This is just great!

I clicked through to this from WilWheaton's blog - wow! I mean clearly the students at UCSC have waaaaaaaay too much time on their hands, but wow!

clipped from www.soe.ucsc.edu

Hooray, yet more US Gov bullshit designed to distract people from their own shortcomings

Having read the piece (I strongly recommend you do as well dear reader) I am firmly convinced that this poor misguided bugger is the victim of a witch-hunt + scapegoat search = PR win for the real fuck-ups...

I mean seriously, this guy was (admittedly illegally and out-right stupidly) looking for supressed evidence about UFOs, not attempting to bring the US military network down - 45 years he faces! That's not justice that's peevishness - I'm off to head over to the "Free Gary Blog" mentioned in the piece...

clipped from www.theregister.co.uk Analysis Accused Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon is continuing to fight against extradition to the US after losing an appeal last week.

Murder will out, they say...

Wow! even though this is by no means concrete, the corroboration / support that it gives for strong theories that were already out there is interesting in itself...

clipped from onlinejournal.com The last confession of E. Howard Hunt: US government/CIA team murdered JFK

All hail King Knut!

I can't believe that Nadja and I did not go and see him - we will have to go back to Berlin; oh what a shame. Still even he will not be able to stop the tide of visitors this Easter weekend, so I think we'll go on a weekday sometime...

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

Whedon Win!

Go Joss, go! At last the truth is known! Ok, ok, so I'm actually not that foaming a Whedon fan, in truth, and Star Wars is and will ever be my first love (child of the 70's me), but this has got to be the most telling zeitgeist temperature indicator in a decade - criminals are cooler than Jedi...

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

Serenity named top sci-fi movie

Serenity starred Nathan Fillion (r) as former sergeant Malcolm Reynolds Space thriller Serenity has beaten Star Wars to the title of best sci-fi movie in an SFX magazine poll of 3,000 fans.