Due to Billionaire Bill’s onerous f*#&ware crashing four times, I don’t have a clue if this is even most of the news, but at least I’ve got a parrot story for shadows.
- Check out this 9-minute trailer for ‘Entheogen: Awakening the divine within’.
- Gospel of Judas rattles beliefs.
- The Judas cover-up.
- A Song from Sumer – committed to clay in 2,300 BC.
- Egypt finds clue to ancient temple’s secret.
- China digs into mystery of missing Peking Man fossils.
- Archaeologists find Amyclae, Virgil’s demi-god city where Castor and Pollux fought Aeneas.
- Study explains evolution’s molecular advance.
- Accidence and substance: Two possible explanations for the bulk of reality.
- Star explodes inside atmosphere of another.
- Our solar system is enveloped in a giant bubble caused by an ancient supernova explosion.
- Uranus found to have rare blue ring.
- SpaceX says human error doomed rocket.
- Tech update turns yesteryear’s polyester leisure suit into taser-proof armor.
- Soft paternalism: When the state wants to nudge you in the right direction.
- Former head of Star Wars program says Cheney main 9/11 suspect.
- The Federal Bureau of Luddites.
- VoIP customers are discovering that their calls cannot be connected because telecom companies are blocking the movement of such traffic across the net.
- The idea of a happy, cooperative society in which no one gets punished falls apart as soon as a few freeloaders show up.
- The Cosmic Ordering Service: No commitment, unlimited benefits.
- Interest in the werewolf phenomenon will never fade.
- Shades of shadows: Mark Morford is nuts over his parrot too.
- Nazi Flying Saucers.
- Pravda asks: Did US astronauts spot UFOs on the moon?
- Confessions of a NASA airbrusher.
Hat tip to Richard.
Quote of the Day:
Parrots, you should know right now, are enormously weird. Surreal. They bring with them a bizarre sense of wild and unfamiliar nature and you cannot feed them or watch them move and preen and waddle awkwardly down the hall without this sense of trippy otherness…
Mark Morford, who exhibits remarkable restraint regarding the circumstances of his girlfriend’s screams.