May you all have a fun and safe New Years Eve night.

Also I want to let you all know my website got a new 3D home page for the new year
Some parts are still under construction and the Trinity welcome created in flash takes a bit to load. I need to create a pre-loader and reduce the size of the swf file.

Home page quick link http://www.scriptedintelligence.com/

This came from Yahoo the other day, thought it was nice.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/photos/can-you-see-what-it-is-yet-amazing-camouflaged-animals-slideshow/a-great-gray-owl-positions-itself-in-front-of-a-similar-pattern-to-take-advantage-of-his-camouflage-photo--598066303.html

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By a most unlikely source.
Read all the way through this piece of history and prepare to be amazed:

It all started with a skin flick.
In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran through the woods, naked. She swam in a lake, naked. Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period, the movie also featured a simulated orgasm. To make the scene "vivid," the director reportedly stabbed the actress with a sharp pin just off-screen.

The most popular movie in 1933 was King Kong. But everyone in Hollywood was talking about that scandalous movie with the gorgeous, young Austrian woman.
Louis B. Mayer, of the giant studio MGM, said she was the most beautiful woman in the world. The film was banned practically everywhere, which of course made it even more popular and valuable. Mussolini reportedly refused to sell his copy at any price.
The star of the film, called Ecstasy, was Hedwig Kiesler. She said the secret of her beauty was "to stand there and look stupid." In reality, Kiesler was anything but stupid. She was a genius. She'd grown up as the only child of a prominent Jewish banker. She was a math prodigy. She excelled at science. As she grew older, she became ruthless, using all the power her body and mind gave her.
Between the sexual roles she played, her tremendous beauty, and the power of her intellect, Kiesler would confound the men in her life, including her six husbands, two of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th century, and one of the greatest movie producers in history.
Her beauty made her rich for a time. She is said to have made - and spent - $30 million in her life. But her greatest accomplishment resulted from her intellect, and her invention continues to shape the world we live in today.
You see, this young Austrian starlet would take one of the most valuable technologies ever developed right from under Hitler's nose. After fleeing to America , she not only became a major Hollywood star, her name sits on one of the most important patents ever granted by the U.S. Patent Office.
Today, when you use your cell phone or, over the next few years, as you experience super-fast wireless Internet access (via something called "long-term evolution" or "LTE" technology), you'll be using an extension of the technology a 20- year-old actress first conceived while sitting at dinner with Hitler.
At the time she made Ecstasy, Kiesler was married to one of the richest men in Austria . Friedrich Mandl was Austria 's leading arms maker. His firm would become a key supplier to the Nazis.
Mandl used his beautiful young wife as a showpiece at important business dinners with representatives of the Austrian, Italian, and German fascist forces. One of Mandl's favorite topics at these gatherings - which included meals with Hitler and Mussolini - was the technology surrounding radio-controlled missiles and torpedoes. Wireless weapons offered far greater ranges than the wire-controlled alternatives that prevailed at the time.

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I'm in the process of reading an interesting book from Elizabeth Scarborough entitled: Cleopatra 7.2.

It has to do with a (futuristic) genetic concept called, "Blending" whereby the cellular memories of one being can be transferred to another. Perhaps it could be intestering to share someone's life as they did, even if that person was the famed Queen of the Nile. Perhaps such experiments are not without repercussions. We shall see....

Though they are not my usual dining fare as far as genre is concerned, I have found the books of Dan Brown to be extremely well thought out and presented in a most enjoyable, readable style. They, for the most part, are page turners, where one will often put off eating in order to finish a chapter.

I haven't read all of his books but of the ones I have read and thoroughly enjoyed were Digital Fortress, Angels & Demons, The DiVinci Code and Deception Point.

Digital Fortress concerns itself with the inner workings of the NSA, cryptology, murder and techno-thriller mystery.
Angels & Demons is actually the prequel to The DiVinci Code and should be read first (duh).
Deception Point is a great ride of government secrets, NASA satellites discovering a strange object beneath the Arctic ice, cover-ups, assassins, etc. A thrill a minute!

I have yet to read his latest book, Lost Symbol, but it promises to be even more thrilling and involved than his Angels & Demons / DiVinci Code books. - Can't wait.

That should keep you busy! - Don't forget, you can order these on Amazon's Used Book list for pennies on the dollar!

This was on the USA TV series, The Outer Limits many years ago. Definitely a new spin on androids.

Found this in the BBC news feed.