News Briefs 31-03-2008
Posted by Perceval at 11:31, 31 Mar 2008Don't Panic! The news is here.
- U.S. to approve first new nuclear reactors since Three Mile Island incident. Blow that!
- Are corporate logos using sigil magic? Don't look at that TDG logo too long, you might start seeing the world a little differently! Via Technoccult.
- Read a page from Newton's Alchemical Notebooks. Tis strange to see...
- UFO Vortices and mystical car crash zones. Don't look up, you might get run over.
- Alex Jones urges: Question Your Reality. WTF?
- Think locally, eat globally.
- Blind archer tops Robin Hood.
- This girl's not letting my arrow out of her sight. Perhaps she doesn't trust me. Thanks to Mac Tonnies for that one.
- Investor puts his money into the rainforest. Does money grow on trees?
- Mystery bone found on Peruvian bus.
- Life in ancient Egypt wasn't that sweet. More.
- Elephant artist paints an Elephant.
- Snort coke, shaft the environment.
- Clay tablet identifies asteroid that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Pwnage news: Brain scan lie detectors 'may already be in use'.
- Jedi church founder attacked by Darth Vader.
Thanks Kat.
Quote of the Day:
"The carcasses removd they went not far but to them appeard a spring, at which they tried to make the Beast drink, but in vain, till Diana's doves in shining bright attire calmed the air with their silver wing."
Isaac Newton
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30 April 2004
5 years 7 weeks
I think that clay tablet that depicts the asteroid that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah was printed by Pravda. Either that or the Times got trigger-happy and ran this story a day too early.
Bill
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. (Thomas Carlyle)
25 November 2004
13 hours 4 min
It was also reported in the Telegraph. Scepticism is good all year round though!
30 April 2004
5 years 7 weeks
Note that the Telegraph version does not mention Sodom and Gomorrah. In fact, the Telegraph article mentions the land close to the town of Köfels in the Austrian Alps. No one knows the exact location of the ancient villages of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Bill
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. (Thomas Carlyle)
12 April 2007
7 hours 40 min
Serves him right. Obviously that Jonba Hehol has a too-low rate of midiclorians to be considered a true Master Jedi!
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
12 April 2007
7 hours 40 min
I think that's the jawbone of a mastodon.
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
25 November 2004
13 hours 4 min
So that's half the mystery solved!
12 April 2007
7 hours 40 min
You mean to tell me you've never tried mastodon soup? ;-)
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
25 November 2004
13 hours 4 min
No, my order never arrived...
Ah, mystery solved!
1 May 2004
2 days 14 hours
I emailed that YouTube Perceval posted of an elephant painting an elephant to a friend who's a professional artist, and who also teaches painting. She emailed me back, saying she thought it was faked, because the video didn't show the whole elephant painting - it only showed the trunk.
So I looked through YouTube's list of the related videos. Here's a video that shows the whole elephant while it's painting an elephant. The paper's a different color, the painted elephant looks similar but not exactly the same, and I have no idea whether or not 'the artist' is the same elephant.
I suppose it's possible that the elephant has been taught to paint an elephant, though I wonder how they'd manage to teach it something like that. But even if that's the case, it's a darn good trick, and doesn't negate the fact that the elephant is an amazingly good artist.
K
25 November 2004
13 hours 4 min
They do seem to have natural ability, but there's obviously some training involved.
Plenty more art and video here at the Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project: 'a non-profit organization dedicated to saving the diminishing number of Asian elephants left on our planet through its work with domesticated elephants. The AEACP raises funds through donations and the sale of artwork created by elephants in order to fulfil its mission.'