Due to the overwhelming number of requests I have received to tell about my discoveries and bizarre experiences in a cave not far from my home, I have created this web page. I will outline the events that happened to me during the past few months. Beginning with my journey into a familiar cave in December 2000 and ending... well, it hasn't actually ended yet. I will use my caving journal as the text to tell about my recent experience. I will give them to you as I experienced them, in chronological order.

I have included photographs that were taken during my many trips into the cave. I have also created a few illustrations to help the reader get a better idea of what things looked like in the cave. All of the photo's were taken by me, or one of the few people I went into the cave with.

Ted's Caving Page, with the story of his discovery in a local cave.

A German computer security consultant has shown that he can clone the electronic passports that the United States and other countries are beginning to distribute this year.

"The whole passport design is totally brain damaged," Grunwald says. "From my point of view all of these RFID passports are a huge waste of money. They're not increasing security at all."

Although countries have talked about encrypting data that's stored on passport chips, this would require that a complicated infrastructure be built first, so currently the data is not encrypted.

Grunwald's isn't the only research on e-passport problems circulating at Black Hat. Kevin Mahaffey and John Hering of Flexilis released a video Wednesday demonstrating that a privacy feature slated for the new passports may not work as designed.

As planned, U.S. e-passports will contain a web of metal fiber embedded in the front cover of the documents to shield them from unauthorized readers. Though Basic Access Control would keep the chip from yielding useful information to attackers, it would still announce its presence to anyone with the right equipment. The government added the shielding after privacy activists expressed worries that a terrorist could simply point a reader at a crowd and identify foreign travelers.

In theory, with metal fibers in the front cover, nobody can sniff out the presence of an e-passport that's closed. But Mahaffey and Hering demonstrated in their video how even if a passport opens only half an inch -- such as it might if placed in a purse or backpack -- it can reveal itself to a reader at least two feet away.

Using a mockup e-passport modeled on the U.S. design, they showed how an attacker could connect a hidden, improvised bomb to a reader such that it triggers an explosion when a passport-holder comes within range.

That didn't take long...

Wired News: Hackers Clone E-Passports

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Bears killed and ate a monkey in a Dutch zoo in front of horrified visitors, witnesses and the zoo said Monday. In the incident Sunday at the Beekse Bergen Safari Park, several Sloth bears chased the Barbary macaque into an electric fence, where it was stunned.

Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors - Yahoo! News

Look, long ago we realized that guys with beer bellies have more fun.
But since we didn’t sport beer bellies of our own, we decided to
take matters into our own hands, er…belly.
The
result?
A
removable spare tire that also serves a stealth beverage.
So now you can not only sport the look that’s
legit to the touch (and the frisk), but you can also enjoy a
tasty beverage wherever you want, whenever you want!

The Beerbelly

I'd like to see these things marching to take over the world in a Terminator scenario.

JP Brown's Serious LEGO

noteworthy wrote:

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a prominent Austin lawyer while the two men were on a quail hunting expedition in South Texas on Saturday, firing shotgun pellets at the man while trying to aim for a bird, his spokeswoman confirmed today.

Mr. Cheney, a practiced hunter, sprayed the lawyer, Harry Whittington, with shotgun pellets on an outing on the Armstrong ranch in South Texas. Mr. Whittington, 78, was flown by helicopter to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition today, according to Michele Trevino, a hospital spokeswoman.

What kind of idiot goes out into the woods with THAT guy???!!

RE: Cheney Accidentally Shoots a Fellow Hunter

This has got to be the best DUI stop video I have ever seen. It is a true classic.

They should have let him go.

Humor: Video of Best DUI Stop -- Very Funny

BRITISH tourists looking for a peaceful fortnight in the sun found themselves trapped in a sleazy resort surrounded by sex-crazed swingers.

Yep... That's right. Shivers is real.

Mirror.co.uk - News - EXCLUSIVE: PENSIONERS TRAPPED IN SEX-PARTY HELL

Too much time...

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Collectible figures which recite verses from the bible.

Messengers of Faith