“As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don’t believe, or a legend, which I don’t believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics,” Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday.
Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the “burning bush,” suggested Shanon, who said he himself has dabbled with such substances.
/ breitbart
All your Jerusalem are belong to us
Hackers have managed to shut down the Bank of Israel for two whole days, taking advantage of the Jewish festival of Passover, when senior staff members were out of the office.
/ inquirer
Germany’s foreign intelligence service BND came under pressure Thursday following revelations it had monitored the e-mail correspondence of a German journalist reporting on Afghanistan for Der Spiegel news magazine. Ernst Uhrlau, the president of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), responded to questions from members of the Parliamentary Control Committee (PKG) in closed session.
PETA wants vat meat researchers to pick up the pace, and they’re pledging $1 million to the first research team that can come up with competitively priced fake meat by 2012. It appears this schedule might be too ambitious for researchers to meet, but in any case it’s only going to spur greater interest in the field. / link
“I am NOT Tyc!”
stated the member of Ztohoven, who was accused to change the faces of 48 traffic light in Prague, or as he stated, to animate them in 2007.
The change of those, as Tyc says “boring and sad” lights, entertained Prague citizens and tourists, but the Technical board of communications don’t have sense of humor, and they want the artist to make amends worth 3.280 €. / abcprague
Ztohoven pranksters last TV.hack Media Reality went unpunished. Ztohoven had spotted a weak point in the television system and broadcast a fictitious nuclear explosion over an actual weather report on the Czech regions.
The site should be somewhat stable now. We’ve updated a lot of stuff and tweaked the database to cope with the load. We’ve also took in the idea of opening a forum that someone asked for. You can find it at SuprBay.org, BayWords admin declares.
:: Controlled Chaos
BayWords is an interesting experiment. Will the blogs here be different from what’s out there already? Or are people already blogging freely eslewhere? What parts of the world will this appeal to? Are governments already watching BayWords? Am I on an enemies list now? BAYWORDS: FREEDOM TO BLOG? / via SOCIALIZED ON BAYWORDS
The initiative of the Humanist Union (HU), launched a separate exit router with a transmission capacity of 5.5 Mbytes / sec for the anonymity network tor to instigate more well-known and larger organisations to get also tor exit routers to connect their own members, and to discuss the necessity of anonymity in view of data retention, online and offline monitoring and the purpose of an anonymous network as a gateway to information … more / google translation en
/ ravenhorst de