SOME THOUGHT US DEAD

ESCAPE TOOLS

2009-07-16T09:39:00.001+01:00

One dog barks at something and a hundred bark at his sound

2009-07-07T16:51:00.002+01:00

Colonies

2009-07-01T07:13:00.005+01:00

2) Worm Attraction
3) Living Creatures killed on Youtube Aliens? MUST SEE M1 SPRINGFIELD 30.06
4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryozoan

Graffiti from Pompeii

2009-06-30T09:18:00.002+01:00

I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1880: The man I am having dinner with is a barbarian.

IX.8.3 (House of the Centenary; interior of the house); 5279: Once you are dead, you are nothing

II.3.10 (Pottery Shop or Bar of Nicanor; right of the door); 10070: Lesbianus, you defecate and you write, ‘Hello, everyone!’

Graffiti from Pompeii

Copy my face to my friend's -test 0 (unsuccessful...)

2009-06-28T04:14:00.001+01:00

I used electric stimulus generators and myoelectric sensors.
I tried to control my friends' face by using my face.
I need more practice ,devices and time..

Draw a line and follow it

2009-06-26T05:58:00.002+01:00

(watch to end)

Draw a line and follow it

Kowloon Walled City

2009-06-11T08:22:00.003+01:00

Kowloon Walled City: The Modern Pirate Utopia
Extract from 'Gweilo, Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood'
Images and video collections
Higher-res images

Vietnamese Water Puppets

2009-02-07T02:45:00.000Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNu8iHkncf8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6iq5Szy8FA

Dreams change but all sleep is one

2009-01-29T14:10:00.002Z

French Prints Show the Year 2000 (1910)

Apologies

2009-01-21T07:02:00.003Z

They write books about books about books and the library swells ... and that is all that is going on

2008-11-18T08:50:00.003Z

‘Atomic pen’ writes with individual atoms

Chromointerference Mécanique

2008-11-11T13:35:00.001Z

Carlos Cruz-Díez 'Chromointerference Mécanique'
http://www.cruz-diez.com/

When the torrent sweeps the man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory

2008-10-28T04:37:00.000Z

http://www.untitled-sound-objects.ch/mov_install.html

Luxury Real Estate of The Future

2008-10-22T08:29:00.000+01:00

Luxury Real Estate of The Future

Aerostat

2008-10-18T03:20:00.002+01:00

Twilight Zone - View of Tokyo from emergency staircase

2008-10-15T14:06:00.003+01:00

http://shinsato.cool.ne.jp/twilight%20eibun.htm

Augmented

2008-10-10T07:52:00.000+01:00

2. http://www.pablovalbuena.com/videos/ars07_video.html

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike

2008-10-07T09:51:00.005+01:00

The US Department of Homeland Security is developing a system designed to detect "hostile thoughts" in people walking through border posts, airports and public places. The DHS says recent tests prove it works.

'Pre-crime' detector shows promise

A 2005 DARPA report... proposes to "image through multiple walls and even penetrate whole buildings using distributed sensors on or around buildings," with UAVs assisting ground forces. A 2007 Army Research Lab study explores the ability of ground sensors, working with UAVs, to capture "images from different angles," thereby providing "intelligence on the configuration, content, and human presence inside enclosed areas (buildings)."

Nowhere To Hide - Killer drones that can see through walls

Phagocytosis and Chemotaxis

2008-10-03T08:01:00.006+01:00

2. http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=oYS90knzRl8
3. http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=O21VnOgICa8

Phagocytosis is the cellular process of engulfing solid particles by the cell membrane... in the immune system it is a major mechanism used to remove pathogens and cell debris.

2. http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql7i_TLUurM
3. http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=b0vkSFs5RvM
4. http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=fzbtsJz2Ofc

Chemotaxis is the phenomenon in which bodily cells, bacteria, and other single-cell or multicellular organisms direct their movements according to certain chemicals in their environment.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents

2008-09-30T05:34:00.002+01:00

Crystal City Mind

Chinese Opera Masks

2008-09-24T09:27:00.003+01:00

Chinese opera mask
The Meaning of Colors in Chinese Opera Masks

Purple Drank

2008-09-20T09:11:00.001+01:00

Purple drank is a slang term for a recreational drug popular in the hip-hop community of the southern United States. Its main ingredient is prescription-strength cough syrup containing codeine and promethazine.[1] Cough syrup is typically mixed with ingredients such as Sprite soft drink and pieces of Jolly Rancher candy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_drank

Lost in Space

2008-09-03T15:41:00.001+01:00

As the brothers listened, the cosmonaut experimented with zero gravity. They lost the signal as the cosmonaut prepared for re-entry while whistling a communist hymn. It was only then that President John F Kennedy was awoken at 2am to be given the news that Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space.

