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Thursday, September 14, 2006
Important Stuff.

Nuclear Powered Aircraft

I found myself driving across the desert in southeastern Idaho Last week. I was headed to climb Borah Peak, the highest point in Idaho. This all started two years ago, when Kenny and I took off to climb Mount Rainier. It had just snowed a lot, and we didn't make it to the top. Neither did anybody else on that day.

      http://xpda.com/rainier/rainier04.htm

To rectify this failure, Michael, Elizabeth, Paul, Graham, and I headed to Mount Rainier last month. Kenny was ailing, or I could have used him for a Sherpa.

Mount Rainier has a lot of glaciers. It doesn't have many roads. In fact, to climb to the top of the 14,411-foot mountain, you have to start climbing at about 5,400 feet. The most common way to get to the top is to carry an unreasonably heavy pack up 4,500 feet, sleep, eat, drink, and rest a while, then stagger up another 4,500 feet to the top of the mountain. (The drinking part is kind of a problem, because you have to melt snow to get water.) A good portion of the bottom half of the hike is done on snow, and almost all the second half is on glacier.

The glacier travel doesn't sound too bad until you consider the fact that those poor people I was with had to spend hours roped up to me on a mountain. They showed extreme tolerance, patience, and restraint, and did not overtly try to kill me.

This time, we managed to make it to the top. Here's the spectacular view from the summit:

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When I got to the top, I warmed my feet up on a steam vent. Light weight hiking boots weren't the warmest for glacier travel, but they were light. Some of the views were spectacular:

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More pictures from the climb:

      http://xpda.com/rainier/rainier06/

Here are some aerial photos taken a few days before:

      http://xpda.com/rainier/rainierbyair06/

Here are some aerial photos taken two years before:

      http://xpda.com/rainier/rainierbyair04.htm

Mount Rainier is the highest point in Washington. After climbing Rainier, I had only 4 more "high points" in the lower 48 states to go:  Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Utah.

      http://rwebster.com/highpoint.htm

So I decided to head to the hardest of the four, Wyoming, before I got too old. I hiked a round trip of over 45 miles.

Here's the camping spot:

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Unfortunately, or maybe very fortunately, I chickened out when I was almost at the summit. The reason?  Dark clouds were coming in, the snow was getting soft, the rocks were steep, I was tired, there was no other person for miles around, I wasn't completely sure about the route, there may have been solar flares, and I was worried about the baggage retrieval system at Heathrow.

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But it was a pretty walk in the country.

      http://xpda.com/junkmail/junk183/P1100589.JPG

Here are a bunch of pictures from the hike:

      http://xpda.com/gannett

After failing to get to the top of Gannett Peak, I decided I'd try a mountain that didn't require backpacking. That left me with Borah Peak, because Montana (Granite Peak) and Utah (King's Mountain) are both backpacking trips, at least for me.

This is how I found myself driving across southeast Idaho. Eventually I found Borah Peak. I made it to the top!

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In 1983 there was a 7.3 earthquake near Borah Peak, raising the elevation of the mountain seven feet. This made it much harder to climb.

Here are a bunch of pictures from Borah Peak:

      http://xpda.com/borah

Anyway, as I was driving across southeast Idaho, I noticed a town. The only roads into this town were blocked by guards. In fact, a guard in an SUV came out to meet me once when I was approaching a deserted gate. They do a lot of nuclear research there, at the Idaho National Laboratory. Over 50 nuclear reactors have been built in that area since 1949 -- more than anywhere else in the world. You can find the world's first nuclear power plant there, too.

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We may not see these fly for a while, but there was a lot of research done one the development of a nuclear powered jet plane in the 1950s. Here are a couple of the reactors, or what's left of them, used in that development.

      img_0187.jpg

The Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion project went on for quite a few years, but never proved practical. There were weight and safety issues, although they did sucessfully make nuclear powered jet engines.

      http://www.megazone.org/ANP/tech.shtml

      http://www.megazone.org/ANP/atomair.shtml

Here are some photos:

      http://xpda.com/atomic


Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt is the CEO of Google. His home page is rather sparse...

      http://www.ericschmidt.com/

One notable feature is that he uses Yahoo mail instead of Gmail. I bet that web site changes soon.


