Life: I’ve learned one thing this weekend — humans are not designed to
function in the desert. I went bush-camping in the Anza-Borrego Desert state
park with a few mates, and we quite simply baked in the 45C/113F degree
heat. Walking 3 miles in that heat was easily equivalent to 15 miles in normal
temperatures.
We did manage to catch a good look at one of the endangered bighorn
sheep that live there — the poor sheep was clearly trying to get to some
water, but those damn humans kept getting in the way!
On the way back, we passed the aftermath
of a forest fire near Temecula. Scorched earth.
Security: via IP — a very scary article
at Bruce Blair’s Nuclear Column — apparently, the secret unlocking codes
on the launch control mechanisms of Minuteman nuclear missiles were
deliberately set to ‘00000000′ throughout the height of the cold war, because
the Strategic Air Command ‘remained far less concerned about unauthorized
launches than about the potential of these safeguards to interfere with the
implementation of wartime launch orders.’
Green: A couple of good /. comments on renewable power sources:
one from a wind farm designer, and some
anti-FUD figures for solar panels.
Music: The full text of
The Timelords’
The Manual (How To Have a Number One the Easy Way)
is online:
THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU
REVEAL THEIR ZENARCHISTIC METHOD USED
IN MAKING THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPEN.
KLF 009B
1988 (YOU KNOW WHAT'S GONE)
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