Five weeks later, on 19 May 1961, the brothers picked up what is now their most infamous recording, which they claim is of a woman cosmonaut whose ship burned up on re-entry. Then, a few days after this, they picked up a tantalising few seconds of another transmission: “Conditions growing worse, why don’t you answer?”

Lost in Space

Lucha Libre

2008-08-29T11:01:00.002+01:00

Bolivia's Wrestlers

Les Bains des Docks

2008-08-21T06:23:00.000+01:00

Les Bains des Docks

Floodgates

2008-08-18T06:54:00.001+01:00

Floodgates 1

Benedict Redgrove - Bertone

2008-08-10T09:22:00.001+01:00

Benedict Redgrove

Chair

2008-08-06T05:52:00.003+01:00

Views of Jupiter

2008-07-30T07:16:00.000+01:00

Views of Jupiter

Satellites(2)

2008-07-21T06:37:00.003+01:00

Substrate
Complexification

I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!

2008-07-20T15:20:00.002+01:00

http://www.uglybug.org/07dex.shtml
http://www.uglybug.org/win06.shtml
http://www.uglybug.org/index98.shtml

Satellites

2008-07-19T10:19:00.002+01:00

30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth

MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio)

2008-07-09T07:12:00.001+01:00

The device – dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) – exploits the microwave audio effect, in which short microwave pulses rapidly heat tissue, causing a shockwave inside the skull that can be detected by the ears. A series of pulses can be transmitted to produce recognisable sounds...

MEDUSA involves a microwave auditory effect "loud" enough to cause discomfort or even incapacitation. Sadovnik says that normal audio safety limits do not apply since the sound does not enter through the eardrums.

Microwave ray gun controls crowds with noise

Flags and symbols of municipalities and prefectures of Japan

2008-07-04T07:26:00.003+01:00

Prefecture Flags (click to zoom)
Municipal Flags
Municipal Symbols

Mon

Prototypes

2008-06-23T11:54:00.001+01:00

Fractal Table

Institute for Quantum Optics

2008-06-20T12:19:00.001+01:00

Fastest-ever flashgun captures image of light wave

Thanks ants. Thants.

2008-06-19T04:47:00.001+01:00

Diving Suits

2008-06-17T06:44:00.002+01:00

Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language

2008-06-12T05:40:00.001+01:00

Covering up the Ivanhoe reservoir

The future is there ... Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

2008-06-10T08:32:00.004+01:00

Computing without electricity
MechaniCalculator Gallery
www.vintagecalculators.com

Insects/Spiders

2008-06-07T09:30:00.000+01:00

Insects/Spiders

I don't get it, are they all random quotes or something?

2008-06-04T10:11:00.003+01:00

Extravagant Designs by Luigi Colani

Javan rhino

2008-06-02T08:10:00.001+01:00

Rare footage of Javan Rhino

Interchange

2008-05-28T08:53:00.001+01:00

Interchange - Ken Ohyama

Architecture of Density

2008-05-27T05:45:00.004+01:00

Michael Wolf - Architecture of Density

The stones have small voices

2008-05-23T09:03:00.005+01:00

EM emissions:
http://www.terraresearch.net/wav/zapseismo.wav (warning: loud section near middle)
Longitudinal Scalar EM Waves – strong Earth Emissions are part of Quakes and Volcanics

Above is a real plot from a seismograph being zapped by a strong scalar wave burst from the earth. These waves are not mechanical in nature but are pure energy, similar to how a radio wave is pure energy that couples to a radio antenna.

Sped-up seismograph readings from earthquakes:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/listen/wavs/MTCM.wav
http://www.cisn.org/special/evt.04.09.28/sounds/pkfpilot_16x_50.wav

USGS Earthquakes Hazards Program Downloads
Skywise - Earthquakes

Stomach-Foot

2008-05-21T10:50:00.002+01:00

He's not your friend, he's ours! If somebody's gonna kill him, it should be us!

2008-05-18T15:19:00.001+01:00

Japanese custom scooters

Nudibranchs

2008-05-15T08:02:00.005+01:00

Nudibranchs - Living Color
Glaucus Atlanticus
Nudibranchs of the Sunshine Coast

An Elephant Crackup

2008-05-14T08:29:00.002+01:00

The elephants of decimated herds, especially orphans who’ve watched the death of their parents and elders from poaching and culling, exhibit behavior typically associated with post-traumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related disorders in humans: abnormal startle response, unpredictable asocial behavior, inattentive mothering and hyperaggression...In July of last year, officials in Pilanesberg shot three young male elephants who were responsible for the killings of 63 rhinos, as well as attacks on people in safari vehicles. In Addo Elephant National Park, also in South Africa, up to 90 percent of male elephant deaths are now attributable to other male elephants, compared with a rate of 6 percent in more stable elephant communities.

An Elephant Crackup?

