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Create a 10-minute collaborative short digital film. Each scene is created by a different director based on this storyboard. 48 hours after deadline submission will be spliced and released on MemeFeeder.

Animal Sacrifice Ritual Sparked L.A. Fire-Officials Say
A wildfire in a forest north of Los Angeles that forced thousands of holiday campers to flee the fast-moving flames was ignited by candles used in an animal sacrifice ritual, fire officials said on Thursday.

The Pied Sniper: Noel Godin's Flavorful Terrorism
On February 4, 1998, Belgian anarchist Noel Godin cemented forever his place as a legend in the worldwide struggle against evil and oppression. Godin masterminded the flawlessly executed Bill Gates pie ambush in Brussels, with at least four cream pies pummeling the Microsoft chairman directly in the face as he entered a government building to attend a formal reception with Flemish dignitaries. The sight of the world's richest man smothered in whipped goo, looking just like one of those fat, haughty high-society ladies caught in the crossfire of the Three Stooges, was many a subversive's dream vision brought deliciously to life.

Commentary Tracks Of The Damned
When filmmakers began recording commentary tracks for laserdiscs more than a decade ago, they were pioneering a clever use of technology while offering serious film buffs a rare look behind the scenes. Then the feature carried over to DVD, which quickly became a standard format for cineaste and non-cineaste alike. Consequently, the now-commonplace commentary track lost some of its sparkle, as the cast of Dude, Where's My Car? crammed into a recording booth to register their thoughts on the cinematic process. But filmmakers standing up for their failures exude a certain perverse nobility, and command a lingering fascination: Will they shoulder the blame, or point fingers? Will they inadvertently reveal something dense or pretentious about themselves, clarifying how a bad movie came to be? Do they even recognize that something's wrong? For those with the patience to sit through an entire commentary on, say, Battlefield Earth, there's much to be learned. For those without that kind of patience, The Onion A.V. Club presents the Commentary Tracks Of The Damned.

The not-so-shocking truth about guys.
The Madness and the things it can lead to.

A Theory of Evolution, for Robots
"Evolution has created numerous flying creatures, like the house fly," Nordin said. "Birds and insects can do things with their wings which airplanes can't dream of, and a lot of research indicates that future airplanes need to have more flexible wings to achieve better performance. We wanted to take a first step in that direction with artificial evolution."

American officer kept his silence for two years
Aliens took part in a military exercise in Arkansas
An American officer, who wished to remain anonymous, affirmed that aliens took part in a military exercise that took place in Arkansas several years ago. “There are some things that I cannot talk about. Yet, I think I can say something.”

Patent highlights-Invisibilty Cloak
The idea of an "invisibility cloak" has made the leap from science fiction books to an international patent application. Ray Alden of North Carolina is attempting to patent a "three dimensional cloaking process and apparatus" for concealing objects and people.

David Bowie
Early in his life, David Bowie spent time in a monastery, tried playing the saxophone and founded a mime company. He decided to focus on music in the 1970s, depriving the world of a miming talent that may have rivaled that of Marcel Marceau. With his new album Heathen, Bowie enters his fourth decade as a rock star. Host Renee Montagne speaks with him about his new album, being a father again and the birthday of one of his earliest creations: Ziggy Stardust.
(Includes extended version of interview in Real Audio)

Bush by the Numbers, as Told by a Diligent Scorekeeper (washingtonpost.com)
Bush has spent a whopping total of 250 days of his presidency at Camp David (123 days), Kennebunkport (12) and his Texas ranch (115). That means Bush has spent 42 percent of his term so far at one of his three leisure destinations.

A Real Nobody Makes Strong Showing
The second-place finisher in Nevada's Democratic gubernatorial primary spent no money, ignored opponents and didn't shake a single hand during the campaign.
Nevada's unique "none of these candidates" option defeated everyone Tuesday except state Sen. Joe Neal, who will face Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn in the November election.

Forget Spiderman, here's Gecko Boy!
For centuries, geckos have been revered as one of nature's coolest climbers. Whether they're skedaddling up smooth glass at 3 feet per second or dangling from a hotel ceiling by a single toe, there's almost nothing the little lizards can't scale.
Aristotle marveled at the gecko's ability to "run up and down a tree in any way, even with the head downwards." And for more than a century, the gecko has tormented scientists trying to divine the secret of its grip.
Now a group of biologists and engineers who call themselves the Gecko Team has solved the long-standing mystery and created the first artificial adhesive based on the gecko's sticky secret.

