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Chipping for Freedom
Too busy to get your subdermal microchip implant? No worries, the "Chipmobile" will be coming soon to a town near you! For more fun with implanted microchips, check out the archives from Infowars.com. Via LibertyThink

Man Burns Cats Who Were 'Plotting Against Him'
A Cedar Crest man mutilated and burned his beloved house cats and sprayed insecticide on a female friend because he thought they were shapeshifters.Christopher Campbell, 42 told authorities that he believed his cats were shape shifters, mythical creatures who can change form, and that they were trying to kill him. Via Weird Files

Mystery plaques puzzle Parisians
Locals and visitors to Paris have been baffled by a series of memorial plaques that have sprung up on buildings across the city. It has long been a tradition to mount such signs on the outside of buildings where noteworthy people lived or events occurred, but on closer inspection some of them turn out to be fake. In the eastern part of the city one that appeared on a building read: "On April 17, 1967 - nothing happened here." For those of you unfamiliar with such things happening, this is what's known as Poetic Terrorism. Via one.point.zero

What are those words that trigger Echelon?
According to various UK media sources today, the buzzwords said to trigger the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand spying mechanism Echelon have been "posted on the Internet". We haven't found the file and it hasn't popped up on the authoritative site for these sorts of things, Cryptome.org, so we'd not put too much weight behind it. Via Post Atomic

700-year-old picture of 'Mickey Mouse' found in Austrian church
What appears to be a 700-year-old picture of Mickey Mouse has been discovered on a church fresco in Austria. Walt Disney first sketched his character in 1928 but an Austrian art historian spotted an uncannily similar drawing. The painting, which has been dated back to the early 14th Century, is in the Community Church in Malta, Carinthia. Next to a large sketch of St. Christopher is a clear drawing of the mouse. Originally spotted on DP. Now there's a Metafilter discussion as well.

New Issue of Ten Thousand Monkeys. Woot!
Is it time for the malls to start playing Christmas carols yet? Nonstop? Slowly etching away at our collective brains like Bing Crosby flavored sulfuric acid? Awww shucks, that stuff doesn't really kick in until after Thanksgiving right? DARN! Oh well, something to look forward to I guess. And while you all are waiting, please enjoy some pre-holiday Ten Thousand Monkeys. Think of it as eggnog for your medulla oblongata, with extra rum! As always, check it out. Let us know what you think (even if it's "jingle bells, batman smells, robin layed an egg").

Is your website being censored in China?
Testing complete for http://www.incunabula.org.
Result: Reported as inaccessible in China. Via Post Atomic

The Official Jason D'Aquino Website
A picture's worth a thousand words. So what kind of words do you use to describe pictures that make you tingle? Answer: A link to the site. Thanks dr. menlo

Satellite images reveal U.S. primeval forests
Recent images from space satellites reveal hundreds of little-known primeval forests and stands of ancient trees scattered all across the United States. Scientists say these trees -- some dating before the rise of the Roman Empire -- provide an unequaled record of droughts and floods that can help them understand historic disasters and predict environmental changes.

GodMagazine
From their release: This web periodical combines the stuff we like most: Music, God, family, Snake cults, Sun Cults, Classics studies, spirituality, and the Emancipation of Humankind from petty Materialism -- and more! No wait, that's it. That's all we care about. Featuring incredible research, art and writing from: Tim Hodler, Cynthia Mitchell, Camilla Ha, Peter Ha, Dame Darcy, Professor Jason Gildow, Kate Hambrecht and myself. With incredible articles on: Bobby Hecksher and the Warlocks "My Mother Came Back from the Dead" -- The Mary Ha Story Dawn McCarthy of Faun Fables Why the Sun is a Snake and shocking new information on the connection between Jesus and the Egyptian Book of the Dead!

The Transmetropolitan Condition-An Interview with Warren Ellis
There has never been a better time to read the work of comic book legend Warren Ellis, the creator of Transmetropolitan, Planetary and Global Frequency. From the formulaic pornography of news coverage to the on-going ineptitude of our world "leaders", Ellis delivers an intelligent and savagely funny antidote to global idiocy.

Game On! Oops...
Apparently in response to the negative publicity associated with two incidents of people dying after massive "game binges", Korean developers of on-line games have pledged to make their games less addictive.

Hitting the Jackpot on NWD Today
Three in a row from the top on NWD!

Hitler's Last Weapon
Hitler's Last Weapon: a radio play by Jack Sarfatti.

