Bigfoot: Sad Ending For Noble Creature
There are lot of theories floating around over the Bigfoot discovery.
I won’t rehash them all, but believe it was global warming that killed him, which of course killed the Montauk Monster.
Update: Noted Bigfoot hunter Mike Arrington is skeptical:
oh, let’s be clear. These guys are completely full of shit. I just can’t wait to see what it is that they are really selling.
Techcrunch photos, article
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Here is an interview with Fox News Channel on August 13th.
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Part One from the press conference earlier today is below
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Part Two: Three Bigfoot (Bigfeet?) stalked the guys as they pulled the “fresh body” (about 2 days old) out of the woods.
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Part Three: “Top Name” Scientists are on the case, they walk upright and don’t make sounds.
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Jane Goodall is convinced Yeti/Bigfoot exist after speaking with scores of native people around the world
Evolution in Warfare
The Russian conflict with Georgia is highlighting the latest trend in warfare, and the geeks are a-twitter as computers take center stage:
The war between Georgia and Russia lasted just five days, as long as the new cease-fire holds. But cyber security experts will be picking through the ashes of the accompanying Internet battle for sometime to come.
Just as happened last year with the May 2007 cyber war between Russia and Estonia, Georgian web sites buckled under overwhelming waves of bogus traffic, sent from huge swarms of compromised computers. The attacks began as probes as early as July 20, according to Internet experts. As the war began on Friday, millions of extraneous requests — a so-called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack — took down Georgia’s banking and government sites.
“It’s just like Estonia,” said Graham Cluley, a security expert at Sophos who wrote a timeline for the cyber war on his blog. “In modern warfare, it’s not unusual to see opposing forces take over TV stations, radios and newspapers. In our century, taking over Internet sites is now part of the same kind of strategy.” Venture Beat
It would seem that these sort of attacks are now an early warning to what is to come, Chinese hackers have been probing the Pentagon’s netwrork from time to time, but it is comforting to know we have should have a few hours advance warning before they launch the bombs.
After the five-day Russia-Georgia war, a chronicle of the cyber battle unfolds
VentureBeat
“Large” a Doucheblogger, says Gawker
Some folks are happy with Large’s dismissal from Citibank, offended by his ribald content.
In any case, Michael McCarthy is now internet famous, although Gawker is calling him a Douche, and he has been shown the door ala Rich Marin:
The jerkblogger behind the festival of misogyny and general frattishness that is Take a Report was found out by his employer, Citigroup, where he was a vice president. Due to its misogynist and generally idiotic overtones, “Large,” a.k.a. Michael J. McCarthy, was fired for his blog’s violation of code-of-conduct policies.
Perhaps they objected to posts such as, “Although I’m pretty sure you don’t condone the drugging and subsequent raping of female bar inhabitants, haven’t you at one time or another considered what would happen with the right girl and the right mix of vodka and chloroform?” But for every job lost, a doucheblogger gets his wings: “I have been asked to be the keynote speaker at the Saturday Banquet of this year’s Dallas Trading Convention… it’s BY FAR the best of all the trading conventions.” Woo! Some excerpts from Large’s musings after the jump: how he once managed to get thrown out of an Eric Clapton concert by screaming insults about Clapton’s dead son.
I got so fucking drunk at this concert that during a real quiet part of that song “Tears In Heaven”, I start screaming at the top of my lungs, “WINDOW BARS! YOU SHOULDA PUT UP WINDOW BARS!” And apparently I insulted enough people that they were able to conspire with security and get me thrown the fuck out of the place. Gawker
Large is weighing his options; Raj just hired some people who were unceremoniously blown out of the UBS Institutional Trading floor in midtown, but I am not sure you are his cup of tea.
But he claims he has some balls in the air; apparently working 3 hours days while blogging about tits and ass opens doors while simultaneously padding the resume and credentials::
Nothing earth-shattering, but in the end I am walking away with some time off and a lot to think about before starting something new. A handful of companies have reached out and asked me if I would be interested in sitting down with them in the coming weeks (some asked even before I officially entered the free-agent market), and the answer to everyone is “Yes"… I am going to make sure I sit down with EVERYONE who’ll have me before I make my next move. I am at a point in my life where my popularity is cresting while my career is troughing, so I may as well use this recent set of circumstances to right the ship.”
