This reminds me of a series of riots in Lagos some time ago where there were “black sorcerers” that were stealing men’s genitals. It seems that blaming some evil magic is a viable explanation for almost anything. Ah Nigeria! LAGOS (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery. […]
Courtesy of the “Weird Earl’s” section of The Straight Dope comes this wondrous device to, well, resonate your water or other beverages. I can do no better than to quote the product site itself: The WATER RESONATOR is the original water balancing technology used by Tibetan and Buddhist monks for hundreds of years. Each one […]
Every now and then, I see a news story that reminds me uncomfortably of some fiction I’ve read. Here’s one such story: Buried Antarctic Mountain Range Shouldn’t Exist at All An Antarctic mountain range that rivals the Alps in elevation will be probed this month by an expedition of scientists using airborne radar and other […]
If anyone doubted the increasing influence of multiplayer online role playing games, look no further. It seems that in the online world “Maple Story” It seems that this far east focused role playing game is like your average world, and one couple decided to have their online characters marry. Where the story gets unusual is […]
I’ve seen earlier video snippets of the ‘Big Dog’ robot that Boston Dynamics has been working on, but this one is longer, more varied, and more unsettling: This device looks, sounds, and moves like the unnatural offspring of H. P. Lovecraft’s psyche and the Terminator. At times, you’d swear that two people had been horribly […]
I’m a fan of Howard Phillip Lovecraft, not because I think he was a great writer (his prose is a bit purple by today’s standards), but because he really was the father of 20th Century post-Gothic horror. Sadly, all the film adaptations of Lovecraft’s work to date have been mediocre at best and usually wretched, […]
A blast from the past, circa 1992. The place is San Diego, the company is Pages Software. Back then the internet was not yet invented, but we has usenet news groups. The following appeared Jan 17, 1992 in comp.sys.next.misc Just how many Bruce’s are there at Pages? Well, I have recently gotten a couple of […]
Once upon a time in the late 70’s, it seemed everything was Star Wars. To be honest Star Wars was (if I recall) the one that gave rise to merchandise tie ins to things like Happy Meals and action figures. But also big during the late 70’s was the evil form of dance culture known […]
Some of you may be aware of a sub-culture of nerds that like to “bend circuits”. That means taking perfectly usable electronic items and re-purposing them for other things. Sometimes bizare other things. One of the big realms of this is taking anything that makes noise and re-wiring it’s brains to make strange noises for […]
It’s even stranger than you think. Hat tip to Dave Barry. ..bruce w..
