Week-and-a-halfly news, more like. My apologies for the tardiness; my laptop has been sent off for 10 business days and I’ve been experiencing erratic power outages and preposterous PC fickleness. Enjoy!
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Mercury is shrinking! The Nasa Probe Messenger photographed Mercury recently and noticed this was because of its contracting core. The little planet had not been studied in close proximity since the 1970s and more is yet to be learned of it when the MESSENGER enters orbit March 18, 2011.
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According to Think Progress.org, US President George W. Bush’s new economic stimulus package has proved to have done wonders for the porn industry! The Adult Internet Market Research Company reported in a press release, “An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of American’s mailboxes across the country.” So much for the “War on Porn!”
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For all you Pastafarians out there, the top ten pictures of the flying spaghetti monster.
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Seen any of THESE recently? These are the “Faceless People” who are being used by Lotus as promotion for the launch of a new car. Sadly, despite the interesting speculation, it is nothing more than a marketing scheme. They are not aliens or Scientology protesters.
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However, here is an article on “the other” written “as an abstract” for a lecture in Glastonbury, UK. Information about the conference can be found here
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In other weirdness, Cracked.com assembled a list of seven real
“mutants”with super powers from around the world. Among them- a man who fights bulls with his hands and another who has mastered echolocation.
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The Vajdahunyad Castle is museum filled with antlers in Budapest, Hungary.
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And in technological news, a data communications grid was built recently to transfer data from the world’s largest particle accelerator and can run 10,000 times faster than a broadband connection.
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A crop circle was discovered in South Korea and is purported to possibly be the first to appear in the country.
The link to the spaghetti monster article doesn’t work which is a shame because I am mildly interested in findoing out what a spaghetti monster is.
Sorry about that! It looks like they took that blog entry down. Blasphemy!
If you look up in google images, “touched by his noodly appendage,” you will get the idea. And you can read about it here.
I have been looking for something to worship. It would seem blasphemous to ignore the word of the Flying Spaghetti Monster although maybe I should do some sort of comparative study between them and the Church of the Sub Genius.
This is a difficult decision. I wish you utmost wisdom in your choice!