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Strange.

I wonder why the Belgian paper credited www.thespoof.com with the story.

Now that I search that site for "crocodile" and "congo", I only find this story:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i84966

(which is a childish "spoof" about the pilot being in the jacuzzi at the time...)

Doesn't he know he should be driving an Audi now?

It is understandable that many people have latched on to the emails, but in their defense the people at CRU indicate that the emails are ‘without context’ or somehow ‘normal banter’ in a scientific institution.

The program code however is different.

It is the actual program code, the modeling code that contains the most damaging evidence. I am not talking about the 'comments' in the code but rather the actual computer program source code itself.

Unlike comments and emails the computer code can only be interpreted in one way. Unlike the comments and the emails the computer code is whole unto it self and requires no external context.

So now everyone has the code.

However now the CRU have somehow ‘lost’ the world’s raw climate data that they used in their modeling.

It may have been necessary for them to have lost the raw temperature data. If the raw temperature data was available then they might be asked to reproduce Exactly The Same Results, in front of skeptical witnesses, as they had used in their peer-reviewed publications that were distributed to the world. This might have been impossible without using some infected modeling code, which an investigating scientist might discover.

If the results can not be reproduced the paper that used the results should be withdrawn. Then every paper that cited that paper, and so on until the whole web of pseudo-science that can be traced back to the original fabrication has been purged from the libraries

It is not scientific unless an independent body can reproduce the results.

Please see also:

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/climategate.html

For a satirical look and the programming fraud:

Anthropogenic Global Warming Virus Alert.

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i64103

4) Attempted hijacking. Who wants to go to Minnesota, eh?
5) Mile High Club.

Here's a news story about Clippy: http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s8i23456

Mars mission canceled after acrimonious White House briefing

But then there's the corollary: if you are doing black-ops work and do not wish it to ever be known that the job was done by the government, it would be best to do the work in a manner so insanely convoluted that anybody familiar with Occam's razor would immediately conclude that such a plan doesn't make sense, and thus assume that something else much simpler and benign must be going on.... :-)

For example, as someone else already suggested, if the government wanted to covertly tap such a cable, the most effective way to do this would be to have somebody drop anchor and cut the cable at point A so that no one would notice the several days of individual fibers going randomly dark caused by a submarine installing fiber taps on all of the cables in a different location. The Occam's razor folks would immediately conclude that such a conspiracy was entirely too complex to make sense, and thus anyone suggesting that this was happening would be labeled a nutjob.

Of course, if you were doing that, you would also probably cut each cable at different times to avoid suspicion, but this, too, can be explained away as a means to further add to the implausibility of such a conspiracy to minimize the odds of anyone believing it.

That said, Occam's razor tells us that poorly enforced rules about where boats can drop anchor probably caused two of the failures, and Murphy's law neatly explains the third, so odds are pretty good that this is a combination of bad luck and human stupidity rather than malice by a government agency.... Still, it's fun to think about alternative scenarios....

Besides, we all know the truth. :-D

I say we skip trying to find the individual butterfly responsible and eradicate the entire lot of them.

• Papillonidae - dead

• Pieridae - dead

• Nymphalidae - dead

• Libytheidae - dead

• Lyeacnidae - dead

They are an Order of hate.

• Jobs
• Liberty (Big Brother discovers GPS)
• Punishing the appropriate people. (Another take. Oh, maybe we can find a home for people with allergies who illegally obtain Sudafed)

Sure. Here's another article on cold fusion.

In all seriousness, the Christian Science Monitor is nowhere near Televangelism Weekly. Although their editorial bias is slightly right-wing, they do live up to the "Science" part of their name.

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5 i8192

We learn a lot more from a single one of these probes than we do from having a couple of starving astronauts endlessly orbiting the earth in a big tin can full of their own garbage.

The Telegraph says, The government says it has stocks of petrol, paraffin and rice to last about two weeks. It seems the rebels haven't even set up any roadblocks. They control 80% of the country and are maintaining the blockade through threats.

But I think they'll be alright when their basketball team comes home.

I can't believe people on slashdot is discussing the evolution theory seriously ! http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5 i4540&rating=5this website have a good point! AND if you r christian or muslim , those relegions states out clearly that the begining of life was from adam and eve whom god created , and not from a MONKEY!!? anyway if people want to believe that there ancestors where monkeys ,its there problem , don't count me in .I won't be happy if i was called a son of some brain-damaged monkey !

Christopher Hitchens admits he's a little bit Michael Moore

Sorry for not explaining clearly in the first post.

Michael Moore

And here it is (if you're interested).