Sleeping Tigers

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
1976-2009

Star Trek Reboot 09

Just gotta' bust in here and note that the new Star Trek reboot is an awesome movie. It can be enjoyed by anyone: you need not be a Trekkie to understand it or dig the action.




Bottom photo: USS Enterprise NCC-1701 approaches drifting and damaged USS Constellation NCC-1017. TOS Episode The Doomsday Machine

Demjanjuk

It must be that the case against Mr. Demjanjuk is "air-tight," as they say. My brief "research" on the internet (I queried one search engine) revealed only one article speaking in his defense. Other than this no one assumes innocence except his son. I find it curious that he is already guilty in the court of public opinion regardless of what the court in Germany may determine. I'm really wondering, "What next?" should the German court find that he is outright innocent or if there is not enough evidence to render a verdict.

Quotes From Blog Comments
pathetic species of human feces
John Demjanjuk is reaping what he sowed
All the hatred that you see for him is richly earned.
hope he gets his punnishment quickly before he dies.
goodbye, and good riddance.
I also hope he has many years left to live - preferably with serious illness.

Most common phrase: "May he rot in hell."

Full Story
Federal agents carrying John Demjanjuk in a wheelchair put him on a small jet Monday to be ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090511/ap_on_re_us/us_demjanjuk

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk

Review: Ghosts of East Texas and the Pineywoods

Ghosts of East Texas and the Pineywoods
Mitchel Whitington

Ghosts of East Texas and the Pineywoods is a must read for anyone who is a resident of or has roots in East Texas. It is a recommended read for anyone interested in stories about haunted locations - and by stories we mean tales that have been carefully investigated and not just repeated. Mr. Whitington is careful to distinguish between urban legends and what seem to be actual hauntings, and the book which reveals his research is a pleasure to read. Whether or not you believe in "ghosts" or the "otherwordly genre," this is a work you'll enjoy.

Ghosts of East Texas and the Pineywoods is about spooky subjects - but it's not a spooky book. The author tells his stories in a no nonsense but immensely pleasant way which struck me as something of a cross between a teller of ghost stories and an avid historian - which is right up my alley.

I have never met Mr. Whitington, though I've been to many of the same places that he has investigated. I can imagine that it would be a pleasure to speak with him!

Some of the Texas towns featured in this book: Kilgore, Henderson, Pittsburg, Dekalb.

About the Author
Mitchel Whitington is an accomplished and busy writer (and also, apparently, an investigator of ghost stories) from Jefferson, Texas. He lives with his wife in an historic home ("The Grove," 1861) which itself is recognized by those in the know as...you guessed it...a haunted house.

Geocities Closing Down

It's true. Even the electronic tome of urban legend - Snopes - confirms it.

Yahoo! Geocities, which was simply Geocities before Yahoo! destr...er...bought it, is closing "later this year," or so says the Geocities login page. Ordinarily I'd say, "Who cares?" But Geocities holds special memories for many people, as it was the place where we "cut our teeth" as webmasters. Zillions of people, and this was at least 10 years ago mind you, paid their dues at Geocities attempting to learn html and how to write tables and all the other wonderful secrets of getting a website online. It was like learning a foreign language and it took hours to make even one page because we were all on dialup! The original Geocities even gave out cool urls based on what "neighborhood" you were to assigned to: mine was in Area 51. How cool was THAT?

Oddly enough, I don't even remember what my site was about. Lol.

The closing of Geocities is Y!'s usual bangup job and the closure is fairly typical. Pattern: Y buys some neat service like Geocities or Egroups and ruins it. Then they close it. They paid 4 billion dollars for GeoC TEN YEARS AGO and then ran everyone off with their terrible forced ad "ad square" which took up a large portion of every single page you published. Before that they forced banners on every page, but some genius got the idea to do it big, I guess.

Not to mention that you were basically forbidden by the TOS from doing much more than posting text and images. At one time Y! even claimed to OWN your content. It goes without saying, of course, that the TOS prohibited you from attempting to make any profit whatsoever from your net presence. Now the "company" is advising users of its free service to move to their, ahem, paid service. Sure! We'll be right there! Not.

Summary: It was fun and it was okay when it was Geocities and not YGeo. Now all we can say is, "good riddance."

Got a free website on Geocities? Well, you're going to have to move it. You'll not find a better free host than 110mb.com.

Rabbits

Sonoma Bigfoot Footage

I recently found a copy of the Sonoma Bigfoot footage on my pc.

Check it out.