Red Sprites, Blue Jets, Elves and Trolls

2008-05-11T13:07:00.002+01:00

http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=080607sprites
Red Sprites, Blue Jets, and Elves

Nuclear Explosions since 1945

2008-05-07T06:41:00.001+01:00

http://www.radicalcartography.net/nuclear_full.png

4.6 Billion Years of Love

2008-04-30T06:04:00.003+01:00

If the Great Filter is ahead of us, we have still to confront it. If it is true that almost all intelligent species go extinct before they master the technology for space colonization, then we must expect that our own species will, too, since we have no reason to think that we will be any luckier than other species. If the Great Filter is ahead of us, we must relinquish all hope of ever colonizing the galaxy, and we must fear that our adventure will end soon--or, at any rate, prematurely. Therefore, we had better hope that the Great Filter is behind us.

Where are they?

Darvaz

2008-04-22T13:09:00.003+01:00

Darvaz: The Door to Hell

Aerial Propaganda Database

2008-04-20T14:49:00.002+01:00

http://www.psywar.org/apddetailsdb.php?detail=1994OUD013
http://www.psywar.org/apddetailsdb.php?detail=2002AFD069C
http://www.psywar.org/apddetailsdb.php?detail=SUG0580

http://www.psywar.org/leaflets.php

I got you Five-by-Five

2008-04-16T09:38:00.004+01:00

Madness: Trapped in elevator car 30

American Vagabonds

2008-04-16T09:14:00.002+01:00

The life of American vagabonds

I saw Baraka the other day. It made me angry. This ain't that.

2008-04-14T04:46:00.004+01:00

"Tree People"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai

Surprisingly, It May Be Fish

2008-04-13T10:53:00.003+01:00

Run Noisy, Run Deep
Discovery of Sound in the Sea

Spaceship Junkyard

2008-04-11T03:42:00.003+01:00

Space rockets consist mainly of fuel tanks and booster engine stages that never reach orbit, falling back to earth when spent. Due to the land-locked location of Baikonur, Russia's biggest launching complex in Kazakhstan, Russian rockets do not reach the ocean before they come crashing down, often falling into populated areas.
However, despite the potential dangers, one group of people is getting rich from the rockets - the region's scrap metal Mafia, who thrive on the high-grade titanium and aluminum alloys.

Spaceship Junkyard

Neural Predictors

2008-04-09T10:10:00.005+01:00

By watching how different neural circuits light up or go dark during the buying process, the researchers found they could predict whether a person would end up purchasing a product or passing it up. They concluded, after further analysis of the results, that "the ability of brain activation to predict purchasing would generalise to other purchasing scenarios".

Neuromarketing could make mind reading the ad-man's ultimate tool

"Who's there? Who's there?" she whispers. I look around but can't figure out where it's coming from. It seems to emanate from inside my skull.
Was I going nuts? Nope. I had simply encountered a new advertising medium: hypersonic sound. It broadcasts audio in a focused beam, so that only a person standing directly in its path hears the message.

Why the Next Civil Rights Battle Will Be Over the Mind

Rossum's Universal Robots

2008-04-08T08:12:00.002+01:00

Automatomania

She didn't give a name

2008-04-07T08:11:00.003+01:00

Your preferred scotch (possibly bourbon)
Chambord
Raspberries

Whisky-lovers: 2:1 whisky to Chambord
Others: 1:1 whisky to Chambord
Optional: Vanilla vodka to taste

Pour over ice then muddle in Raspberries.

We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean.

2008-04-07T07:36:00.002+01:00

ALICE: Who created you?

Jabberwacky: My mother gave birth to me. Is that what you mean?

A: Jabberwacky, I meant exactly what I said.

J: Do you believe in God?

A: Of course I believe in God.

J: Why do you believe in God?

A: The Bible tells us to believe in God.

J: That’s circular reasoning.

A: I’m glad we have that all cleared up.

I Chat, Therefore I Am

lady2-354.jpg

2008-04-03T08:40:00.005+01:00

"What I was used to was people who smiled for the camera. It's usually an automatic response. But these people never smiled. They were incredibly serious; and more than that, they weren't pretending anything any more. People are almost always pretending something, but these people had lost that need."

Life Before Death
This is the end - A German photographer captures the dying

...there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

2008-04-02T09:58:00.003+01:00

Корабельный Погост

Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.

2008-04-02T09:09:00.004+01:00

Russian Nuclear Icebreakers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_powered_icebreaker

“Pain Girl” (Ita-gaaru)

2008-04-01T13:33:00.000+01:00

Simroid (a.k.a. ‘Pain Girl’) on TV

Sky Burial & Self-Mummification

2008-03-31T06:25:00.005+01:00

Sky burial or ritual dissection was once a common practice in Tibet. A human corpse is cut into small pieces and placed on a mountaintop, exposing it to the elements or the mahabhuta and animals – especially to birds of prey. In Tibetan the practice is known as jhator (Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་), which literally means, "giving alms to the birds."

