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.


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