Privacy...or not

The technology behind Ontario's new enhanced driver's licences will allow people to secretly track other people's activities and movements unless privacy protection is added. The radio frequency identity (RFID) tag that will be embedded into the card can be read not only by authorized readers, but just as easily by unauthorized readers. There is a request to include an on-off switch that will provide better privacy protection with the new licences, which are scheduled to start rolling out June 1. On that date, the U.S. will start requiring a passport for all Canadian visitors entering the country at land crossings without an enhanced driver's licence.
The RFID microchip inside the licence contains only a unique identification number and no other information. The licence will come with a sleeve that will protect it from being read. However, people are often required to use their licences away from the border and most drivers will abandon the use of the protective sleeve.

H1N1 handmade

Suspicions that the virus is a result of genetic engineering were raised by Adrian Gibbs, a scientist from Australia who was a part of the team that created Tamiflu, medicine for the swine flu. Gibbs points out it is possible that the virus was created during experiments conducted by scientists in order to create viruses and vaccination for them. The virus and its behaviour were supposedly observed in eggs.
The theory of the virus “escaping” a laboratory was justified due to facts that the virus had mutated and spread outside the laboratory at great speed!

The Earliest Michelangelo's Work

Kate

Kate Bush: "Wuthering Heights"

They are turning on us...
Researchers recently revealed that they had observed monkeys planning future combat. A researcher from Sweden described a daily ritual of a 30-year-old chimpanzee, Santino, that loathes his human visitors at a zoo north of Stockholm and thus begins every morning by roaming his enclosure to collect stones and place them strategically in handy piles for subsequently hurling at irksome visitors.



Here's to you...
Galileo Galilei was honored at a gallery in Florence, Italy, to mark the 400th anniversary of his transformative work, which was widely discredited at the time (as contradicting the Bible) and which subjected him to vicious slanders. The exhibit includes Galileo's only preserved body part: one of his middle fingers.

Malignant Narcissism

A KILLER song from Rush




and the drum solo...

Pharaohs or Aliens

Extraterrestrials have become frequent guests in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Recently an unidentified object was photographed above Travnik, but last week it was established that the UFO was in fact Jupiter. However another piece of information arrived from Bosnia: an unidentified flying object was again photographed, this time above Mostar.
According to the photographer’s claims, the glowing object stood motionless above Mostar’s Centar 2 neighbourhood for more than an hour and then disappeared without a trace...
Something's gotta give - pyramids or UFOs!

BB Queen

In Aid to Economy

In the midst of widespread unemployment in Sweden, the Haxriket i Norden company announced it would hire 20 professional witches well-versed in tarots, crystals, herbs, exorcism, and "contact with the other side," in the expectation that desperate consumers increasingly would require counseling.
If this doesn't help - nothing else will!




Some one-liner pearls on economy:

The United States have developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market.(Jay Leno)

Bush advisers have long been worried that a lagging economy could hamper the president's re-election chances. They hope that the Cabinet shake-up will provide a needed jolt. If that doesn't work, North Korea has to go.(Jon Stewart)

Over 7,000 presidential appointments are up for grabs. The Obama administration is making history once again by being the only place in America that is currently hiring.(Stephen Colbert)

Earthly Species We Don't Know About

More than 1,000 new animal species were discovered in the last decade in the area surrounding the Mekong River that runs through Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, including striped rabbits and a spider bigger than a dinner plate. Also found was a pink millipede that secretes cyanide, giant carp, Mekong stingray, largetooth sawfish, Irrawaddy dolphin...







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