Amazing and funny footage of LSD being tested on British troops. Now only if we could get Bush and Saddam together ...

Police helicopter video footage of a UFO
The images were filmed by a police helicopter and the UFO was followed for about 10 miles.
None of the crew members on board the helicopter had seen anything like it before or since...
All Via NWD

This site parodies this site. The former is meant to be funny while the latter clearly is not. Yet we laugh at both for very different reasons. Strange how that works.
Found via this Metafilter Discussion. Addendum: When presenting both sides try to present the middle as well.

Election Results - Germany, Nov. 12, 1933

Bush, Nazi, CIA Connections?
Dave Emory's been saying it for years now. I mean, the more you look into this, the more it begins to really make sense.

Z'EV - ACOUSTIC PHENOMENAE
Z'ev (born Stefan Weiser) straddles the nearly unbridgeable and highly volatile gulf between the art world and the music industry. Acclaimed as one of the world's best and most original percussionists, Weiser began recording in the late '60s in a handful of psych-out projects. By the late '70s, he took on the Z'ev moniker to explore the "spatial poetics" of the polyrhythmic clamor he had established with his hand-built percussive instruments.Translating Z'ev's kinetic performances onto sound-only recorded media does him a bit of an injustice, for it is an awesome sight to witness him heave a kinetic sculpture across a stage. These hulking percussive instruments, culled from the junkyards of the globe, consist of unwieldy pieces of sheet metal, giant coil springs, innumerable interconnected pipes, and several dozen 10-gallon plastic water bottles connected with heavy chains. Z'ev gracefully hurls the sculptures/instruments across the stage as a physical extension of his body, imbuing his crescendos of intense rhythmic crashing with a surprisingly calligraphic quality. The master of Elemental Music speaks out in a few places. Just pick up the music, and let it do the talking. Here's a Russian source, The Egg and We. If you don't read Russian, you'll need patience and a translator. Too many sources to list here, so have a blast! Of course, the obligatory FREE MP3 Link.

Wiccan seeks to lead prayers for meetings
A Wiccan priestess wants the Board of Supervisors of Chesterfield County, Va., to add her name to the list of clergy members who say prayers before board meetings.

New way to send hidden messages
Secret codes, 128-bit encryption, the Enigma machine, invisible ink, the red and blue cellophane overlay--all were invented as ways to deliver information without anyone else knowing. Since the dawn of civilization, humans have yearned for a way to send hidden messages. And now Intrasonics, a start-up in Cambridge, England, says it can send these messages over loudspeakers.-DW

Keeping Information Secure With Noisy Light
Put aside images of World War II espionage and codebreaking. Today cryptography is vital to the security of a form of communication and commerce never imagined 60 years ago: the Internet. Researchers at Northwestern University now have demonstrated a new high-speed quantum cryptography method that uses the properties of light to encrypt information into a form of code that can only be cracked by violating the physical laws of nature. -DW

The Attic Expeditions
Seth Green, Alice Cooper and the ever lovable Jeffery Combs ham it up big time in this quirky little mind bender. Don't look for it in the theater. It's a direct to video project.

8march2003 Runs Out Of Gas Quickly
As one poster put it: The definition of "wussy" needs to be rewritten, IMHO...

The lyricism of litter
One man's trash is another man's treasure.It's also pretty cool magazine material.Take, for example, a battered, creased algebra test found on a street in St. Louis. It shows a student's futile yet creative answers on a logarithm exam -- including illustrations and an introspective rhyming couplet. The student's score on the test: Zero."Whereas other kids would do a little work to get partial credit, he doesn't even try to fake it. He tries to have fun with it in an impressive way," Davy Rothbart says. "The teacher doesn't recognize that at all. He's just not being appreciated for his incredible talent." Via BB

Genesis Project Notes
incuBLOGula exclusive! The internal memos from the creation, AKA: Project Genesis
Internal Corporate Correspondence . A must see!

The Sexiest Sentence Alive
The Formula was hand-crafted by Dr. Graham J. Leuschke, who finally used his Ph.D in Mathematics for something other than chasing skirt. The Formula is as follows:

Send Lawyers, Guns and Money. The Reptoids Have Landed!
If everyone who visits this website contributed just a few dollars, the cost of a couple of beers, to David's defense fund, it would ease the burden enormously, but anything that people believe it is right to contribute would be greatly appreciated.
(How about if we cut out the middle man and just send the beer instead? Is it ok if it's recycled?)

