Let’s pump ourselves full of magic monkey juice and take a trip to space land…
- The drugs did work – Philip K. Dick was the master of ‘reality shift’ fiction…if only because his life was exactly like that.
- UCLA professor says that the Dark Lord is just misunderstood, in his book Satan: A Biography (Amazon US). Anyone noticed how you never see Satan and Donald Rumsfeld in the same room together?
- Whitley Strieber’s new novel The Grays uses fact-based fiction to tell amazing truths. Amazon US & UK.
- Generation X-files go to school.
- Pope to inspect image of Christ on veil.
- More on that Harry Potter porn story I linked to a couple of weeks ago. Actually, it just looks like a rewrite.
- Michael Shermer’s latest “Skeptic” column in Scientific American tells how a court of law may determine the meaning of replication in science.
- NASA finds direct proof of dark matter. “There’s gotta be something between Dubya’s ears,” says official. Okay, so he didn’t say that.
- The Inelegant Universe: new books argue that it’s time to drop the idea of string theory.
- The robots are coming!
- Study says that Greenland’s glaciers have been shrinking for 100 years, undermining Global Warming claims. That sort of cold will make anything shrink…right fellas?
- Prehistoric tools and weapons found in the Andes.
- Is the Antikythera Mechanism the world’s oldest computer? That, or the Vic-20 I have out in the back shed.
- Egyptian-Australian family go in search of a Pharaoh’s ransom, hoping to tap the riches of the long-dormant gold mines of Dynastic Egypt.
- The Aegeans ritual prehistory stretches back into the 3rd millennium BC.
- The Bruton Vault in Virginia is worthy of a Dan Brown novel. Considering the alleged link to Francis Bacon, perhaps it will be…
- Irish company challenges scientists to test their ‘free energy’ technology. I’m guessing they’re trying to remove the quotes from around ‘free energy’. Looks like they have some challengers.
- Artificial Intelligence proponents say that search engine technology is still in its infancy.
- Questions that call for a genius. I’m just going to quietly pop out for a coffee…
- Man survives 1000 meter fall.
Quote of the Day:
Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups…So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.
Philip K. Dick (1978)