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March 14, 2007

The Zodiac Killings

Interesting slideshow here about the Zodiac Killings

With a new movie out on the mysterious "Zodiac' murders of the 1960s and 70s, we re-examine the murders with a series of photographs from the most notorious murder spree in Bay Area.
Interestingly - one of the images is this - an "undecoded message" from Zodiac ...


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Zodiac included several cryptograms in his letters to various Bay Area newspapers. In the accompanying letters, the killer claimed that if authorities could crack the code it would reveal his identity. However, authorities were never able to decode the messages. Photo: San Francisco Police Department

I wondered - is this true now? Is there nobody who can decrypt the "Zodiac Message" in the 21st Century??

Unless the "Zodiac Killer" was using a "private language" - and as Wittgenstein said "there is no such thing as a private language" ...

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July 5, 2006

Crispy News & Digg Clones

I've just spent a morning using the Crispy News website tools to make a near "digg" clone - but focused on Extreme Tales

I cheated a little - by recycling old Extreme Tales blogposts to fill it up with news a bit - but it allowed me to get a feel for the interface and figure out what I could and couldn't do.

I use digg quite a lot - but the emphasis is on technology - the recent update to digg v3 included video games - but no sports of any description, not even under "entertainment" - and nothing about Extreme Sports either.

So I have built my own digg clone thingy totally focused on Extreme Sports - you can try it here - and please add stories, vote on some stories and give some feedback - and it does RSS as well.

I'll report back in the future about how it goes - early days yet ....

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January 16, 2006

Extreme Tales

I'm currently working on a new book called Extreme Tales and I am collecting tales from extreme sports enthusiasts.

Calling all cave divers, base jumpers, free climbers, surfers, bungee jumpers, zorbers, parkour enthusiasts, skateboarders, kite boarders, free divers, wing-suiters, freefall specialists, wind riders, skyflyers, wake boarders, urban exploration experts, wind surfers, cavers, mountaineers and white water rafters.

Are you an extreme sports enthusiast?
Do you have tale to tell about your extreme sport?
If so please contact the author to arrange an interview.

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September 1, 2005

Extreme Tales Comments

COMMENT ON EXTREME TALES WEBLOG HERE

Just like News Machine - I've made this comments page buried deep below the bottom of my weblog to allow people to comment on the static Extreme Tales Weblog.

Posted by Dr. K at 8:33 PM |