Hooray - the site is still up! Dusty, but online!

Very cool photo tour of an abandoned Russian embassy in Thailand. Note the metal-lined Tempest rooms in the basement.

Abandoned Soviet embassy in Thailand

] "There will be a purge on God’s orders, and evil will be
] eliminated like shadows, Gays will be eliminated, the 3 Israels
] will unite. If not then they will be burned. We do not know what
] kind of world God will bring but this is what happens. It will be
] greater than the communist purge but at God’s orders."

Who said this? Reverend Moon. Why should the media care? Because he owns the Washington Times and UPI news. Why aren't the media picking it up? Well.....

Blind media

] Own A Piece of BellSouth History…

] Due to downward trends in payphone usage, BellSouth plans to
] discontinue providing services to its payphone location provider
] customers.
]
] In partnership with BellSouth Public Communications, the BellSouth
] Pioneer Volunteers are offering for sale original renovated and
] completely operational BellSouth payphones and coinbox doors.

No longer do you need a crowbar to have your own payphone..

BellSouth Renovated Payphone Sale

] No one expects to lose much sleep over it but, for the
] record, NASA has been sued by three men from Yemen for
] invading Mars.

CNN - 3 Yemenis sue NASA for trespassing on Mars - July 24, 1997

] KXAS-TV reported that ADVO, the company that printed the
] advertisement, said a graphic artist working on the flier had
] stepped away from his desk, and while he was gone a co-worker with
] the initials C.C. altered the banner's text. Neither the artist
] nor anyone else noticed the change, and the flier went to print.

Lesson One: Always, always lock your screen when you walk away from your computer at work..

Claim: A holiday shopping flier included an anti-Semitic message.

This is a cool video clip to "See what happens when a power station's 500 KVA switch is thrown!"

500 KVA switch

] Bypass Compulsory Web Registration

Just enter the url of a site which requires registration and you're in.

BugMeNot.com

] Hey, "reality" TV show fans, I've got a concept to pitch: Break
] the Alky. Fox picks a recovering alcoholic and pretends to kidnap
] his wife, kill his child, and get him fired from his job - all
] with the consent of those involved, of course. A camera crew then
] follows him to see how long it'll take for him to turn back to the
] demon of liquor after having denied it for so long ... and then we
] watch the hilarious results!

The way reality shows are going this might not be that far away.

Jose Millionaire... of Death!

] "We can easily distort memories for the details of an
] event that you did experience," says Loftus. "And we
] can also go so far as to plant entirely false memories
] - we call them rich false memories because they are so
] detailed and so big."

Memory is much more unreliable than you think it is.

Guardian Unlimited | Life | 'We can implant entirely false memories'