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News Briefs 24-01-2011

Rufus, Ginny, Luna and Lily: Beyond my barricaded computer-room door, four 4-month-old fur-brats are demolishing my abode.

Thanks to Dr. Martin, James D., Red Pill Junkie, and Rick.

Quote of the Day:

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hunter S. Thompson

  1. burning coal
    See, if humans had been around to mine the coal back then, this mass extinction wouldn’t have happened. Leave nature alone for a few hundred million years and everything collapses or blows up.

    1. “Hokey Science”
      The article on the ghost busting shows on the telly is typical of mass media debunking. It has cited as examples all the most lame shows and the most lame of the scientific devices. Anyone who follows at least a few of the better shows knows how tebdentious and rigged this article is. It is not all at thorough and it was likely written in bad faith by someone who was desirous of a debunking outcome beforehand.

      1. Hokey TV
        I think the article’s main goal was to expose the serious disservice to parapsychology these so-called “investigative” programs perform, with their lame shaky camera tricks, blurry IR monochromatic footage, and the typical “Oh! what was that?!” repeated ad nauseam.

        1. i see too many dead people
          i’m just tired of there being so damn many of them, even animal planet has a ghost show! and they are running out of names for them too:

          Ghost Adventures
          Ghost Hunters
          Ghost Hunters International
          The Haunted
          The Haunting
          Paranormal Files
          Haunted History
          Encounters
          Celebrity Hauntings

          …as so on and so on….

          1. cost
            This is probably a question of cost.

            It costs money to hire actors and writers. Hence the popularity (with the producers) of “reality” shows, which don’t have scripts and don’t pay their actors.

            Similarly, capturing actual events and actual people cost more money than using canned footage that is really old, and hence has no copyright.

            Then you can economize further by using lots of archive footage of people talking about these alleged events.

            They probably don’t even have to rent a camera if they do this right. Just have someone talk over the archive footage in a grave tone of voice, and that’s basically it.

            You can make the voice sound more dramatic by speeding it up without raising the pitch. This works really well. Saves air time too, so you can run more commercials.

          2. Also…
            Also, don’t forget the huge advantage that DEAD actors can’t complaint with a union if you don’t pay them 😛

  2. To infinity, and beyond!
    Lot of great space-related news today.

    Either Kat thought of having an early commemoration of the Challenger’s tragedy, or she’s unconsciously revealing her desire to launch her troupe of misbehaving felines into orbit 😉

    1. troupe of misbehaving felines
      >> …or she’s unconsciously revealing her desire to launch her troupe of misbehaving felines into orbit 😉

      No, I haven’t considered that option — although it would be cool to live with the first group of feline space tourists. haha

      But I did get a wake-up call today. Some kids came over to see the kittens, and the fur-brats totally freaked out — scattering like bird-shot, frantically hiding, and then quivering in fear when I finally caught them for a petting session. So it looks like I’m not doing nearly as good a job of socializing these still near-feral critters as I’d thought.

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