From FoxNews in Albany, NY:Strange Sighting over Albany Airport
A STRANGE SIGHT IN THE SKIES OVER THE CAPITAL REGION - NO ONE KNOWS YET WHAT IS WAS - BUT IT WAS ENOUGH TO HAVE THE FBI SCRAMBLING TO TAKE A LOOK.ONE OF OUR VIDEOGRAPHERS WAS SHOOTING A PLANE TAKING OFF FROM THE ALBANY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - AT THE SAME TIME THE STRANGE OBJECT STREAKED THROUGH THE SKY - IT WAS MOVING SO FAST, HE DIDN'T EVEN SEE IT, UNTIL HE PLAYED HIS TAPE IN SLOW MOTION.WE'RE TOLD THE OBJECT DID *NOT SHOW UP ON RADAR. AUTHORITIES WILL CONTINUE TO ANALYZE THE VIDEO TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE FLYING OBJECT IS. WE'LL KEEP YOU POSTEDCheck out the video of the strange object here.They report, you decide. What could it be? To me, it sure looks like a missile.UFO enthusiasts have documented similar sightings and have even given a name to them: Roswell Rods.Other people have docuemnted thier own sightings.This guy has too much time on his hands, he's got a ton of pictures and analysis of a rod appearing in a picture of a base jumper and a rod appearing in a few photos. There's even a 3-D representation of the picture showing the angle of the sun as well as distance calculations used to determine the size of the rod.Others just say they're just bugs.Posted by drake at 05:05 PM | Comments (2)
I'll be the first to say I was rapidly losing confidence in Chief Moose and all agencies involved with the sniper investigation. But, they caught the wackos and now Chief Moose is a hero to some.Check out the "Chief Moose Fan Club" site. Of course, you can buy t-shirts, mugs, bibs, and my favorite Moose Pads at there on-line store.
From the Chicago Tribune (free registration required):Man dies in vent of burrito restaurant
A 50-year-old man who police suspect may have been a would-be burglar was found dead of apparent suffocation early this morning in the roof vent of a South Side restaurant, authorities said.If only the vents were as big as the burritos.
Everyone hates telemarketers dinner time phone calls. Personally, I think it's a sport. I love to answer those phone calls and ask them questions, or put them on hold, or ask them if I can call them back when they're eating dinner. They annoy me, so I'll annoy them right back. It's fun and I don't think anyone gets hurt in the process.Well, I'm blown away with this site: Counter ScriptYou know that the telemarketers use a phone script to guide the conversation so you hang-up quickly or buy something. Well, this site provides a script for you to annoy the caller until they hang-up on you. My favorite response to say to the telemarketer when they become agitated:
Do you have a problem answering questions to a stranger on the telephone about which you don't know the purpose?
This is a hoax. It has to be.http://www.8march2003.comIf I had a nickel for every time I've been tracked down by the "classified central processing agency" I'd be a millionare. Or was that the central classified processing agency? Update: November 2, 2002I found this link from a MetaFilter comment that basically shows that this type of hoax is hardly original.
ePrairie.com's Adam Fendelman writes a new series of opinion articles called My Turn/Your Turn that encourages users to reply with there own opinions on the weekly column. His first article titled "A Brave New Moneyless World" suggests getting rid of money and replacing it with Points for those who do good acts. Read the responses from readers here. I guess you are printed only if you agree with the article.Here's my response, posted to the discussion board:
Mr. Fendelman:The idea of getting rewarded for doing good and reprimanded for doing bad is a naive solution to eliminating evil. People are inherently flawed; we make mistakes and do bad things. The problem with your system is that it does not cure evil, it just praises “good acts” which some would selfishly perform because of the reward involved. I would call these selfish acts evil.Many people perform acts of kindness, do good things, etc. because it makes them a better person and they get some personal satisfaction from it. Some of these people do good things knowing no one else knows, and they don’t want to flaunt these good acts for anyone, including your “Pointpeople”.Your article seems to promote smart-card systems (no physical money) more than it does to promote the idea of Points as ideological replacement to money. Smart-cards and the like will eventually be more popular than physical dollar bills and coins, we can probably agree on that point. There is no need to physically imbed chips into people just because you can.The ideas you bring forward in your article have little to do with technology. It appears you have a solution desperately looking for a problem.Your comparison of this idea taking off with the boom of the Internet is absurd. How can you compare this article’s content with any great idea within the last twenty years?-Don DrakeHere's Adam's response:
Don,You make a good point about *some* people doing good things just for themselves, but I think the truth of the majority of humanity is that people like immediate gratification. So what if we have to get something to do good? Doing good is still doing good, regardless of why it was done.This isn't intended to be a solution that fixes all our flaws; rather, an idea that helps us be less flawed. I don't think we can rely on people to do good without giving an incentive. It's like throwing a product up on a Web site and trusting that people will buy it. Reaction takes action.
Libertarian candidate 'true-blue'
Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Stan Jones has a distinct blue-gray skin color, the result of taking too much of an anti-bacterial form of pure silver.Jones said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999, in preparation for what he feared might be Y2K disruptions that could lead to a shortage of antibiotics.Make sure you click above for the picture.Now someone is using the same silver concoction as a scam to fight the West Nile virus.