from Luke McKinney (a WholeWeirdWorld favorite) —The UFO area of the internet, wedged firmly between (and overlapping with) the paranoid conspiracy section and the Star Trek fan-fiction boards, has been clamoring over news that the Chinese Purple Mountain Observatory lived up to its name by observing an actual Unidentified Flying Object. And if your bullshit [...]
September 11, 2009
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – At least it will be easy to remember their birthdays. An Arkansas couple welcomed a new baby girl into their lives September 9, 2009 (09-09-09). Andy and Alison Miller‘s newest daughter Molly Reid will come home to sister Campbell, who was born on August 8, 2008 (08-08-08). To further the uncanniness, though [...]
September 10, 2009
I recently saw an online ad from Intel that states: Our world is filled with 41,000 engineers bent on turning science fiction into science fact. This is not a comforting thought for me. I have seen some really bizarre science fiction that I would not want to become actual science fact. Certainly, Intel, I am [...]
September 9, 2009
No, these are not the instructions for a new method to enjoy life to the fullest and achieve everything you ever thought about doing. Rather, these terms have been assigned to three distinct, unidentified, and so far unidentifiable, sounds. The Hum is a generic name for a series of phenomena involving a persistent and invasive [...]
September 9, 2009
JOHANNESBURG – Africa’s largest economy has a bandwidth shortage. Internet speed and connectivity are poor, and expensive. A South African information technology company proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom, the country’s leading internet service provider. Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old [...]
September 9, 2009
It sounds like the avian equivalent of an Ozzy Osbourne legend. Great tits—the songbirds—have been discovered killing and eating bats by pecking their heads open. A bat was first observed being captured by a tit in a Hungarian cave in 1996. Ten years later, 18 examples of pipistrelle bat predation by great tits were recorded. [...]
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September 12, 2009
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