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I think I posted about this years ago, but I can't find it, and it's the anniversary again: Stanislav Petrov. Phew.
Interesting WWII story. I'll reserve judgement until I hear Bruno's opinion, but it sounds convincing:
In all this time however, every attempt at biological warfare has been essentially offensive. The idea has always been to incapacitate or kill the enemy. Except once, in Poland, during World War II, where a pair of quick-thinking doctors used a little-known organism to keep the Nazis at bay.
The microorganism is Proteus OX19. In most ways it’s an entirely ordinary little bacterium. Its one remarkable feature is that human antibodies for Proteus OX19 cross-react with the antibodies for Ricksettia – the bacterium responsible for the deadly disease typhus. Blood from a patient infected with Proteus Ox19 will give a false-positive in the most common typhus screening method, the Weil-Felix test.
Enter the Nazis into Poland....
Implementing the new homepage design is held up because the submitted design uses CSS code that happens to completely break on Mobile IE. Mobile IE may be a terrible browser (even worse than regular IE), but it's (sadly) popular. Determining what exactly is causing the break is non-trivial.
it's the last day of summer.................... so long summer of 2006
Hey Steve, you might want to think about entering this competition for amazingly neat electronics cabling. I remember your computer and stereo setup. You've got some skills.
Okay, time for bed.
9/11 WTC footage from really close up. This is the tape that was just released.
wikis lamest wars. check out the missionary position debate. teddy or no teddy?
whats allowed on planes. not sure why the ky jelly is on the list. emergency enemas? snakes?
RIP, crocodile hunter.
christ on a kidney
atom ant
weve been getting a burnt rubber smell blowing through since yesterday.
I registered this domain 7 years ago today.
bocce, bitches! hawaiian rules!
global warming a myth? NO : sea cow spotted in hudson river off 23rd st.
to clarify: it was not a spotted seacow.
The bar employs 20 well-built men in their 20s and 30s who have agreed to be hit. Customers can specify how they want the men to appear - they can even be dressed up as women, the newspaper said.
rip arthur lee
all you need...
For basketball fans: poor quality but otherwise mind boggling Dwayne Wade highlight clip compilation.
NYC temperature and vegetation maps highlight the obvious correlations.
another NOLA blog
How to open a Master combination lock.
Linda has a new page. Hope this is okay to announce. You can subscribe here. Click 'add to homepage' to add it to your homepage.
Front page coverage of a new media art show coming to SJ next week ...
``This will transform San Jose into the North American epicenter for the intersection of art and digital culture,'' said Dietz, former curator of new media at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.Epicenter, baby! Okay, we get a little excited out here in the provinces.
ZeroOne website
fawning flora