Paranormal
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008There’s a Czechoslovakian man who believes aliens are trying to assassinate him. Meteorites have struck his house five times in the past several months, and because this defies the odds, he’s concluded it must be aliens.
Now, I can understand the thought popping into his head. I once heard a thunk in my car and thought [...]
Poltergeist Children
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008In what I’m sure is an April Fool’s prank, New Scientist is reporting Italian scientists are speculating psychic emanations from children going through puberty is responsible for poltergeist activity.
Brovetto and Maxia hypothesise that the changes in the brain that occur at puberty involve fluctuations in electron activity that, in rare cases, can create disturbances up [...]
Human Ingenuity
Monday, March 31st, 2008In my aliens-as-religion post a couple weeks back I mentioned the way some people undersell human ingenuity. For example, there are those who believe aliens must have built the pyramids because they can’t fathom the primitive Egyptians being capable of assembling the blocks.
Then along come people like Wally Wallington. He’s rebuilding Stonehenge by hand, using [...]
Join the Space Cult
Monday, March 10th, 2008I glanced at a table near the bathroom in the local Borders store and found an Illinois MUFON application staring back at me.
I was in the mood for a laugh, so I snapped one up. It turns out for twenty bucks, I too can join the search for little green men in flying saucers. I [...]
News of the Web
Friday, January 25th, 2008So much to blog, so little time. Here’s a couple quick hits:
Congrats to Automattic, creators of the bestest blog software on the planet (WordPress), for landing $29 million in funding. Not too shabby for a product that’s being given away for free. And they say Open Source doesn’t work. Ha! Version 2.5 already sounds delicious.
A [...]
Scaring Them Senseless
Monday, October 22nd, 2007CNN has a timely Parenting article about what scares children and how to handle it. It’s not bad reading, and a lot of it rings true to my own experiences. But what they really need is a little more specific advice for dads.
Some examples:
A recycler I visit is right across the street from a cemetery. [...]
This is Your Modern World
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Watching Windows install itself is about as exciting as watching paint dry, particularly when it’s going onto a new hard drive in a server that puked its guts up the day before, Dell failed to deliver a new hard drive, and there are two buildings full of people relying on services to be restored, so [...]
Aaaaaliens!
Sunday, September 9th, 2007So the latest viral video to hit my inbox claims to be a Haitian UFO sighting:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1006571&cache=1
Of course, it’s a complete fake. I thought so for many reasons when I first saw it, the least of which being the video is only 21 seconds long. However, the real fun comes in reading the reviews under the [...]
Signs and Portents
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007Children Are Scary Sometimes
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.
“Look what I drew, Daddy!”
This doesn’t bode well.
This doesn’t bode well at all.
Water Vapor on Extrasolar Planet
Thursday, July 12th, 2007For the first time, scientists have confirmed the existence of water vapor on an extrasolar planet. This is huge news as water is a requirement for life (as we know it) and confirming water exists on other planets would be an important element in claiming life can exist on other planets.
There’s probably no life on [...]