Who Was What?

Don't move if you nicked yer grannies' old drapes.
(Note: Faces withheld to avoid embarrassment)

Who Was Best Dressed at the Oscars?

by Ella Stewart

Who the fuck actually cares except Ms Stewart, sados and vacuum heads perhaps?  
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WOW!..But It's Still A Mystery!

35 years later, the ‘wow!’ signal still tantalizes!
By Paul Scott Anderson, Universe Today

Since the SETI program first began searching for possible alien radio signals a few decades ago, there have been many false alarms but also instances of fleeting signals of interest which disappeared again as quickly as they had appeared. If a potential signal doesn’t repeat itself so it can be more carefully observed, then it is virtually impossible to determine whether it is of truly cosmic origin. One such signal in particular caught astronomers’ interest on August 15, 1977. The famous “Wow!” signal was detected by the Big Ear Radio Observatory at Ohio State University; it was thirty times stronger than the background noise but lasted only 72 seconds and was never heard again despite repeated subsequent searches...

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Iran: No Nukes Say USA! Er...Or So We Believe...

U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb!

American intelligence analysts continue to believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb. 

First of all: they haven't had a phone call from the Iranian President saying that they've started to bake one...and...much more important to Mr Obama is - and he's intimated as much to all his fans across the known Universe - that he most certainly does not want any party poopin' pesky very loud distractions before November and his mega amazing: 

"MY
 SECOND COMING: 

THE CORONATION" 

So...the US intelligence analysts continue to "believe." 
Well, that's most reassuring and all the confirmation you need in The Land of Israel in order to have a very good-night's kip in Tel Aviv...

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Music, Power Laws And Fractals...

 A team of researchers, led by Daniel Levitin of McGill University, has found after analyzing over two thousand pieces of classical music that span four hundred years of history, that virtually all of them follow a one-over-f (1/f) power distribution equation. He and his team have published the results of their work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Levitin and his team analyzed (by measuring note length line by line) close to 2000 pieces of classical music from a wide group of noted composers. In so doing, they found that virtually every piece studied conformed to the power law. They also found that by adding another variable to the equation, called a beta, which was used to describe just how predictable a given piece was compared to other pieces, they could solve for beta and find a unique number of for each composer.

After looking at the results as a whole, they found that works written by some classical composers were far more predictable than others, and that certain genres in general were more predictable than others too. Beethoven was the most predictable of the group studied, while Mozart was the least of the bunch. And symphonies are generally far more predictable than Ragtimes with other types falling somewhere in-between. In solving for beta, the team discovered that they had inadvertently developed a means for calculating a composer’s unique individual rhythm signature. In speaking with the university news group at McGill, Levitin said, “this was one of the most unanticipated and exciting findings of our research.”

Another interesting aspect of the research is that because the patterns are based on the power law, the music the team studied shares the same sorts of patterns as fractals, i.e. elements in the rhythm that occur the second most often happen only half as often, the third, just a third as often and so forth. Thus, it’s not difficult to imagine music in a fractal patterns that are unique to individual composers.

(Physorg.com)

Better Late Than Never!

No buyers? Hey... but what about putting it on the terror tour trail for his satanic supporters? Nope?... Ok, then I guess bin Laden's fav uncle can have the compound demolition job. 

Bin Liner's home from home...
your just a couple of years TOO LATE though!

The Paks of course were outraged by the covert American raid in Abbottabad because it didn't give the treacherous tossers the opportunity to tip their shitty Saudi exile off! BOO HOO.

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Chav the Thug: Nothing Too Trivial I Trust?

  ARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez arrived in Cuba for urgent cancer surgery following an emotional departure from Venezuela in which he vowed to win October's election despite his illness (AP).
The usual socialist suspects turned up to meet and greet the Chav, who's rumoured to be soarly missing his Iranian boy who's much too busy making a nuke. Still...an old piece of Cuban is better than nothing, I suppose...

Hey old fella.. toucha ma tushie once more...please?

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New York Police: Just Keep Watching Them And Listening...

Records Detail Mosque Spying; NY Police
 Quite Rightly Defend It!  

The New York Mosque.
It's quite simple really;
if you were Buddhist, nobody would be
keeping tabs...but Buddhists don't
blow up buildings, aeroplanes and people.
Some of you Muslims on the other
hand DO!
Comprehend? Nope, I didn't
think so...

New York: The New York Police Department targeted Muslim mosques with tactics normally reserved for criminal organisations, according to newly obtained police documents that showed police collecting the license plates of worshippers, monitoring them on surveillance cameras and cataloging sermons through a network of informants. 

The documents, obtained by a news agency, have come to light as the NYPD fends off criticism of its monitoring of Muslim student groups and its cataloging of mosques and Muslim businesses in nearby Newark, New Jersey. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday the secret operation monitoring Muslims was "legal," "appropriate" and "constitutional." 

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