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News Briefs 22-11-2005

Rico, I recommend coffee for removing all traces of “ugh”…

  • Alien faces are none other than mother. Insensitive joke about Mr Malstrom’s mother deleted…
  • A short piece previewing Graham Hancock’s talk at Alex Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (from last week).
  • Fairies stop developer’s bulldozers in their tracks in the UK.
  • Project Paperclip: the dark side of the Moon.
  • NASA spacecraft half way to Mars. Thankfully, half-way means the same in metric and imperial.
  • Meanwhile, the Japanese asteroid-sampler missed the asteroid by more than halfway.
  • On Nova tonight – Katrina: the storm that drowned a city.
  • Virtual professors draw students’ attention. Is it just me or do they look like possible mass murderers?
  • Nanotechnology – it could save millions, if the grey goo doesn’t get us first.
  • GM pea causes allergic damage in mice.
  • Geneticists claim major aging breakthrough, but immortality will have to wait. Ironically, that situation is only acceptable if you are already immortal.
  • The food you eat may change your genes for life. That’s ‘genes’ by the way, not ‘jeans’.
  • Is EM radiation the key to predicting quakes?
  • National Geographic’s video in the news segment: does drinking your own urine boost your immune system. I’ll take the sniffly nose thanks.
  • Even more whacky NG video: watch herring communicate by farting.
  • Vatican’s Chief Astronomer says Intelligent Design is not science. The Church teaming up with science? Only took them four centuries Mr Galileo, you can rest easy now.
  • The real story of Christmas. Unless you’re with the Catholic League – in that case, please insert “the shocking and Satanic lies promulgated about our wonderful Christian holiday” above.
  • Far from leading children into Satanism, Harry Potter offers important lessons. Yup, Harry Potter is about the most satanic individual you’re likely to see…hardcore evil.
  • Cryptozoology for children: Strange New Species: Astonishing Discoveries of Life on Earth
  • A CNN video report on so-called indigo children.
  • Ex-missionaries call for end to Fundamentalist religion, for the good of the world.
  • Michelangelo’s naked statue of David can cause mental imbalance.
  • Archaeologists find western world’s oldest map.
  • The Jurassic Godzilla that even T-Rex would have feared.
  • Cadaver art exhibition draws crowds, and controversy, in Florida. And now in New York as well.

Quote of the Day:

Knowledge does not keep any better than fish

Alfred North Whitehead

Editor
  1. One shot of happy, two shots of sad
    I had two cups, Greg. In the beautifully designed official TDG coffee mug. Ergonomic, it fits snugly in my hand, left or right, doesn’t get hot from the beverage, and is like Dr Who’s TARDIS — a normal-sized coffee mug on the outside, it can hold the seven seas and more. I was pleasantly surprised at how much coffee I could pour into the mug. The TDG coffee mugs, available at the TDG store, compliments my TDG smoking jacket and slippers quite nicely.

    1. LOL
      From now on the mention of your name will evoke images of a Hugh Hefner clone in front of a computer monitor…

      Peace and Respect
      Greg
      ——————————————-
      You monkeys only think you’re running things

        1. Hefner?
          Hef still has nothing on Picasso, now there was a man. Put Aussies to shame, didn’t he ?

          Apologies to the reasonable ladies. I know that reasonable ladies prefer reasonable men. So where do I find them?

  2. I love the story about the fairies
    That’s a terrific story Greg.Specially when you think that we had living breathing platypuses here and we couldn’t stop the bloody corporations building their monstrosities where they would foul their lovely clean creek.

    Isn’t that bizarre about people going all gaga over the statue of David.That how religious people behave.
    I think it’s a wonderful thing but it doesn’t incite any passion in me.
    Should it?
    Nah.
    I’ve seen better looking things crawl out of cabbages.

    Thanks for the news Greg,

    shadows

    1. Re: I love the story about the fairies
      [quote=the shadow]
      I’ve seen better looking things crawl out of cabbages.
      [/quote]

      Shadows, this made me laugh so hard I choked on my dinner and spat it all over my monitor and keyboard! Thanks, sincerely. =D

      1. I’ve been searching for this post
        “Cernig” I love the stories about the fairies.I had no idea that people still believed in them.It is fantastic.
        I know that my Grandda kept his leprechaun in his shed.
        What a wonderful story about the minister.But how awful that he believed the fairies would go to hell.
        So what would these grassy mounds have been in ancient days?
        I ask because we don’t have that sort of thing in OZ, and for me it is remarkable to have a naturally occurring grassy mound.
        Thank you for such an interesting read.

        shadows

        1. Sidhe Mounds
          Hi shadows,

          A great many of them are burial mounds. Scotland has them in profusion stretching from Dark Ages burials way back into the neolithic mists. Others are glacial formations called “drumlins”.

          There’s still a lot of living lore about the Sidhe in Scotland. I wouldn’t say exactly that people still believe in them the way they used to…but its still better to be safe than sorry and the stories get told to grandchildren as cautionary fairy stories. Everywhere you go has its own local tales about mounds, hills, woods or even stretches of road. Don’t fall asleep there, don’t dig it up, don’t go there on certain days etc etc.

          Regards, C

          1. I didn’t know about the mounds
            I think I am getting the hang of Lord of the Rings.I have only ever seen 5 minutes of the movies at a time as every time I turn them on there are so many people fighting and carrying on I turn them off.
            But today I caught the last bit of one and I was wondering just who is whom.
            Is that tall fellow with the lovely soft eyes and long blonde hair, Luke Skywalker?
            Is Frodo a real dwarf?
            Didn’t I see Hagrid in another movie recently?
            Maybe it was another LOTR movie he was in.
            What did the ring have to do with it?
            Was there a ring?
            Of course there was, it was LOTR but I don’t remember why he was LOTR.
            They were all standing around with tears running down their cheeks so I suppose it was the last movie.
            Who was Bildo?
            Thanks “Cernig”.I suppose I could force myself to watch the whole thing but I never have the time and I never catch it in the beginning.

            shadows

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