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News Briefs 29-03-2005

Greg says he’ll be back Wednesday, and will be posting Friday’s news for Bill, who’s still hitchhiking around the galaxy. Cernig’s been typing his fingerprints off over at his Newshog blog, but as usual, will have news for TDG on Thursday. It’s only a guess, but it seems likely our reliable terra incognita, Jameske, will bring us the news on Wednesday. Rico says he’s feeling a bit under the weather, so lets’ hope he’s better by Monday. And, after two news posts back to back, yours truly is now dreaming of dreaming.

  • Ancient Metal Works Sites and Mines Discovered North of Jiroft, Iran.
  • Landowner blocks hunt for ‘Templar treasures‘ which may lie in a maze of tunnels under Hertford.
  • Debate about who killed Admiral Horatio Nelson is about to be revived with the first publication of the lost final novel of Alexandre Dumas.
  • 2000 scientists from 95 countries have assessed health of global environment, and say outlook is troubling.
  • BBC’s Brian Walden considers the gap between science and religion – and what this might mean for the future of humankind.
  • Is the universe friendly?
  • Do You Know Where You Are? Body and Self Are Not the Same.
  • Space station crew complete swift spacewalk.
  • Astronomers spot the faintest galaxy ever seen — orbiting the Milky Way.
  • Dying Stars May Bring Life to Frozen Worlds.
  • MIT’s Centre for Bits and Atoms, has built version 1.0 of the personal fabricator, and it is already being deployed around the world.
  • ‘Invisible’ influences reveal unconscious pathways used in visual perception.
  • The Star-Trek Generation: Why Top Techies Are Taking to the Skies.
  • Brazil opens microbe bank for bio-prospectors.
  • The Green Goat, the world’s biggest hybrid, is a 2,000-horsepower locomotive that radically reduces fuel consumption and emissions of pollutants.
  • Inventor cooks up environmentally-friendly and profitable method for recycling used tires into oil and carbon.
  • Revolutionary treatment heals burns in three weeks with no scarring, no skin grafts.
  • Pentagon invests in battlefield surgeon robots: unmanned ‘trauma pods’ to operate on and evacuate wounded under enemy fire.
  • US Admits Exporting Illegal Genetically Modified Corn, but refuses to say which countries may have imported the illegal seeds as food or for planting.
  • U.S. ambassador compromised America’s hunt for Osama bin Laden in Pakistan for more than two years.
  • As scientists predicted, 8.7 magnitude quake hits Sumatran fault again.
  • Man grows penis on his arm.
  • NZ Raelian Movement Issues Detailed Press Release About Upcoming Crop Circle Lecture.
  • Japanese WWII plague sub, which was to attack the US with biological warfare, found sunk off coast of Hawaii.
  • A magazine has offered a $983,000 reward to anyone who can produce proof of a living Tasmanian tiger, a creature long believed to be extinct.
  • Residents of a few towns on the Caspian shores in Iran and Azerbaijan say that they saw an amphibious man, swimming amidst huge shoals of fish.
  • After his secretary conveyed psychic Jeane Dixon’s prophecies about terrorism in daily briefings, President Nixon ordered Henry Kissinger and others to prepare for attacks.
  • The mystery of the Loch Ness monster is Britain’s favourite quest, outdoing even the search for the Grail or Atlantis.
  • Detailed Ghost Report on Houghton Manor in Massachusetts, now a Masonic Lodge, includes numerous photo irregularities and EVPs.
  • The Phoenix Lights: What was it Arizonans saw eight years ago? Flares? An airplane formation? Top-secret military craft? UFOs?
  • A mean witch, hungry for onions and thirsting for blood is rumoured to be prowling the streets of Delhi, causing a scare among the populace.
  • Bizarre explanation for one of Hawaii’s most horrible murders: Micah White, who stabbed and burned his mother and aunt, told psychiatrists that he thought they were vampires.
  • Teenagers who have a television in their bedroom are more likely to take drugs, binge drink, smoke cigarettes and have sex.

A big thanks to Cernig

Quote of the Day:

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

George Orwell, in The Lion and the Unicorn

  1. Poor old Bill
    Hi Kat,

    Great stuff…thanks!

    I wonder if “Cernig” can explain anything about the ghosthunting in San Antonio.

