Knowledge Is Power

Some links

I'm still having issues with comments and my database, so bear with me. Here's some links in the meantime.

Making Tracks "Richard Carpenter is mapping every mile of America's railroad system as of 1946. By hand. " Why 1946? "In 1946, the railroads were arguably at the height of their economic power. The nation had more than a quarter-million miles of rail in use--nearly six times the size of the current interstate system. And there was plenty of romance: The demands of war meant that modern diesel locomotives still shared the rails with old steam-powered ones. "

Diamond star thrills astronomers Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.

Evolution of radar points to HMS Beagle's resting place "One of the world's most enduring naval mysteries - the fate of HMS Beagle, the ship that carried Charles Darwin round the world and led him to develop his theory of natural selection - may finally have been solved. "

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Comment Spam War

Comments are off (and broken apparently) until I get the MT upgrade to work around here. Some pedophile bastards at pastramisandwich.us (P0rn site, please don't go there) have flooded my comments and both blogs with over 700 messages. Than I went and tried to be fancy and strip out the spam from my .db file, and broke it.

It was strange that a normal WHOIS didn't find the contact info for that site, but after trying several IP databases I found John McGhee, 12345 Mountain Ave Chino, California , 91710, United States +1.9093199266 jayjmcgh@aol.com.

I sure hope he pisses off someone smarter than me and they go stick a nice fat DOS up his ass.

US visits

Since everyone's doing it...

US States I've visited.

As a disclaimer I should say that I never got out of the airport in either California or Hawaii.

World Visits

That map is sort of deceiving, since I've never been to the Baffin Islands. The only time I've been to Canada was when we crossed over the bridge into Windsor to see the, um... "Canadian Ballet".

Create your own maps at World66.