Rhianna's Groovy Tarot BLOG: What's in The Cards?
Blog of Rhianna, a Groovy Fortuneteller: read about political & economic rants and rambles as Rhianna reveals crystal ball forecasts and tarot card predictions with a mystical twist on celebrity gossip, fortunetelling, current events, astrology, humor, entertainment, news and advice.
Tom wants a wife: Celebrity gossip - Celebrity Spy - NewWoman.co.uk
" Tom Cruise wants another wife! The Mission Impossible star has revealed he is currently looking for a third life-long partner.
The star is divorced from Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman and recently split from long-term girlfriend Penelope Cruz, but he’s still hoping to find wedded bliss."
Supermodel sparks beach stampede. 30/06/2004. ABC News Online: "Police in Italy had to come to Naomi Campbell's rescue when a crowd of up to 4,000 men swarmed a beach to catch a glimpse of her in a bikini."
| I'm a Moonflower. I only bloom at night and I'm pollinated by moths. Kinky, huh? This flower means "I dream of love" and I do. What bloom are you? by Polly_Snodgrass |
SEMIOTICS AND THE SCIENCE OF MEMORY, Paul Bouissac
"Semiotic models are indeed often introduced and delivered through a rhetoric of philosophical persuasion and the way some of these models have spread among fairly large constituencies owes a great deal to the charisma of a few individuals and the institutional pressures they create. Like sects, some semiotic models offer a theory of everything rife with tautological predications and self-fulfilling prophecies.
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Memory has been a topos of western philosophical discourse at least since Plato. If innate ideas constitute a sort of ontological memory, recoverable through anamnesis, signs are only shadows of shadows and what is learned and remembered through sensorial experience can only be accidental and superficial. The relative significance of these two kinds of memory -- ontological and accidental -- in Aristotle and Augustine is endlessly debated in the Middle Ages."
Semiotics for Beginners: Introduction - Daniel Chandler
"Semiotics represents a range of studies in art, literature, anthropology and the mass media rather than an independent academic discipline. Those involved in semiotics include linguists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, literary, aesthetic and media theorists, psychoanalysts and educationalists. Beyond the most basic definition, there is considerable variation amongst leading semioticians as to what semiotics involves. It is not only concerned with (intentional) communication but also with our ascription of significance to anything in the world."
Conspiracy Planet - Astrology - Astrology:Pluto, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bill Clinton Etc
"Not being an astro-meteorologist, I can’t give accurate weather forecasts but I can sure tell the climate of human interactions and global politics. There is some heavy shit flying out there. Generating fear and insecurity are the Saturn forces, marshalling their centurions and legions of protectors of the realm.
Where there is power, there is control of the masses. Mercury conjoining Saturn is control of the flow of information…or suppression of it."
Fortune teller jailed after asking for $5,000 sacrifice to lift curse, police say: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"NORTH MIAMI BEACH – A fortune teller who needed to sacrifice another $5,000 to lift a curse on an undercover cop posing as a customer was arrested on a fraud count, police said on Thursday.
Detectives said there may be more victims to the alleged scam and are asking them to call the Police Investigations Division at 305-948-2940."
Heinz Kerry's family fortune worth estimated $1 billion
"Teresa Heinz Kerry, through a network of investments in blue-chip corporations, venture capital funds and municipal bonds, controls a family fortune worth an estimated $1 billion, an analysis of public records shows.
The $1 billion figure is double the estimates of her wealth that are widely cited in news stories about her husband, Sen. John F. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
The couple would rank as the wealthiest to occupy the White House, far surpassing such storied presidential fortunes as the Kennedys'. "
Spyware Warrior
The Scotsman - Top Stories - Was da Vinci's lover the face of Mona Lisa?
"AN AMATEUR German historian believes she has found the answer to a mystery that has intrigued art historians for centuries.
Maike Vogt-Luerssen says 17 years of research have lead her to conclude that the Mona Lisa portrayed the love-sick Duchess of Milan, and not the wife of a Florentine merchant, as the Louvre, where the picture hangs, insists.
