Scientology A Cult? This Sign Says So..
i.imgur.com --  Whoever erects signs outside this scientology center is trying to tell you something...
6 Comments - Submitted by elephanty on October 19, 2009

The Berlin Reunion - Big Giant and the Little Giantess Stunning Photos
www.boston.com --  Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France's Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled "The Berlin Reunion". Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunion show featured two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, the Little Giantess. The storyline of the performance has the two separ..
4 Comments - Submitted by Brett on October 9, 2009

BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Landscape photo of the year 2009
news.bbc.co.uk --  Awesome photography from round the UK, winners of the landscape photo of the year 2009..
3 Comments - Submitted by veikko on October 19, 2009

1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts [vid]
www.youtube.com --  Slow Motion video of bullet impacts made by Werner Mehl from Kurzzeit. These are by far the best slow motion bullet impacts available anywhere. Watch for the hollow point rounds in the ballistics gel...
3 Comments - Submitted by maus on October 8, 2009 

Biggest wave in 40 YEARS swamps Cornish fishing village during the worst storm of the year
www.dailymail.co.uk --  It was the biggest storm of the year, ripping off roofs, causing widespread flooding... and sweeping this man three feet into the air. As he and his friend braced themselves against the gales pounding Hurst Point in Dorset, one gust was so powerful that he achieved temporary lift-off. The clean-up was beginning this morning after the gale-force storms that ripped through large parts of Britain. Sixty homes were damaged when a t..
2 Comments - Submitted by Brett on November 15, 2009

Marge Simpson Appears On Playboy Spread
www.nzherald.co.nz --  CHICAGO - Marge Simpson has done something that Homer might not approve of but will make Bart the proudest kid in his school: She's posed for Playboy magazine. After more than a half century featuring women like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and the Girls of Hooters on its cover, Playboy has for the first time given the spot to a cartoon character...
1 Comments - Submitted by maus on October 10, 2009

The Decaying, a Clown King graphic novel by Calvin Innes
www.calvininnes.com --  2010 will see the launch of several comic book titles from my new publishing company My Little Big Town. One of these new titles is The Decaying. Written and illustrated by me (Calvin Innes) The Decaying is one of several books planned as part of the Clown King series. Due for release at the same time as my new Clown King novel, the comic books will take individual stories based on the novels characters, places and history. The Decaying..
1 Comments - Submitted by Calvin on December 31, 2009

5 Forms of Black Magic That Science Is Making Possible
www.cracked.com --  Magicians, psychics and other sparkly frauds have been scamming the gullible and dim-witted for centuries using elaborate trickery to simulate fantastic powers. But now science is finally here, and it's going to follow through on all of their broken promises. Here are the technologies that, if you could take them back in time, would totally let you cash in as a wizard...
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7 Secrets Only Two Living People Know (For Some Reason) | Cracked.com
www.cracked.com --  What do you suppose are the most well-kept secrets in the world? The launch codes for the American nuclear arsenal? The location of Jimmy Hoffa's bones? Not even close. Below are secrets that only two people on planet Earth know. Sometimes they have very good reasons to keep these secrets so fiercely. Other times, not so much...
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FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records
www.wired.com --  When 22-year-old programmer Aaron Swartz decided last fall to help an open-government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he’d end up with an FBI agent trying to stake out his house. But that’s what happened, as Swartz found out this week when he got his FBI file through a Freedom of Information Act request. A partially-redacted FBI report shows the feds mounted a serious inve..
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Damn Interesting - Chuck Bonnet and the Hallucinations
www.damninteresting.com --  In the year 1760, a Swiss naturalist named Charles Bonnet became concerned when his grandfather Charles Lullin began to experience a parade of “amusing and magical visions.” The eighty-nine-year-old Lullin was being visited by visions of people, birds, carriages, and buildings, all of which were invisible to everyone but him. Apparently these mysterious objects materialized spontaneously among the few bits of the world he was still able..
Add Comment - Submitted by Brett on November 9, 2009

Planet Robo: Population Will Exceed 1 Million Worldwide by 2010
www.dailygalaxy.com --  An eminent roboticist is warning the people of Earth that we must prepare defenses against the rise of the robots. But for once it isn't Dr Cyboz doing so from the top of an overloading Cyber-Tower - in fact, he hasn't even built the rebelling robots. And an article in the journal Science hardly counts as a desperate rallying cry...
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Asteroid passes just 8,700miles from Earth - with only 15 hours warning
www.dailymail.co.uk --  Although no one noticed at the time, the Earth was almost hit by an asteroid last Friday. The previously undiscovered asteroid came within 8,700miles of Earth but astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before it made its closest approach. Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon, which is 250,000 miles away...
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The Pit of Life and Death
www.damninteresting.com --  Just outside Butte, Montana lies a pit of greenish poison a mile and a half wide and over a third of a mile deep. It hasn’t always been so – it was once a thriving copper mine appropriately dubbed “The Richest Hill in the World.”..
Add Comment - Submitted by Brett on September 27, 2009

Underground CERN: it's Half-Life in real-life
www.cernlove.org --  It’s one of the greatest games of all time. You clamber over pipes and through ducts. Cables of unclear electrical status dangle uncomfortably close to puddles of water. Tunnels lit by rudimentary emergency lighting lead on and on past a hissing steam pipe, then dripping water, then silence, until the darkness slowly reveals a moist and fleshy lump growing out of the ground...
Add Comment - Submitted by pendle on October 30, 2009