News Briefs 27-09-2012
Posted by red pill junkie at 04:48, 27 Sep 2012I've never seen Princess Bride.
So sue me.
- The Vatican gives its thumbs down to Prometheus. As did we all, your Holiness...
- Ancient Graliens: Micah Hanks interviews Giorgio Tsoukalos.
- New TV show will explore 'unsealed' UFO files. 'Unsealed' ≠ 'Gound-breaking' --just sayin'...
- BUFORA turns 50. Kind of depressing, if you think about it :-/
- Dan Mack responds to Lord Martin Rees' criticism on UFOs.
- There's nothing Cryptomundians love most than showing their contempt for Nick Redfern's fringier ideas about Bigfoot.
- Nick's recount of the Richard Shaver saga is Deroliscious.
- Hidden Experience's audio conversation with Susan MacLeod: Sasquatch sightings & shadow people are just a handful of the perks in the path of a 21st century shaman.
- Massive Buddhist site in Afghanistan is scheduled for destruction in December --not by the Talibans, but by a Chinese mining company.
- The coming summers of the ice-free Arctic, and what they will bring to the world.
- Robot cars are officially legal in California, and Angelenos will get to ride them in 5 years. Wonder how this will be done in a robot car...
- Google Street view has now added the East Australian Current, so you don't get lost anymore while trying to find Nemo (Video).
- 7 things you won't believe Science says make you happy —Aussie red meat beats the crap outta Prozac!
- Doing the Icarus: 12 deadly inventions that killed their creators.
- And here are the winners of this year's Ig Noble awards!
- Red pill of the day: Get ready to go Klingon with the new body modification trend.
Thanks to Rick, catherwood & Robbie Graham.
Quote of the Day:
Inigo Montoya: That Vizzini, he can *fuss*.
Fezzik: Fuss, fuss... I think he like to scream at *us*.
Inigo Montoya: Probably he means no *harm*.
Fezzik: He's really very short on *charm*.
Inigo Montoya: You have a great gift for rhyme.
Fezzik: Yes, yes, some of the time.
Vizzini: Enough of that.
Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead.
Vizzini: No more rhymes now, I mean it.
Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut?
Vizzini: DYEEAAHHHHHH.
~Excerpt from The Princess Bride.
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2 May 2004
1 hour 36 min
Inconceivable!
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@levitatingcat
30 April 2004
29 min 22 sec
Inconceivable!
Had to be said really... :D
Kind regards,
Greg
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@DailyGrail
2 May 2004
1 hour 36 min
You should have replied with, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means." :D
25 years... now *that* is inconceivable!
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@levitatingcat
12 April 2007
13 hours 58 min
I don't think it was ever released down here, all right?
And I've never seen it on TV either.
I guess I'll have to buy it on Amazon, to see what the fuzz is all about.
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
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@red_pill_junkie
2 May 2004
1 hour 36 min
It's also a kazillion times better than Prometheus.
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@levitatingcat
12 April 2007
13 hours 58 min
Well, the giants in Princess Bride sure are more friendly.
And they can rhyme!
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
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@red_pill_junkie
6 April 2010
10 hours 7 min
i will have to listen to the podcast when i'm not at work ;)
but great sketches RPJ
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
12 April 2007
13 hours 58 min
Just trying to reclaim my drawing chops, which have been neglected for far too long ;)
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
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@red_pill_junkie
14 April 2009
7 weeks 5 days
i'd so love to see your minds-eye sketches of the DG regulars...emlong as a Science Hero...epogrondine riding a bolide...Greg as a koala talking to Charles Fort...and so on
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
12 April 2007
13 hours 58 min
If I had more talent and free time, I'd definitely consider making some sort of TDG comics supplement ;)
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
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@red_pill_junkie
1 May 2004
1 day 17 hours
In a dark bedroom in future Southern California, a flurry of keystrokes reaches a crescendo. Thirty miles away in a commuter parking lot, the motor of a beige robot Toyota turns over and the transmission slips into gear.
The teenage hacker utters an exclamation of self-satisfaction and grabs his game controller. The Toyota squeals its tires and takes off for the freeway onramp.
After twenty minutes of careening through light traffic, the robo-Toyota takes to the surface streets, leaving dozens of enraged drivers in its wake. The driverless car screeches to a halt in front of a drive-up bank ATM. The truant once again takes up his keyboard. The car's mobile wi-fi accesses the ATM. The driver's side power window quietly lowers. The compromised ATM starts spitting its contents through the open window of the robot car.
A bored bank employee glances out the window. In shock, he blurts out, "WTF?!"
Only it is too late. As his fellow employees scramble, the Toyota peels out and races down the street with its cargo of ill-gotten bills, music now booming from the stereo. The elated hacker chortles with glee, punches in the robot car's final destination, and runs out the door to take possession of his haul.
That evening, as a cop calls in a burning beige Toyota and a tired commuter stares confused at an empty parking space, a pimple-faced felon drops exhausted onto his bed with a Mountain Dew, an armload of new video games, and a smirk.
12 April 2007
13 hours 58 min
So you have this fantastic teenage black-hat hacker, able to control both a robot car and an ATM —yet he's still in pursuit of paper money??
Or maybe stealing credit funds online would be too easy and boring for him ;)
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
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@red_pill_junkie
1 May 2004
1 day 17 hours
...sadly, robot cars have neither middle fingers with which to communicate, nor sensibilities that can be offended (something that will lead to plenty of property damage, I am sure).
12 April 2007
13 hours 58 min
The sorrow of the business mogul, who replaced all his workers for robots, but now feels quite unhappy —because you can't humiliate a robot ;)
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
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@red_pill_junkie
1 May 2004
2 days 1 hour
Obviously you've forgotten Tony Stark's interaction with 'his oldest friend', Dummy (2:05 - 3:40 -- or to 5:27, if you also want to see Dummy douse Tony).
12 April 2007
13 hours 58 min
I stand corrected ;)
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
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