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Radio GaGa?
Lady Gaga's 9-minute video featuring Beyoncé is steeped in weirdness and shock value. Behind the strange aesthetic, however, lies a deeper meaning, another level of interpretation. The video refers to mind control and, more specifically, Monarch Programming, a covert technique profusely used in the entertainment industry. We'll look at the occult meaning of the video Telephone. The Hidden Meaning of Lady Gaga's "Telephone", follow up to hugely entertaining Lady Gaga, the Illuminati puppet (previously).
"An imaginary labyrinth 650 miles square"
Will Insley's ONECITY project envisaged a grid of arcologies stretching across the great plains, each 2.5 miles square. His interests, Insley wrote, have very little do do with planning theories, but instead the 'dark cities' of mythology. From a 1984 NYT story by Vivien Raynor: It's clear, however, that the city's inhabitants are segregated into day people, wholesome types who stu...
A Year In The Rocky Mountains
A year long time lapse documents the seasonal changes and the recreational activities of visitors to a public park in the Rocky Mountains.
Internet High-Five
The high five is a celebratory hand gesture that occurs when two people simultaneously raise one hand, about head high, and push, slide or slap the flat of their palm and hand against the palm and flat hand of their partner.
Google Earth For Educators: 50 Exciting Ideas For The Classroom
Google Earth has opened up potential for students in classrooms around the globe with its bird's-eye view of the world.
Top 5 Longest Place Names In The World
Gasselterboerveenschemond is the longest place name here in the Netherlands. But that's nothing compared to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateahaumaitawhitiurehaeaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu.
Humunga Stache Durable Dog Toy
For the pooch with a good sense of humor; this shiny black toy is a ball on one end and a giant cartoon mustache on the other. Dogs naturally pick up the ball leaving an outrageously funny mustache sticking out.
Philip Levine's Head Designs
London born Philip Levine started using his head as a canvas for creativity back in 2006 when he began to go bald. He did not want to conform to shaving his head like everyone else so started using it as an art form to express.
Glass Blown Murrine Artwork By Robert Wiener
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Akiane Kramarik
A video of Akiana Kramarik, a young girl with an incredible talent. She started drawing at age four, painting at six, and writing poetry at seven. Akiane was born in Mount Morris, Illinois to a Lithuanian mother and an American father.
10 Safes Capable Of Protecting The Worlds Riches
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50 Caffeine-Free Ways Yo Increase Your Energy
You've probably wished more than once that you had more energy to get all the things you need to get done in a day accomplished. For many, the solution to staying alert and awake is a serving (or two, or three) of coffee.
Home Schooled
Home Schooled is a comics series by American artist Ash Jackson and co-written by Silas Jackson. The Presurfer will feature a Home Schooled cartoon every Monday. This is an absolute exclusive cooperation between The Presurfer and Ash Jackson, which started on May 16, 2005.
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Burrito, the golfing dog
I think the problem here is that Burrito is obviously right-pawed.
Man inexplicably drowns his car
To get up the beach, all he had to do was release some air from his tyres.
Seal gives birth
At Donna Nook, Louth, Lincolnshire in England.
You can lead a horse to canvas, but will it paint?
Some unusual art is on display in Citrus County, but it?s not the paintings, themselves, that are unusual. It?s who painted them.
Woman who died alone while fasting 'was following God's call'
Evelyn Boyd was on a mission to pray ? for her husband, her church, her city, the nation and the president.
Panic in Georgia as bogus TV report says Russia has invaded
Panic was sparked in Georgia after a TV station broadcast news that Russian tanks had invaded the capital and the country's president was dead.
Last rites for English at Australian church
English-speaking parishioners have been forced out of a church in Sydney's north with its service now to be heard solely in Korean.
Girls ordered to spend weekends with sex offender father
An Australian court has ordered two young girls to spend weekends with their sex offender father provided he puts a door on their bedroom they can lock. Judge Robert Benjamin, in the Family Court's Hobart branch, ruled that the girls "need some protection from (their father), particularly at night". However, the risk of sexual abuse was "diminished when they are awake and alert".
British pair face jail for kissing in Dubai restaurant
A British couple have been told they must wait a further month to find out if they must serve a month in prison for publicly kissing in a Dubai restaurant.
British councils disagree about when hole becomes a pothole
When is a pothole not a pothole? It may sound a simple question, but councils up and down the country have failed to agree on an answer. More than two million potholes need fixing in Britain following the winter freeze, but a baffling array of official definitions regarding what exactly constitutes a pothole means that motorists and pedestrians face a postcode lottery of highway standards.