National Security Surveillance Act

It looks like Congress is going to explicitly allow more government spying on U.S. citizens.

      http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6115782.html


Emergency Fish Fry

Vermillion County, Indiana got in trouble with the feds for using their Homeland Security Sign to advertise a community fish fry. Finally someone does something practical, and they get in trouble for it!

      http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2245539

I was driving in Baltimore the other day, and the highway signs were displaying a message to call an 800 number to report suspicious activity. I started to call and tell them I saw a lady who might be cheating on her husband, but I was afraid I'd end up in jail for having impure thoughts.


Paranoia?

A guy on Slashdot asked about all the spying going in. What does he expect? He buys peaches, after all!

http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/06/07/29/0223253.shtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/23/AR2006062300167.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5399264


Honey Pots

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took a computer and used it to collect trojans and viruses? You could get rid of your firewall and anti-virus, click on all those weird email attachments, and even go to a questionable web site like http://xpda.com !

This is actually quite common. People do this to learn the behavior of trojans, zombies, and emailers. In fact, the government could do this and shut down a large percentage of the spammers in short order. But I guess they're busy protecting me from terrorists and stem cell research.

Here's a good article on the care and feeding of your honey pot machine. I may have to try it!

http://www.whitedust.net/article/65/Fun_Things_To_Do_With_Your_Honeypot/

Speaking of trojans, here's a good article about the Mocbot:

      http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2004893,00.asp


Security Videos Illegal?

A guy in New Hampshire named Mike was not pleased when a policeman came to his house looking for Mike's son in connection with a mugging. According to Mike, the officer was rude and wouldn't leave when asked. I'm not sure who was right and wrong at this point. Later, Mike took a home security video to the police station and complained about the behavior of the officer. Mike was arrested for illegal video taping.

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060629/NEWS01/106290121

They dropped the charges later, but there is a law in some states making it illegal to video someone without notification. That includes home security cameras.

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060805/NEWS01/108050086


Headline:  Bush Urges Lasting Peace

For some reason, that struck me as really funny.


Iranian Visas

About 50 or 100 Iranian professionals attending a reunion of Iranian university's international alumni association were issued visas, allowed to fly to the U.S., then sent back when they arrived. Some people were happy to kick them out, some said it was an outrage, and some said they shouldn't be issued U.S. visas if they're not going to be allowed into the U.S. It all seems a little strange to me.

      http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1233891.php

      http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15201375.htm

      http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4433302


SCO

SCO used to be a software company in the Unix business. Their stock used to be priced at over $100 per share. Then SCO's software business declined, so SCO got into the business of suing people, among them IBM. I was happy to learn that SCO is not very successful in the suing business.

After some initial victories, it has turned out that SCO didn't have much of a case against anybody. Their stock is now priced at a little over $2 per share.

      http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/52225.html


Passport Copying

The RFIDs on passports are not quite the security boost people have claimed. Here's how easy it is to copy one:

      http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/04/cloning_epassports/


Mountains

It Mount Hood National Forest near Portland, OR, a guy named Jerry was camping. He went to use the restroom. Except he apparently went to use a tree instead of the restroom. He fell into a creekbed. Most people would laugh it off, but Jerry has injuries and mental anguish and is suing the federal government. I think the mental anguish comes from the embarrassment of being too stupid to go by himself.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/11546547725210.xml&coll=7

I guess Jerry thinks we should fence off all mountains, canyons, and lakes. It might be a tough job at places like this:

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I suppose the government will have to put up signs that say, "If you are really, really stupid, then don't go to the bathroom here."


