FEEDBACK always enjoys stories about criminals making crass blunders that lead to their capture. in the Martinsburg, West Virginia, paper The Journal may provide an example. It tells us of a novel kind of fingerprint that was left at the scene of a burglary, and which has landed an alleged culprit in court.
Spotting a computer, an intruder into a house in Martinsburg switched it on and logged into his own Facebook page. Unfortunately for him, he didnât bother to logout again. The returning householders found two diamond rings to be missing.
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Some time later, Jonathan G. Parker of Fort Loudon, Pennsylvania, found himself in court charged with daytime burglary. Thanks to identification provided when police read the still-open Facebook page at the burgled house, he was remanded in custody at . As we went to press he appeared to have raised his $10,000 bail. We await the outcome of his trial with interest.
âHaving stumbled upon and its promise of âthe most affordable solar systems in Australiaâ, John Hartman says âI want a solar system now. Badly.ââ
WHO can guess what this marketing pitch is about? âUsing carefully controlled energy levels and frequencies, electrons are forced and attempt to enter the dielectric.â Could be free energy or could be a cure-all, so letâs keep going.
âImagine a high-frequency, high-energy force zipping along the conductor surface in a corkscrew fashion between the conductor and into the dielectric; the malingering electrons and negative charges are then forced to join the procession,â it continues. Feedback very much likes the idea of âmalingering electronsâ. Weâre not sure that forces can âzipâ, but that probably proves weâre in the pay of some suppressive conspiracy of pedants.
Going back to the top of the web page that Bob Harris sent us, we discover that âIt is a well-known fact that high-quality audio and video cables improve over time.â It is? âCable that has been âburned-inâ will sound more open, extended and three-dimensional, with a more natural, less sterile performance overall.â It will?
And are cables even supposed to have a âdielectricâ? We asked a famous web search engine for âaudio cables dielectricâ: the first result was titled ââ.
Scrolling down the site, we find the obligatory picture of Nikola Tesla making lightning in his Colorado laboratory, and the news that the Blue Horizon Proburn will drench your cable with âa sequence of unique ultra-low frequenciesâ â unique with respect to what? At the same time, it will burn it in at â10,000 times the upper frequency limit of a typical CD playerâ, which would be 200 megahertz, by our calculations: near the top of the FM radio band. So, you get two oscillators in a nice box â with gold connectors, naturally â for . Bargain.
BACK in 1991, Janice Russell was being driven through southern England by her brother, a fellow New Zealander who had emigrated to the UK. As they crossed Salisbury Plain, he pointed out a âTank crossingâ sign and, like Neill Jones (22 August), observed that it collapsed to false every time he looked at it. What conclusion can we draw about the nature of the universe from the fact that as soon as he said this a tank started to cross the road?
Don Jewett writes from California to observe that the locally prevalent âFalling rockâ warning hardly ever collapses to âtrueâ. âFallen rockâ would seem more suitable, he notes, but speculates that it may have been rejected on the grounds that âmoral issues shouldnât be raised by government signsâ.
And Peter Borrows asks of the sign âRoad works aheadâ: âWhat more evidence than holes, barriers, pneumatic drills and piles of soil do you want of a road not working?â
CONTRARIWISE, probably, Peter Davies sends a photo of a signpost near an ancient English university town bearing an indication of a cycle route to âCavendish laboratory onlyâ and, immediately below and in the same direction, âCambridgeâ. Presumably, just out of shot, the path bifurcates into parallel universes, in one leading to the town and in the other to the famous physics lab, only.
A for the heart drug Tikosyn advises: âSeek medical attention right away if any of these SEVERE side effects occur when using Tikosyn: Severe allergic reactions⊠fast, slow, or irregular heartbeat; fainting; heart attack; pale stool; paralysis; pounding in the chest; stopping of the heart; sudden death; yellowing of the skin or eyes.â William Peltz is impressed by the notion of seeking medical attention for sudden death.
FINALLY, when Roly Roper was going through his email on Yahoo, a pop-up appeared telling him that there had been âan unexpected problemâ and to try again. What he wants to know is: if the problem was indeed unexpected, how come they had a pop-up ready for the situation?
