The story about phone number stations posted to Craigslist has been mentioned here before. This is one of those interesting little mysteries. The hearsay only adds to it..

People have suggested that the messages are pranks, or are some sort of commercial gimmick. But at least one person, who is in the U.S. military, says he sent a copy of one of the messages up the chain of command and was promptly notified that it was classified and he wasn’t cleared to know anything further about it. I don’t know whether this is standard operating procedure for any encrypted message or whether it indicates that there’s something to be found.

Third phone numbers station: 678-248-2352 - Homeland Stupidity

] The pair were testing a very thin carbon-mesh sail by
] firing microwaves at it. To their surprise, the sail
] experienced a force several times stronger than they
] expected. They eventually worked out that the heat from
] the microwave beam was causing carbon monoxide gas to
] escape from the sail's surface, and that the recoil from
] the emerging gas molecules was giving the sail an extra
] push.

New Scientist: Solar super-sail could reach Mars in a month

] my rides through chernobyl area
] now including a photos of new rides (spring 2004)
]
]
] beginning of a story about town where one can ride with
] no stoplights, no police, no danger to hit some cage or
] some dog..

GHOST TOWN

] [T]he White House medievalists aren't just shading the
] facts. In actively denying or changing them, they are
] changing the basis on which government has traditionally
] been conducted: rationality. There is no respect for
] facts because there is no respect for empiricism.

some interesting comments and facts here...

Daily Kos: Bush Leads a Medieval Presidency

An excellent resource for critical biblical readings and interpretation. Could use a face-lift, however.

Skeptic's Annotated Bible

] Hillary Rosen said Wednesday she would step down as head of
] the organization at the end of 2003, after a controversial
] five years at its helm.

!!!

RIAA chief to step down - Tech News - CNET.com

] Public Knowledge is a public-interest advocacy
] organization dedicated to fortifying and defending a
] vibrant "information commons" - the shared information
] resources and cultural assets that we own as a people.

A very slick new public domain oriented political group.

Public Knowledge

It is not, in fact, very likely that any of you will be able, in the next ten years, to make any direct contribution to the peace or prosperity of Europe. You will be busy finding jobs, getting married, acquiring facts. I am going to do something more old-fashioned than you perhaps expected. I am going to give advice. I am going to issue warnings. Advice and warnings about things which are so perennial that no one calls them "current affairs."

In 1944, C.S. Lewis addressed the students of King's College, University of London with the annual Memorial Lecture.

... It is tiring and unhealthy to lose your Saturday afternoons: but to have them free because you don't matter, that is much worse.

[ Po Bronson mentions this in _What Should I Do With My Life?_ ]

The Inner Ring, by C.S. Lewis

] You are a member of the Settlement Group if you are a
] person (or entity) in the United States or its
] Territories and Possessions who purchased prerecorded
] Music Products, consisting of compact discs, cassettes
] and vinyl albums, from one or more retailers during the
] period January 1, 1995, through December 22, 2000.

The music industry might owe you $20, no joke.

MP3 audio of a great talk by Howard Zinn. Required listening for anyone with an interest in dissent or non-standard history.

Howard Zinn - Reed College Talk - People's History of the United States