Just something I noticed about yesterday’s news out of Austin, Texas. It may be nothing, of course…
From a 1999 story at slashdot:
Posted by CmdrTaco
on Wed Nov 03, 1999 01:45 PM
from the do-you-see-what-I-see dept.
Arctic Fox writes ”The BBC has a story reporting that Australian intellegence confirms the existance of Echelon. “ Obviously there is no “Official” confirmation, but its still pretty interesting. “They” are definitely watching.
And, keeping in mind that 1999 was before Google took over Deja New’s archives and before Usenet had ceased being the major means of Internet commentary—my response:
(Score:3) by Baldrson (78598) writes: on Wednesday November 03 1999, @01:30PM (#1566010) Homepage Journal
Fact 1—Deja News is in the Echelon building: [citivu.com]
Deja News, Inc.
9430 Research Boulevard
Echelon II, Suite. 350
Austin, TX 78759
Fact 2—Cycorp [cyc.com] makes what are arguably the best tools for scanning the web for concepts.
Fact 3—Cycorp was a spinoff of MCC [mcc.com].
Fact 4—Deja News, Inc., Cycorp and MCC are within walking distance of each other.
Fact 5—Bobby Ray Inman [surnameweb.org] was the first director of the MCC.
Fact 6—Bobby Ray Inman is a spook’s spook.
I may be a bit biased here since I was invited to go to work at the MCC when it was in its early formative stages (before Austin had been selected). My office was, at that time, at Arden Hills operations at Control Data Corporation, just two stories above about an acre of supercomputers that had signs hung on them that read “Fort Meade” [cmu.edu].
As Seymour [ucar.edu] used to say to the “insurance” agents located at the “Thorp Insurance offices” out in the middle of the corn fields near his farm where his tribe was building the Cray-1:
“Just don’t let my people know you’re here.”
His address is 6001 West Palmer Ln, Suite 370 #167
Austin Tx, 78727
Google it and u get:
http://www.ascendantmarketing.com/contact-us/
Look at the Bottom
North America
Ascendant Marketing
6001 West Palmer Ln, Suite 370 #167
Austin Tx, 78727
Ph: (512) 239-8066
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Middle East
Ascendant Marketing
PO Box 34812
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ph: (97150) 5501609
Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
And more trivia:
Stack’s website was last modified on
April 19, 2004.
Posted by luther on Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:45 | #
maybe ascendant marketing is just leasing the same office that stack used to use.