And who invented the slash? – Tired of having to always type in “forward slash, forward slash” when you visit a website? Well, the scientist who created those slashes as part of web addresses now regrets that he did it that way. And to protect yourself from computer viruses, you may soon have ants in your computer.

BBC News reports that Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web 30 years ago, admits that the // in a web address were actually “unnecessary” and he could easily have designed URLs without them, but “it seemed like a good idea at the time.” BBC quotes him as saying that he had no idea that the forward slashes in every web address would cause “so much hassle.”
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One of the world’s leading members of the scientific community tells of his close encounters and the involvement of the visitors in his work. Due to the profound confusion that exists in the culture of science about the close encounter phenomenon, he must speak anonymously. He is an American, but works in Europe. PLUS, Linda Howe is back with a report on a NEW flu virus just now appearing.
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In 2007 a bizarre creature was discovered in a rat trap on a farm in Metepec, Mexico. About a year later, its existence came to the attention of Mexican UFO investigator and TV personality Jaime Maussan. Subsequently, it has been featured on the History Channel’s Monster Quest program, and has been the subject of a vast amount of internet rumor.

Listen as Whitley Strieber interviews Jaime Maussan about the creature, and find out the truth about the DNA that has been found, the anatomical makeup of the creature, and certain hidden facts about it and about the fate of the farmer who found it that are truly startling. For example, the creature was NOT killed immediately on being found, it is NOT an infant, and, despite its size, it was extremely aggressive.
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UPDATE! – UPDATE: Whitley thinks he knows WHY the Mayans predicted the end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012 and he explained this at our recent Stargate conference. He’ll also talk about it on Coast to Coast AM on November 12!

While the West is obsessed with the Mayan 2012 prophecies, it turns out that the remaining Mayans aren’t interested in them. Scientists now think that drought may be one of the things that caused the Mayans to abandon their cities and Guatemalan Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun says, “We have real concerns these days, like rain.”

On the MyWay website, Mark Stevenson quotes Pixtun as saying, “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.”
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