RTFA: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305761,00.html

“It appears to be a primate-like animal. In my opinion, it appears to be a juvenile Sasquatch,” said Paul Majeta of the bigfoot group.

However, the Pennsylvania Game Commission has a more conventional opinion. Agency spokesman Jerry Feaser said conservation officers routinely trap bears to be tagged and often see animals that look like the photos.

“There is no question it is a bear with a severe case of mange,” Feaser told The Bradford Era.

RTFA: http://www.blather.net/blather/2005/10/klaatu_bara…

Helen has already been told to use the words “Klaatu Barada Nikto” to prevent Gort - Klaatu’s tall silvery robot sidekick, a faultless policeman of the universe (holy spirit, angelic being) - from destroying everything.

Very random post, but I always thought this line came from Army of Darkness! In fact, it is from the very old sci-fi movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still”.

RTFA: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/29/googles-respo…

The bigger vision is to combine all of Google’s apps and services through Maka-Maka. Google already has so much data on you, depending on how many Google apps you already use. It just needs to bring everything together. Your contacts are in Gmail. Your feeds are in Google Reader. Your IM buddy list is in Gtalk. Your upcoming events are in Google Calendar. Your widgets are in iGoogle. And don’t forget about your search history. Overtime, Google will connect all of these together in different ways, along with data about you from other social services across the Web, and give developers access to the social layer tying all of these apps together underneath. The real killer app for Google is not to turn Orkut into a Facebook clone. It is to turn every Google app into a social application without you even noticing that you’ve joined yet another social network.

RTFA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Eco…

Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools included fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.

I saw a very interesting interview with John Perkins. For what it’s worth, I believe his story.

RTFA: http://www.wired.com/science/space/magazine/15-11/…

It’s easy to snicker at the James Bond theatrics at the headquarters of Bigelow’s eight-year-old company, Bigelow Aerospace. It’s even easier when you find out he’s trying to build his very own space station. An inflatable space station, to be precise - a massive bouncy castle meant to expand when it gets into orbit. It will be the first privately owned destination in space, and Bigelow proposes to rent it out as an orbital research lab, a training facility, or even a tourist hotel. Sure, have a chuckle. But here’s the thing: He’s actually doing it.

In the past 16 months, BA has successfully shot two Hummer-sized prototypes of the station into orbit. Dubbed Genesis I and II, they’re circling the globe as you read this. The last one went up in June, blasting out of Earth’s atmosphere on the back of a modified Soviet-era SS-18 missile. It was launched from a space complex in central Russia, ISC Kosmotras, the rocket-for-hire venture run by Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.