Photo Fraud

The AP and other press has been using faked photos in Lebanon. This really irritates me, because the news ends up slanted just because they are too lazy to do the job right. In this case, they carried a dead girl all over town and posed her body for numerous "heart-breaking" photographs.

      http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/milking-it.html

It makes me wonder what else is faked.


Ship Contrails

Airplane contrails form when hot engine exhaust and cold air combine to form a small cloud behind the plane. Or they are an evil government plot called chemtrails, if you are prone to believing fairy tales (such as "It's my job to protect you.") Ships can also have contrails. I didn't realize that. Here's a satellite photo and explanation.

      http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=9271

Here's an interesting illustration of how aerosols (smoke, in this case) can affect clouds.

      http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17335


RIAA Wants You -- Dead or Alive

The Recording Industry (RIAA) sued a guy named Larry for copying music. But Larry was highly uncooperative. He died. Before the RIAA got their money. The RIAA was very nice and told his kids they'd give them 60 days to grieve before continuing with the lawsuit. I think that was mighty nice of them. That is one sensitive bunch of people.

"Plaintiffs do not believe it appropriate to discuss a resolution of the case with the family so close to Mr. Scantlebury's passing. Plaintiffs therefore request a stay of 60 days to allow the family additional time to grieve."

      http://p2pnet.net/story/9566

After this story made the rounds on the internet, the RIAA dropped the lawsuit against Larry's kids.


Comverse Technology

Comverse Technology is "the world's leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based multimedia enhanced communications services." One of their subsidiaries advertises being "a leading provider of analytic solutions for communications interception, digital video security and surveillance, and enterprise business intelligence."

Former Comverse boss Kobi Alexander exercised options and sold stocks worth around $150 million, making $138 million profit from 1991 to 2005. Now he's wanted by the FBI, SEC, and possibly the RIAA and MPAA. Kobi been charged with backdating stock options (i.e., fraud), and seems to have left the country with about $57 million. Oops.

Kobi is 5'8" with green eyes, in case you see him in Walmart.


GA Sales

General Aviation aircraft (private plane) sales are up 19% this year. Business jets are up 28%. Hassles of flying on airliners are up a lot more than that.


Iraq

What's going on in Iraq, anyway? Here are some facts. Feel free to skip this section -- It will not be covered on the exam. I just need to vent a little.

1. A gallon of gasoline now sells on the black market in Baghdad for about $4.92, although the official price is 64 cents a gallon. Lines of cars at many Baghdad fuel stations stretch for several miles, and drivers sometime wait overnight to fill up their cars. I thought this was pretty ironic -- Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld were claiming in 2003 that Iraqi oil would pay for the reconstruction and what little occupation would be necessary.

2. More than half the people in the U.S. believe that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. The people who write these articles in the press are ironically confused. Most major press organizations reported in blazing headlines the finding of stockpiles of chemical weapons in Iraq. A day or two later, they would mention in the background that, no, it was nothing. News organizations from NPR to Fox were guilty of this, and now they wonder how people have gotten the wrong idea.

3. 1,666 roadside bombs exploded in July. 959 more were discovered before they could detonate. 70% of them were directed at US forces. This was an increase of 81% over June.

4. More than 2,600 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq. Almost 20,000 have been wounded, over 9,000 of them seriously (http://icasualties.org/oif). Between 15 and 20 continue to be killed each week.

5. Today's news: 65 bodies were found around Baghdad, tortured and shot. They typically used power drills to torture the victims before shooting them.

6. In July, 3500 Iraqis were killed in sectarian or political violence, the most since the war started in March 2003. I'm not sure about August.

7. President Bush insists that Iraq is better off today than before the war.

8. The U.S. Senate says Iraq was never seriously involved with Al Queda. Iraq had no "weapons of mass destruction," contrary to the declared reasons for the war. Democrats and Republicans voted overwhelmingly in favor of war with Iraq. The press was behind the war almost 100%. The Attorney General said you were a traitor if you were not in favor of the U.S. policy.

