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RAIN 11/28: What people collect



Austin American-Statesman 11/27/00
Chain saw collections offer history
http://www.austin360.com/shared-cgi/stories/show.cgi?id=aponline-menus-data/Na

tional.AP.V0321.AP-Collecting-Chai.story&menu=National.html

by Jeff Down
Associated Press
EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass. (AP)--Let other people collect stamps and coins.
Robert Ouellette prefers snarling, splinter-spitting pieces of machinery that
inspire mass-murder flicks.
Ouellette collects chain saws, and he has 43 of them so far.
He keeps them carefully stacked on wooden shelves in the loft of his barn.
Running his finger along the rusty housing of one model, he says wistfully:
``Cleaned up, prettied up, that could have a sense of beauty.''
There are maybe no more than several dozen avid chain saw collectors in the
land. Many have sold or used chain saws as dealers or loggers.


Dallas Morning News 11/26/00
Smithsonian museum's curator will be there to pick up pieces of Election 2000
http://www.dallasnews.com/campaign/092000/224172_trashman_26nat.html

by Todd J. Gilman
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The perfect artifact is here. The single object that
will forever define the long national nightmare known as Election 2000. It's
not a bumper sticker. Not a T-shirt.
It's a butterfly ballot, complete with voting booth and stylus. A genuine
Palm Beach County ballot, loose chad optional.
That's what Larry Bird wants. Problem is, the county isn't done with them
yet. So he'll wait a little longer.
"You look for that one thing that sums up the whole year," he says.
As a curator of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Dr. Bird
goes where the stuff is, the stuff that defines where we were at any given
moment in time: the first rough draft of history, written in posters and
doodads and bumper stickers.



The Flint Journal
Historic Web site a big hit
http://fl.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20001127f27b1histo.frm

by Jerry Ernst
CORUNNA - Shiawassee County's ghost towns are stirring with new life. In
fact, all sorts of long-forgotten sights and settings in the county have been
spotted lately.
Observers can see caged bears in Corunna's McCurdy Park, as they used to from
the 1930s to the 1960s. They can even catch a glimpse of such prominent
figures as prohibitionist Carry Nation and actor James Cagney.
All are visible online, thanks to jeweler Steven C. Schmidt, 46, who has
created a cyberspace recollection of the quirks, catastrophes, achievements
and changes that have shaped the county.
He has distilled three years of singlehanded research, documentation,
picture-taking and typing into an extensive Internet chronicle of the
county's past and present, looking at pioneers, politicians, soldiers, sports
stars and other notables.



The Free Lance Star 11/27/00
A web of history
Monticello building a link to slave sites
http://fredericksburg.com/news/Wire/State/1127mont.htm

by Maria Sanminiatelli
Associated Press
Imagine going online to look at china that slaves at Monticello kept in their
homes, then comparing it with what slaves at Mount Vernon used.
Imagine being able to learn about their diets, and how they compared from one
plantation to the next.
Archaeologists at Monticello want people to be able to do just that with an
online database that would list 1 million artifacts from 20 slave sites
across Virginia.
They also plan to catalog the items in a consistent manner that would allow
archaeologists, historians and the public to compare their finds for the
first time.
Fraser Neiman, Monticello's director of archaeology, said there are no set
standards for cataloguing artifacts, which has limited research thus far.



EWEEK 11/27/00
Data security made simple
http://www8.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2657411,00.html

by Scott Berinato
Data Security is complex, but picking the right metaphor to depict how a
product works can greatly simplify the process for enterprise users.
Two new products fill that bill. They use simple metaphors to clarify the
often technical and confusing discussion around security for the people
signing the checks. Cyber-Ark Software Inc., of Boston, last week introduced
its first product, Private Ark, which provides an online "vault" for
documents that need to be stored securely.
In addition, Gianus Technologies Inc., of New York, this month unveiled
Phantom, a desktop security product that can hide a disk partition completely
without encryption.


The Age 11/28/00
Archives may tell why pair were jailed by parliament
http://www.theage.com.au/news/20001128/A41550-2000Nov27.html

by Annabel Crabb
It is one of the hoariest political secrets in Australian history.
In 1955 journalists Frank Browne and Ray Fitzpatrick became the first, and
last, citizens to be jailed by the Australian Parliament, and no one knew why.
Five hours of Privileges Committee debate took place behind closed doors
before the pair were called before the House of Representatives and sentenced
to three months in prison for contempt.
Now, 45 five years on, Australians still don't know why, but it now appears
the answer may be in sight.
A NSW Labor MP, Daryl Melham, has been campaigning for parliament to give the
reasons for the jailing. Both men are long dead. Mr Melham argues that the
records of the Browne and Fitzpatrick debates have been kept secret for 45
years. And yesterday, the Government Leader in the House, Peter Reith,
indicated that there could be bipartisan support for releasing the documents.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
pakurilecz@aol.com

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