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Around the world cyberattacks on utility SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) systems have caused municipal and regional power outages. (And the CIA can speak definitively on this HOW?)

The “darkest material ever made,” created from carbon nanotubes and able to absorb light from all angles has been misplaced somewhere. Scientists have no hope that the stealthy stuff will ever be located.

Apple Computer and Facebook collaborated on an information appliance that extends the individual’s Dunbar number almost infinitely. Beta tester Robert Scoble, caught in a continuous loop, has been unavailable for comment.

A survey of owners of Roomba robot vacuum cleaners showed that 2/3 of owners give the machine a personal name, and 1/3 take it with them on vacations. No data is available from homeless users caught in the sub-prime eviction crisis, but it is generally assumed that many Roombas are sitting idle in their squats. Miott Romney has promised to speak on the Roomba under-utlization crisis before super-Tuesday.

“It will finally dawn on people that the most important voice on the web is their own, not the dopes’ that they’re following.”

These cracked me up…

Robert Scoble: I am the luckiestdude alive tonight. Had dinner with john dvorak…

Paul Ford: I don’t care how much lice they have these kids are going to school today.

Fembot: Reading up on widget penetration.

Joshua Allen: Where did I leave my fake tooth filled with poison gas. I am such a scatterbrain lol.

It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day today, and AKMA offers “Pray like a pirate.”

An ellipsis is a sin of omission and the lowest form of punctuation.

Today’s stylistic dictum comes to us from Helga Koch. The phrase “lowest form of punctuation” itself bespeaks the Kunstfertigkeit of a powerful writer. Two weeks have passed since Ms. Koch passed this content our way. One hopes, that is – I hope — that she will post another essay soon. The internex is dull and gloomy at its best. The rich humor and evocative prose of fine writers like Ms. Koch make it bearable.

Point taken, Ms. Koch…

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
– Alexander Pope

“She was only the telegrapher’s daughter, but she didit, didit, didit.”
– Anon.

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But what about Bluetooth?

The Montana Department of Livestock announced today that sheep producers in Musselshell County are not allowed to transport sheep anywhere within or beyond county lines for the next 30 days because of a recent possible outbreak of bluetongue.

Bluetongue, epizootic hemorrhagic disease and other diseases look similar on screening tests so more specific tests are required before bluetongue can be confirmed. Bluetongue commonly spreads by biting gnats, especially in late summer and early fall. [Montana] wants to limit movement of infected sheep so gnats will not have the opportunity to bite an infected sheep and then bite a healthy sheep, spreading the disease.

Only eight years to go…

ANNISTON, Ala. The Army says almost one-third of its stockpile of chemical weapons in Anniston has been destroyed. Disposal operations began in August 2024.

Officials said in a statement yesterday that all GB nerve agent was incinerated by March 2024 [only 12 years after the UN outlawed its production and storage... hooray for us! -fp-]. Now employees are working on the VX stockpile.

Phasers on stun…

Defense contractor Raytheon Co. said Tuesday it delivered a non-lethal defense system to the U.S. Air Force.
The system, called Active Denial System 2, uses wave energy to repel people without injuring them. The system emits a focused beam of millimeter-wave energy that slightly penetrates the skin producing an “intolerable heating sensation” that causes a person to flee, Raytheon said.

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