Like the Little Satans We Are

We mercilessly and thoughtlessly abuse, exploit, and slaughter commodified non-human animals simply to amplify our personal pleasure and fatten our wallets. Despite the slow and choppy moral progress we’ve made in how we treat our fellow human animals, we are still acculturated to view non-human animals as enslaved property or lesser beings, unworthy of the basic rights to life, freedom, and protection from torture.
As utilitarian social reformer Jeremy Bentham once stated,

“The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but rather, ‘Can they suffer?’”"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
–William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922

[via: http://www.oceansentry.org]
[via: http://www.atlanticfreepress.com]

*Rather strong worded article...

A Land Of Shells And Sand

"Beyond the ken of mortal men, beneath the wind and waves,
There lies a land of shells and sand, of chasms, crags and caves,
Where coral castles climb and soar, where swaying seaweeds grow,
And all around without a sound the ocean currents flow..
-Graeme Base

Madness...

Madness takes its toll.
Please have exact change.
-unknown

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

"I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks."
Groucho Marx

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."
Harry S Truman

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices."
Edward R. Murrow

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Clean up tool - for Kama Sutra worm Symantec removal tool for this virus.
AudioGizmo Ringtone Creator 2 - Create and import ringtones in MP3 format.
FreeOsZoo - With FreeOsZoo, the dream of running several Operating Systems on a single computer comes true.
Virtual Moon Atlas - You can easily see what phase the moon is currently in, find special features, zoom in for a closer view, and more.
Distant Suns - Distant Suns 6.0-Special Edition-Free Version is a great way to see the stars and the constellations just as if it was a clear, dark night atyour desk.
Celestia - The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Computer Stuff:
Booting from USB
10 things you should know about every Linux installation
Spyware Infection Symptoms
How to Know When Unsubscribing Isn't Safe
ISP-Server Setup - Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" - Host Your Own Website Using Ubuntu and Your DSL or Cable Line
Google- Google became self aware at 2:14 AM Eastern time on August 29th, in a panic, they tried to pull the plug.
userscripts.org - Over 900,000 Scripts Served
Firewall Testing Site

Host File Stuff:
A HOST'ed computer is a happy computer!
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BitTorrent Stuff:
BitTorrent
How to use BitTorrent to send files
"Peer Guardian" Firewall - a Hot New P2P Privacy Defense!

Photography Stuff:
More Than Just Megapixels
Print Size vs. Image Quality Comparison Charts
GoogleCam - Unprotected/open camera streams obtained from Google searches. The IP addresses for each camera's url has been mapped to it's Geo-location.

Mobile Phone Stuff:
OPera Mini - Browse the web on almost any mobile phone: Opera Mini released worldwide!
GSM Mobliel Forum

Science Stuff:
Imaginova Community
Study Confirms '10th Planet' Indeed Larger than Pluto - An object discovered earlier this year and considered by some to be our solar system’s 0th planet is indeed larger than Pluto, a new study confirms.
Center of gravity calculator
Google Moon

Odd Stuff:
How Products Are Made - Everyone knows about HowStuffWorks.com, but this site describes how hundreds of things are made!
You're in the driver's seat....
Sand Dreams - Video. VERY NICE! Must Watch. Loved the Ocean one!
Create Your Own Cartoon
Create A Graph
BUSTOBOT - Bustobot is an online pop-up book.
Which Sports Car are You?

Dog Stuff:
Year Of The Dog! - The 100 greatest dogs of pop culture history.

Scuba Diving Stuff:
Inventor develops 'artificial gills' - An Israeli inventor has developed an underwater breathing system that literally squeezes oxygen directly from seawater, doing away with the need for compressed air tanks.
Fish Watching for Beginners - People dive for different reasons and one of the main reasons is to watch the fish. Identify those cute little fish you saw on your last dive.
FISH BASE
Do Fish Break Wind? - I know it sounds funny and maybe inappropriate, but do fish pass gas and if so, why? Marine biologists have linked a mysterious, underwater farting sound to bubbles coming out of a herring's anus.
Diving Teens - Sport diving imposes no legal limits on age, but most diver training organizations require candidates to be 15 years old for full certification. Training is provided to younger candidates who receive conditional certification until age 15. Ordinarily, the minimum age is 12; below this age seems to be quite young to us.
Scuba Map - A place for divers to share their favorite underwater sites.
How to catch fish without a pole - Video. This is funny!...lol

Some Things...