    Doesn’t genetically modified corn give you the gyp without it being illegal GMC.
    I guess we will reap the benefits or not of this in a few years.

    I have a television in my room, does that mean I will take drugs, binge drink, smoke cigarettes and have sex, or is it only teenagers.
    Wish I was a teenager again.

    You know I am going to comment on the man growing a penis on his arm.
    Wasn’t it Spike Milligan who said a man’s penis should be one of his fingers and the woman’s opposite part should be on her shoulder.
    You put these things here Chickipoo, and I feel obliged to comment on them.
    But I wish I’d waited to see if anyone else commented on your “what’s a virgin?” question last week before I put my tuppence worth in.

    You are doing an excellent job so have a lovely sleep which you deserve.

    love shadows

        1. LOL well that explains what w
          LOL well that explains what was going on when I was sigle. I lived in one room of my house and had the computer, stereo and TV all around me. Silly me I thought the proffesors name was Gary Cooper. I was laughing then I realised my mistake and laughed at myself for being silly. By the way, I liked the news today. Some interesting articles. That Green Goat Loco seems interesting. I would like to see them develop engines with more capacity though.
          Hey on a side note. She Who Must be Obeyed and I are still trying to think of a name for our baby (Should be a boy) Any suggestions?

          1. EM did you have your baby boy yet?
            Hi EM, I have been thinking about a blog you had written to shadows or Kat about your baby…..So time has gone on now, did you have a baby yet and if you did was it a good delivery? I hope all is going for you well. I had a baby boy….he is 20 years old now….
            XC

            Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
            Circular Times
            Moving Forward Publications

          2. Not yet but any time now. Jud
            Not yet but any time now. Judging by the ultrasounds it should be a boy. Only problem is that we do not have a name yet. Thanks for the kind thoughts. When the little bugger is here I will let everyone know lol

          3. should be a boy!
            You’re going to have a job explaining away the big umbilical cord if it is a girl EM.

            I would never offer a name for anyone’s baby.All the suggestions I ever made to anyone were greeted with hoots of laughter.
            Your wife would never talk to you again and you wouldn’t talk to me, so I am staying out of this one.

            But you know you are in my heart and I will be sending all my best wishes your way.

            shadows

          4. News
            I’m glad you liked the news today.

            Actually, I thought yesterday’s news was gangbusters. I hope at least a few people get around to reading it too.

            Where Angels Fear to Tread — I don’t mind going out on a limb regarding a name for that boy child. How about Mercury? It would be perfect for a journalist, and it hasn’t been taken by any rock musicians either (that I know of).

            Kat

    1. HeyHeyHey…
      Theres a Parrott story in here too! (Well, ok, it was about the “personal fabricator”–but hey, just in time for the parrott owner going blind. Teach them corby buggers to read the net copy for you. Put them filthy sqaukin’ pieces of nonsense to work for their seed.)

      “These outsiders have designed a web browser for parrots, an alarm clock…”

      AAAWWWWKKKKK

      1. I didn’t see a parrot story
        The parrot owner is not going blind, she is waiting for surgery, you drongo.
        (Drongos are birds, rather nice birds, so don’t start getting insulted).

        shadow

      2. God that was funny …all you guys/gals
        Those are some pretty good blogs…in fact this whole column is rather quite hysterical. Good to see everyone with their heads up! Thanks for all of the laughs, I hadn’t had a chance to read the news….so what is this with the 2-6 ?

        I have a friend whom when we were sleeping togwther said he would never have sex with me because the last time he made love to a some one she became a qudropalegic….I said, ” Man, I don’t want to hear about that now, just stick it in….” I about coughed my guts out and felt like I was impailed….I hurt really bad and I did not know if it was me or him, so I asked him he he ever measured himself….he was real shy and would not answer…I said I needed to know, because I was very tender and maybe something was wrong with me or maybe he was too long and poked me….he then said he was a niner…..I thought about that quadropalegic woman….I kept my mouth shut….true story, no jive.
        XC

        Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
        Circular Times
        Moving Forward Publications

          1. Oh Shoot,
            You are right Shadows….ANKH…where are you????? I lied, I lied, I lied…..

            yeah a quadraplegic, (glad you spelled that for me properly!) he never said what from, just that after he made love to her…so…heck…after my experience I can only imagine….