6 Degrees Of Corporate Alliances
As part of their promotion for their new album, Godspeed You Black Emperor! has put up a site that links the major music conglomerates to international defence contractors.

XXX-Ray Camera
Peeping Toms everywhere are taking advantage of an "undocumented feature" in the new Sony NightShot camcorders: the ability to videotape through clothing!

Radio emerges from the electronic soup
A self-organising electronic circuit has stunned engineers by turning itself into a radio receiver.To pick up a radio signal you need other elements such as an antenna. After exhaustive testing they found that a long track in the circuit board had functioned as the antenna. But how the circuit "figured out" that this would work is not known. "There's probably one sudden key mutation that enabled radio frequencies to be picked up," says Bird.

Gifted few make order out of chaos
Some people have a special gift for predicting the twists and turns of chaotic systems like the weather and perhaps even financial markets, according to an Australian psychologist.

Man claimed to be alien, wife testifies
David Teran, on trial for murder in the death of a onetime Proviso East High School basketball star, calmly confessed that he gunned down a stranger in an Addison parking lot because he believed the killing would release an "alien enzyme" in his body, allowing him to board a spaceship coming to pluck him off Earth, his ex-wife testified Friday.

Semtex: The Magic Marble of Pardubice
A brief history of the world's most famous plastic explosive.
Certainly, C-4 has been tied to as many terrorists activities and civilian deaths as Semtex, most notably the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole last year. In Analysis of Semtex Explosives, A.W. Feraday noted in 1993 that there had been 58 known terror incidents involving Semtex, while there were records of 3,288 blasts involving other incendiaries.
So why do newspapers all over the world repeatedly drag out this rather ordinary explosive every time a car explodes in Ireland, or an embassy is bombed in Africa?

NEEN
Almost two years ago, in May 2000, we commissioned from Lexicon Branding (the company that introduced Powerbook and Pentium), a new word which was suppose to define any artistic experience relative to the computer screen.
If that name would have been an accurate translation of "what's going on", it would have been a successful term.
In fact they proposed "Telic", a very convincing and sophisticated term invented by the human stuff of the company , but we decide to acquire (and introduce at a Demo/performance at the Gagosian gallery in NY)a name which their machines coined .
This was Neen, a palindrome created by a computer program after they feed it with words such as "screen" and let it run the different combinations.

Blogs In The News
Like the title says.

Everything is Optimism, Beautiful, and Painless | A Large & Startling Figure: The Harry Crews Online Bibliography
In mid-February 1996, I traveled with Tina Cobo, my girlfriend, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to Miami, Florida, to visit our folks. To break up the 18-hour drive, we stayed two nights in Gainesville, where a few years before both Tina and I had attended college at the University of Florida. Our plan was to visit friends who still lived in town, shoot pool at a bar downtown called Happy Hour, and interview Harry Crews, with whom I had studied creative writing as an undergraduate.

Kentucky prison suspends satanic services
The Kentucky Department of Corrections has suspended formal satanic worship services at the Green River Correctional Complex while officials work to shape a statewide policy on the practice.

Porn producer defends TV 'asset'
"With right-wingers and family values campaigners pushing for a TV ban on pornography, French porn producer John B Root has taken it upon himself to oppose the ban and defend 'one of the fruits of the youth uprising of May 1968' and 'precious cultural asset.'"

Fortean Slips: The Bra of Nostradamus
Yes, ladies, there is now special lingerie custom-designed for the End Times. Sure, people are gonna need some way to pass the time when all the lights are out, but the modern woman who wants to be truly prepared for the catastrophe ahead will have to be wearing more than just frilly lace and silk under her survival gear. She'll want the stylish new foundation garment that alerts her of the impending end of the world while it gently lifts and separates. The time has come for the Armageddon Bra
Triumph International Japan, the country's second-largest lingerie firm, unveiled the new product at a recent Tokyo fashion show. The Armageddon Bra has a sensor mounted atop one shoulder strap and a "control box" fastened to the front, which ostensibly will warn the wearer of dangerous objects falling from the sky. Triumph recommends that the bra should be worn without any outer clothing that might interfere with the functioning of its sensors.

The Ol' Naked Wife Diversion
Illegal loggers are apparently evading arrest by getting their wives to strip naked and distract officials while they make a quick getaway with the valuable hardwood.