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Theme park investigates mysteries of the world
Best-selling author Erich von Däniken has opened a theme park in Interlaken, enabling mere mortals to have close encounters with his fantastic theories.
Housed in replica pyramids, Indian temples and golden planets, “Mysteries of the World” showcases past cultures and their possible contact with extraterrestrials.
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Alien Abductions: The Real Deal?
eople who believe they've been abducted by aliens have always resided at the farthest fringes of science, and the recent claim by a UFO cult known as the Raelians that they had cloned a human being does little to endear abductees to the mainstream. The sect's leader, Rael, maintains that he was plucked from a volcano by almond-eyed aliens who granted him an audience with Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad, each of whom confirmed that humans are descended from extraterrestrials.
But for every Rael, there are hundreds of workaday individuals who claim to have been abducted by aliens. These individuals do not flower into gurus; they struggle alone with memories of unintelligible messages, temporary paralysis and humanoid creatures hovering over their beds. Their stories don't always check out, but their minds do: Psychological tests confirm that abductees are rarely psychotic or mentally ill. Some 3 million Americans believe they've encountered bright lights and incurred strange bodily marks indicative of a possible encounter with aliens, according to a recent poll. |
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College plans virus-writing course
While many students would be expelled from their computer science programs for writing a virus, the University of Calgary plans to make writing such malicious programs a part of the curriculum. |
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Inspired by the film they inspired
Anime influenced the 'Matrix' films. Now the live-action series spawns 'Animatrix.' They share not only a style but also a disturbing vision of the future.
When "The Matrix" burst onto the screen in 1999, American audiences were dazzled by its spectacular effects: characters leaping from the top of one sky- scraper to another, hand-to-hand combat that sent the participants flying — knocking chunks of concrete out of walls — or doing 360-degree flips in midair. But fans of Japanese animation recognized much of what they saw was a live-action adaptation of anime.
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pighed in Iraq
The intrepid pighed, object of envy and jealousy, flexes his hamhocks once again in these heart-lifting/wrenching stories from ground-zero: a fresh war zone. Also, don't forget to read Pause and Effect.
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Media Merger Mania: The First Wave
If the FCC eases its rules, look for deals between local newspapers and TV stations
Body After June 2, when the Federal Communications Commission is expected to lift decades-old restrictions on the size of media companies, Media General Inc., in Richmond, Va., will be raring to go on a shopping spree. With 25 daily newspapers in the Southeast, the regional powerhouse is seeking TV stations where it publishes its leading papers, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch. But the company's ambitions don't stop there. "Wherever we have a newspaper, we want a television station," says CEO J. Stewart Bryan III.
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The Erotic Mind-Control Story Archive
A man is abducted by his ex-lovers, who are mind-controlling alien reptiles. |
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Report: video games don't turn you into a slack-jawed zombie after all
Long maligned by the psychiatric community as a leading cause of aggressive behavior and delinquency, video games are today enjoying a bit of positive attention. In experiments described today in the journal Nature, University of Rochester scientists found that playing action videogames enhances certain visual skills. Gamers generally react to fast-moving objects more efficiently and are able to visually track up to five objects at a time - 30 percent more than non-gamers. Surprising findings to be sure and ones that carry with them a range of implications, from sharpening the skills of pilots and soldiers to helping stroke victims recover some of their lost visual capacity.
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An Answer For Every Question?
Is there really an answer to every question, even those that have plagued mankind throughout history, such as "What is the meaning of life?" Yes, says Dr. Peter Fishwycke and his "Theory of Absolute Reality". Dr. Fishwycke has developed an "Answer Processing Network", using a networked system of legacy computers such as mainframes and a special software application developed by Dr. Fishwycke himself. Using knowledge found from endlessly scanning the internet and from questions input by websurfers through an interactive interface, the system attempts to determine the answer to every question that could possibly be asked. Though still in its infancy, the Answer Project begs the question: What do we do when we find all the answers?|
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US plans death camp
THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution chamber.
Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported yesterday.
The plans were revealed by Major-General Geoffrey Miller, who is in charge of 680 suspects from 43 countries, including two Australians |
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Ten Thousand Monkeys 51st issue
On the road again, I wish I was anywhere but on the road again ... OY!
