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News Briefs 16-02-2006

I need a search engine for my brain…

  • Wired profiles Coast to Coast AM, and why it’s so popular.
  • Most cave art done by teens, not shamans. Should we start protecting grafitti vandalism now for future generations?
  • Scientists uncover lost Mayan ruins – from space. You’d need a long-handled shovel.
  • Opus Dei requests scenes be cut from The Da Vinci Code movie which “hurt Catholics”. Come on, this is just a movie. If it was cartoon, on the other hand…
  • Albinos aren’t real happy about the movie either.
  • Looking for a new job that pays plenty? Why not try looting shipwrecks?
  • School board to look into allegations that pagan symbols are being confiscated from students.
  • Ohio changes its mind on the mandating of teaching anti-evolution material in the classroom.
  • In search of the mythical land of Ultima Thule. A review of The Ice Museum, by Joanna Kavenna (Amazon US and UK).
  • Do aphrodisiacs really work? I never kiss and tell.
  • Vietnam man handles three decades without sleep. TDG feels like that sometimes…
  • What’s 7-foot tall, is hairy, and has blazing red eyes?
  • Well, not a Tasmanian Tiger…but someone saw one of those as well.
  • Could alleged Bigfoot prints be that of an orangutan?
  • The UK, South-East Asia and Illinois in one day. Bigfoot certainly gets around.
  • Murder most foul, but a puzzle remains.
  • Fancy having a day named after you? February 15th is John Frum day, for his cargo-cult adherents on the South Pacific island of Tanna.
  • NASA’s Moon plans move forward.
  • New kind of cosmic object detected.
  • Study finds that babies have an inherent number sense.
  • Quantum physics has a new spin.
  • Extradition case for British UFO hacker re-opens.
  • Hi-tech giants accused of helping China subdue political criticism.
  • eBay pulls ghost sale.
  • And the really big news of the day – Japanese cult show Monkey remade.

Quote of the Day:

The Vice President is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Whittington. Now, according to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time there were quail in the brush. And while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists he still would have shot Mr.Whittington in the face.

Rob Cordry (‘The Daily Show’)

Editor
  1. Ah, Pigsy!
    *Gasp* I almost thought it was an American or British remake of Monkey! Thank the Kami of Japanese television that ain’t so! I’m going to use *ahem* LimeWire to download me some Monkey Magic … it’s naughty, but not entirely illegal.

    “In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order, but the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time, and the pure essences of heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the sun and the moon, all worked upon a certain rock, old as creation, and it became magically fertile. That first egg was named ‘Thought’… Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch; from it then came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!”

    Rest in peace Natsume Masako.

      1. Truth? You can’t handle the truth!
        Sadly, yes. Natsume-chan died of cancer at the age of 27, in 1985 if I remember correctly. She played the priest Tripitaka, who was a man. Reverse Kabuki.

        The story of the irrepressible Monkey is the narration from season one of Monkey (which some people call Monkey Magic, but that’s the name of the theme song and not the actual show, which is just called Monkey). It’s based on a Chinese folktale, which I recommend everyone interested in ancient tales read.

        And yes, it’s true — I’m an Otaku (but I’m not into hentai!).

        I’ll download this remake and check it out. I have a lot of fond memories of Monkey. Ah, those were the golden years of television. Monkey, Astroboy, Dr Who, then the early 80s stuff of Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, and Robotech. Many fond memories.

        Rico

        1. We could be…
          of similar vintage???? I loved that show.

          Adout 3 years ago I was helping a plumber mate and he was using a hoe very similar to Piggy’s. So I made a poor impression of Monkey, not knowing whether he had ever seen it, and he just cracked up…..it has amazed me how many people watched that show.

          You forgot to mention “Gigantor” and “prince Planet” also “marine boy”.

    1. Rico…………….
      google already in your head……everywhere you go you see “adds by google” and they change to suit the words…….The match bot…..
      So everything we write here is logged and you know what that means………………………………………

      Big brother is here under the guees of advertisement.

      Be afraid….be very afraid.

      1. may be worse
        Of course it is disturbing that Google can watch all of this discourse. But then what we do here is public speech.

        Another aspect is the opposite effect of Google – I you can’t be found with their search engine, you don’t exist.

        So not only do they see what everyone says, but they can also shut you up fairly effectively.

        Having said that, I am still #1 when I look for my real earthly name, so maybe I have not angered them sufficiently. Or I’m just not particularly important, which is the more likely theory.

  2. Ultima Thule
    I guess since it´s only six years to the end of the world It´s ok to reveal the secret of Ultima Thule.
    It is Iceland, a large Island between Greenland and Norway.
    It´s where several Templars arrived circa 1316-1321 with their “treasure” after the murder of Master Moley in 1314.
    It is an interesting fact that Iceland was at this time a VERY scholarly place and in the 12th and 13th century produced more literature than the whole of Europe.

    You can read about this intersting place in the book:
    “Ultima Thule;: Or, A summer in Iceland” by that international man of mystery Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) who was
    Initiated into freemasonry in the Hope Lodge in India and some
    say he was initiated into the Templar order as well.

    Truth and Justice !

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