bfwebster on October 10th, 2006

FURTHER UPDATE (still 10/11/06, but later on): Since some of the later YouTube postings of the David Zucker “Madeleine Albright visits North Korea” video are also disappearing, I’ve captured it (using Applian tools) and am making it available here for downloads (right click and do a “Save Link As”): zucher.flv (1.62 MB; you can download [...]

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Bruce Henderson on October 9th, 2006

First off – All of this information is from the New York Times and Google Earth (That’s so no one gets up in arms about me posting this kind of stuff here). Below is an an overview of the test site area in the North East part of North Korea. The nearest populated place is [...]

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Bruce Henderson on October 8th, 2006

At present it seems that the North Koreans set off a small to medium yield, large format implosion type nuclear device, similar to the gadget around 10:30 AM local time. Detonation was likely in a horizontal shaft associated with a coal mine that was no longer in use. Given other seismic data from nuclear tests [...]

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Bruce Henderson on October 7th, 2006

Some folks know that the roots of Apple’s Mac OS X lie in a company and an operating systems called NeXT. NeXT was brilliant stuff in its day, and in time Apple decided to scrap its next generation OS (Pink?) and use NeXTStep as the core for what would become OS X. Some of us [...]

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bfwebster on October 5th, 2006

From Starpulse.com: Harrison Ford was reportedly mistaken for a tramp when he fell asleep in girlfriend Calista Flockhart’s car. The 64-year-old actor was spotted by security guards having a sneaky nap on the back seat of the vehicle, which was parked on set while Calista was shooting her new TV show Brothers and Sister. The [...]

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Bruce Henderson on October 4th, 2006

I had the privilege of spending some time in the UK last month. It was a marvelous trip, and all I can say is that once again visiting another country helps focus my appreciation of America. Don’t get me wrong! I thought London was a fabulous town, possibly my favorite in the whole world, and [...]

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