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What Interests High-School Students?
Jim Willis asks: "Our IT Division happens to be populated with some civic-minded people who are interested in making time available for local high-school students interested in science and technology. Question is, we're not sure the best way to do it. We're mulling around the idea of sponsoring a robotics competition or some sort of programming fair/competition. Unfortunately, we've been out of high-school long enough to not know what excites students about technology. Slashdot readers (esp. those of you in high-school): Where should we focus our attention and donate/volunteer our time?"
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Sollog or SOLLOG is a pseudonym of John Patrick Ennis (born July 14, 1960), a numerologist, mystic and psychic, as well as a self-published author, artist, musician, poet, and filmmaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His full religious name is Sollog Immanuel Adonai-Adoni. "Sollog" is widely assumed to stand for "son of light, light of God", but Sollog supporters deny this, pointing to his own explanation of the name being comprised of "Sol" and "Log" ([1] (http://www.sollog.com/sollog/)).
Contents [showhide]
1 Activities
2 Predictions
3 Playing the odds
4 Disputed following
5 The Xinoehpoel connection
6 Personal attacks
7 Accusations of kookery
8 External links
Activities
Sollog is the founder of TOH (Temple Of 'Hayah), and the belief of TOH is that "all life is part of God and therefore GOD". He operates a business known as Adoni Publishing, which sells his writing in ebook form, as well as CDs of music composed by him, and video material about him. His ebooks explore a number of familiar paranormal themes, including the Bible codes, UFOs, Nostradamus, creationism, religion and numerology. Adoni Publishing also runs websites that sell pornography, pictures of dead bodies and execution videos [2] (http://www.theeunderground.com/). Since the mid 1990s, Sollog has been very prolific, publishing his beliefs and predictions on the web and Usenet.
Predictions
He has claimed to have predicted a large number of major events during that time, including the crash of TWA flight 800, the Oklahoma bombing, the death of Princess Diana, the September 11 terrorist attacks, and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, as well as a wide range of natural disasters in the US.
Following a major disaster, Sollog's supporters frequently claim to have found something in Sollog's writings predicting it, even if specifics such as the date or exact type of disaster do not seem to match the event at all. Sollog's critics usually claim that his predictions are either so general or so obscure that they cannot be truly said to predict the events that they purport to. Major newsmedia have generally paid little attention and dismissed Sollog's predictions, though several individual reporters have portrayed him as a notable crank.
Playing the odds
In addition to occasional specific predictions, Sollog uses numerology to claim hits, using numbers such as 113, 116, 911, 103, 169 etc. ([3] (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=AnMy8.199082 %24YJ3.4167142%40news.webusenet.com&output=gplain) ) to match events. For example, he might claim a hit for any disaster for which 113 (or 131, or 311, or 13, etc.) can be found in the date or statistics, even if finding the number requires some mathematical manipulation. Sollog has claimed hits for events that were off by 1 day or digit, relying on preliminary casuality figures or invoking the international dateline, or the EST time as a reason for inclusion.
He also draws lines joining various cities. His "Line of Death" sometimes passes through Seattle and Miami ([4] (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=371D33FA.290 1%40hotmail.com&oe=UTF8&output=gplain)) and other times connects Springfield, Oregon, Aspen, Oklahoma City & Miami ([5] (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=356452A5.552 E%40theasi.net&oe=UTF8&output=gplain)). The path of this line is restated by Sollog supporters to accommodate whichever event they claim it was meant to have predicted. Notably, the "line" is now described by points that actually form a zig zag.
He has also covered the East coast of America with lines, joining various cities and claims hits for any hurricane which passes over them [6] (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=ece14ed9.021 0051206.51faf747%40posting.google.com&output=gplai n). He also guarantees in this same