An Innocent Question: Where on Earth is Darius Lockwood?

People who know me say I’m prone to paranoia. Fair enough, but in the words of the popular song, just because you’re paranoid don’t mean they’re not after you. As it happens I don’t think anyone’s after ME exactly, but I am starting to get a little concerned about our friend Mr Lockwood.

Let’s examine the evidence:

1) His site hasn’t been updated since November last year.

2) He doesn’t seem remotely concerned that a memory stick is missing which contains not only a great deal of his research and articles he was working on, but also large amounts of his personal diary. You’d think he might be keen to get this stuff back. Keen enough maybe, to answer emails telling him that it has been found. Keen enough to respond to Facebook messages. Lisa emailed him at the beginning of the year. I’ve been trying to since I found out. And nothing. Not a dicky bird.

3) Most perplexing of all, click on any of the links to his published articles on his website and you find they’re all dead. This happens or this. I’ve written to editors of each of these publications but have heard nothing back so far.

Suffice to say, I’m starting to get all kinds of thoughts going through my head. In fact, I’m not sure I should be posting this at all. I’m going to shut up now, and forget all about it. Yeah, I’m sure everything’s fine. Lah de dah just going about my day.

The Mysterious Case of the Man Who Lost His Memory Stick

Lots of very weird stuff happening at the moment. I received an email today from a woman called Lisa who found a memory stick on a New York subway almost two months ago. The memory stick appears to have been the property of one Darius Lockwood, investigative journalist and expert chronicler of all things underground.

On her blog trying to find track down the owner of the memory stick, Lisa has uploaded a few of the images. Suffice to say there is some pretty startling stuff on there. It seems Mr Lockwood (or whoever the stick belongs to) was exploring much of the same kind of thing that’s been fascinating me for so long. Check out the Conspiracy Mindmap here. It’s all there: Albert Pike, Augustin Barruel, Pierre-André Taguieff, Robert Amberlain, and the Weavers are all over the place.

Also, looks like he was researching Gnosticism for an article and was naturally drawn towards The Knights Templar, the Cathars and, of course, The Weavers. This is from a diary entry found on the stick here:

(not that I condone publishing private info on the web, but she's saying the owner might google phrases from it to find the drive.)

‘Different historical periods who also required a different implementation of Gnosticism. During the Manichean and Cathar Gnostic movements, it was all about purity of conduct and integrity. In 2nd and 3rd century Alexandria, it was all about individualism. And today? In the age of saturation and ennui, maybe it’s all about tearing down the palace walls and setting fires to wake people up?’

WTF?

Big Foot On Mars!

This has stirred a lot of controversy and press. No surprise as it combines two great mysteries: "Is there life on Mars?" and "Does BigFoot exist?". To that I'd add a third question: "If yes, how the f*** did he get to Mars?". Simulacrum mysteries are almost as old as the Internet, but this one is a lot of fun, mainly down to the hi-resolution of the pictures. Have a look for yourself and judge...

Turn's Holy Water theft blamed on Satanists

Luciferic sources have bagged some of the holiest water out there. A source at Turin police said a special team of carabinieri military police are investigating the break-in, and that the "most likely explanation" was that "the items were stolen to be used in a rite of black magic".

2012. Ancient records foretell the end of the world

The 2012 "meme" is getting everywhere. I knew it before it was famous!

The Mystery Of China's Stone Eggs

No-one knows where they came from or how they formed. Round stones, perfectly formed, found by workers digging a new highway in Hunan Province. Link.

Giant Skeleton = Hoax

Well, I wasn’t fooled. Link.

Comet Holmes Brightens A Million Fold

Sudden, inexplicable flaring up of comet brighter than the Sun leaves NASA scientists scratching their heads and Electric Universe proponents cheering. Check out amazing photos here.

Weird Russian Mind-Control

Homeland Security in bed with the KGB? Link.

Storm Worm Botnet Attacks Anti-Spam Firms

"It's been a pretty constant battle to stay online," Vincent Hanna, an investigator for the non-profit Spamhaus Project, told InformationWeek. "It's an arms race. They try something. We block it. They try something else. We block it. It goes on and on. Sometimes it's fine and sometimes we spend hours a day on this." Link.

It’s War Of The Worlds I Tell Ya!

600 People who visited a meteorite crash site in Peru have fallen ill! Also on the BBC.

Storm Worm Spams Its Own Bots

When Botnets Go Wild. Link.

Corman said the Storm Worm is an "instantiation of a class of botnets" that is being used in attacks such as pump-and-dump campaigns to derive profits for its authors. It communicates through decentralized peer-to-peer networks, which makes it difficult to stop.

If the Storm Worm authors find a way to monetize other uses for the botnet, users may see an influx of DDoS attacks that could paralyze some organizations. Some businesses are preparing for such an incident by reassessing their disaster recovery capabilities, Corman said.

He said he also worries about a political motive: For example, Storm could impact the websites of presidential candidates, or be used to deliver spam that may sway voter's decisions, Corman said.

"Storm Worm" adds millions of computers to botnet

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070902-storm-worm-adds-millions-of-computers-to-botnet.html

Amazing Floating Dutch Dude

This is all over the internets. Link.

Dust Comes Alive In Space

SCIENTISTS have discovered that inorganic material can take on the characteristics of living organisms in space, a development that could transform views of alien life. Link.

Storm Worm Rising

The Storm Worm is a huge botnet that may have commandeered up to 2 million PCs around the world. You visit a site, download a piece of malware, and unbeknownst to you, your computer becomes just another 'zombie' node in the botnet army. Then the creators use yours and the other computers on the network to launch spam or denial-of-service (DDos) attacks.

As sci-fi writer Sterling himself says,

The Storm worm is an amazing piece of work. Anyone who has taken the time to reverse engineer Storm will tell you that it is a very sophisticated piece of software and it is highly unlikely that it was created just to send spam.

Link.

Tibetan lamas banned from reincarnating

"The Chinese government, on the other hand, is determined to gain total control over Tibet’s Buddhists, even to the extent of manipulating their religious beliefs and practices." Link.

Corroboration of abductee's 'Star Map'

Barney and Betty Hill were out driving one night in 1961 when they were abducted by aliens. During the abduction, Betty was shown a 'starmap' which indicated the home world of extraterrestrials as well as various 'trade routes'. Now, after painstaking work by researchers, some details of that map have been confirmed... Link.

Let's Get Sirius

I don’t know a whole lot about cosmology. I know even less about electricity. But if these renegade scientists are even slightly close to The Truth, they could overturn the whole way we think about the universe. It was this story that first attract me to this group, a story about how their predictions for NASA's Deep Impact comet collision were more accurate than NASA's. The Electric Universe theorists, collected at Thunderbolts.info, believe that electricity, when factored properly into astrophysics, plays a greater role in the cosmos than the standard gravitational model, which says electrical forces are insignificant on a cosmic scale. Fascinating stuff. I've been exploring their site. I'll be posting more stuff as I find it. Link.

Alien Theme Park For Roswell

The US city famous for the celebrated UFO landing is going to create a UFO-themed amusement park for visitors. "Nobody will be harmed and everybody will be returned, hopefully, in the same shape," theme park concept designer Bryan Temmer said yesterday" Well, that's okay then. Link.