Archive for December 13, 2006

Scout Patch Website Hacked

Posted in OAImages News by John E. Pannell on December 13th, 2006 at 11:52 pm

Earlier tonight I received the following email from Bob Turner (edited slightly by me):

Dear John,

I’m a former Scout from the ’50s-’60s, and new to your web site.

While navigating the home page I noted the (deleted) icon and clicked on it. I was shocked to find the link it took me to:

 (link deleted)

I think your fine site has been hacked and I thought you would want to know.

OAImages.com has not been hacked, rather it was site the link was pointing to.  Continue Reading »



An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.


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Tree Octopuses? What’s Up?

Posted in Current Events by John E. Pannell on December 13th, 2006 at 2:02 am

Recenly, I posted here an entry about the endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus.  It should have been obvious to everyone this was a hoax.  But that wasn’t so.

Researchers at the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education recently released the results of a study:

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"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. "
Michel de Montaigne


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