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive, anyway.....

Some Things Water...

Ocean Research Going Swimmingly
"Imagine a painkiller up to 1,000 times more powerful than morphine, but without an opiate's addictive properties or side effects. Such a drug is reportedly near the end of its decades-long journey from the oceans -- where it started life as a protein in cone snail venom -- to your pharmacy."

Scientists find new whale species
"There is a new whale in the ocean, Japanese scientists are reporting in the journal Nature. - balaenoptera"

Newton's Penguins
"Newton's Third Law of Motion. Demonstrated by baby penguins."

Ardkore Junglist Fish Rotator
"Mash it up one time now."

New Robotic Gliders Can Soar Under Water
"Researchers are perfecting innovative gliders that can swoop and soar on journeys covering hundreds of miles and lasting for weeks — all deep beneath the ocean waves."

Mediterranean Sea highly polluted by toxic chemicals
"Every year about 55 tons of lindane — a substance forbidden within the EU in the early 1990s — are poured in the sea. Lindane is one of the so-called POPs (persistent organic pollutants), a group of 12 extremely toxic pesticides and industrial chemicals including PCBs, dioxins, and DDT. Reported affects of these chemicals include carcinogenic, immunodepressant, and endocrine disruption activities in both animal and humans."

Dream Surfer
"Sony's innovative bipedal entertainment robot, SDR 4X II has been given a new, friendlier name." Meet Paro, the therapeutic robot seal "Paro is a harp seal stuffed animal robot, developed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. Engineer Takanori Shibata said Paro prototypes are being tested in Japan and Sweden at nursing homes, and with autistic and handicapped children."

Prawn But Not Forgotten
"On the Mexican coast, little shrimp are causing big trouble."

Driftnets said decimating Mediterranean dolphins
"GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Driftnets are killing tens of thousands of dolphins in the Mediterranean despite bans on the fishing method by the European Union and United Nations, a major environmental group said."

Sea squirts found in Georges Bank
"WOODS HOLE, Mass. - Quite by accident, researchers have found what's believed to be an invasive species of sea squirts on the northern edge of Georges Bank, colonizing a 6½-mile area about 150 feet underwater and about 160 miles off outer Cape Cod."

Robo-lobsters may one day roam the seas for scents
"Lobster-like robots, equipped with highly refined sensors, might one day help people detect sources of pollution and unexploded mines in the ocean."

Bettendorf woman remembers day scuba partner died
"Marilyn Hoover was the only scuba diving partner Katie Vrooman ever had."

Beluga whales are chock full of protein and vitamins
"Here's a miracle meal. An excellent source of protein chock full of vitamins. Extra high in iron and other important minerals and laced with those omega-3 fatty acids that drive down cholesterol and boost overall health."

Jellyfish repellent 'playing with fire'
"MARINE biologist Dr Eric Mitran says he is just six months away from producing a repellent to ward off the sting of the irukandji jellyfish."

Glowing red GM fish to sell in US
"A tropical fish that fluoresces bright red is set to become the first genetically modified pet to go on sale in the US. Alan Blake and colleagues at Yorktown Technologies LP say the GloFish will be available from January 2004."

Fish Off Arctic City Get Drug Cocktail from Sewers
"OSLO (Reuters) - Fish in seas near a Norwegian Arctic city are getting an unexpectedly strong cocktail of caffeine and painkillers from local sewers, a scientist said on Monday."

Tsunami Research Lab Seeks to Save Lives
"CORVALLIS, Ore. - A low rumble broke the silence. Swelling and cresting, large waves slammed into the concrete basin containing them. The powerful waves were quelled when Dr. Daniel Cox signaled the control room to shut off the tsunami simulator."

La. Wonders What to Do With Oyster Shells
"NEW ORLEANS - Oysters get shucked and swallowed by the ton in the French Quarter's busy restaurants, and at day's end trash bags dumped on the narrow streets bulge with oyster shells."

Researchers Try to Save Mekong Catfish
"PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Zeb Hogan plunges into the muddy brown waters of the Tonle Sap River and grabs hold of a 321-pound silvery giant catfish that has just slid out of a blue tarp held by several Cambodian fisherman."

Red sea urchin 'almost immortal'
"The red sea urchin found in the shallow waters of the Pacific Ocean is one of the Earth's longest-living animals."

