I finished watching Miami Vice Season 2 on DVD (one of my all-time favorite shows) a few days ago and was reminded of the episode “Trust Fund Pirates” by this CNN story.
Fans of Vice will recall Richard Belzer’s (Law & Order) character was a pirate radio station operator who conducted his illegal broadcasts from out [...]
As if plucked from George Lucas’s latest ‘Star Wars‘ films, a ‘no-confidence’ vote has toppled our Canadian government.
Unfortunately, we don’t really seem to have any solid options in our other political parties. Politics…bah, humbug!
Because I’m a bit of a science geek, and because they have that ‘cool’ mythic element to them, news regarding Giant Squids excite me. Well, on September 27th, word spread that a live one had been photographed underwater!
Photograph courtesy T. Kubodera and K. Mori.
Photograph courtesy T. Kubodera and K. Mori.
The Japanese scientists estimated the animal [...]
Some science news for you today:
In the marine archaeology field, researchers recently raised a cannon from an underwater site near North Carolina, hoping the artifact will prove the sunken wreckage it came from was once the flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard.
CNN.com features this report on a new planet found in the Milky Way.
Australian palaeontologists [...]
Congratulations goes out to our good friend, Dr. Philip Currie, one of the world’s leading Palaeontologists. Starting October 1, Dr. Currie will become a professor with the University of Alberta’s Palaeontology program, here in Edmonton.
Along with his many accolades, Currie was recently chosen as one of three Canadians to receive the 2004 Michael Smith Award [...]
Not quite Minority Report, The Time Machine, or Back to the Future but certainly intriguing. Check out this link.
More on the project can be found here.
For the skeptics, this article, with one of the project members dismisses the prediction notions.
As suggested by some, if the ‘device’ can’t provide any usable information before the events, is [...]
Here’s a link to a fantastic news story about a pod of dolphins protecting New Zealand lifeguards from a 10-foot Great White Shark.
After a nice surprise birthday gathering, I decided to rent Disney’s Atlantis: Milo’s Return last night. Later, as I was browsing the web, I just happened to notice this article about yet another possible site of the Lost Continent of Atlantis.
Many explorers, scholars, and scientists have claimed to know the resting place of the fabled [...]
So a baseball team with a $128 Million US payroll beat one with a $186 Million US bankroll. What a swell planet. At least they broke an 86-year-old ‘curse.’
CNN.com – Boston Red Sox make history – Oct 21, 2004
An underground metropolis complete with its own ‘Police Chief in charge of Subterranean Paris.’ Sounds like a perfect setting for a movie.
MSNBC – A secret city thrives beneath Paris
Thanks to Dean for these links. I bet you didn’t know Sunfish could grow this large!
Monster washes up near Farewell Spit
More photos of an Ocean Sunfish
