Archive for January, 2006

Vampire seeks Minnesota governor’s job

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

There is just so much wrong with this... MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Minnesota voters, who eight years ago elected a former professional wrestler as their governor, may find a self-proclaimed vampire on the ballot for the office this year. "Politics is a cut-throat business," said Jonathan "The Impaler" Sharkey, who said he plans ...

Superstitious feel freaky on this day

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Don't look now (especially under the ladder), but it's Friday the 13th. For those of us who knock three times, toss salt over our shoulders, strive never to break a mirror and run from black cats, this is hardly a day to take lightly. It is a time to stay out ...

Tarot Astrology Christian View Fortune Telling Psychic

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

As Israel's King Saul was coming to the nadir, and indeed the end, of his reign, he paid a visit to the medium of Endor (1 Samuel 28:6). He did this only after "the Lord did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets." Saul knew mediums were forbidden ...

Scouting for alternatives

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Founded in 1999 in Index, Wash., the Spiral Scouts was initially conceived as the youth group for the Aquarian Tabernacle Church (ATC). The ATC is the first Wiccan church to receive full legal status. According to its Web site (aquatabch.org), it’s “a coven dedicated to providing religious services and support ...

Benin celebrates National Voodoo Day

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

OUIDAH, Benin, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The African country of Benin celebrated National Voodoo Day Tuesday with rites that included dancing, drumming and animal sacrifice. The festival took place at "the point of no return," a beach where slaves were loaded on ships for the voyage across the Atlantic, the BBC ...

Mother`s death inspired orphan Harry Potter

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

A TEARFUL J K Rowling revealed in an interview that her mother`s death as she created her hugely successful "Harry Potter" character led her to make the boy wizard an orphan. Joanne Kathleen Rowling was 25 when her mother died aged 45 after a 10-year battle with multiple sclerosis -- just ...

Campaign Against Witchcraft In Orissa

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Sundergarh (Orissa): Witchcraft is still practiced in many parts of the world including the poor Indian state of Orissa. Now a rationalist is trying to educate people and tell them how this is practiced. Campaign Against Witchcraft In Orissa

Uptimes

Friday, January 13th, 2006

So I was noticing that my firewall is about to break it's personal uptime record: Which is okay, it's patched and everything. I looked at some of the top uptime records on the site I use to keep track of these things. Uptime Project At the time of me writing this, three of the ...

Security expert Steve Gibson claims WMF exploit is a deliberate back-hole

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Microsoft has patched the WMF vulnerability in Windows 2000 and XP, but in his research for a fix for Windows 95/98/Me Steve has come up with a blockbuster. It is his considered opinion that the WMF vulnerability could not have been a mistake. It was an intentional backdoor inserted into ...

Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark. The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo.read more | digg story

Microsoft Quietly Ditches WMP for Mac

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Microsoft pulls the plug on Windows Media Player for Mac as part of a general pull back from Mac consumer software. All that will be left will be Mac Office and Messenger.read more | digg story

No XP on Intel Macs, but Vista is good to go

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

If you've been counting on being able to run Windows on those new Intel-based Macs, Apple's not about to make it easy for you -- at least not if you're attached to Windows XP.read more | digg story

Toddler’s Talking Elmo Book Asks ‘Who Wants To Die?’

Friday, January 6th, 2006

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Photos and information on new TiVo Series3 w/ CableCard & HD

Friday, January 6th, 2006

New TiVo has external SATA port for easy Hard Drive upgrades. Two CableCard 2.0 slots. Internal NTSC, ATSC and QAM tuners. New TiVo remote with backlight too!read more | digg story

Flight 93 (9/11 Movie Trailer)

Friday, January 6th, 2006

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Linux 2.6.15 released - 15th anniversary!

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

"Hey, it's fifteen years today since I bought the machine that got Linux started. January 2nd is a good date." -- Linus Torvaldsread more | digg story

How I live a Pagan life in a Christian culture

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

By Liz Grimes Special to the News & Record My personal life is firmly rooted in my pagan beliefs. I try hard to live as gently on this earth as possible, to respect Mother Nature and be grateful for all that she provides to us. I know that whatever actions and thoughts ...

Bright lights for a dark season

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Rockford Register Star - Rockford's Newspaper and Website - Local & State News

Religious Discrimination Continues in the Military

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

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Glossary of terms

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

ROBERTO ROCHA, The Gazette Published: Saturday, December 03, 2005 Pagan: One who follows or practises an earth-based or nature-based religion. Neo-pagan: Any of various movements that have flourished since the 1950s, when the British anti-witchcraft laws were repealed. Wicca: A Neo-pagan religion founded by Gerald Gardner, a British civil servant, in the 1940s. Wiccans ...