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News Briefs 31-08-2012

Posted by Perceval at 12:00, 31 Aug 2012

A floaty, yet robotic, musical feel to today's news. (Is that the best you can do, Google? Sheesh!):

Has the cause of Morgellon's Disease been discovered?
'Mysterious' Baltic Sea object is a glacial deposit.
Black hole 'bonanza'.
In flotsam news: Rhea egg found floating in the sea off Brighton Beach, boy strikes it rich with whale vomit find and (somewhat anti-climactically) potatoes wash up on the Isle of Man.
Virtual tour of Maeshowe goes online.
Temporary temples: an interpretation of the crop circle phenomenon as the art of making sacred spaces by Rupert Callender, author of the Natural Death Handbook.
Astrophysicist uses Nine Inch Nails song to visualise data from outer space.
Neolithic figures discovered near Jerusalem.
The artificial volcano a German prince built in 1794 is once again active.

This week's evidence of the coming robot revolution:

Light-activated muscles could make robots move like real creatures.
I, Robot. As science fact catches up with science fiction, what can the latter teach us about robot morality?
Eye, Robot. Australians implant 'world first' bionic eye.
Solar powered robotic sunfish grooves to the Grateful Dead (well, not really).

Quote of the Day:

There is something eminently human in the desire of impossible things.

Arthur Machen

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Is Peter Lindberg Zach Galifianakas?

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Posted by Greg H. on 31 Aug 2012 at about 15:54.

Has anybody noticed Peter Lindberg discoverer of Baltic Sea mystery object is a clone of Zach Galifianakis? The mystery deepens... :)

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That reminds me of something

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Posted by emlong on 01 Sep 2012 at about 13:46.

That reminds me of something I heard the other day about Zach. Dolores Cannon had paid him to be the star of one of her new agey conferences nearby me in Rogers, AR last year. The contract had been worked out before he hit the big time on television. He then regarded the little new age conference as beneath his status and tried to get out of it, but Dolores would have none of that, and he had to show up. He was in a bad mood the whole time according to one of the people at the conference and particularly upset by how early the bar closed at the hotel where he was staying.