Crank Up Old Sparky

from jpost.com
Man pleads not guilty in Seattle Jewish Federation Shooting…
A man accused of storming Seattle’s Jewish Federation offices, killing one woman and wounding five others in a fit of rage over US foreign policy, pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges.
Naveed Afzal Haq, 30, had indicated in court last week that he wanted to [...]

Evening Buffet

The Maltese Falcon, a $100 million yacht that the designers claim is the largest and fastest personal sailboat in the world, link
- Because British law enforcement officers don’t have the authority to seize encryption keys, an increasing number of criminals are able to evade justice, a senior police officer said. story
- If there’s a [...]

SCI-FI Convention is Next Week

Complete Program Schedule
And what sci-fi convention would be complete without a tribute to Star Trek?
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, the crew of the original Starship Enterprise have come back! [...]

Blogger™ Gets Facelift

The humble blogspot blog is getting a significant facelift. The beta is now available to new accounts, and will be made available to existing accounts at a future date.
There are three main components of the overhaul: (from C-Net)
“• Blogs now feature labeling, which is more generically known as tagging. This means people can categorize [...]

Happy Birthday

August 15, 1947. Independence Day for India.
Our state enjoys many blessings. One of those blessings is a strong and vibrant community of American citizens who are first and second generation Indians. To my good friends the Tiwaris, Guptas, Vahdwas, Pandeys, Barghavas, Bharwanis, Kumars, and so many more, I say “Happy Independence Day” [...]

IDF Takes Out Hizbullah Leader Before Ceasefire

from JPost:
DF troops killed Hizbullah Special Forces head Sajad Dawir just a few hours before the cease-fire went into effect on Monday morning.
Senior IDF officials described the assassination as a “hard hit” for the Hizbullah and a significant success for the IDF.
huzzah

A Muslim Saint

from pjalpha.
The coach had put together the perfect team for the New Orleans Saints. The only thing missing was a good quarterback. He had scouted all the colleges and even the Canadian and European Leagues, but he couldn’t find a ringer who could ensure a Super Bowl victory.
Then one night, while watching CNN, he saw [...]

Tuesday Morning Marker

Centanni — Morris

Let’s look at three possibilities:
1. This could be a revenge kidnapping against any reporter from FoxNews.
2. The Paleos thought they were getting Morris. They do kinda favor each other.
Or 3. Centanni was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Occam’s Razor says #3 is the most likely. I cannot [...]

Fox Reporter Kidnapping Motive?

I’m just wondering out loud if there might be a connection between the kidnapping of Fox’s Steve Centanni and this story in the Guardian
An iman at a London mosque says a FoxNews reporter tricked him into talking…Representatives of an east London mosque used by several of the terror suspects reacted angrily yesterday to what they [...]

Hold The Dam Questions Till The End Of The Dam Article

Hoover Dam Reopens After Explosives Scare. I don’t know how I missed this. Happened yesterday, reopened today.
From MIPT:
BOULDER CITY, Nev.
The Hoover Dam visitor center reopened Monday while authorities continued investigating the weekend discovery of an explosive blasting cap in a construction tunnel.
Bob Walsh, spokesman for the federal Bureau of Reclamation, which operates [...]

See Rock City

Heh™
from mississippipolitics

Tech News Roundup

At Evolution-Security, felosi announces a private download site that is worth checking out.
I have setup the private downloads section for all supporters of our site. Content it has is almost all linux, hacking, security, and computer related ebooks there is, vids, Vulnerabilty Scanners, Security and Ethical Hacking Tools, and much more. It will not [...]

Monday Marker

The Proportional Viet Nam Template

From the Jordan Times:
The fumbling that took place, particularly over the past month, underlines the failure of the Bush Administration (and its Israeli partner, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert) to learn from the experiences of its predecessors. The most important lesson goes as far back as the Vietnam War when all of America’s might couldn’t break [...]

Congratulations

Congratulations are in order for GCP regulars EW1(SG) and Sarah D. The deed is done, the knot is tied, and they couldn’t be happier. Life is good, Indeed™

Rage Against The Machine

Ned Lamont, who defeated Joe Lieberman in last week’s Democrat Primary in Connecticut had some interesting things to say about the war on terror.
“Lamont, a businessman newcomer to the political stage, told Fox News Sunday the Iraq war is not connected to the war on terror.
Lamont defeated Lieberman, who [...]

Never Forget

(click on photo to enlarge)
photo credit: ZombieTime News

Sunday Open

D-I-Y Laughing Gas

borrowed from The Edge Of I-Hacked

hizballah soldiers versus Israeli Artillery

This is War — Up close and Personal…..caution….Graphic.
update at 13:05
geepers at lgf says the youtube video is from Afghanistan, not Lebanon
“Absolutely not.
That is sniper fire footage from Afghanistan”

Israeli Graffiti

Carl in Jerusalem has this picture from a reader.
Hat Tip: Harvey in Efrat
Translation (for the Hebrew impaired):
Graffiti: “Sharon wake up - Olmert is in a coma!”
Caption: “No additional words are required.”

A Simple “HowTo”

from the Edgeof I-hacked, a simple howto lesson on preventing Google from logging your search history.

Google places a cookie on every user’s computer, timed to expire in 2038. With this cookie, they can track you and log your entire search history. In fact, Google has recently indicated that they won’t be deleting people’s search histories. [...]

Fauxtography — Oldie but Goodie

Followups and Birthday Greetings

This is a followp on last week’s post regarding some interesting new gadgetry from Sony — MYLO. “My Life Online” Youtube has a video demonstration. Have a look for yourselves.

The second followup is regarding the IBM 5150 PC. We posted about it here
Happy Birthday! The PC is 25 years old today.