voids" primes:
http://members.surfeu.fi/kklaine/primebear.html
##################### YOU READ GOOD #####################################
one page at a time, sweet Jesus, that's all I'm asking of you...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/08/1346230&mode=nested&tid=162
"Two years ago I started building an online proofreading system as a
way to help Project Gutenberg (PG) get more books online: Distributed
Proofreaders (DP). The concept is simple, we scan books and load the
image and OCR output for each page into the online system. Next,
proofreaders compare the OCR text to the image making any corrections
as necessary, each page gets looked at twice. Finally the output from
the site is massaged into a PG e-text and submitted to PG for posting
to the archive. Now, nearly 600 books and a lot of PHP code later, we
have snuggled into our new home which is graciously provided by the
Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg. Now that we have 'real'
resources available to us (the original site ran on a Pentium 200 over
my 128kbps upstream cablemodem) I would like to invite the online
community at large to help us put even more books online. To this end I
would like to ask everyone to do 'Just One Page a Day'. Thank you,
Charles Franks"
http://texts01.archive.org/dp
http://www.archive.org/
http://www.gutenberg.net/
##################### BLOGGING ##########################################
This didn't work well for me, but the idea is good. The Waypath project:
The Waypath Project is an attempt to network the weblog community,
connecting weblogs that share common themes, ideas, and topics.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/09/1347239&mode=nested&tid=149
http://www.waypath.com/
Also highlighted in a comment on /. was this:
http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/
##################### DO YOU BELIEVE ME? ################################
Interesting idea on Slashdot, that people judge the credibility of websites
more on the basis of style than content. links are in the story below:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/08/1955208&mode=nested&tid=95
##################### BAD ROBOT! ########################################
Guy dies in robot assisted surgery... "Greenway's aorta and another blood
vessel supplying the kidney were accidentally cut. No one noticed for
about 90 minutes"
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/10/30/TampaBay/Patient_dies_in_robot.shtml
##################### WISH YOU WERE HERE (?) ############################
"POW" pics:
http://artbell.com/letters88.html
Inverted commas, because i seem to remember it being mentioned that these
guys could not legally be held as POW's. And a report on them at yahoo.
They appear to be genuine, but unauthorised, photos:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q53F62462
##################### JUST GOOD #########################################
Guru's Guide to Mathematical Physics
Some lecture notes and the like. PDF format, haven't reviewed for quality
yet, but seems of interest (to me at least!).
http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/courses/guru/
##################### NOW DO YOU BELIEVE ME? ############################
How to spot lies:
http://www.zmag.org/instructionals/logstats/logstats1.htm
Could also be read as a manual on how to tell lies and misrepresent facts!
##################### THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN' #####################
pole shift
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/10/0539200
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,837058,00.html
##################### YOU CAN SEE FOR MILES FROM HERE ###################
Altavista rejigged, and slimmed down... even a bit google-like
http://www.altavista.com/
Reported on by Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/28043.html
##################### PRETTY ############################################
Miss World contestants defy calls for a boycott of this years contest to be
held in Nigeria, a country where women have been sentenced to death by
stoning for committing adultery. Federal government says it will not allow
the stonings to take place.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/13Nov2002_news33.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2447983.stm
According to Ananova, Amina Lawal (who has been sentenced to stoning)
called on contestants NOT to boycott the event:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_708160.html
##################### FREE COMPUTERS, FOR YOU ###########################
testdrive program
http://testdrive.hp.com/
##################### *NEVER* GROW BACK #################################
Putin sick and tired of Chechnya, thanks to NMcM for this one!
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/13/1037080785200.html
...at a news conference after a summit with European Union leaders in
Brussels, ... a reporter for Le Monde asked whether the Russian
military's use of land mines in Chechnya was killing innocent
civilians...
Bristling, Mr Putin replied that Islamic radicals wanted to wrest
Chechnya from Russia as part of a worldwide plan to kill Americans and
their allies. "If you are a Christian, you are in danger," Mr Putin
said. "If you decide to become a Muslim, this won't save you either,
because they think that traditional Islam is also hostile to their
goals."
Then he said this: "If you are determined to become a complete Islamic
radical and are ready to undergo circumcision, then I invite you to
Moscow. We are multi-confessional. We have experts in this sphere as
well. I will recommend to conduct the operation so that nothing on you
will grow again."
In the long silence that followed, even translators were at a loss for
words. The last crucial sentence of his remarks was never rendered
outside the original Russian for the diplomats and journalists in
attendance. Notably, it did not appear yesterday on the Kremlin's
official website, which carried an otherwise complete text of the news
conference.
Kremlin aides later explained that Mr Putin was both exhausted and, as
one put it, "sick and tired of Chechnya".
More links on the story, courtesy of Google news:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?P49222B72 (NYTimes)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/13/1037080790493.html
http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-11-13-0088.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95283_russia13.shtml
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2A213B72 (GlobeAndMail)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,838729,00.html
Interesting also to read the various reports and see just how much is no
more than rehashed news wire material.
##################### KITE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY ###########################
Link via slashdot and robotwisdom...
http://www.dolphinazur.nl/kapnet/links/index.html
##################### PANOPTICON ########################################
New types of observation and recording that will be introduced by the
Homeland Security Act in the USA. Refers to John Poindexter as one of the
architects of the law. He was heavily into the Iran Contra affair, and was
convicted in 1990 of five felony counts of misleading congress, but bounced
back after it turned out he had immunity.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G18F21172 (NYTimes)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28107.html
##################### ARGENTINA #########################################
Couple of links at Bruce Sterlings web log:
http://infinitematrix.net/columns/sterling/sterling54.html
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