Today? They all act as if nothing was wrong. Rumsfeld is sending more troops into Iraq, and has raised the call-up age to 42. Bush says he is protecting me. He must think I am really stupid.

As I may have mentioned a time or two, I think the war in Iraq was unnecessary. I thought so before, during, and after the invasion. I think the war in Afghanistan was necessary. Unfortunately, 338 U.S. soldiers have died in Afghanistan. But that is a lot less than the 2,672 who have died in Iraq.

What's the solution? I don't have a good one. The word "quagmire" comes to mind. What ever happened to "shock and awe"?

I should add here that I support the U.S. military. Their job is to take orders from the civilian commander in chief. The military does not make political decisions, and it is very important that they should not. People in the military carry out their orders whether or not they agree with them. That is VERY important to the stability of the country. When I criticize the war in Iraq, I am not criticizing the U.S. military. They are doing their job and doing it well.


NASA Politics

Former NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science, Wes, said when he testified before Congress that the President's "Vision for Space Exploration" has forced NASA "to cannibalize the agency's science program." Three members of the Science Committee of the NASA Advisory Council, including its chair, are out the door for giving this kind of advice.

When the Vision for Space Exploration was announced a couple of years ago, NASA was assured it would not affect the science research program.

Bush responded, "Science? Who needs science?"


London Bombers

Several people were arrested in London for a plot to blow up 10 to 15 airliners. I think those people deserve to go to jail. But their bombs probably wouldn't do much damage. It's a bit harder to make triacetone triperoxide than pouring two liquids together.

      http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror_labs/

It seems really strange to me that it's illegal to carry a bottle of water onto an airliner, while hundreds of people and tons of contraband illegally enter the U.S. across the Mexican border every month. What happens when they start including a few shoulder-launched missiles with their drug shipments?

One thing that is really stupid is the ban on pilots carrying toothpaste and contact solution into the cockpit. I realize contact solution is an obvious danger to public in general and aviation specifically, but don't those brilliant politicians realize that if a pilot decides to crash the plane, he can do it even without contact solution?

      http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1707769


Smoke Rings on Etna

Mount Etna, Sicily, is blowing smoke rings!

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/696953.stm


Bacteriophages

Bacteriophages are viruses normally used to identify bacteria, because a bacteriophage kills a specific strain of bacteria. Apparently bacteriophages are cheap and reliable enough now to be used in food processing. The FDA has approved a combination of six bacteriophages for a preservative on ready-to-eat turkey and ham. I think that's pretty neat. As long as they don't mutate into herpes or something weird. That might make a good science fiction novel.

      http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/18/edible.virus.ap/index.html


Virtual Case File

How to buy a computer system -- Study what the FBI did, and do something different.

The FBI paid $600 million to Science Applications International Corp (SAIC) and maybe others for the new Virtual Case File. Unfortunately, it doesn't work. They've been working on it for years, and most agents are still using paper.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081701485.html


Fake News

The FCC is looking into fake news stories. Organizations, government and otherwise, make their own news videos that look "real," send them out to TV stations, and the TV stations run the videos as news. Except they're not news. They're one-sided stories.

      http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/08/16/fake-news-probe.html


Illegal Money

It is now illegal to drive with money. At least, you can legally have your money seized by the government if you carry too much cash. A guy named Emiliano happened to have $124,700 in his Ford Taurus in Interstate 80. Emiliano said he was buying a refrigerated truck to start a produce business. The police said he must be transporting drug money. The police took his money, even though there was no evidence of criminal activity.

      http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/12/1296.asp

I can vouch for the rough treatment you get on I-80. Two days ago in Nebraska I was stopped and given a written warning for 81 mph in a 75 mph zone.

