Archive for August, 2009
A small, single-engine Piper Comanche 260 made an emergency landing on U.S. Highway 101 in California, narrowly avoiding any fatalities.
The small plane suffered an engine failure and landed among incoming cars, crashing into three vehicles. The plane was only carrying a married couple, according to local reports.
Stop the world, I want to get on…
- Three mysterious builds: how ancient peoples moved monoliths at Stonehenge, Easter Island and the Pyramids of Egypt.
- Zahi Skywalker Hawass has been shooting lasers at the Sphinx and the pyramids.
- Welcome to the Bogosphere: the strangest things pulled out of peat bogs.
- New Moon photo reveals tracks from Apollo moonwalk.
- Two moon eclipse around a distant planet.
- Upwards lightning caught on film.
- The Washington Post features an obituary on UFO researcher Richard Hall.
- And Fortean Times presents one final interview with John Keel.
- Something unknown this way comes.
- Seized by voodoo spirits.
- A poetic mystery via the ouija board.
- Is the man behind neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) messing with your head?
- Skeptic Richard Wiseman speaks to skeptic Sue Blackmore, on Wisemans new podcast series.
- Leonard Peltier denied parole once more.
- Ten fascinating bioluminescent organisms.
- Visualizing up to ten dimensions.
- The guide to the most epic fails in Star Wars tech designs.
- Visual effects: 100 years of inspiration. Having just seen District 9, things are looking pretty good after the century.
Quote of the Day:
I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: This could be interesting.
Paddy Lennox
Some men have a lot to offer a woman. Others have cigarettes and soda.
Police say Marion County, Indiana, sheriffs deputy Paul Wagner was moonlighting as a gas station security…
The $259.9 million jackpot prize for the Powerball lottery has been won and the winning numbers drawn Wednesday night were 43 – 14 – 31 – 51 – 24 with 27 as the Powerball number.
The likely winner of the highest Powerball prize in South Carolina history is from Columbia as the winning ticket was sold at the Murphy USA gas station fronting Wal-Mart on Garners Ferry Road near Interstate 77, according to news reports Thursday.
I am the Eggman. They are the Eggman. I am the LOLrus -Goo goo ga joob.
- Michio, Michio man! I want to be a Michio man! : Michio Kaku discusses NASA funding to find killer asteroids (Video… from FOX Business? WTF!).
- The Moon: Its one small step for a Man, but a prohibitively giant dent to the current budget.
- A *depressing* gallery of abandoned NASA projects
- Whats with Wasp-18b, and why hasnt it burned to the crisp since it orbits its star so closely? They should have named it Moth-18b instead…
- Is this the reason why those bug-eyed alien buggers need to come to this planet to reproduce?
- [Video] Abduction by Aliens: Meet the believers -I dont know whats more annoying: watching Stan Romanek milking his 15 minutes of fame, or all the Sci-Fi movie clips ABC included in the program :-/
- Regan Lee complaints about the lame, buffoonish use of UFOs in modern TV show plots.
- A second video of the orb-expelling UFO over Mexico? (And so $#amp;*ing close to where I live! Aaaaargh!!)
- Mexican axolotl on the verge of extinction -poor critter never had the chance to grow up.
- And on the other side of the world, the flying fox -the largest fruit bat and best Batman logo impersonator- also faces extinction.
- The World Oral Literature Project: An attempt to help cultures under threat from globalisation create lasting records of their native languages -and with Twitter, one of the new threatened languages is English! LOL
- Peru: Ancient tomb discovered at Huaca Rajada, of what could be the oldest ancestor of the Sipan dinasty.
- The Mighty Zahi is trying to trace King Tuts roots -were his ancestors Antlantean, Lemurian, or Hyperborean?
- Its clobbering time!!: CT scans show Ankylosaur tail was a real bone crusher.
- 3somes are not just fun, they are also excellent tools to erradicate genetic diseases. Youre welcome, guys
- Rare condition turns girls organs into crystal -Witty punchlines refrained out of respect for the poor child.
- Listen, right-wing critics of Obama: You got it ALL wrong. Turns out the POTUS is not a secret Muslim… hes a secret Jewish -Oy Vey!
- Faked Photographs: Look, and Then Look Again -OK, the Cappa photo is probably a hoax, but who could possibly doubt the authenticity of this jackalope pic? I mean, cmon!! Look how cheerful that lady looks!
- An interview with Richard Dawkins, as the release for his new book The Greatest Show on Earth approaches, galloping like an Apocalypse horseman- Plus sample chapter [Amazon US amp; UK].
- Is the coin flip really a fair way of deciding something? Well, lets see who dares telling it to this guy.
- …And speaking of fairness: Is it fair to judge a mans entire life based on a single event? Kennedys redemption from the depths.
Muchas gracias to Rick, Greg, amp; Holly.
Quote of the Day:
I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.
Edward Kennedy; speech on Truth and Tolerance in America (Oct. 3, 1983). …nbsp;Readnbsp;Morenbsp;raquo;