She believes the notoriously enigmatic smile is the hint of the noblewoman’s passion for the painter..."
Telegraph | Money | Could property investment become a house of cards?: "Rising interest rates coupled with renewed warnings that house prices may fall are likely to make some buy-to-let investors jittery."
firstamendmentcenter.org: news
"NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A federal judge has struck down a law requiring fortunetellers to post disclaimers on their shops and advertisements, calling the ordinance an unconstitutional restriction on free speech.
U.S. District Judge Robert Echols, ruling in favor of former tarot card reader Beth Daly and the American Civil Liberties Union, rejected the city of Dickson's argument that its law was intended to protect citizens from fraud.
Echols cited earlier rulings that determined 'predictions are only fraudulent if the speaker knows of facts that will prevent a prediction from coming true.'"
Reversal of fortuneteller - Sunday, 06/13/04
"Dickson had an ordinance that banned individuals from plying the trade of ''fortuneteller, clairvoyant, hypnotist, spiritualist, palmist, phrenologist or other mystic endowed with supernatural powers.'' Saying they wanted to protect citizens against fraud, Dickson officials said that Daly, the owner of the Curiosity Corner New Age Shop, could read tarot cards as long as she didn't charge for her services. Daly sued, claiming the ordinance violated her First Amendment rights.
Dickson has since replaced its ordinance with one that requires fortunetellers to post disclaimers at their place of business and in advertising. "
Britney Spears Engaged (again): "Britney Spears is engaged again but this time it is for real. The singer is planning to marry Kevin Federline, one of her dancers.
Lavasoft
InformationWeek > IT Employment > Study: Technology, Not Outsourcing Is The Biggest Threat To Jobs > June 25, 2004: "In the new millennium, as the use of intelligent computers increase, jobs will vanish, with several million expected to disappear over the next five to seven years, Cohen said. While less labor to do more work is great for business, there will be an impact on society as people find decent paying jobs harder to find."
Forbes.com: Update 8: Web Virus May Be Stealing Financial Data: "Users can search their computers for the files 'Kk32.dll' or 'Surf.dat' to see if they are infected. "
ic Wales - Rowling still writes in old haunts: "Multi-millionaire author JK Rowling still finds the best place to write her best-selling Harry Potter novels is a cosy cafe."
INSIDE JoongAng Daily: "Is semi-permanent makeup medicine or cosmetics? Doctors and beauticians are fighting over what both groups claim as their domain.
The new face of wealth wears lipstick | csmonitor.com: "Britain has long been known as a friendly place for high-achieving women. It's had a female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, and Queen Elizabeth II has ruled for 52 years. Now there's a new milestone: For the first time women make up a larger part of the wealthy population than their male counterparts."
DNA tests debunk sea monster myths. 24/06/2004. ABC News Online: "One of the myths of the sea has been skewered by gene researchers, who say that huge 'blobs' of weird tissue that have washed up on shorelines and sparked tales of sea monsters are in fact the remains of whales."
The Scotsman - S2 Monday - How Italy invented glamour
"Jennifer Lopez in her slashed-to-the-navel turquoise green floral gown? That was Versace. Mrs Beckham showing the world she’d stand by her man in a tight black corset dress? Unadulterated Dolce and Gabbana. Liz Hurley stealing the limelight in that safety-pin dress? Pure Versace once again. Italian couturebrings va-va-voom to an outfit. La Moda Italiana epitomises female beauty and sexuality, drawing the eye, hugging the curves, stopping the traffic."
Ofcourse, no tarot reader can give you legal advice and to seek such from the cards would be folly; however, there are two cards with prominent legal symbolism: IV The Emperor and V The Pope. The Kings of the court cards symbolize the law as well, but the Emperor and The Pope are special cases which merit analysis.
New York Daily News - Home - Tiffany is in a tiff over eBay fakes: "Let the Internet buyer beware: Some discount Tiffany jewelry hawked on eBay is apparently about as genuine as a $10 Rolex sold on the street."