Interstate 80 is also the route for much of the Rockies Express, a new 1,663-mile natural gas pipeline going from Colorado and Wyoming to Ohio. I took this picture near I-80 in southern Wyoming:

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Here's the route and some information:

http://xpda.com/junkmail/junk183/rockiesExpress.pdf

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2006/08/08/news/wyoming/1efeb2e0c69d692e872571c100213525.txt

http://www.kindermorgan.com/business/gas_pipelines/rockies_express/


Buying Phone Data

Subpoena? Just buy the data! Police are finding it easier to buy phone information from data brokers than to get a subpoena for it.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14858849.htm


Rocket Rules

The FAA has issued commercial rocket launch rules. It's not clear whether bottles of water and contact solution will be allowed on commercial space flights.

      http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/pdf/06-6743.pdf


Russian Crash

A Tupolev Tu-154 airliner crashed two or three weeks ago. The news reports on the radio, TV, and newspaper said that the plane issued an SOS shortly before it disappeared from radar. That was almost certainly a translation problem. Airplanes haven't used morse code (except for navaid identification) for a lot of years. I was really surprised how pervasive the "SOS" was, when probably they "squawked" an emergency code, declared an emergency on the radio, or activated the emergency locator transmitter.

      http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/08/22/europe/EU_GEN_Russia_Plane.php


Notams

A Notice to Airmen is a warning about airports, navigational aids, towers, airspace restrictions, or other hazards to flying. You are supposed to get these before you fly somewhere. It's common this time of year to see several notams restricting airspace around a forest fire:

FDC 6/7022 ZFW TX.. FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS EAST BRECKENRIDGE, TX.
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. PURSUANT TO 14 CFR
SECTION 91.137(A)(2) TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS ARE IN EFFECT
WITHIN A 5 NAUTICAL MILE RADIUS OF 324302N/0983637W OR THE MILLSAP
/MQP/ VORTAC 260.0 DEGREE RADIAL AT 31.0 NAUTICAL MILES AT AND BE-
LOW 3300 FEET MSL TO PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR FIRE FIGHTING.
TEXAS INTERAGENCY COORDINATION CENTER TELEPHONE 936-875-4786 OR
FREQ 122.575/CADDO COMPLEX FIRE IS IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION. FORT
WORTH /ZFW/ ARTCC TELEPHONE 817-858-7503 IS THE FAA COORDINATION
FACILITY.

They usually tell you why, such as "to provide a safe environment for fire fighting." I thought this one was funny, as it "provides a safe environment for volcanic activity." I never would have guessed that the volcanic activity would be hindered by airplanes flying around.

FDC 5/9066 ZSE WA.. FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS MT. ST. HELENS VOLCANO.
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY AND UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. PURSUANT TO 14
CFR SECTION 91.137(A)(2) TEMPORARY FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS ARE IN
EFFECT WITHIN A 1.5 NAUTICAL MILE RADIUS OF 461151N/1221118W OR
THE BATTLE GROUND /BTG/ VORTAC 11 DEGREE RADIAL AT 31.8 NAUTICAL
MILES AT AND BELOW 9000 FEET MSL TO PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT
FOR VOLCANIC ACTIVITY. U.S.F.S., TELEPHONE 360-891-5140 OR FREQ
132.125, IS IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION. SEATTLE /SEA/ THE SYSTEM
OPERATIOINS SUPPORT CENTER/SOSC, PHONE 202-267-3333, IS THE FAA
COORDINATION FACILITY.

The best I've seen, though, is this -- bombs exploding!

FDC 6/7823 ZFW TX.. FLIGHT RESTRICTIONS
DOYLINE, LA.. EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
PURSUANT TO 14 CFR SECTION 91.137(A)(3) TEMPORARY FLIGHT
RESTRICTIONS ARE IN EFFECT FOR BOMBS EXPLODING, FIRE AT OLD ARMY
DEPOT. WITHIN A 1 NAUTICAL MILE RADIUS OF 323438N/0932507W OR THE
ELM GROVE /EMG/ VORTAC 33 DEGREE RADIAL AT 13.8 NAUTICAL MILES AT
AND BELOW 10000 FEET MSL. LOUISIANA STATE POLICE HAZMAT TELEPHONE
318-617-1725 IS IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION. ZFW 817 858-7504 IS THE
FAA COORDINATION FACILITY.


