These are the links that were the first headline on cliffdweller.com during the month of June 2006.
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- June 1, 2006: Outward Bound for Robots.
A computer navigation system based on a part of the brain called the hippocampus has been tested on an autonomous robotic car. By enabling the robot to take what its creators call "cognitive fingerprints" of its surroundings, the software allows the vehicle to explore and remember places in much the same way mammals do. - June 2, 2006: BBC NEWS: Unknown creatures found in cave.
Eight previously unknown invertebrate creatures have been discovered in an underground cave in central Israel. - June 5, 2006: CNN.com – Ancient rock art may depict exploding star.
A rock carving discovered in Arizona might depict an ancient star explosion seen by Native Americans a thousand years ago, scientists announced today. - June 6, 2006: CNN.com – Review: Why mess with 'The Omen?'.
It's so ingrained in our pop culture, all you have to do is say the name Damien and everyone instantly knows you're talking about a demonic child. - June 7, 2006: SeedMagazine.com: The Gay Animal Kingdom.
Joan Roughgarden thinks Charles Darwin made a terrible mistake. Not about natural selection—she's no bible-toting creationist—but about his other great theory of evolution: sexual selection. According to Roughgarden, sexual selection can't explain the homosexuality that's been documented in over 450 different vertebrate species. This means that same-sex sexuality—long disparaged as a quirk of human culture—is a normal, and probably necessary, fact of life. By neglecting all those gay animals, she says, Darwin misunderstood the basic nature of heterosexuality. - June 8, 2006: from FakeGayNews.com: Bush Pushes Marriage Amendment; Framers Protest from the Great Beyond.
James Madison, known in textbooks as the Father of the Constitution, communicated his disgust through a medium who was conducting a séance attempting to reach the spirit of former New Year's Rockin' Eve host Dick Clark. - June 15, 2006: This Day in History – Happy Oregon Treaty Day.
…However, neither President Polk nor the British government wanted a third Anglo-American war, and on June 15, 1846, the Oregon Treaty, a compromise, was signed. By the terms of the agreement, the U.S. and Canadian border was extended west along the 49th parallel to the Strait of Georgia, just short of the Pacific Ocean. - June 16, 2006: ESA Portal – Europe set for perfect views of ISS.
A team at the Public Observatory in Munich, Germany, use professional equipment to capture spectacularly detailed images, some of which even show the Station’s communication antennae. This image was captured early in the morning on 12 June 2006. - June 20, 2006: Apple in talks to offer movies at iTunes, report says – Jun. 20, 2006.
Citing unnamed sources, Variety said iTunes might begin offering film downloads by the end of 2006, but currently a price on iTunes is a sticking point in negotiations. - June 26, 2006: New Orleans CityBusiness – Transvestite gang pesters Magazine Street.
The transvestites first appeared in March when they raided Magazine Street like a marauding army of kleptomaniacal showgirls, said Davis, using clockwork precision and brute force to satisfy high-end boutique needs. - June 27, 2006: Better than the Magic 8 Ball? You decide.
http://www.milaadesign.com/wizardy.html - June 28, 2006: Scientists OK Gore's Movie for Accuracy.
The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy. - June 29, 2006: CNN.com – UFO buffs say official denial 'alien to us' – Jun 29, 2006.
Last month, the British Ministry of Defence made public a top secret report on UFOs, concluding that three decades of sightings had failed to produce evidence of visiting extraterrestrials.