Nurse fired for naked man gag
Hospital bosses have been branded "insane" for sacking a nurse after she made a joke while trying to restrain a half- naked patient during a raging fit.
Nuclear panic as emergency planners and water company scare residents
Loud hailer announcements by a water company and a leaflet advising what to do during a radiation leak caused fears of a nuclear catastrophe in Dorset. Emergency services in Portland were inundated with calls when Wessex Water officials used a hailer to inform residents of a cut to services.
Seven Questions About Bejeweled
The World's First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface
Obsolete Occupations
The amazing true story of Zeitoun
The Great Sperm Race
Avi Abrams of Dark Roasted Blend has a neat collaboration with National Geographic Channel. In his post, The Great Sperm Race: The Most Extreme Race on Earth, Avi has got exclusive images and videos from "Sizing Up Sperm" – a NatGeo feature that uses real people to represent 250 million sperm on their quest to [...]
Libra Man
Flickr Photo Message Generator
OK, so the results are not always perfect but thanks to the wonderful Generator Blog we had lots of fun typing in sentences of various levels of politeness and seeing what the results were. As you know Flickr is a huge repository of quality images and this generator allow you to type in your own personal message, click the show story button and hey presto! While you might not agree with our own
Seal Photo Bomb
Squirrel photo bombs are sooo 2009. Seal bombs, now that’s what’s hip now! Link
Add your name to "Save the Net" FB page, help the LibDems do the right thing!
Update VICTORY! Motion passed with near unanimity! I'm delighted to report that the UK Liberal Democrats' Spring Convention have accepted the emergency motion on internet freedom, and will be debating it tomorrow morning. The LibDems were plunged into controversy last week when two of the LibDem Lords introduced a pro-web-censorship amendment to the Digital Economy Bill (this amend...
Speed-assembling servers
At SXSW (where my two of the games my wife commissioned just won Best Game and Best Edugame!), the trade-floor booth for hosting company The Planet is holding competitions to speed-assemble rack-mounted servers. It's like watching latter-day Marines field-strip and assemble their weapons. How Fast Can You Build A Server? (via Hack the Planet) Previously:Google's new data-center coo...
Super Mario on a Arduino-controlled 8x8 pixelboard
CMU's Chloe Fan hacked an Arduino controlled 8x8 pixelboard to play a wicked side-scrolling game of Super Mario. What a fun and creative use of the board! Someone needs to start an Arduino summer-camp; I went to Logo camp when I was 11 or 12 and it was life-changing. I expect there's a kid or two out there waiting to have their minds blown with Arduino. (If you know of such a summe...
Ironic broken-English press-release for English editing services
Impress your target audience with quality English language: A press-release for a company that will help you improve your English communications, written in fractured machine-translation-esque English. "In order to expand your panorama and reach to a wider audience, you can integrate the editing services to fulfill your requirements. You can take help of the online editing services...
The Biggest Little Man in the World
"I used to say that Ali was the best I'd ever seen," says Arum, an industry legend who co-promoted the Ali-Frazier "Thrilla in Manila" in 1975. "I had never said that about another man. I don't use those words cheaply. But here it is: Manny Pacquiao is the best I have ever seen, including Ali.
"Joey, do you like movies about Gladiators?"
"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?" Veteran actor Peter Graves--who was the star of the original Mission Impossible TV series, most famously (for some of us) played Capt. Oveur in Airplane!, and was the Emmy-winning host of Biography--has died of natural causes. He was 83.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands dead? Those were the good old days.
Remember the many news stories about the femicides in Ciudad Juarez? Since 1993, hundreds of mutilated female bodies had turned up in the deserts surrounding this border city, and these horrific crimes have never been solved. Several books have been written on the subject; you might also recall that Jennifer Lopez made a movie about it. But now, with the (gender-neutral) bloodbath that Ciudad Juarez has turned into, it is shocking, indeed offensive, yet true, that we can look back at the decade of femicides as being relatively peaceful when compared to current events. The annual murder rate is now in the thousands (compared to just a few hundred per decade for the femicides), making CJ the most dangerous city in the world, more so than Baghdad, Caracas, or Port-au-Prince.
Giraffe's Tongue
After volunteering to usher a the Christmas concert by a local choral group, a friend found this note, folded over and on the floor (it was labeled "Jerk!" on the front).
Halloween 1981
When you live in a neighborhood that is always under construction, you find that people will use the construction dumpsters for their own stuff. I found this in a box of photos along with all sorts of personal stuff. Most of it looks as if it was dumped after cleaning out the attic.