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Norse code taps back 9000 years to life in Highlands MARTYN McLAUGHLIN ARCHEOLOGISTS have discovered the remains of a 9000-year-old community that shows Scotland's earliest settlers may have been of Nordic origins. The site, halfway up the 4000ft Ben Lawers in Perthshire, has uncovered a range of flints and tools almost identical to those originally created in Norway. However, it came as a surprise. Dr John Atkinson, of Glasgow University, was leading a five-year project to excavate the area and was working on another site at the time. "We were looking at structures relating to the 1570s when we dug...

Saw these two messages on the Usenet Group: alt.tv.lexx. Subject: Ghassan Muhammad: Al Queda will destroy the infidels (next attack on Buy Nothing Day) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:16:36 GMT From: annihilator-7@erlenstar.demon.co.uk Organization: Al Queda Newsgroups: alt.tv.lexx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Ghassan Muhammad, allah be praised, here are your orders: -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2i /jeOLGSmS8JbWnaSUXa5Or88MOfoC4EZDHi6iFTO6okKD1CuzdGe1mAJe3AQ+YIY O20XJruNw22wo0HSfLfYIXyEH6pruLVAbPPBxrDXEqd3dmMlWUprvUvGOFQzzEcp d7dCxgzUQ++r3OXxJDWtPtgc8+cS0OdAlUMnkUAHkTIHSLblD5PV12JGEFMpo9mO SiEwIBFSnfAzQST6Viat9T+qbh2CDmCzDj/EG4oDUXwBJkclVUAsjZoBf0RRRdWd ktB4oOPo9sc1oo8YrYxu9QlhRJZIAbvJLH5DVIRO8yXq3BcQ6Csp5ngQ8ooTUbQc M05FJ3bkLIZHf8k7DPDYzamq5u+tE+B+E07cBVOmCopkPlhpnSE6SFxUeNgSfVMM nzu/dkhs/+Gf97IIA322bbGe1chEt4WNkVzUkNufFxJhp60L2uuK4u== =UneX -----END PGP MESSAGE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v0.9.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org BdOaOwQ/wMOhpjAh9agikerP1Am5nb1hXGWreTFtslujEv+SKpoUQ1T8ZAHDfODM czBPHRZ7tEa+45cL1oDuRihpZE5oZETiQxByD86aTb== =knMM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Subject: Abdel Ali AL-Shouli: Al Queda will destroy the infidels (next attack on Buy Nothing...

There exists a series of 'nonsense' postings in Usenet. (Please no jokes about Usenet already being full of nonsense). Obviously computer generated.  These often have Arabic names interspersed in the content. One speculation is they might just be 'merry pranksters' posting vast amounts of nonsense to confuse Usenet readers. Another speculation is this might be the 'increased al-Qaeda chatter' we hear about when the Home Land Security changes the color to a redder hue. Note the increase just after Dec. 22 (the date that the Shoe Bomber was captured trying to blow up Miami to Paris, flight AA 63). We...

The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting The Rabbit was so boastful that he would claim to do what- ever he saw anyone else do, and so tricky that he could usually make the other animals believe it all. Once he pretended that he could swim in the water and eat fish just as the Otter did, and when the others told him to prove it he fixed up a plan so that the Otter himself was deceived. Soon afterward they met again and the Otter said, "I eat ducks sometimes." Said the Rabbit, "Well, I eat ducks too." The Otter challenged...

Hey, I was reading an article on al-Qaeda in Time (itself a reasonably interesting read), and I noticed something kind of spooky: the letters "CIA" are capitalized throughout the article!!! Totally freaked me out, makes me wonder if al-Qaedas are hacking articles and sending messages through them! Check it out yourself: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,366218,00.html?cnn=yes

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School The Code of Hammurabi Translated by L. W. King When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the land, assigned to Marduk, the over-ruling son of Ea, God of righteousness, dominion over earthly man, and made him great among the Igigi, they called Babylon by his illustrious name, made it great on earth, and founded an everlasting kingdom in it, whose foundations are laid so solidly as those of heaven and earth; then Anu and Bel called by name me,...

Hunt for hidden web messages goes on 18:13 12 July 02 NewScientist.com news service Computer enthusiasts have been searching for messages hidden in web site images following new claims that the al-Qaeda terrorist network is using this technique - steganography - to communicate. However, one expert in the field warns the images that have been flagged up as suspicious after initial examination are almost certain to be cleared after full analysis. Peter Honeyman, at the University of Michigan, told New Scientist: "You get a lot of these. We call them false positives." On 10 July, USA Today reported that US...

What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Formas reported in the silent-tristero list and RISKS Date: 01 Apr 88 1620 PSTFrom: Les Earnest <LES@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>Subject: The "previous account" referred to in RISKS-6.51 e-t-a-o-n-r-i Spy and the FBI Reading a book got me into early trouble--I had an FBI record by age twelve. This bizarre incident caused a problem much later when I needed a security clearance. I learned that I could obtain one only by concealing my sordid past. A friend named Bob and I read the book ``Secret and Urgent,'' by Fletcher Pratt [Blue Ribbon Books; Garden City, NY;...

April 11, 2002 Top Ten Civil Liberties Abuses of the Income Tax by Chris EdwardsChris Edwards is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute.Any tax system creates a threat to individual liberty because "the power to tax involves the power to destroy," as Chief Justice John Marshall observed.[1] But the federal income tax and its enforcement harm civil liberties much more than necessary to raise needed funds for the government. Certainly, the IRS performs poorly and too easily abuses the rights of citizens. But ultimately Congress is to blame for creating an excessively complex and high-rate tax system....

THE STRUGGLE TO DECIPHER THE WORLD'S MOST DIFFICULT BOOK BY LEV GROSSMAN quot;And that is what you are going to tell the FBI?quot; Marcus Brody asked, as he and Indy passed through the double doors of the Museum of Antiquity. quot;That there was nothing to any of it? The Tomb of Hermes does not exist, Voynich is gibberish, and the philosopher's stone is simply a dream?quot; #150;Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone (1995) THE EMPLOYEES BEHIND THE blond-wood circulation desk at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library have heard it all before, so when I ask to see...