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Saturday, February 27

This song is now stuck in my head

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Friday, February 19

Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Presents Jack Chick's "Dark Dungeons"!

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Friday, February 12

Aliens Rap

This...this is a thing of beauty:

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Thursday, February 4

10 Places You Can't Go in the World

Just in case you thought there were no mysteries left in the world. more

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Thursday, December 3

Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives

Gross and yet...somehow inspiring. more

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Saturday, October 31

The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu

The best summary of the Call of Cthulhu universe, ever.

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Friday, October 9

This "Pillow" Scares Me

Funktionide Part II from eltopo on Vimeo.

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Friday, October 2

How to Survive an Alien Attack

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Tuesday, September 1

This is Awesome

The Sixth Sense is a wearable, gestural interface. I've dreamed about this sort of technology since I was a kid. more

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Thursday, July 2

This. Is. Gross.


Fortunately, someone figured out what it (they) is (are). That doesn't make it any less bizarre.

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Saturday, June 6

Where the Hell is Matt?

It's sappy, I know. But it brings a smile to my face every time.




If you watch enough times, you start to see little things, like the way people dance, what's in the background, who is in the crowd...

Maybe I'm watching it too much. That's okay, I don't care. It makes me happy. And Brenden happy. Brenden will now share his thoughts: yhjgi ih jnhjc.

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Tuesday, April 21

American Stonehenge

The strangest monument in America looms over a barren knoll in northeastern Georgia. Five massive slabs of polished granite rise out of the earth in a star pattern. The rocks are each 16 feet tall, with four of them weighing more than 20 tons apiece. Together they support a 25,000-pound capstone. Approaching the edifice, it's hard not to think immediately of England's Stonehenge or possibly the ominous monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Built in 1980, these pale gray rocks are quietly awaiting the end of the world as we know it. [MORE]

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Wednesday, April 15

What's In the Box?

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Wednesday, April 8

Square Butts Burger King Music Video with SpongeBob Square Pants



Ze goggles...ZEY DO NAHTING!

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Friday, March 27

Beware Data Rot!

Data rot refers mainly to problems with the medium on which information is stored. Over time, things like temperature, humidity, exposure to light, being stored not-very-good locations like moldy basements, make this information very difficult to read. The second aspect of data rot is actually finding the machines to read them. And that is a real problem. If you think of the 8-track tape player, for example, basically the only way you can find 8-track cartridges is in a flea market or a garage sale. The problem, strangely enough, is not so bad on the older stuff, but quite bad on the more recent stuff. So we can read tapes here at the museum that are 50 years old. [MORE]

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Tuesday, March 17

Do You Suffer from Flying Polyps?

If so, then you need ELDER SIGN (tm)!

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Thursday, March 5

Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum

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Arguing that students should return to the fundamentals taught in the Pnakotic Manuscripts and the Necronomicon in order to develop the skills they need to be driven to the very edge of sanity, Arkham school board member Charles West continued to advance his pro-madness agenda at the district's monthly meeting Tuesday. [MORE]

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Sunday, March 1

The Cute Cat Theory Talk at ETech

As I always suspected, where technology goes, its earliest adopters are porn. This theory is expanded to include activism as a close second. In short, your technology is not successful until it's used to foment rebellion and distribute porn. [MORE]

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Saturday, February 28

Cthulhu Gets Loose

Octupus An octopus today managed to pry loose a water-control valve at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, flooding the facility with more than 200 gallons of saltwater. [MORE]

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Tuesday, January 20

Stonehenge Beneath the Waters of Lake Michigan

[Image: Standing stones beneath Lake Michigan? View larger].

In a surprisingly under-reported story from 2007, Mark Holley, a professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University College, discovered a series of stones – some of them arranged in a circle and one of which seemed to show carvings of a mastodon – 40-feet beneath the surface waters of Lake Michigan. [MORE]

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Tuesday, December 2

Giant amoebas found rolling on sea floor

http://1416andcounting.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/the-blob.jpgUsing a research submarine, marine biologists in the Bahamas have discovered large numbers of an unknown, grape-sized, single-celled animal slowly rolling across the sea floor.

"[It's] huge for a single cell. If I had cells that big I'd be six kilometres tall and weigh three trillion kilograms," said Sönke Johnsen, a biologist at Duke University in North Carolina, and the expedition's chief scientist.

Single-celled animals, known as protists, are usually the size of a pin-head or much smaller, but the size of this "sea-grape" isn't the most unusual thing about it.

"We watched the video over and over," said Johnsen. "We argued about it forever… [we thought] these things can't possibly be moving. There are other large protists, but none of them move." [MORE]

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Monday, November 24

The Robot Apocalypse is Nigh!

"What we have here are the beginnings of something designed to enable robots to hunt down humans like a pack of dogs. Once the software is perfected we can reasonably anticipate that they will become autonomous and become armed.

We can also expect such systems to be equipped with human detection and tracking devices including sensors which detect human breath and the radio waves associated with a human heart beat. These are technologies already developed."


Run! Run for your lives! [MORE]

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Saturday, September 20

Beware the Chronophage!

I get it...this guy made a neat clock based on some other guy's clock from long ago. But what he doesn't address is why he turned the grasshopper, which sounds like a quaint little keeper of time and is at best a stylized representation in the original clock, to an alien, reptilian-like locust of DOOM, complete with stinger, a red maw, and huge fangs. The thing has to be five feet long at least.


He invites you to witness him releasing it on an unsuspecting public. Isn't that how every supervillain gets his start? Don't say I didn't warn you...

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Japanese Bug Fights

Deep down, I know it's morally and ethically wrong to have bugs fight to death for our amusement. But it's like one step above having robots fight for our amusement. Sort of like how the Romans used to bet on whether or not a Rhinoceros could be an Elephant in the arena, only tinier and uglier.

http://www.japanesebugfights.com

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Friday, September 12

Want to Know if the Hadron Collider...

destroyed the world yet? This handy dandy tool will let you know!

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com

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Monday, September 1

Reflections on a Mote of Dust

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
Excerpted from Carl Sagan's commencement address delivered May 11, 1996.
Image from Voyager 1, 1990.

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Wednesday, August 6

Tetrapod Zoology : What was the Montauk monster?

Finally, a reasonable explanation for whatever the hell THIS is:

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Tetrapod Zoology : What was the Montauk monster?

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Friday, July 18

žižkov television tower, žižkov, prague

A very creepy tower...crawling with giant faceless babies:

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Monday, July 7

Simulation of a giant meteor collision with Earth

This is some scary stuff:

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Friday, May 23

What Your Cat Thinks

song chart memes
more graph humor and song chart memes

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Tuesday, May 6

Giant Robot Jellyfish Attack!

Yes, this is real...
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Friday, September 21

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots


God bless Bob.

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Friday, August 31

Lasermonks!

No, these are not sci-fi chop-sockey monks. These are honest-to-goodness religious monks who happen to refill their own brand of ink cartridges at bargain prices. You get cheap ink refills and all for a good cause -- you can't beat that! [MORE]

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Monday, September 19

Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day!

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