…according to a 1989 Compute! Magazine article: scan the custom newspaper that spills from your fax; capture segments of a show you like and put them in a video report for school for $1,000; ISDN will simultaneously transmit voice, video, and computer data. You’ll talk to your TV set, and it’ll customize itself…
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Should Wiccan veterans be able to get pentacles on headstones?
There are witches in foxholes. But unlike their peers in more mainstream religions, when Wiccan veterans die, they cannot get the symbol of their religion, the pentacle, inscribed on their government-funded headstones.Now, witches, including some on the North Shore, are trying to change that. Two separate groups have asked the federal government to approve their star-in-circle symbol for use on deceased veterans’ grave markers.
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Vampire seeks Minnesota governor’s job
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 to announce his bid for governor on Friday on the ticket of the Vampyres, Witches and Pagans Party.
Like Jesse “The Body” Ventura, who was elected governor as an independent in 1998, the 41-year-old Sharkey once was a wrestler, although he spent his time “The Unholiest of Kings: Tarantula” on obscure professional circuits.
“I’m a Satanist who doesn’t hate Jesus,” Sharkey told Reuters. “I just hate God the Father.”
Superstitious feel freaky on this day
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 of work, hide under the covers and hold our breath three times until day’s end.
Tarot Astrology Christian View Fortune Telling Psychic
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 by God, so he assumed a disguise and asked the witch to call up the spirit of deceased Samuel. This is of course ironic, because Samuel himself would have forbidden Saul to do such a thing—in fact, the story reveals that Samuel was none too pleased to be summoned. Witchcraft was wrong because Israel was to live by the Word of God, both in its written form and according to the living prophetic voice, in this case Samuel’s.
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Scouting for alternatives
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 to the larger Wiccan community.”
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Benin celebrates National Voodoo Day
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 reported.
About 65 percent of Benin’s population practices Voodoo, a belief that natural forces and materials have spiritual force as well. National Voodoo Day has been a holiday in the country for 10 years.
“People have a negative image of voodoo because of some of the bad practices, a sort of witchcraft, where you can put a bad spell on someone when you are jealous of that person,” said Martine de Sousa, a former curator of the National Voodoo Museum. “That is totally different from voodoo.”
Uptimes
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 top ten are windows boxes.. That’s frightening, unless they know of some supers secret ninja way of patching a windows system for 5 years without a reboot.
This should be a criminal act… Really, someone should kill these people and patch their windows boxes…
Security expert Steve Gibson claims WMF exploit is a deliberate back-hole
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 Windows by Microsoft for reasons unknown.
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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 I put forth in this world will come back to me. This is my driving force for all relationships. I work hard to be close to, recognize, love and honor the divine in everyone around me. This is the foundation for my life.