Spooks And Spooks

I’m in Durham this evening on my way to a last-minute talk given at the Rhine Research Center by the guy who ran the CIA’s remote viewing program. This is the program which attempted (with mixed results) to use psychics to locate military booty.

I don’t have an opinion on the program, one way or another, but since it touches on spook stuff (both in the military as well as the psychic use of the word), naturally I’m interested. I probably wouldn’t have made the trek out here, though, if it wasn’t for that unusual experience I had in Asheville a few weeks back. I’d like to find out more about what that was.

I’ve long been interested in the Rhine Institute, it being “ground zero” for serious scientific study of as-yet-unexplained phenomena. I get spammed by their mailing list about once a week, so I figure it’s “put up or shut up” time for them, too!

I’ll write a report after the talk ends tonight.

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Rulez Is Bubb Rubb


Once again, my brother Jeff alerts me to the latest Internet celebrity, Bubb Rubb.

You’ve got to check out the original news video which started it all.

Bubb Rubb is da bomb. Google for more.

(Weird as they are, these things are a welcome respite from the usual stream of depressing news.)

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Sprint Owes Me

Last week I was on the road in Atlanta and needed to surf the web. The chief propellerhead happened to be there and apparently liked what he saw, because when I got back to the office I got hounded by coworkers asking me how I did it. After I demo’d how a simple cable turned my PCS phone into a modem, at least four coworkers (10% of the company) purchased the cable to do the same. Those who didn’t use Sprint were grumbling about being stuck in their current contract.

I didn’t know I was such a trendsetter. (Thanks, Jeff!)

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Orrin Hatch: A Terrorist?

Proving once again how it doesn’t take a brain to be a United States Senator, Orrin Hatch told a hearing on copyright issues how he favors destroying the computers of filetraders.


“I’m interested,” Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone’s computer “may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights.”

The senator acknowledged Congress would have to enact an exemption for copyright owners from liability for damaging computers. He endorsed technology that would twice warn a computer user about illegal online behavior, “then destroy their computer.”

Some clue is desperately needed in Washington, or the terrorists have already won.

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