News Briefs 17-04-2008
Posted by red pill junkie at 04:45, 17 Apr 2008Is Absence of Evidence Evidence of Laziness?
- Mediterranean tsunami warning system set for 2011. Am I the only one who feels that EVERYTHING is converging towards that particular date we are all well aware of?
- IPCC, meet thy nemesis: The NIPCC.
- Excuse me, have you seen my lake?
- Potatoes 'could solve food shortage'. But then I’m sure someone would invent a scooter than runs on chips.
- According to Big Pharma if you can write a blog, then you can also write a scientific study.
- Komodo Dragon's Deadly Secret Revealed: The dragons are… muslims. OMG!!!
- CT scan reveals mammoth’s innards. It seems the baby mammoth was a mule for the neolithic drug cartels… bastards!
- Wouldn’t a triceratops look lovely in your living room? Here’s your chance.
- Peru accuses Yale University of having over 10 times the number of Machu Picchu artifacts (40'000!) they've admitted to 'keeping' in their collection (read: “stealing”).
- Yale University says counting the artifacts is complicated. That should be the recruitment slogan for their Mathematics Department.
- It's not a Roman Curse Tablet, but a construction worker's jinx on the New York Yankees.
- Black Hole found in Omega Centauri. Mr. Wheeler would be rather pleased, methinks.
- Sigourney Weaver reunites with James Cameron in ‘Avatar’, a 3D sci-fi movie to be released in December 2009.
- Upcoming ‘X-Files’ movie has finally got a title, and all I can say is: Why, Chris Carter, WHY??????? :-(
- UFO sighting over Barron County, Wisconsin.
- Another UFO sighting, this one over Gran Canaria.
- UFO: It may not be what the doctor prescribed, but it sure was what the nurse saw.
- Damage to van blamed on Lizardman was actually done by Bigfoot, according to researcher. Whatever it was, I bet that ‘cryptid attacks’ wasn’t covered by the insurance policy.
- After they attacked our mate Rick, it seems the Chinese students went out to create a website against ‘western media hegemony’. Link to said site here.
- The fight of the century: Homer Simpson vs Hugo Chávez. Place your bets!!
- International experts differ on the definition of “cyber-terrorism”. Maybe they should just consult the Wikipedia entry and be done with it.
- Flogos: Now not even God’s realm is safe from advertising.
Danke, Herr Rick
Quote of the Day:
”We are participators in bringing into being not only the near and here but the far away and long ago. We are in this sense, participators in bringing about something of the universe in the distant past and if we have one explanation for what's happening in the distant past why should we need more?”
John Wheeler


Comments
2 May 2004
1 day 10 hours
In Britain, the students said in a letter that a meeting with the Dalai Lama will ... hurt the feelings of 1.3 billion Chinese.
Forget Global Warming, it's the tears of 1.3 billion crying, sniffling Chinese that will raise global sea levels.
Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe...
19 October 2004
1 year 43 weeks
Damned flat-earthers and holocaust deniers. They should have their professional credentials, if they have any, stripped from them and they should be publicly mocked.
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My apologies go out to all who were just offended by this hostile, confrontational and completely unreasonable post.
17 April 2008
38 weeks 6 days
Am I the only one who feels that EVERYTHING is converging towards that particular date we are all well aware of?
Hey Junkie,
I'm feeling the same thing.
Especially so because THE date (21.12 2012) is my birthday. And gosh darn it I'm going to be mighty pissed if I don't grow any weird horns on my head or something cool like that.
12 April 2007
2 min 13 sec
If you happen to turn 33, or other kind of cabalistic age, then you DEFINITELY have to invite me to your b-day party!! :-)
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
17 April 2008
38 weeks 6 days
Yup,
I will be 33 at that date. And you're all welcome to have some serious fun if you happen to be in Finland that day. :)
12 April 2007
2 min 13 sec
It all adds up quite nicely then.
Just one request: when you inaugurate your realm of darkness, you WILL remember us TDG admins, right? Think of all the good services we could provide!
;-)
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It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
22 November 2004
1 day 17 hours
You are going to be born in 2012, and you an type already?
Wow that is impressive :)
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if everything is under control, you are not going fast enough (Mario Andretti)