Archive for December, 2009

Iraq militants hacked US drones

Written by Guru Meditation, in Weird and funny facts Dec 17, 2009

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“Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations”, the online version of the Wall Street Journal reported today.
Shiite fighters used programs from the internet, like SkyGrabber, to capture videofeeds from the [...]

In this remarkable Fox News report, Dr. Archelle Georgiou, a medical expert, talks about adding Lithium to the water supply. Lithium is a trace element that is sometimes naturally found in water. Research has found that in communities where this natural Lithium is in the tap water, suicide rates are much lower.

via: www.infowars.com

In Jekaterinenburg residents saw green dogs. The dogs became green after eating poisonous food that was illegally dumped.
“I see these dogs every day” said Alexei Bukharovsky, “but now they are green.” And in a snowy landscape, these dogs are real eye-catchers.

One of the things that isn’t on the Copenhagen climate convention’s agenda is “Climate Manipulation”, the art of changing the weather artificially.
We all remember China firing chemicals in the air to keep the rain from reaching the Olympics back in 2008. And the United States have their HAARP since 1992, The High-Frequency Active Auroral [...]

On the blog of Lilysussman’s Blog, she writes about her laptop issue at the border of Israel. After searching through her luggage, toggling through her photos on her camera… they decided to “blow up her laptop”.
They indeed destroyed her laptop, with 3 mini-bombs, or they just shot it. With 3 “well aimed” shot they killed [...]

Yesterday an unknown individual (or individuals) stole a service car from Sodexho. In the margin of the theft, the news mentioned the amount of “dienstencheques” – service cheques – in the car and the repercussion this will have on paying back the companies working with these cheques.
What was astonishing, is the administration used to manage [...]

iTunes 9 might be taking plenty of plaudits. But it seems it’s causing some serious issues for iPod classic owners, with a raft of reports about the newly minted music software failing to sync with the old–school PMP.
It appears iTunes 9 isn’t just about iTunes LP and iTunes Extras. Complaints on Apple Support forums, [...]

Researches in the Arizona University have genetically engineered cyanobacteria that “self-destruct” by dissolving from inside out. This eliminates the problem of getting out the bio-fuel from organisms.
Since the cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microbes, you could say… it is solar power ;-) And let’s hope these bacteria stay in the lab, before they become a widely spread [...]

Why the big fuzz? People panic when a mysterious spiral appears over the Norwegian night sky on Tuesday? “Speculation was increasing today that the display was the result of an embarrassing failed test launch of a jinxed new Russian missile.” says the UK newspaper Daily Mail.
Well… it sure looks beautiful, doesn’t it. But let’s [...]

What could we learn from the Copenhagen Climate summit: to pollute to stop the pollution?
With proud, they announced 15.000 participants from all over the world, 5000 press, the largest number ever recorded in Copenhagen.
Even if on a normal day, Copenhagen is the greenest capital in the world, my guess it will take a few years [...]