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Ussr Clone
Surfing is to cyberspace what colonial rule is to the vestigial British Empire. Let's, for instance, begin a simple global voyage at Auckland. Then poke your nose to the North, through the eastern edge of the former USSR. From here, sweep your scan west wise through the traditional world's standard time zones viz. the often overlapping switch between zones slow and zones fast of Greenwich meantime. Proceed by cutting through most parts of USSR, Australia, Asia, Europe and Africa down to the east of the prime meridian.
Across this first stretch, you should have smelled over several former British colonies. Over these afore mentioned time zones, the sun is overhead whilst practical geography cunningly spies on the remainder of time zones in total darkness at the same time. These remainder time zones include time zones such using the Greenwich meantime (GMT), and the half -hour zones. Zones such as the Atlantic Time; the Eastern Time of New York and Miami; the Central Time of Chicago; the Mountain Time and finally the Pacific and Alaskan Time Zones crawling our homestretch voyage leg to a grand finale through Honolulu-the Alleged birth place for the ubiquitous favorite, and the equivocally accepted occupant of the Uncle Sam's Oval house, i.e the US's president-elect: Barack Obama......
Back to our dunal journey, the dotted spoor of former Royal colony is still unmistakable across the divide. A quick brush through a few judicial systems of these places is a verifier to the king's 17th century's Royal aged adage that "No Sunset over the Empire." A clone system to the empire age is cyberspace. Such cyber-household names as yahoo and Google can serve as best examples of this mirror image: whereby one has the exclusive option to search the yahoo for example, the bronze or the silver surfer shall stumble up against such sites as yahoo Argentina; yahoo UK, yahoo USA, yahoo....yahoo....yahoo plus whatever name of most major country names world over as long as correctly "googled" alphabetically. Did you once misspell Google for googol? Let's briefly take close sample of the later by use of paper as an aid:
What uses can be found for a strip of paper off a roll of register tape? Some teachers would use it to bring GOOGOL to class. A googol can be written as 1 followed by 100 zeros, or simply as 10¹ºº. The number doesn't sound too big when you talk about it, but students can begin to appreciate just how large it is when the teacher pulls out a strip of paper and unrolls the 100 zeros clear across the classroom. By comparison, 1 million looks trivial.
GOOGOL 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
Take the googol's 10¹ºº as analogous to the Google gigantic search engine's trivial power to digitize the Globe by the Second, and that this intricate spider web can be pinged from whatever location of this mother earth? Or, isn't it gospel truth that we have such sites as Google Japan; Google China; Google; Google; Google Kenya-the land where the first lady-elect, Michelle's husband owes paternal root link; Google Nigeria; Google whatever Time Zone. Theoretically, a Time Zone extends for 15º of longitude (360º/24 Hours=15º), so that the sun is overhead at Noon in each zone. And with the current globe's advent of info-technology, it is eminent that there is huge amount of surfing under every blanket of whatever Time zone. Am looking forward to get word from the NASA fraternity about what this web is able to tell them from the other side of the planet. Talk about No "Sunset" on Cyberspace.
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Book Review Of Apocalypse In Mind By Frank J. Roberts
You can almost taste the sulfur bubbling up from the fires and brimstone of Hell in this action thriller by Frank J. Roberts. It's 1968 again, God isn't dead, the Devil is tired of waiting, and the USSR and USA, locked in the Cold War, are searching for a paranormal path around the others' guard.
This is a very busy novel; there are at least two interacting parallel plot lines. (At least two...there are a couple others hinted at that I assume he intends to enlarge upon in his next book--according to the cover this is book one.) First is the oldest conflict of all, the supernatural one, good versus evil; and who better to play the protagonists in this fight than God and the Devil? Actually God stays in the wings (no pun intended); it's Lucifer that floats around, as he always has, causing problems. Then, of course, there's the conflict between the two earthly powers, the USSR and the USA.
The plots play out in Hell and on Earth. Hell is described in detail that might thrill Dante with tormented souls crying in the slag pits. While I don't know much about the biblical war between the angels of good and evil, I am willing to believe in the supernatural world created by author Roberts, and his Earth, while less interesting, is believably circa 1968.
Our hero, newly commissioned CIA Special Agent Brian Crawford, not long out of the jungles of Vietnam, arrives at a naval air base in March of 1968 expecting a normal counterintelligence assignment with the Soviet Union as the opponent; instead he finds himself over his head in a paranormal punching contest with the Devil himself. While Special Agent Crawford tries to find and destroy a Soviet paranormal research facility with the help of some buddies he met in Vietnam and several rather special paranormals, the Devil-tired of his number two position in the firmament-blindsides both the USSR and USA with the intent to destroy all mankind--and is blindsided in turn by the paranormals working with SA Crawford.
The Devil, Lucifer, realizes the paranormals working on the project with SA Crawford have stumbled onto his plan to destroy the world and he decides he has to get rid of them all; he can't afford God finding out about his plan. To this end he sends his demonic emissaries out into the world to corrupt and frighten politicians and wealthy industrialists into doing his bidding and terminating the project. The Catholic Church comes in for a bit of a beating too; the pope is killed and the altars of some of the world's great churches are corrupted. Then there's Dr. Mindhammer...but I'm going to let you read about him yourself.
As you may have guessed by now, the cast of characters is both long and at times confusing: there are multitudes of demons and spirits with conflicting agendas, good-guy scientists, bad-guy scientists and one scientist in the Dr. Mengele mode; there are paranormals with the ability to control the mind and burn you to a cinder; there's a swami and even an assortment of cheap thugs that do things the old way with a gun. We find clones, calculating millionaires and rogue US Senators. Throw in a few beautiful women--one demon possessed--and you've got a hard time keeping up. Not that that's so bad. You never get bored. You do, however, get distracted by the author's lack of attention to point of view. Occasionally you're not certain which character is talking much less emoting. This is something I hope he works on in his next novel. And there had better be another novel because he leaves us hanging in this one with the forces of evil in the ascendant! Find this book at Dog Ear Publishing
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Moviegoers Guide to New 'Iron Man 2' Characters
Despite some lukewarm early reviews, "Iron Man 2" - out Friday - is poised to be one of the biggest movies of the summer. And in the tradition of comic book film sequels, there are quite a few new faces from the original comics making their first appearance on the big screen. Also following tradition, the characters have been tweaked slightly (or drastically, in some cases) on their way to the ...
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