6/12/03
Nice. They’ve allowed shoutcast to broadcast through jukeboxes /radios / loudspeakers in there. (Until august 1 anyhow) very nifty. They seem to have all sold out. I'm glad I got a otr style and a loudspeaker.
Do we really want Idiotic Psychics running around? Every day our brains are not being melted into paste by super villains is another day we just got lucky, and now thanks to this book, we have to worry about morons firing invisible rays out of their heads on accident.
See also vampires This is the book you need if you're plagued by mystical blood-sucking creatures of the night, but want your tiny brain's hand held while it learns how to defeat them. This might be taking advantage of complete idiots, since as you know, vampires were long ago made extinct by the Easter Bunny's hunter-killer cyborgs. That's why there isn't a Completely Level-Headed Non-Insane Person's Guide to Vampires, and even if there were, it would just be one page long with a graph illustrating how you should quickly run in the opposite direction from any approaching Dracula.
Super huge Bollywood and Lollywood poster gallery (via Coudal Partners). The linked page takes a long time to load even on a fast connection - and it's just one of several!
Looking for Billy the Kid
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (AP) -- New Mexico is putting the legend of Billy the Kid under a microscope, using DNA tests to verify if the man who claimed to be the infamous gunslinger really was.
Gov. Bill Richardson scheduled a news conference Tuesday to detail how the state will aid an investigation launched by Lincoln County, where the Old West outlaw made a dramatic escape from custody 122 years ago.
The investigation calls for exhuming and testing the remains of Billy the Kid's mother and Ollie L. "Brushy Bill" Roberts. Roberts, who died in 1950, swore he was William H. Bonney, the name most often given by the Kid as his real one.
Roberts was buried in Hico, Texas, where he lived. Bonney's mother was buried in Silver City, New Mexico.
Others have also claimed to be the Kid, said Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Sullivan. One, named John Miller, was buried in Prescott, Arizona, and another, not identified, was buried in Mexico.
"We don't have a theory. We just want to know the truth," Sullivan said.
Historian Frederick Nolan, author of several books about Billy including "The West of Billy the Kid," doubts that Roberts was who he said he was.
Nolan, who lives in London, contends the Roberts' family Bible showed "Brushy Bill" was born in 1879, making him only 2 when the Lincoln County jail escape occurred April 28, 1881.
Besides the genetic testing, the investigation will examine whether an accomplice provided Kid with the pistol he used to kill two deputy sheriffs during the escape.
The sheriff credited with killing the Kid later in 1881 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, never investigated the jailbreak killings because he already had a death warrant against the outlaw, said Steve Sederwall, a volunteer investigator helping Sullivan.
Sullivan said he hopes to recreate the crime scene. Some physical evidence, such as bullet fragments, might still be imbedded in the Lincoln courthouse, he said. Fragments could indicate whether Billy used one of the deputy's guns or an accomplice's.
Wouldn't it be great if DNA test results from ALL of the Billy the Kid claimants matched? And oooh oooh, just match EACH OTHER, not Billy's ma....
Nice. They’ve allowed shoutcast to broadcast through jukeboxes /radios / loudspeakers in there. (Until august 1 anyhow) very nifty. They seem to have all sold out. I'm glad I got a otr style and a loudspeaker.
Do we really want Idiotic Psychics running around? Every day our brains are not being melted into paste by super villains is another day we just got lucky, and now thanks to this book, we have to worry about morons firing invisible rays out of their heads on accident.
See also vampires This is the book you need if you're plagued by mystical blood-sucking creatures of the night, but want your tiny brain's hand held while it learns how to defeat them. This might be taking advantage of complete idiots, since as you know, vampires were long ago made extinct by the Easter Bunny's hunter-killer cyborgs. That's why there isn't a Completely Level-Headed Non-Insane Person's Guide to Vampires, and even if there were, it would just be one page long with a graph illustrating how you should quickly run in the opposite direction from any approaching Dracula.
Super huge Bollywood and Lollywood poster gallery (via Coudal Partners). The linked page takes a long time to load even on a fast connection - and it's just one of several!
Looking for Billy the Kid
Gov. Bill Richardson scheduled a news conference Tuesday to detail how the state will aid an investigation launched by Lincoln County, where the Old West outlaw made a dramatic escape from custody 122 years ago.
The investigation calls for exhuming and testing the remains of Billy the Kid's mother and Ollie L. "Brushy Bill" Roberts. Roberts, who died in 1950, swore he was William H. Bonney, the name most often given by the Kid as his real one.
Roberts was buried in Hico, Texas, where he lived. Bonney's mother was buried in Silver City, New Mexico.
Others have also claimed to be the Kid, said Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Sullivan. One, named John Miller, was buried in Prescott, Arizona, and another, not identified, was buried in Mexico.
"We don't have a theory. We just want to know the truth," Sullivan said.
Historian Frederick Nolan, author of several books about Billy including "The West of Billy the Kid," doubts that Roberts was who he said he was.
Nolan, who lives in London, contends the Roberts' family Bible showed "Brushy Bill" was born in 1879, making him only 2 when the Lincoln County jail escape occurred April 28, 1881.
Besides the genetic testing, the investigation will examine whether an accomplice provided Kid with the pistol he used to kill two deputy sheriffs during the escape.
The sheriff credited with killing the Kid later in 1881 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, never investigated the jailbreak killings because he already had a death warrant against the outlaw, said Steve Sederwall, a volunteer investigator helping Sullivan.
Sullivan said he hopes to recreate the crime scene. Some physical evidence, such as bullet fragments, might still be imbedded in the Lincoln courthouse, he said. Fragments could indicate whether Billy used one of the deputy's guns or an accomplice's.
Wouldn't it be great if DNA test results from ALL of the Billy the Kid claimants matched? And oooh oooh, just match EACH OTHER, not Billy's ma....
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