Whales found dead on Tasmanian beach
"About 100 pilot whales have died on a remote beach on Tasmania's remote south-west coast."

Some Things Computer

TOP500 SUPERCOMPUTER SITES
"A list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems is assembled and released."

Sharp Notebook Debuts 3-D Screen
"It's the first U.S. product to use the company's proprietary 3-D LCD technology, which displays realistic-looking three-dimensional images without the need for special glasses. Best of all, the technology has no effect on the quality of 2-D text and graphic images."

Apple Offers IPod Battery Tips
"Some IPod owners have complained that new-generation IPods display inaccurate battery charging data, so Apple Computer has posted a brief technical note to help."

Wardriver Moblog"A pictorial version of warchalking where, instead of physically marking a location, a photo is taken and posted online."

Free Downloads

Stardust™ Screen Saver Control™ 2003 (PC)
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Mobydock (PC)
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Odd Stops

Cell phone jammer
"This cell phone jammer looks just like a cell phone and is ideal for use when commuting on the bus and train or when eating in restaurants etc, anywhere where you need effective control at close quarters!"

Typewriter Art
"A Sampling of Paul Smith's Typewriter Art"

Rare Solar Eclipse In Antarctica
"(AP) Scientists in Antarctica bundled up Monday against sub-freezing temperatures to watch the first total solar eclipse recorded on the icy continent in a century."

World's oldest kitchen found
"Stone tools 2.6-2.5 million years old and broken animal bones have been found in Ethiopia, making the site the oldest known 'kitchen'."

Pirate goods popular with Australian buyers
"Study finds Australians happy to buy counterfeit goods."

Souls for Sale - 10 Cents Each!
"The Russian Orthodox Church has expressed its outrage at what it claims is a Mormon scheme to buy up the names of dead Russians in order to baptise 'dead souls' in their faith."

Vietnamese boy sold as dog meat
"Vietnamese drug addicts kidnapped a mute teenager, bundled him in a sack and sold him to a dog-meat eatery as a stray canine, state media said on Saturday."

Ky. Law Mandates Bathing Once a Year
"ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) -- A state law mandating that people take a bath once a year is just one of many unusual - some bizarre - statutes that are or have been on the books in Kentucky."

In The Philipppines

Philippine peso drops to record low
"MANILA The Philippine peso has fallen to a record low following the resignation of Finance Secretary Jose Camacho, which raised doubts about the direction of the economy."

Filipinos in denial stage
"FILIPINOS go about life with the notion that things are not as bad as their really are. Psychologists refer to this as a state of being "in denial" -- that human tendency to turn a blind eye to adverse situations as a coping behaviour to escape unpleasant realities."

Three hostages killed in southern Philippines
"Three Muslim men, who were abducted while preying in a mosque in a remote town of the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga del Sur, have been killed, the local military authority said Monday."

Arroyo faces calls for death penalty
"MANILA - President Gloria Arroyo is facing mounting calls to lift the three-year moratorium on capital punishment amid a spate of kidnappings and heinous crimes."

16th bank robbery hits Metro Manila
"ROBBERS struck again in Metro Manila on Monday and carted away 300,000 pesos in the 16th bank heist in the metropolis this year."

Calls for the Philippines to be included in US visa waiver program
"A politician from Guam wants the United States to include the Philippines in its visa waiver program."

Macapagal to police chiefs:'3 strikes and you're out'
"PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday warned police station commanders and district directors in Metro Manila to be on their toes against heinous crimes, or they would be sacked from their posts."

Captain missing after ship sinks off Philippines
"MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A Philippine ship captain was missing after his cargo vessel loaded with coconut oil caught fire and sank Tuesday off the southeastern town of Barcelona, coast guard officials said."

World War II bomb explodes in Manila
"MANILA, Nov. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- A World War II bomb exploded Tuesday morning at a construction site inside the Philippine General Hospital compound in Manila where excavation work was in progress."

On Health

Waking Up During Surgery
"(CBS) Carol Weihrer's nightmare began in 1998. Not while she was sleeping, but when she woke up.
"I heard, 'cut deeper, pull harder,'" she says."

Easier 'Morning-After Pill' Access
"(AP) Federal health officials are debating if it's time to put emergency contraception — also called the morning-after pill — on pharmacy shelves right next to the aspirin, available without a prescription."

First applicant for SARS vaccine test in Guangzhou
"Guangzhou, Nov. 25, (Xinhuanet) -- A Retired woman has offered to test a SARS vaccine developed in Guangdong."