Of course, he is still blogging. Plenty of free time for him to surf for pictures to post, like this one from yesterday…
On a related note, scientists continue to explore the origins of equity traders, testing DNA in an ongoing search to determine who actually would breed with the beasts.
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Wall Street Jerkblogger Fired for His Jerky Blog
Gawker
Dude Blogger Fired, Sent to Equities in Dallas
New York Magazine
Bloggers Deported From China
The Olympics are a welcome diversion to earnings season and Wall Street’s ongoing problems, and many Americans are getting a crash course in Chinese culture.
While the murder of an American was unfortunate, it was probably a random act by a troubled soul.
But taking the hard line is a Chinese tradition. Short sellers might not be shot on sight, but they do not put up with any BS from amateur journalist. And they call in the Army.
An American blogger, Noel Hidalgo, shot a live stream video of a Tibetan protest in Tiananmen Square, which quickly gathered 29,000 views in its first 48 hours. But Chinese authorities quickly tracked him down and sent him back to Los Angeles with a number of other Americans and Canadians, who apparently broke their rules in posting the pictures and videos.
Although, in a hopeful sign, Chinese authorities fed the deportees at KFC before sending them home.
Of course, spending 12 hours on a plane with a belly full of KFC qualifies as torture in my book.
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“Apparently it is illegal to take photographs in China”
Photostream of incident, including picture of the “confused” Army
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Tibetan Protest in T-Square Noel stumbled upon and streamed live....
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Good work Noel, nobody’s bigger than the market or the internet. Take that censors.
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No Reason to Cover Paris Hilton Short
She is in a swimsuit, and is not voting for McCain.
Hobbit’s Homeless: Foreclosure for “The Shire”
Hobbit’s living in Oregon have a diaspora on their hands, as they pack the rucksacks and head for the hills:
The rise and fall of Bend’s real estate economy has resulted in foreclosure proceedings against The Shire, a village-themed concept in southeast Bend patterned after J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” series.
A notice of default was recorded last week in the Deschutes County Clerk’s Office on the 31-lot development, which had a “Disneyland-like feel” according to one of its developers and was characterized by Old World housing styles and a fantasy setting.
The Shire concept originated with Ron Meyers, who sold his share in the development for an unspecified amount to Dr. Lynn B. McDonald — a former emergency room physician at St. Charles Bend. McDonald died July 7.
“It basically destroyed my life financially, but that’s the price of a dream,” Meyers said. “The development wasn’t able to materialize fast enough before the market crashed.”
McDonald and his wife, Jan, had taken full ownership of the project in May with the hope they could sell it, Jan McDonald said Wednesday.
Jan McDonald is trying to sell the 14 developed lots, one house and additional land before the 6-acre property goes to public auction in December, she said.
The family owes Umpqua Bank $3.4 million on the project, according to the default notice.
The notice also names Meyers as a guarantor.
“It was Ron’s concept, and it was a good one,” Jan McDonald said. “Had the market not gone to where it went, it had the potential to be successful.”
The project — whose features include unique stonework, artificial thatched roofs, terraced gardens and a network of streams and ponds with a pathway leading to what’s called “The Ring Bearer’s Court” — captured media attention outside Central Oregon, including a December 2006 feature on BBC Radio.
The development drew about 6,000 visitors over two weekends in summer 2006 at the Central Oregon Builders Association’s Tour of Homes and has continued to attract curious onlookers, Meyers said. Bend Bulletin
The lender here is sure to get a bailout courtesy of Hank Paulson; this development was a brilliant idea but, alas, their timing was off.
Of course what the story does not mention is how the financier doctor died; one small town in America has seen four suicides related to financial strains brought on by real estate speculation.
Despair continues to gain a foothold across Main Street.
Put that in your Fed Statement, Bernanke.
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For developers of Bend’s Shire, ‘dream’ is over
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