            ANKH…if you dare….I will….I will…..I don’t know yet, I will have to wait and see what you say….Shadows, did you bait him just now? Or did I screw up?
            XC

            Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
            Circular Times
            Moving Forward Publications

          2. Oh Shoot,
            You are right Shadows….ANKH…where are you????? I lied, I lied, I lied…..

            yeah a quadraplegic, (glad you spelled that for me properly!) he never said what from, just that after he made love to her…so…heck…after my experience I can only imagine….

            ANKH…if you dare….I will….I will…..I don’t know yet, I will have to wait and see what you say….Shadows, did you bait him just now? Or did I screw up?
            XC

            Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
            Circular Times
            Moving Forward Publications

          3. Oh Shoot,
            You are right Shadows….ANKH…where are you????? I lied, I lied, I lied…..

            yeah a quadraplegic, (glad you spelled that for me properly!) he never said what from, just that after he made love to her…so…heck…after my experience I can only imagine….

            ANKH…if you dare….I will….I will…..I don’t know yet, I will have to wait and see what you say….Shadows, did you bait him just now? Or did I screw up?
            XC

            Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
            Circular Times
            Moving Forward Publications

          4. Oh Shoot,
            You are right Shadows….ANKH…where are you????? I lied, I lied, I lied…..

            yeah a quadraplegic, (glad you spelled that for me properly!) he never said what from, just that after he made love to her…so…heck…after my experience I can only imagine….

            ANKH…if you dare….I will….I will…..I don’t know yet, I will have to wait and see what you say….Shadows, did you bait him just now? Or did I screw up?
            XC

            Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
            Circular Times
            Moving Forward Publications

          5. Sorry, the page went blank….
            Sorry about that, the page went blank and I hit enter a few times because it had stalled and I did not know what was happening…sorry, only one shoul be up…can I pull the others off?

            Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
            Circular Times
            Moving Forward Publications

          6. Stop…..
            while you’re ahead for God’s sake Colette.

            You make me laugh so hard one day I will fall off my chair.

            I do things like that, muck up blogs and such.Don’t worry about it, Greg will fix it I am sure.

            NOw behave yourself.;-)

            shadows

          7. Sassy
            I was trying to be good for too long and I can’t help myself tonight…..I was only going to write proper anymore, that was my stupid Easter bull on morphine and everclear, thinking I had to be pure and goooood…but that is no fun…I will leave that for my colleaugues…screw it, where is the RUM? Give me 6 inches any day and I will check it with my ruler.
            (just to make sure.)
            XC

            Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
            Circular Times
            Moving Forward Publications

    1. Blog Plug
      Hi Kat,

      Thanks for remembering me though…and gicing Newshog a name-drop. For those who don’t want their politics on TDG or want some more reality-based dialogue than Oscar’s political flights of fancy, it may be just what they are looking for. We have a crew of four – three lefties who live in red states and a rightie who lives in a blue state.

      Regards, Cernig

      1. is that what they are…
        flights of fancy?

        Could’ve fooled me.
        I thought they were the delusional ravings of a recently released psychopathic moron.

        But heck, what would I know!

        shadows

    2. News Intro
      >>In your intro, you forgot to mention me. I am most upset. 🙁
      I’m going abck to bed now, i am very very sick (seriousl;y ) ..

      Awwwwwwwwwwwww, pooooooooooooooooooooor puddy tat. He needs somebody to rub his tummy and tickle his whiskers.

      I didn’t forget to mention you in my intro — I was just concentrating on this week. But since I do want you to feel better, you’re now included. Hope you’re better soon.

      Kat

        1. wouldn’t it be lovely if……………….
          I am beginning to suspect something here.
          Does anyone else have the same suspicions as I do?
          Ah romance………….
          wouldn’t it be loverley……..

  2. Ghost Photo’s
    I like the photo of the ghost in middle of the five chairs. A girl possibly, wearing a knee high dress, with her arms by her side. It does look uncanny.

    The penis arm thing, well where do I go with this? I wonder how long it took to go from 2 inches to 6? Penis envy no longer, just pop it on ya arm and voila. We’ll be seeing the infomercial next i’m sure. They’ll be tackin it on to the end of the Advanced hair ads.

    I also liked the surgeon bot piece, clever idea huh. Maybe they will fit them with a rocket launcher or two just for some extra fun on the battlefield.

    Great News Kat
    H

    Great News
    H.

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