Geocacher freaks out LAX Police

The night before the election a man was doing some geocaching at LAX and was apprehended by police... for doing nothing. After several hours of questioning he was released with no charges.

High-tech hobby sets off security turmoil at LAX: ""

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GO VOTE!!!!

Do your country / state / county / city a favor and VOTE! Request a paper ballot while you are at it and make sure your vote counts!

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National Cave Rescue Commission Traning 2004

Here are some of the 165 photos that I took at the National Cave Rescue Commission Traning...

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Malfunctioning Toshiba TV Emits 121.5 MHz Distress Signal

A TV set in Oregon broadcasted a strong enough signal to send searchers to a man's apartment.

"They'd never seen signal come that strong from a home appliance," said van Rossmann. "They were quite surprised. I think we all were."

Authorities had expected to find a boat or small plane with a malfunctioning transponder, the usual culprit in such incidents, emitting the 121.5 MHz frequency of the distress signal used internationally.

(Via rhianblock.)

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Anti-Spyware Bill Sponsored By Spyware Firm, Claria

I was reading a related trackback for new the spyware law. And I found out that the bill was sponsored by Claria, the company formerly known as Gator... here is what I found.

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NSS Western Regional Trip Report

I just got back from Sonora, California after a fun weekend of caving and partying at the NSS Western Regional. It is an annual meeting of all the grottos on the west coast... mostly from California. I had a great time and met some really cool people. I took a bunch of pictures from our trip to Crystal Palace cave. The gallery can be found here in its entirety.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Signs Anti-Spyware and Spam Bounty Bills

The govinator has signed into law several tech related bills that are great moves in the fight against spam and spyware. First of all is the law that bans the installation of spyware on computers and secondly the law that makes the senders of spam liable for $1000 per email sent that doesn't include the email address and contact info of the sender.

Who wants to join with me and become spam bounty hunters?

(Via topix los angeles.)

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Space Ship One Launch 9/29/2004

As Promised... here are Arclight's photos...

Space Ship One Launch 9/29/2004: "First official X-Prize launch of civilian rocket into space."

(Via 23b.org gallery.)

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SpacheShipOne Flight a Success

It went good... almost out of batteries! The SS1 did a twist at the top of the climb, but everything went smoothly!

Photos coming soon... as soon as I get back to my car which we left at a Park and Ride near Palmdale... then i can charge my phone and upload the pictures that Arclight took....

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NK Has Weaponized 6,000 Plutonium Fuel Rods

Things are heating up in the NK nuclear standoff

North Korea escalates nuclear stand-off: "North Korea claims it has "weaponised" all of its spent plutonium rods because the US's hostile policies towards Pyongyang leave it no choice but to develop a "nuclear deterrent.""

(Via gyre - military revolutions.)

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60 Small Containers of PU-239 Seized in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyz authorities tracked two men who were trying to sell 60 containers of Plutonium-239 and apprehended them after they tried to sell it to secret agents. (Via ATSNN.)

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NetNewsWire 2.0 Beta ROCKS!

Ok so I've been using the new NetNewsWire beta and it is much much better than version 1.0. I recommend that you try it out if you are on a Mac!

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another test post

this is another test

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Spam Reversal

On of my friends who is a print broker got a 10 identical copies of a mor.t.gag.e spam so he decided to fill out the form and send it out. So far he had received about 8 calls. Every time he gets a call he turns it around and tries to sell printing to the agent. He now has a couple of new clients.

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Cooncon in effect....

I am in the San Bernardino mountains at a nerd/anti-racoon gathering called cooncon, hosted by astcell. Fun fun fun!

check out the pictures...

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Slow Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

A new, more accurate imaging system called Slow MAS works by spinning the subject (which will be changed some day to spin the magnets) at the "Magic Angle" 54.7 degrees to magnetic field. [topix D.O.E.]

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DOCUGATE: Col. Killian's Secretary, Marion Carr Knox Interview on CBS

Here it is ... i heard it was censored in many places!

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