Interesting by Association: June 2005 Archives

June 21, 2005

Secret Messages from Outer Space

Actually they are from the ionosphere. Well, they bounce off the ionosphere. Don't believe me? listen for yourself.

It's not really our Alien Overlords sending encrypted messages. It's just plain old spooks. It's been going on for over 30 years and I had never really heard about it. The link above does a decent job of explaining it. On the other hand, I spotted this mystery on cheesebikini:

% telnet time.nist.gov 78 Trying 192.43.244.18... Connected to time.nist.gov. Escape character is '^]'. P: P: My name is Patsy: and my husband's name is Paul: We come from Pittsburgh: and we sell Peaches:: 880-223-821-266-590-908-785 $ 0 875 3000 8 1 0 0 Connection closed by foreign host.

It doesn't work now, so I guess we'll never know...

Posted by thom at 01:42 AM | Comments (0)

June 19, 2005

Random Life

Here are some randon links I discovered ages ago but never got around to posting. Enjoy...

Is it Jack Black in a diaper? NO! It's COMPUTERMAN!!!
My Dull Life is a more interesting read than my dull life.
I remember watching this in gym class when I was 12. I didn't know Disney was behind it.
Choose Your Obsessions Wisely. I guess she did get to talk to some nice Secret Service Agents which sound pretty exciting.
Relevant History has some interesting links about social software (and stuff) from time to time.
The Aurora Webcam is very cool. Until I can go see the lights in person this will have to do.
FREE CALCULUS TEXTBOOKS! Now there's some exciting reading...

Posted by thom at 10:26 AM | Comments (0)