Thursday, June 28, 2007

57-year-old grandmother suspected Terrorist?


DES MOINES - Cecilia Beaman is a 57-year-old grandmother, a principal at Pacific Middle School in Des Moines, and as of Sunday is also a suspected terrorist...Story Here

Funny Newspaper post

Windows Worm Uses BitTorrent to Propagate


A worm that infects Windows XP and, possibly, Vista is said to spread itself over IM applications, like AIM and Windows Live Messenger, and… BitTorrent. Security research firm Sophos says the worm uses “a social engineering scheme” to get people to unknowingly infect their computers with it...Story Here

Man With Headache Finds Bullet In Head


(AP) A woman was arrested Tuesday after her husband woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible headache and later learned he had a bullet lodged in his head.

St. Lucie County Sheriff's deputies initially thought Michael Eugene Moylan had been hit by a stray bullet, but later realized the couple's story did not match up, Sheriff Ken Mascara said...Story Here

Desktop search tools for GNU/Linux: the competition hots up - Tracker, Recoll Strigi and Deskbar


In Part One and Part Two of this blog, I looked at Beagle and its alternative interfaces (Peagle, Yabi and Peagle). In this last part, I want to take a look at three other search engines as viable replacements for Beagle: Tracker, Recoll, Strigi, and Deskbar, an applet written in Python, which has some very handy scripts written for it and, which can extend its functionality well beyond the immediate desktop itself...Story Here

NASA publishes spectacular images of the recent mission
















Today, with new NASA imagery in (not copyrighted), plus
a few photos from a Russian source, you can get a closer look
at science and maintenance work in orbit, including several
fascinating spacewalks....Here

Explanation of the Recent "Strange Craft" Sightings


I'm using the alias Isaac, and used to work in what was called the CARET program in the 80's. During my time there, I worked with a lot of the technology that is clearly at work in the recent drone/strange craft sightings, most notably the "language" and diagrams seen on the underside of each craft. What follows is a lengthy letter about who I am, what I know, and what these sightings are (probably) all about...Story Here