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12/18/07 // Link:
Hieronymus Bosch Action Figures Must have.. now… must have… now… I had to create a whole new “awesomeness” tag just to classify this find. If you’ve been wondering what to get me for my birthday/christmas now you know. Actually last time I tried the …continue reading »
12/14/07 // Link:
Buried Treasure Mystery: The Money Pit at Oak Island There’s really nothing that takes you back to childhood like the romance of searching for pirate treasure. Well, maybe that depends on your childhood, but for me that’s what happens when I read about buried treasure, which admittedly isn’t often. …continue reading »
07/27/07 // Link:
Pentagon’s Psychic Vision Revisited Great Interview with the former head of the Pentagon’s “Remote Viewing” project on Wired’s Danger Room blog. From Sharon Weinberger’s intro: “John Alexander, a former Green Beret, earned a reputation in the 1990s as a vocal advocate of nonlethal weapons …continue reading »
06/25/07 // Link:
South Korea’s “Love Land” File this under bizarre (and be sure to check out the images, though they may be NSFW): There’s a persistent prejudice against the Japanese, the Koreans and other Asians — that they’re prudish and repressed. But go to “Love Land” …continue reading »
06/01/07 // Link:
Video: Frozen Waves in Newfoundland I’d settle for just seeing snow on the beach as a complete novelty, but in Newfoundland things go a bit further. The quote from the poster of the video: “A strange weather phenomenon occurred in Newfoundland where the waves were …continue reading »
05/30/07 // Link:
Man Clad in Underwear Pins Leopard Definitely better than any headlines I came up with this week. Apparently leopards in Israel frequently prey on house pets when they get weak or sick and can no longer run down wild prey. Or if they’re just feeling a …continue reading »
05/24/07 // Link:
Collect-Me-Nots New York Times Op/Ed piece on the collectors of strange things, for instance, what is rumored to be Napoleon’s penis. “The owner of Napoleon’s penis died last Thursday in Englewood, N.J. John K. Lattimer, who’d been a Columbia University professor …continue reading »
05/24/07 // Link:
Strange Alien World Made of “Hot Ice” From the New Scientist: “A bizarre world of scorching hot ice shrouded in a steamy atmosphere may have been found, according to new observations. Characterising the Neptune-size planet is an important milestone on the way to detecting and characterising Earth-like …continue reading »
04/21/07 // Link:
Image: Crocodile With Human Arm In Its Mouth “To my profound delight, Stickypig sent me a link to photos of a fantastically beautiful crocodile, grinning around a mouthful of severed human arm. With echoes of Peter Pan, Jurassic Park, and the paintings of James Gurney, this croc and …continue reading »
04/12/07 // Link:
Dreamed up phone number leads man to a bride A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message. How’s that for random?continue reading »
02/22/07 // Link:
Uncovered, Jordan Matter’s Photos Of Topless Women On NYC Streets Uncovered is Jordan Matter’s gallery of photos of topless women on the streets of NYC. Apparently it’s legal for women to go topless in New York. (NSFW)continue reading »
02/09/07 // Link:
Fear and Loathing in the Bay State Deconstructing Boston’s idiotic over reaction to the Aqua Teen ad campaign: So this is what it has come to: Two young artists (their demeanor an echo of 1960s creative expressiveness), paid a pittance to playfully market a surrealist cartoon movie …continue reading »
02/05/07 // Link:
Miracle Fruit Miracle fruit is an obscure fruit that alters one’s sense of taste, masking bitter and especially sour flavors, causing lemons, limes, beers, and lots of other things to taste amazingly good. After reading about it on the Web and tracking …continue reading »
02/01/07 // Link:
Kiruna: The Town That Moved This January, Sweden’s northernmost town of Kiruna, 145 kilometres into the Artic Circle has decided to move itself 4km in order to save itself from sinking into cracks created by the worlds largest iron ore mine. Kiruna grew thanks to …continue reading »
01/24/07 // Link:
Mummified Baby Found in Storage Unit In keeping with the “downright horrifying” category you’ll see in the upper right corner of this page I give you this, strange, mysterious, and yes, horrifying story. The partially mummified body of a baby, wrapped in 1950s newspapers, was found …continue reading »