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News Briefs 01-04-2010

Truly this was the son of God! (Eat your heart out, Muad’Dib).

  • And after the iPad, what’s next for Man to achieve? what about A 3D box-display? Meet the pCubee —”world peace” you say… does that come with apps?
  • Microsoft, Ford team on electric car software. And *NO*: this story wasn’t released on April 1st, in case you were wondering.
  • SpaceShipTwo goes airborne for the 1st time. So I guess they should be scraping off those Virgin signs from the fuselage [VIDEO].
  • 8 (Interactive!) Wonders of the Solar System, by Sci-Fi artist legend Ron Miller.
  • 10 Years on, ‘The Genome Revolution Is Only Just Beginning’ —I’ll believe that when I finally get to fly like Mike, thankyouverymuch.
  • Ayahuasca could be used to treat addiction disorders. “Say hello to my little vine!”
  • Uploading your consciousness out of its meatsack disposable package: is that a problem?
  • Strange strobing UFO over Paraguay —great, we’re being invaded by Disco aliens.
  • The Michio Man raves on the Big Bang 2.0 accomplished at Geneva —Big Bangs, Hardon Hadron colliders, Higg’s Bosom Boson… and you thought subliminal messages were found only in marketing.
  • Turning a Hot Tub into a Time Machine —is that why Mom was always warning me about long hours at the bathtub & wrinkled hands?
  • The Father of Civilization: Alexander the Great’s hunger for knowledge gave us everything from the Old Testament to Algebra and even robots —so the lesson is… be thankful for megalomaniacs :-/
  • One man’s rock art is another’s vocabulary: Scottish carved stones contain the long lost written language of an Iron Age society.
  • Lead “Burrito” Sarcophagus Found Near Rome —I’d rather offer myself to the Lord of Hades as barbacoa
  • Our earliest ancestors have all nested together at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Bats use the Sun to calibrate their internal compass —Chiropters are thus the only mammals, aside from teenager Emo girls, who depend on twilight as a reference.
  • Q: What’s worse than having an annoying drum-playing neighbor living upstairs of your apartment? A: An exorcism-performing neighborAhora te vas!!

Quote of the Day:

“The prophet is not diverted by illusions of past, present and future. The fixity of language determines such linear distinctions. Prophets hold a key to the lock in a language. The mechanical image remains only an image to them. This is not a mechanical universe. The linear progression of events is imposed by the observer. Cause and effect? That’s not it at all. The prophet utters fateful words. You glimpse a thing “destined to occur.” But the prophetic instant releases something of infinite portent and power. The universe undergoes a ghostly shift. Thus, the wise prophet conceals actuality behind shimmering labels. The uninitiated then believe the prophetic language is ambiguous. The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger. Instinct tells you how the utterance blunts the power of such words. The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.”

Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune [Amazon US & UK]

    1. Sorry
      [quote=Thommes]It’s well past April 1…. where’s the UFOs Land on White House Lawn story? Been waiting for today and the Grail for a couple weeks. ;)[/quote]

      Sorry, April 1 stuff now on the ‘net is so overdone, I just couldn’t get excited about it. Had some good ideas though, perhaps I’ll post them on another day, just to catch everyone off-guard. ;P

        1. Previous Fools
          [quote=Thommes]Have to tell you though… you got me a couple years ago. :)[/quote]

          Last year’s story is here, and at the bottom of it are links to the three previous years. I think the DHS one (“April Who?”) was the uber-prank though…
          😉

          1. Santos Inocentes
            It should also be pointed out that, in Latin America, we don’t follow that tradition. Or rather, for us as Catholics the day of the Santos Inocentes —which is when the pranks are practiced— is commemorated on Dec. 28th

          2. Thanks for the Links
            Yeah the DHS was a good one. I still like the one about the UFO Landing on the White House lawn. I think that was done here. Didn’t see it in the links on the page though. Maybe it was a link on TDG for the day. Don’t recall 100%.

  1. ◦Microsoft, Ford team on electric car software . . .
    Be afraid. Be very afraid.

    Explorer crashed the first time I tried to post a comment today. ‘Nuff said.

  2. re: Truly this was the son of God!
    The Hitchhikers iPad….

    …the only thing missing from the iPad is the words, “Don’t Panic” inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover…

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