Iran seeks to extinguish hubble-bubble pipes
"TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian authorities are trying to snuff out one of the country's favourite pastimes, the smoking of hubble-bubble water pipes, whose apple and citrus tobaccos waft through most Persian restaurants."
Recordnet.com
"Telecommunications giant Verizon Communications Inc. has been using adware for nearly two years to draw prospective customers to its high-speed Internet business. Claria Corp., the leading adware provider, names Sprint Corp., Motorola Inc. and online travel company Orbitz Inc. among its clients in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Claria's chief rival, WhenU Co., says British Airways PLC and Bank of America Corp. are among the big-name companies that have used its service.
Advertisers like adware because they believe it works, delivering more customers at a lower cost than many other forms of online advertising."
Unholy Marriage: Spyware & Spam ? MarketingVOX
"MessageLabs reports that some of that intelligence may be coming from an evil union between spyware and spam. The email security firm said that it has evidence that some spyware programs harvest contacts for just this purpose."
"Spammers have found a way to bypass Outlook 2003's anti-spam security by embedding pornographic images into their emails."
Business News Article | Reuters.com
"CHICAGO (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday said a lawsuit that charges Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) discriminated against women in pay, promotions and training can proceed as a class action.
Attorneys for the six lead plaintiffs said it was the largest civil rights class-action case in U.S. history. "
Marziano da Tortona: Inventor of the Tarot?
"The amazing thing is that Marziano actually wrote a book to go with this deck of cards. In the book, he describes the structure of the deck, and then goes into great detail about each of the classical deities, what they represent, and how they are depicted on the cards. This was the first ever 'companion book' for a deck of cards, and it is sitting in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris to this day! Not surprisingly, it does not give divinatory meanings. But interestingly, neither does it gives the rules of a card game. The focus is on the allegorical meaning of the pictures and their proper ranking."
Groovy Pictures: Extracting sound from images of old audio recordings: Science News Online, May 29, 2004
"Songs and words preserved on antique vinyl records and wax cylinders become more precious with each passing day. They also grow increasingly fragile and are especially vulnerable to damage if played.
Now, researchers using optical-scanning equipment have made exquisitely detailed maps of the grooves of such recordings. By simulating how a stylus moves along those contours, the team has reproduced the encoded sounds with high fidelity."
‘Hippie Dictionary' defines groovy era
"The 1960s and '70s were a trip: bad as in good, heavy as in deep, cosmic as in far-out, high as in clean out of sight.
Everyone was an individual and everyone wore bell-bottoms, beads, granny glasses, sandals, fringe, headbands, peace symbols, tie-dye shirts and flowers in their hair."
Eagles rush prompts extra shows
"A box office rush for Eagles concert tickets has prompted tour promoters to add an extra show in Sydney and Melbourne...Internationally, the Eagles have sold more than 120 million albums with five number ones, four Grammy Awards, and five number one singles."
Designtechnica News - Mozilla 1.7 Web Browser Download - Your source for digital cameras, laptop computers, computer hardware and new technology: "Mozilla's latest browser isdesigned for compliance, performance and portability. Aren't they all designed for this? You can download it at the Spyware FREE MajorGeeks.com site."
Indictments of Enron's Lay Expected Soon
"HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are expected to ask a federal grand jury to indict former Enron Corp. chairman Ken Lay within two weeks on charges related to the company's 2001 collapse, a newspaper reported on Saturday."
Prevx Home, is freely available: "With an estimated one in three PCs falling victim to spyware, home users can now protect their systems for nothing, claims Prevx"
Technology News: Software: Spyware Legislation Wins House Panel OK
"Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) associate director Chris Hoofnagle said Congress is likely to pass spyware legislation this year, especially considering that the threat, unlike spam or viruses, often goes undetected on people's computers. 'I think this bill has some momentum because the extent to which computers are infected by spyware is very high,' Hoofnagle told TechNewsWorld."
