The man who made NASA do science while racing to the moon.
I mean, it could have been just a race.
RIP, James R. Arnold
“The gigantic swine, which the local press has dubbed “Pig-zilla,” is so big that Popp had to have a friend come out and haul off the carcass with a crane. The pig is currently in Popp’s barn, but “we need to get her into a freezer right quick afore she commences on stankin’,” he says.”
— From “PIG-ZILLA! Redneck kills 1,200-pound mutant porker!” by Ron Wintergreen, available in the Weekly World News insert in Sun, on sale February 27, 2012.
You would love to see this show. You would remember it for the rest of your life.
“Cheese and Onions”, by Galaxie 500, covering The Rutles, who were spoofing The Beatles.
I suppose there were times when I should have been embarrassed to have been so moved by a cover of spoof. But I wasn’t.
The song is still brilliant.
I made a thing for a thing.
I had help, too.
I made this thing out of the abyss and phosphorescence and jets of superheated, inky water. Also, tape recorders and rusted strings.
Roofing in South Florida: Be prepared for bats.
Jonathan Mann has apparently been writing a song a *day* for the last four years.
This is what he wrote for Song Fu 2012’s bioluminescence challenge.
RIP, Arfa Karim Randhawa, 16-year-old computer prodigy
There’s a park named after her in Pakistan.
Sun Tabloid Reveals (Faux) ‘SECRET INDIAN PREDICTIONS!’ - ICTMN.com
Every word true. Every word. (Except the typo.)
[from adailyriot]
A news tabloid of the type that favors headlines like FAMOUS PSYCHIC’S HEAD EXPLODES has published what it claims are “secret Indian predictions” that can now be revealed.
The Sun, a weekly tabloid published by American Media, Inc. of New York, proclaims on the front page of its January 9 issue: “Stunning PROPHECIES that will change your life: SECRET INDIAN PREDICTIONS FOR PEACE & PROSPERITY.”
“Your life will be soon be (sic) changed for the better, say scholars studying the long-lost final writings of two Native American elders,” reporter Alan Burgroft says in his lead sentence. Burgroft goes on to tell the fantastic tale of an alleged prophet, a “Brule Sioux veteran and wise man named Follows Bear” who passed away at a Christian mission outside Minot, South Dakota in 1953. As he was dying, his nephew, a college student wrote down Follows Bear’s last words and, following the elder’s instructions, placed the notes inside a small iron box inside an elm tree growing near his uncle’s grave.
As chance would have it, the following year an alleged Paiute elder named Simon Muha Ebboowee also passed away in his home near Pyramid Lake, Nevada, “after writing down everything he remembered from his long life” – including tribal history, legends and the lessons he’d learned from Wovoka – a real historical Northern Pauite religious leader who founded the Ghost Dance movement. …