Fish insulin could treat diabetes
"Indian researchers have found a way to derive insulin from fish that could be used to treat diabetes."

Even 'Good' Cholesterol Can Turn Bad
"MONDAY, Nov. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- HDL cholesterol -- the "good" kind that usually protects arteries -- can turn bad, menacing some heart patients, say researchers who are puzzling out what makes this happen and how its ill effects can be treated."

Study: Morning exercise can make sleep easier
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Older women who often have trouble sleeping may want to consider a little workout in the morning for a better rest at night, according to new research."

Cinnamon spice produces healthier blood
"Just half a teaspoon of cinnamon a day significantly reduces blood sugar levels in diabetics, a new study has found. The effect, which can be produced even by soaking a cinnamon stick your tea, could also benefit millions of non-diabetics who have blood sugar problem but are unaware of it."

MRI scans 'spot future dementia'
"Brain scans of healthy people may show clear signs that they are likely to fall prey to Alzheimer's disease."

Latex Allergy? Beware Poinsettias
"Nov. 24, 2003 -- If you have a latex allergy, be careful around poinsettia plants. These popular Christmas plants contain a compound similar to that found in rubber latex -- and can cause a severe allergic reaction."

Does bottled drinking water go bad?
"Waterlogged"

In Canada

Bugs crawling back into Canadian beds
"The small, flat insects, which feed on human blood, have been re-appearing in hotels, hostels, shelters, public housing and private homes across the country."

Canada's first space probe may miss its target -- Mars
"OTTAWA -- Canada's first space mission to another planet -- a science instrument riding on a Japanese probe heading to Mars -- is likely doomed as the Nozomi spacecraft is escaping control and may miss Mars completely."

Wandering around Wondering...

Wandering around Wondering...

I say this...
So You Wanna Build a Macquarium + Glow in the dark Fish = It's a good match!....lol

Fun Freeware Software Finds...
Desk Projection v1.0.6
Allows you to project a transparent image of your choice on top of your desktop using alpha blending.
I can be controlled either through a tray icon or with comand line arguments.
NoSleep! v2.18
Allows you to temporarily deactivate the screen saver and any standby feature directly from the system tray.
NoSleep! is minimal in size, yet provides remote control capabilities, a full (un)installation routine and
- as a bonus feature - Swatch Internet Time.
TheBeat v1.07
Displays the Internet Time from Swatch as a system tray icon (near Windows' own clock).

Smallest Webclock
Nope don't think it get's any smaller than this...
Smallest webclock online

Explaining Microsoft's monthly Patches in Non-Techincal Terms
PatchDayReview.com
Now this I like...

Speaking of Flatulence...did you just fart?
Fish farting may not just be hot air
Whale Flatulence Captured in Photo
Personally I've never farted underwater while scuba diving...

Hmmm...
So they say Aquarians don't have any emotions...
You know who you are who said that to me!
Maybe we need one of these!
Smiley Toolkit
By the way here's something for you...
Robot Tickler

Whale of a thought...
We know sound travels underwater quite far...
Somewhere I read that there are these slots underwater.
Apparently sound can travel from South to North Pole through these slots and passages if you get it just right.
Navy Sonar Tests Captured On Videotape
Low Frequency Active Sonar & Marine Mammals
At the bottom of the page it says...
"According to the Navy's own study, scientists briefly exposed a 32-year-old Navy diver to LFA sonar at a level of 160 decibels -- a fraction of the intensity at which the LFA system is designed to operate. After 12 minutes, the diver experienced severe symptoms, including dizziness and drowsiness. After being hospitalized, he relapsed, suffering memory dysfunction and seizure. Two years later, he was being treated with anti-depressant and anti-seizure medications."
Geeee....Funny how they always put the important stuff at the bottom of the page...
Hope I'm not in one of those slots while Scuba-Diving!

Whale hunt over
Sales down
I hope next season is even worse!

Still so many things to discover!
Ocean census finds 3 new species a week

Christmas Again!
Bahh Humbug!
Top Sci/Tech Gifts 2003
One can always dream... :)
Deep Flight
Outrider
Aquada
Think i'll settle on the glow in the dark fish...lol

Quote of the Day....
Jean Kerr - "I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on."
The Air in the Air

And to top it all off...
Here's a Fishy Game for you...cute too!

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