Arabs See Jewish Conspiracy in Pokemon - - Oh boy! What's that saying? . . . Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. Some Mullah obviously has too much time on his hands.

Copyright tempest over `The Wind Done Gone' is outrageous - - BY DAN GILLMOR, Mercury News : In the war raging over ``intellectual property,'' the news from the front hasn't been encouraging, as corporate interests slaughter the public good in case after case. But a lawsuit involving the work of a famous American author could help put at least one issue in front of a public that remains remarkably oblivious. On Friday, a federal judge blocked the publishing of a novel called ``The Wind Done Gone'' -- a retelling of the 1936 saga ``Gone With the Wind'' from the perspective of a slave, a half-sister of Scarlett O'Hara. The estate of Margaret Mitchell, the ``Gone With the Wind'' author, had sued on the grounds that the book violated copyright protections.

It is generally agreed that the loudest sound ever produced (in recorded history) was the volcanic eruption on Krakatoa in 1883. The blast created a sound wave that sent a tidal wave halfway across the world. The wave was so strong that it blew a Dutch warship 30 feet onto the land in the Harbor of Batavia (now Djakarta). - - - - - Joe Burns, Ph.D.