Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveller dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police…Believing his hands and face were smeared with blood, passengers alerted police after getting no response from him.
Should catastrophe strike the rest of the globe, a repository of plant varieties should be safe, tucked away in remote, frozen Svalbard.
The rally was one of 11 large antiwar held nationwide yesterday as part of the National Day of Action to end the war. An estimated 10,000 people gathered on the Common to listen to speakers. One man says, “I’m not convinced of the value of this. The polls indicate that everyone’s against the war but Bush is still getting the funding he asks for”
It appears someone is trying to hide from me? I’m getting a lot of referrers from proxy sites and people trying to hide their referring IP/URL. Wish it worked though….it doesn’t. ha. See ya in November.
from digg:
Our culture is full of tales of the undead walking the Earth, from our religions to our comic books. But, some sort of zombie apocalypse isn’t actually possible, right?
Right?
Guys?
Actually, yes. It’s quite possible. Here’s five ways it could happen, according to science.
Behold the ultimate in home safety kits to defend against the legions of the undead! I call it the Emergency Zombie Defense Station. Think of it like one of those fire alarm kits with an axe and an extinguisher or an emergency eye wash station.
Updates and posting to follow. I’ve just been very busy. Hopefully this weekend…
Over this weekend I saw the Bodies exhibit at the Carnegie. It uses a process popularized and perfected by artist Gunther von Hagens. It was a little expensive ($22 a person) and too short, the entire exhibit took about an hour and a half and we read everything. Particularly interesting were the fetal bone studies using calcium markers. It’s amazing the rate of development from week to week. Unfortunately since it was a science oriented program, the artistic flair was — for the most part, missing.
There were a lot of children–oddly, and smart parents explaining things in context. Despite my minor quibbles, I highly recommend attending if you’re near Pittsburgh and the Science Center.
I’m still fuming over the fact Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize?!?!!? Like an Oscar wasn’t silly enough.
This just further confirms it’s a political prize. Jimmy Carter won for his negotiation of peace around the world, particularly the mid-east…that’s going well.
Henry Kissinger won too…and there are places in the world he’s considered a criminal for acts during the Vietnam War.
Incidently, Gandhi, a brown man under British rule…never won.
Yep. Seems fair to me.
Where’s my Nobel? I’ll even take the economics award here folks. Cut me a break.
Have I got your attention now?” asked Mona Shaw of the Comcast payment center employees as she smashed their keyboard, monitor and telephone. The 75-year-old woman was outraged after multiple delays and broken promises surrounding her Comcast Triple Play installation.
I’ve been interested in things like this…well for all the obvious reasons involving the human condition, but really since scientists began to simulate/stimulate NDE’s (near-death experiences)…Nonetheless…
“Scientific American is reporting on scientific work done to map the euphoric religious feelings within the brain. As a result, it’s now quite possible to experience ‘proximity to God’ via a special helmet: ‘In a series of studies conducted over the past several decades, Persinger and his team have trained their device on the temporal lobes of hundreds of people. In doing so, the researchers induced in most of them the experience of a sensed presence — a feeling that someone (or a spirit) is in the room when no one, in fact, is — or of a profound state of cosmic bliss that reveals a universal truth. During the three-minute bursts of stimulation, the affected subjects translated this perception of the divine into their own cultural and religious language — terming it God, Buddha, a benevolent presence or the wonder of the universe.”"
For a long time, domesticated dogs were seen as just the slobbering, dumbed-down ancestor of the wild wolf. Dogs, though, have learned a few tricks of their own through the millennia — and can teach us a lot about ourselves.
Parallel universes really do exist, according to a mathematical discovery by Oxford scientists described by one expert as “one of the most important developments in the history of science”.
Here’s a fascinating video featuring split-brain researcher Michael Gazzaniga. The patient had his corpus callosum severed as a treatment for severe epilepsy. The treatment terminated nearly all communication between his brain’s right and left hemispheres.
Well, Thanks to the extended Gamestop warranty…my 360 is back. It’s not one of the 65nm Falcon units…but a Zephyr with HDMI and he bigger heatsink. It’s great to have the warranty…but it’s $40+ extra every time to renew the warranty. This of course is optional, but when you’re on a fifth unit, it seems like a necessity. It’s a ridiculous amount of money to play games. We’ll see… we’ll see…
Somebody hit upon the inspiration that since cats have such a strong disdain of getting wet and always land on their feet that if you attached a cat to a bomb and drop it in the vicinity of a ship, the cat
’s instinct to avoid the water would force it to guide the bomb to the enemy’s deck.
My xbox bricked on me. Not the infamous RROD…but a single beep when loading any game (demo or from disc)…then nothing…total freeze. This sucks.
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An incredible retrofit! In Essen, Germany, Architects from the Madako group have transformed an historic water tower into an imaginative space for living and working that showcases a fusion of old and new with lasting environmental considerations.
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Kevin at Tnet (Great Service from a fine fellow), forwarded www.graceconner.com to my hosting service so now my sister can host a wordpress blog there of her cute little daughter.
Go check out the cuteness…NOW!!!
It’s “Your World. Delivered,” unless your world has views that “tend to damage the reputation of AT&T.” Then it’s “Your World. Disconnected.”
Just so it’s clear…out of principle, as an ex hacker, I hate ATT. I understand the ‘new’ ATT really isn’t related to the MaBell behemoth of old…it’s actually worse. ATT is Bell South, one of the baby bells. Funny, this ‘baby’ bell is bigger than the original so evil monopoly. ATT has a long history of bigbrotherism, anti consumerism and generally exploiting our privacy for their gain.
Oh well, maybe I’ll have to get a new phone, but ATT…you, indeed, stink.,
