In Other News

[-Jrabbit]

In monolith news: Gingerbread for Christmas!

https://www.cnet.com/news/gingerbread-monolith-sweetens-christmas-day-in-san-francisco/

(Maybe a DP on my part, but this is the correct thread for this story...)

[Uncle Sparky]

I guess while he is still slightly relevant, Trump is doing his April 1 jokes now.
(I'm still waiting for Civil War 2)

[Uncle Sparky]

Best of The Beaverton.

[Uncle Sparky]

Finally the Trump Administration makes sense.

[Uncle Sparky]

Never sit beside a window, in your underwear, drinking tea in Novosibirsk.

[N35t0r]

Dangerous things in Russia:

• Windows
• Tea
• Underwear

[pchang]

Some Russian spies are about to get fired (at the very least). And watch your underpants.

[Dauphin]

British in India say "Cobra effect". So be careful.

[Dinner]

I like the idea of eating invasive species. If gives people a financial incentive time to hunt invasive species and thus control their population.

[BeBMan]

Let's hope Guardians of the Galaxy 3 will be better than 2 (which I didn't like ) /cts.

In other "other news":

Pythons might become a new menu item in Florida if scientists can confirm they're safe to eat

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/20/u...rnd/index.html

I just skimmed this article and found no mention if those would be dead or alive. Which may have a bit of an impact

[Uncle Sparky]

Can the lead general/admiral be called Star Lord?

[pchang]

The New Guardians of the Galaxy

[BeBMan]

Peru: Police conduct drugs raid dressed as Santa Claus and elf

A police drugs-squad in Peru have raided a house dressed as Santa Claus and an elf, detaining a suspected drug dealer.

A police spokesman said the man was accused of selling drugs outside his house, near a school.

Officers, wearing flak jackets under their costumes, arrived in an undercover van before breaking into the house where they discovered a bag that appeared to contain drugs, balaclavas and a gun.

The country's police have used disguises during raids for some time and say the method is an effective tactic.

They have been known to dress up as homeless people and street sweepers in the past.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-la...erica-55327903

Next yr they'll confuse them criminals by dressing up as police

[BeBMan]

After 51 years, the Zodiac Killer's cipher has been solved by amateur codebreakers


More than 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern California, a code-breaking team is believed to have finally cracked one of the killer's mysterious coded messages sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969.

Dubbed the "340 cipher," the message was unraveled by a trio of code breakers -- David Oranchak, a software developer in Virginia, Jarl Van Eycke, a Belgian computer programmer, and Sam Blake, an Australian mathematician.

Decoding the cipher revealed the following message. It was sent in all capital letters without punctuation and included the misspelling of paradise:


"I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me

That wasn't me on the TV show which brings up a point about me

I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice all the sooner

Because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death

I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice death."


The TV show the message refers to is "The Jim Dunbar Show," a Bay Area television talk show. The cipher was sent two weeks after a person claiming to be the Zodiac Killer called into the show.

(snipsnap)

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/11/u...rnd/index.html

I love how he wrote "paradice". If there had been an intarweb back then he may have dropped his msg as a poast.

[pchang]

Russia is clearly not worried about a nuclear attack.