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THE RESULTS ARE IN, AND WE NOW KNOW THE SCIENCE-FICTION ALTER-EGOS OF THE ENTIRE POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITORSHIP AND STAFF. WHAT AM TALKING ABOUT? EVER LOOK AT A MYSPACE PAGE? DID IT HAVE A LINK TO A QUIZ WEBFORM THAT COLLECTED DATA INTENDED TO BE PROCESSED TO MATCH YOUR RESPONSES TO SOME TYPE OF THING OR OTHER? YOU GOT IT. Courtesy of paul kienitz DOT net, MOJO LEARNED THAT HE IS Frank Herbert - His style is often stilted, but he created what some consider the greatest SF novel of all time..
Bret? He's Gregory Benford A master literary stylist who is also a working scientist. Bret goes on to say: I don't know who Greg Benford is, but the quiz author says that "The real Greg Benford once took this quiz, and it told him he was Arthur C. Clarke." which, in my opinion, is postworthy.
Then it was my turn, and I ended up being...William Gibson The chief instigator of the "cyberpunk" wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction. I was pleased.
Is it amazing, or appropriate that both Dave-0 and Fritz are Kurt Vonnegut? For years, this unique creator of absurd and haunting tales denied that he had anything to do with science fiction.
Longo? James Tiptree, Jr., the nom de plume of Alice B. Sheldon. In the 1970s she was perhaps the most memorable, and one of the most popular, short story writers. Her real life was as fantastic as her fiction.
And JIM's alter-ego seemed appropriate, given his description: John Brunner His best known works are dystopias -- vivid realizations of the futures we want to avoid. JIM says he's never heard of the guy, and is off to the library.
ONLY IN ALASKA -- DATELINE, JUNEAU ALASKA. ACCORDING A WIRE SERVICE REPORT, About 10,000 residents briefly lost power after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines.
"You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario," said Gayle Wood, an Alaska Electric Light & Power spokeswoman. "This is the story of the overly ambitious eagle who evidently found a deer head in the landfill."
The bird, weighed down by the deer head, apparently failed to clear the transmission lines, she said. A repair crew found the eagle dead, the deer head nearby.
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WACKY, WACKY FLORIDA WILL PUMP OUT THESE AMUSING TALES UNTIL THE FRESH WATER RUNS OUT... AT WHICH TIME THEY'LL CONTINUE TO PUMP OUT THE TALES, BUT THE PUNCHLINE TO EACH ONE WILL BE HUNDREDS OF FRESH CORPSES! FELONS IN THE SUNSHINE STATE can't vote, but NOW, they can legally carry concealed handguns! Florida has given concealed-weapon licenses to hundreds of people who wouldn't have a chance of getting them in most other states because of their criminal histories. ACCORDING TO A LOS ANGELES TIMES STORY, Courts have found the people responsible for assaults, burglaries, sexual battery, drug possession, child molestation — even homicide.
A Sun-Sentinel investigation of the state's concealed-weapon system found that among people awarded licenses in the first half of 2006 were more than 1,400 who pleaded guilty or no contest to felonies but qualified because of a loophole in the law; 216 with outstanding warrants; 128 with active domestic violence injunctions against them; six registered sex offenders; and at least one prison inmate.
PORTAL OF EVIL NEWS INFORMS US OF WHAT ENGLAND'S MOONIES DO WHEN THEY HIT THE UNITED STATES. WHY, ACCORDING TO THE STORY IN THE JOURNAL LIVE OF NEWCASTLE, THEY MAKE A KILLING RUSTLING SHARKS.
Kevin Thompson, 48, from Jarrow, South Tyneside, has been pastor at the Bay Area Family Church in San Leandro since 1992. THE CHURCH is part of the Rev Sun Myung Moon's Unification movement,
He was sentenced to one year in jail and ordered to pay $100,000 after pleading guilty to poaching thousands of leopard sharks and selling them to aquariums and fish enthusiasts throughout the UK, Netherlands and United States.
It is believed Thompson may have been trying to impress the founder of the Unification Church Mr Moon, who has reportedly proclaimed himself "King of the Ocean".
LEOPARD SHARKS GROW TO BE SEVEN FEET LONG.
Would you trust a robot to park your car? The question will confront New Yorkers in February as the city's first robotic parking opens in Chinatown. ACCORDING TO THE WIRE SERVICE STORY, developers of the Chinatown garage are confident with the technology and are counting on it to squeeze 67 cars in an apartment-building basement that would otherwise fit only 24.
The driver stops the car on a pallet and gets out. The pallet is then lowered into the innards of the garage, and transported to a vacant parking space by a computer-controlled contraption similar to an elevator that also runs sideways.
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Shit like this makes me furious. IN TAMPA, FLORIDA, A young woman was walking back to her car after the Gasparilla parade on Saturday when she says a man dragged her behind a building and raped her/
ACCORDING TO THE STORY ON THE FOX AFFILIATE IN TAMPA, She managed to get away and called 911. Police took her to the hospital.When they started checking the victim's background, they discovered she had an arrest warrant out for her.
It was from an arrest when the woman was a juvenile and she was accused of not paying restitution. HER attorney says it appears to be a paperwork error....
... the medical staff at the jail refused to give her the Morning After Pill even though it had been prescribed at the hospital.
"The medical supervisor would not allow her to take the pill because she said it was against her, the supervisor's, religion. So, here we have a medical supervisor imposing her beliefs on a rape victim," claimed the victim's attorney Virlyn Moore.
Someone's going to own a big chunka Tampa.
IN SCOTLAND, APPARENTLY, ONE CAN GUT A MAN WITH A SAMURAI SWORD AND GET AWAY WITH ONLY 40 MONTHS IN PRISON. Sean Martin, 38, suffered the kind of chest wound which could kill within minutes, ACCORDING TO TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS QUOTED AT SCOTSMAN DOT COM. MARTIN AND SOME BUDDIES TRIED TO COLLECT ON A DEBT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM, THE GUY CAME TO THE DOOR BRANDISHING A SAMURAI SWORD. YOU MEAN, THEY HAVE THOSE NO-NAME SHOPPING CHANNELS SELLING KNIVES AND SWORDS TO GUYS WITH SMALL PENISES IN BRITAIN, TOO?
SOMEBODY NEEDS TO TELL MISTER FROSTY HARDISON OF FEDERAL WAY, WASHINGTON -- FROSTY! THAT Local control over education doesn't mean one guy can storm in and start changing the lesson plan, or define what science is, or insist that Jesus be obeyed through his holy actions. WHICH IS WHAT FROSTY DID AT HIS KID'S SCHOOL UPON LEARNING THAT THE LIBERAL, DEFEATIST, SATAN-INSPIRED FILM "AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH", STARRING FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT AL GORE, WOULD BE SCREED IN HER CLASS. HERE'S THE QUOTE FROM THE WASHINGTON POST, JUST KICK BACK AND LISTEN TO FROSTY GO!
"No you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation -- the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet -- for global warming," FROSTY wrote in an e-mail to the Federal Way School Board. The 43-year-old computer consultant is an evangelical Christian who says he believes that a warming planet is "one of the signs" of Jesus Christ's imminent return for Judgment Day....
The teacher in that science class, Kay Walls, says that after Hardison's e-mail she was told by her principal that she would receive a disciplinary letter for not following school board rules that require her to seek written permission to present "controversial" materials in class.
FROSTY!
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