SEARCHING FOR CLUES
October 5th, 2006
Mike Hull, a tracking specialist with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, demonstrates “3-D” camouflage in a wooded area. BRUCE PARKER/TIMES-DISPATCH
Source: www.timesdispatch.com
McAfee accuses Microsoft of anti-competitive behavior
Security software maker McAfee, Inc. lambasted Microsoft Corp. for thwarting software companies’ attempts to identify and overcome the weaknesses in the security of its new operating system Vista. The company issued a full-page advertisement in Financial Times Monday almost echoing the sentiments expressed by another security software maker, Symantec Corporation, which had charged Microsoft of
Source: www.earthtimes.org
Fraud Allegations Hit Voting Group
Philadelphia’s voter registration office has rejected 3,000 signatures from an advocacy group that registered more than a million voters two years ago. The group ACORN is facing new allegations of voter fraud and sloppy work.
Source: www.cbsnews.com
British Author Espies a Funerary Violin Vacuum and So Fills It
The latest manifestation of a continuing silly season in the London literary world is ?An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin,? which seems to be an esoteric historical tome.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Elvis almost LDS?
Has Elvis been sighted in Utah County? And did that Book of Mormon archived on the second floor of the LDS Church Office Building once belong to the king of rock ‘n’ roll?
Source: deseretnews.com
ACORN Statement on AP’s Voter Registration Article
On Monday Oct. 2, the Associated Press distributed an inaccurate and misleading news story (”Allegations trip up voting rights group”) regarding ACORN’s national voter registration program, which has helped enfranchise more than 1.6 million voters since 2004.
Source: news.yahoo.com
The Divining Hour
On a hot August morning in Van Nuys, Dolores Cardelucci former restaurateur, former owner of chiropractic and X-ray clinics, writer of pilots for Kelsey Grammer, and for most of her almost 76 years a psychic who also runs spiritual workshops is about to give me a reading.
Source: www.laweekly.com
Detroit Free Press Brian Dickerson Column: Hospital Caregivers Are Tops but They Play Badly Together
By Brian Dickerson, Detroit Free Press Oct. 2–For an essentially healthy guy, I’ve spent an awful lot of time in hospitals lately.
Source: www.redorbit.com
Measure of a man
While exploring Caltech’s maze-like Beckman building, Susan Hough found the school’s archives and learned that they held all of the personal and professional papers of famed seismologist Charles Richter.
Source: www.ocregister.com