OK, please to excuse the short sweet intro, it's been one of "those" months (and I think you know what I mean). BUT I won't let it stop me from publishing M10K, raaahhhlllly I won't. And even though I'm flighty and headless right now, the rest of the monkeys aren't!—Thanks for picking up the slack guys.
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U.S. 'negation' policy in space raises concerns abroad
The nation's largest intelligence agency by budget and in control of
all U.S. spy satellites, the National Reconnaissance Office is talking
openly with the U.S. Air Force Space Command about actively denying
the use of space for intelligence purposes to any other nation at any
time - not just adversaries...
It has been proposed that U.S. resources from military, civilian and
commercial satellites be combined to provide "persistence in total
situational awareness, for the benefit of this nation's war fighters."
If allies don't like the new paradigm of space dominance, said Air Force
secretary James Roche, they'll just have to learn to accept it.
The allies, he told the symposium, will have "no veto power."
After the administration renounced the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
last year, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made it clear that the
abrogation of treaty constraints in the use of radar and tracking
devices was not just for the benefit of fielding a missile- defense
system, but to build better unilateral networks to manage the planet
from space. -chiaroscuro
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Is It Art or Crap?
Fun quiz where you look at a picture and pick whether it's art or just a piece of crap. (Though, even if it's actually "art", the "crap" part is still debatable....)
Via FARK
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Here is something odd.
Yes! You've come across the one and only realm where fat furs, feeders and the admirers that love them can play in peace. Feel free to browse our website to find out more about this unique plus sized community and may you find ours a wonderous (and weighty) place to live!
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The War Profiteers Card Deck
The War Profiteers Card Deck exposes some of the real war criminals in the US’s endless War of Terror. This is no Sunday bridge club. These are individuals and institutions that stack the deck against democracy in the rigged game of global power. Exposing their place in the house of cards illuminates the links among corporations, institutions, and government officials that profit from endless war. The US War of Terror is not about liberation, democracy, or UN resolutions. Plainly put, the War of Terror--whether in Iraq, Colombia, Afghanistan, or the USA--is about subjugation, resource extraction, and opening markets: a practice once referred to more honestly as colonialism.
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StrangeBanana: Computer-generated webpage design
StrangeBanana is a program that creates a random webpage design. The page design you are looking at has never been seen before - it was created programmatically just now. If you want, you can use this design for your own website (in that case you should save it immediately, because when you leave the page, you will never be able to get the same design again).
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Playstation 2: Computational Cluster
The NCSA has constructed a Playstation 2 Linux cluster as a test bench for scientific computation on "toy" hardware. The cluster consists of 65 compute nodes, 4 user login and development nodes, and 1 prototype node for software installation tests. All the nodes run the Sony Linux distribution for Playstation 2. The compute nodes fill a 24-inch rack; 5 shelves at 13 per shelf.
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Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood
A Civil War in the Digital World
Lawrence Lessig, Founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and Chair of the Creative Commons project, is in the middle of a battle these days. He’s trying to help Hollywood and Silicon Valley put an end to their disagreements over digital rights and come up with a sensible way to liberate more content for all of us. In Part 1 of this two-part series, Professor Lessig talks about how the fight over content is shaping up. In Part 2, he’ll give us his take on our antiquated copyright laws.
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Barney, Sesame Street, and Metallica songs used to torture Iraqi prisoners
BBC -- Uncooperative prisoners are being exposed for prolonged periods to tracks by rock group Metallica and music from children's TV programmes Sesame Street and Barney in the hope of making them talk.
"In training, they forced me to listen to the Barney "I Love You" song for 45 minutes. I never want to go through that again," said one US operative.
Amnesty International said such tactics may constitute torture - and coalition forces could be in breach of the Geneva Convention.
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 Ong's Hat: The Beginning |
| "I got really into this "time-travel cult" called Ong's Hat when a computer-game programmer I know told me she was contacted by a physics scholar who said that a bunch of her recent games reflected their canon. This dude told my friend that someone from Ong's Hat had befriended her and inspired her to create certain games without her realizing it. Whoa, right?" - Jane Magazine |
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