Mustard Gas

The U.S. has started destroying its stock of mustard gas at the Deseret Chemical Despot southwest of Salt Lake City. It will take 6 to 10 years to get rid of the 6,149 tons to mustard gas.

      http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_4207741
     

Repetitive Speaking

Bush gave a speech in Salt Lake City a few days ago. Some people thought it sounded familiar. It was! He repeated a good part of the speech he gave there a year ago, many times word for word. I think either his speech writer is slacking, or they think their audience is stupid.

      http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4271027


Mastadon Jaw

Some kayakers in Kansas named Garry and Mark found a mastadon bone on the Wakarusa river. It's 10,000 to 20,000 years old. Since there is no evolution in Kansas, they are guessing that the bone came from Oklahoma or Nebraska.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/aug/23/ku_paleontologists_say_kayakers_made_jawdropping_d/


Enigma Cracker

It's a REAL Turing machine. The British Computer Society sponsered a project to recreate the British Turing Bombe machine. The original was developed by Alan Turing and others during World War II to crack the Germans' Enigma encryption machines.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1318542006&format=print


"The War on Terror"

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5319522.stm


Dangerous Grounds

I just read a book by Larry Bond called Dangerous Grounds. It has a picture of a submarine on the front. It's actually a pretty good book. Larry Bond is usually technically and factually accurate. But I did notice one minor flaw.

From page 112:
As Jerry listened to the exchange and acknowledgement of orders, he realized that the same thing had just been said four times by three different people. To an outsider, this whole idea of repeating the same thing over and over again would seem absurd. However, the principle of repeating back orders was adopted by the Navy to help forge a solid communication chain so that the right people took the right actions at the right time...

But a few pages earlier, this technique didn't work for the editor.

From page 105
"Helm, bridge, left ten degrees rudder, steady course one six five."
"Left ten degrees rudder, steady course one six zero, bridge, helm, aye."
As the Memphis started turning, Jerry could feel the difference that eight knots of speed made in her response. She quickly came upon her new course and settled in for the long run through..."

They ordered heading 165 degrees, but got 160 instead. Apparently this was a literary error and not a navigational one. I thought it was pretty funny, happening just before the explanation of repetition of orders. Yeah, I'm easily amused.

Some other books:

      Baldacci, Camel Club - Good
      Baldacci, The Collectors - Good
      Demille, Wild Fire - Good, Very Funny
      Hawking, God Created the Integers - Interesting. Even I can understand the math!
      Hawking, A Brief History of Time - Interesting. I learned something!
      Jordan, Wheel of Time Series - Very Good
      Stephenson, Quicksilver, The Confusion, & System of the World - Very Good (but a little crude).
      Stephenson, Cryptonomicon - Very Good (but a little crude).
      Bond, Dangerous Ground - Good

moretacome...


Stupid Security Tricks

Terrorists are Everywhere!

http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1152784184319150.xml&coll=1
http://www.kangaroocenter.com/

http://www.wkrn.com/nashville/news/tn-attractions-named-potential-terrorist-targets

http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/20673.asp

http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=5142724&nav=menu7_2_1

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115013376647477941.html

http://www.civilrights.org/issues/cj/details.cfm?id=45974

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4800635.stm

http://www.hdonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060817/NEWS01/60817009

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=EF6FE6E1-930D-46E8-ABA3-E3F9E84462FE

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115644068095244633.html

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-0901breach,0,1887092.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9391306/detail.html

Pictures of Today!

I am guessing that this fence in Idaho used to be straight, but was moved around a bit by the 1983 earthquake. But it could have been the work of a less-than-sober fence builder.

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A locomotive in Wyoming:

      P1100762.jpg

Nebraska Rain:

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Nebraska Corn:

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Kansas Barn:

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Kansas Sunflowers:

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