Pair aims to return million AOL CDs
Two California men rebelling against a sea of America Online promotional compact discs have got mail like never before.People around the world have sent Jim McKenna and John Lieberman more than 80,000 CDs offering trial subscriptions to AOL's Internet services. They say when they collect a million, they'll go to the company's front door in Virginia to say, "You've got mail."

disinformation: grant morrison transcript
disinformation: grant morrison transcript by Richard Metzger/Transcribed by Loz of Barbelith.com - November 10, 2002 - Suggestion from Schmicko Micko

Who Serves Satan? A Demographic and Ideological Profile
Abstract: In order to test conventional wisdom about modern Satanists, an online questionnaire was used to gather data from 140 respondents. Based on this data, a demographic and ideological profile was constructed which indicated that the statistically-average Satanist is an unmarried, white male in his mid-twenties with a few years of college. He became involved in Satanism through something he read in high school, and has been a self-identified Satanist for more than seven years. Raised Christian, he explored one non-Satanist religious group beyond the one in which he was raised before settling into Satanism. His view of Satan is some variety of non-theistic humanism and he practices magic. The length of average involvement and the often reflective responses to open-ended questions indicates that, far from being confined to adolescent rebels, many Satanists are reflective individuals who--despite the fact that youthful rebellion was usually a factor in the beginning--have come to appropriate Satanism as a mature religious option.

Play O-MATIC
O-Matic speeds past the wasteland of cold, pseudo-scientific dot-comicry and the overpopulated zoo of infantilized T.V. characters. O-Matic delivers fragments of medical poetry and mutated international symbols to a population in jubilantly existential crisis. O-Matic's output is the psyche's software patch: an elusive dongle to help digest the gristle.

Plastination and Art
Plastination is a unique method of preserving durable anatomical specimens while retaining a lifelike condition. Special thanks go out to numerous donors who have contributed human organs and bodies.
A scientist in Germany has developed an entirely new way of looking at anatomy - one that allows the best exploration yet of how bones, muscles, organs and systems in our body really look, and how they work together. Some examples of his work on display now in an exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. Called "Anatomy Art: Fascination Beneath The Surface" visitors can see more than 200 "plastinated" anatomy specimens of Professor Gunther von Hagens.

What Did Poe Know About Cosmology? Nothing. But He Was Right.
In 1848, by then a nationally celebrated poet, Edgar Allan Poe published "Eureka," a 150-page prose poem on the nature and origin of the universe. The work, an overheated grab bag of metaphysics and cosmology, was a flop. A reviewer for Literary World likened it to "arrant fudge." A hundred years later T. S. Eliot summed up the critical consensus. "Eureka," he wrote, "makes no deep impression . . . because we are aware of Poe's lack of qualification in philosophy, theology or natural science."

BLACK MADONNA SHRINE & GROTTOS
I know. You're saying "So what?" Well the so what here is that this shrine is in Missouri and has a history.

Googlism
Googlism will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything! Search for your name here or for a good laugh check out some of the popular Googlisms.

Battlefield laser blows up speeding shell
Weapons that travel far faster than the proverbial speeding bullet are as little as five years from use in combat, say defense officials who used a laser to shoot an artillery shell out of the sky this week. In a first-of-its-kind feat, the Army used a high-energy laser built by TRW Inc. to heat the shell, fired from a howitzer at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and cause it to explode in flight. The test was successfully repeated a second time.

Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans
The Pentagon is constructing a computer system that could create a vast electronic dragnet, searching for personal information as part of the hunt for terrorists around the globe — including the United States.

Photographer wins payout over 'President shakes hand with alien' picture
A photographer has won a payout after one of his pictures was altered to apparently show a US president shaking hands with an alien. Freelance Douglas M Bruce took the picture of Bill Clinton and a secret service agent during the 1992 US presidential campaign. However, The Boston Globe reports the picture was altered by The Weekly World News to make it appear Mr Clinton was actually meeting an alien.

Deconstructing "Buffy"
Scholarly Buffy-philes gather at an English university to discuss the "morphic resonance" and "perlocutionary acts" of TV's favorite ghoul-killin' gal. (Personally, we prefer Willow)

Milky Way's black hole on starvation diet
The black hole at the heart of our galaxy is being starved of food, say astronomers studying polarised radio waves coming from the Milky Way's centre.