Slipstream on Sci-Fi - minor spoilers

S P O I L E R S P A C E Anyone else watch Slipstream on Sci-Fi last night? It was better than I thought it would be. A little like Retroactive with Jim Belushi, but not bad. The whole time travel, grandfather paradox thing seemed to be handled fairly well with few

Attack of the Metal-Eating Plants

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66575,00.html?tw=rss.TOP Genetically modified plants may be the green solution for cleaning up contaminated soils. The results of a successful field trial in California last year were published last week in the online arm of Environmental Science

RE: Attack of the Metal-Eating Plants

Rob wrote... Genetically modified plants may be the green solution for cleaning up contaminated soils. This reminds me of one of my favorite stories (the title escapes me at the moment - it's been a while since I read it) where a company created an enzyme or bacteria or something that would

[Opinion]On culture front, we're losing war

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn13.html BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Here are three small news items from around the world you might have missed: 1) An unemployed waitress in Berlin faces the loss of her welfare benefits after refusing a job as a prostitute in a legalized

Exorcism live on TV

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42833 The UK's Channel 4 is taking reality television to the next level with the planned broadcast of a live exorcism of a man whose brain activity will be monitored while a priest drives out his demons. Channel 4 has earned a reputation

Re: [Opinion]On culture front, we're losing war

--- Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like all those European utopias John Kerry wants America to be more like, Germany has a permanently high unemployment rate and, as a result, penalizes those who refuse to take available jobs -- like providing ''sexual services.'' The welfare

Diamond Planets

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0208_050208_planets.ht ml The universe beyond our solar system just got wilder. Astronomers meeting in Colorado this week said they have found a disk of planet-building material around a small, failed star called a brown dwarf. The discovery raises

You Already Guessed This

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2005-02-11 xponent Wookie Bones Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Trojan horses plague open source

http://www.zdnetindia.com/techzone/coding/stories/73131.html At least three commonly used open source software packages were altered by black-hat (bad-guy) hackers to contain Trojan horse code this year. The three most commonly used packages affected were Sendmail, OpenSSH and tcpdump/libpcap.

Re: [Opinion]On culture front, we're losing war

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:54:02 -0600, Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn13.html BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Yes, Steyn really is a fucking awful columnist. Martin ___

Re: [Opinion]On culture front, we're losing war

* Robert G. Seeberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn13.html BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Here are three small news items from around the world you might have missed: 1) An unemployed waitress in Berlin faces the loss of her welfare

Re: You Already Guessed This

Secretly, we always suspected this. ~Maru Look at the size of that thing! Cut the chatter, Red 2. Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2005-02-11 xponent Wookie Bones Maru rob ___

Re: Battlestar Galactica renewed

I don't recall that in the original series there was much emphasis being made on the idea of the Cylons being created by humans? Is that just my fuzzy old memory, or is this whole Terminator kind of theme peculiar to the new series? I think in the old series the Cylons were the robotic

RE: You Already Guessed This

Robert G. Seeberger wrote: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2005-02-11 No one does potty humor like Tycho and Gabe. PA is one of my few regular webcomic stops. If you like game humor and the word fuck it's right for you. :) Jim All your base are belong to Maru

Re: Diamond Planets

Robert quoth: Kuchner said the galaxy is becoming richer in carbon as it gets older. It may become so carbon rich that all planets formed in the future may be carbon planets, he said. Just wait a couple of billion years. On a similar note: http://tinyurl.com/45gum or