Monday, June 30th, 2003
Did you know you can see archives of your favourite sites on the WayBack Machine?
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Archive for June, 2003
Monday, June 30th, 2003
The comments popup is working again!
If you have suddenly have problems with your comments system since new and improved Blogger, it could be because Blogger have changed the length of the BlogItemNumber to 18 numbers, too many numbers for a LongInteger field to hold. It is not possible to have integers of a magnitude larger than about 2.1 billion. So there you have it. You will need to change the field type to text and amend your script to fix the problem.
Saturday, June 28th, 2003
Cross-platform web design steps back into the dark ages
Roz Ho, the general manager of Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit, has confirmed that no future versions of Internet Explorer will be released for the Mac.
Ho says that the decision has been made to make way for Apple’s own Safari browser. ‘Some of the key customer requests for web browsing on the Mac require close development between the browser and the OS, something to which only Apple has access,’ she explained.
Microsoft has also decided to phase out standalone versions of IE for Windows. Microsoft’s Brian Countryman said in a recent interview, ‘As part of the OS (operating system), IE will continue to evolve, but there will be no future standalone installations. IE6 SP1 is the final standalone installation.’
Saturday, June 28th, 2003
HIV/AIDS Made In America?
This week in California a prominent lawyer and AIDS researcher, Dr. Boyd E Graves JD is suing the U.S. government, claiming that the HIV-AIDS virus is a man made virus developed and manufactured in the United States with the knowledge of the U.S. government, manufactured in American laboratories between 1962 and 1978. Dr. Graves claims he has hundreds of government documents proving HIV-AIDS was designed as biological terrorism against African-Americans.
In April 1984, Dr. Robert Gallo filed a United States patent application for his invention, the HIV-AIDS Virus. The Patent number for the invention is 4647773, details of which can be found at the US Patent Office website.”
Dr. Boyd claims “The HIV-AIDS Virus was manufactured as a designer bi-product of the US Special Virus programme, a federal virus development programme that persisted in the United States from 1962 until 1978. Dr. Robert Gallo’s 1971 Special Virus paper reveals that the United States was seeking a “virus particle” that would negatively impact the defence mechanisms of the immune system. The programme sought to modify the genome of the virus particle in which to splice in an animal wasting disease called Visna.” Graves says Dr. Gallo’s 1971 Special Virus paper is identical to his 1984 announcement of AIDS, and in 2001 Dr. Gallo conceded his role as “Project Officer” for the federal virus development programme, the Special Virus.
Dr. Boyd claims to have one piece of evidence he’s convinced will force the judge to rule in his favour saying: “If that happens the government will be forced to release all sorts of previously-classified research which proves the real origins of HIV-AIDS. The United States must account to the American people and the people of the world for the U.S. Special Virus Program.”
If this were to be proved true, two questions emerge. Firstly, for what reason was such a deadly virus invented? Secondly, according to all the laws governing the manufacture, development and deployment of biological and chemical weapons, was the invention and use of the HIV-AIDS virus by the United States the first act of mass bio-terrorism the world has witnessed?
Friday, June 27th, 2003
Persuade your brain with the Mind Media Brain Persuasion Test
(found on Quintillion)
Wednesday, June 25th, 2003
Vampy always makes me laugh!
“Bush Hears Voices In His Head
“God told me to strike at al Qaida and I
struck them, and then he instructed me to
strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am
determined to solve the problem in the Middle
East.”
President Nutcase.
This is the largest load of horseshit I’ve heard all day.”
Wednesday, June 25th, 2003
How useful! Jane found this directory of wireless access points in London.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2003
Binh Danh’s Chlorophyll Art ~ he uses the power of the sun to print pictures on leaves.
Astounding….
Tuesday, June 24th, 2003
www.powerGenitalia.com
Powergen’s domain name for their Italian operation.
Monday, June 23rd, 2003
Cuteness overload!!!
Today I stumbled upon the RAT FAN CLUB - a pet rat discussion forum. People have posted the most adorably sweeeeeet piccies of their ratties! My heart aches when I look at these piccies. I can’t wait to have enough space and a garden to spoil a happy rat again. They are the most loyal, loving, gentle and sweet pets - something you just can’t imagine until you’ve had the pleasure of fostering one.
Monday, June 23rd, 2003
xenotransplantation
The largest amount of data about animal experiments in UK laboratories that has ever been made public was recently released after a judge overturned an injunction against publication of the material. The 1,274 pages provide detailed accounts of attempts made from 1994 to 2000 by Government-sanctioned Huntingdon Life Sciences, the largest laboratory research firm in Europe, to perfect methods of creating animals from which organs can be safely transplanted into human beings. The documents refer to the transplanting of genetically modified pigs’ hearts and kidneys into monkeys.
It revealed many sordid cases of unimaginable suffering, and one previously confidential paper which reveals how the Home Office worked with Imutran - the former British subsidiary of multi-million drug giant Novartis, which was in control of the programme - to underestimate the suffering caused by the most severe experiments.
An Imutran report states: ‘The Home Office will attempt to get the kidney transplants classified as “moderate”, ensuring that it is easier for Imutran to receive a licence and ignoring the “severe” nature of these programmes.’
Other striking findings reveal that the Government approved Imutran’s xenotransplanation experiments with the intention of using sick babies as the first trial patients for animal heart transplants.
In total, the documents reveal at least 520 errors and omissions in the Imutran research. These include organ weights not being recorded, a quadruple overdose, conflicting pathology reports and re-use of animals. One primate was killed when a swab was left inside it.
Other reference: Animal News Center
Friday, June 20th, 2003
The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals. It takes a few seconds to go to their site and click on “feed an animal in need” for free. This doesn’t cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. Pass it along to people you know.