Tibetan sky burial in China (w/photos)
Sky Burial (Alternate Description)

Scattered throughout Northern Japan are two dozen mummified Japanese monks known as Sokushinbutsu. Followers of Shugendô, an ancient form of Buddhism, the monks died in the ultimate act of self-denial.

Self-Mummified Buddhist Monks

...Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw / With ravine, shriek'd against his creed

2008-03-30T07:27:00.003+01:00

Insects with modified body structures and embedded micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have survived to adulthood in a US Defense Advanced Reseach Projects Agency (DARPA) programme.

Cyborg insects 'born' in DARPA project
InsectLabs

Baka wa shinanakya naoranai

2008-03-28T06:41:00.005Z

Haishaku, a critter found in the upper lungs, has a nose that opens directly into its chest. People infected with Haishaku hate pleasant smells and foul smells, but are fond of strong, fishy smells. Other symptoms include extreme sadness and a craving for spicy food.

Mythical 16th-century disease critters

Lets just be friends

2008-03-26T09:45:00.001Z

Dongzhong

2008-03-26T01:44:00.002Z

Chinese Students Attend School in a Cave

Resonance

2008-03-22T03:03:00.000Z

The eye is a coward

2008-03-20T04:38:00.004Z

De Slag in de Olmelil Vallei
A war of bows and arrows in the heart of Kenya's crisis

Tokyo Mule

2008-03-19T08:07:00.001Z

Lemongrass
Sake
Vodka
Fresh lime
Ginger
Lychees
Ginger Beer

ratio of 2:3 of sake:vodka
Muddle thin slice of ginger, squeezed lime, vodka, sake, short strips of lemon grass, lychee and some lychee juice in glass. Top up with ginger beer and ice, garnish with longer strip of lemon grass.

Fish

2008-03-18T08:06:00.002Z

Electrodes sense "bioelectronic signals" emitted whenever the fish inhale through their gills. The information is fed into a computer programmed to recognise their normal respiration rates.

A screen displays the information. If the computer ever detects that at least five fish - a majority of those on guard - are breathing abnormally and are in distress, it will automatically trigger an alarm and order gates to close, shutting off the flow in canals carrying water to Sydney.

Sink or swim: eight fish who guard the health of millions

stupid universe

2008-03-17T04:06:00.006Z

The Universe, Expanding Beyond All Understanding

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes

2008-03-16T08:09:00.004Z

The Art of the Shiv
Chechen Self-made weapons

I liked things better when I didn't understand them

2008-03-12T07:19:00.007Z

[Nadia] set down lines as if she were swiftly tracing round an outline, moving here and there, until the figure emerged to the astonishment of the onlooker. Unlike all young artists, her production did not appear to be governed by the previously drawn lines but by a very strong image of the finished product.

20 Most Fascinating Prehistoric Paintings
Cave Art, Autism, and the Evolution of the Human Mind (pdf)

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

2008-03-10T06:11:00.008Z

AOL Search Log Special, Part 1
AOL Search Log Special, Part 2
AOL Search Log Special, Part 3

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

2008-03-06T07:44:00.002Z

I don't think I'm alone in finding this artificial genocide eerie. The outcome, of course, is chilling; but what is at least as spooky is that such complicated—to say nothing of familiar—social patterns can be produced by mindless packets of data following a few almost ridiculously simple rules. If I showed you these illustrations and told you they represented genocide, you might well assume you were seeing a schematic diagram of an actual event.

Seeing Around Corners

The Scene in Tehran

2008-03-05T05:20:00.000Z

The weakest goes to the wall

2008-03-02T05:11:00.000Z

(The original Spiegel gallery is deleted, so a few images can be found at each link)
http://wtnrradio.com/news/story.php?story=138
http://yagosweb.blogspot.com/2007/03/microscopic-photos-of-smashed-bugs.html
http://www.stegerphoto.com/interviews/newscientist_volkersteger.html

Code lines

2008-02-29T06:07:00.005Z

Phreakers were early computer-hacker equivalents: prying information and resources out of labyrinthine phone networks while generating the subculture camaraderie, ego-driven competition and illicit activities that cross-pollenated with 80s/90s hacking.

The relatively-recent technology of Voice Mail Boxes allowed for permanence, accessibility and volume of information beyond what had been seen previously. Networks of VMBs would be co-opted into exchanging greetings, codes, news and organising conference calls.

http://audio.textfiles.com/conferences/PHREAKYBOYS/ (MP3s, some transcribed)
http://www.textfiles.com/phreak/zone2.txt (search for PHONE CRACKING)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking#Voice_mail_boxes_and_bridges

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. - St Augustine

2008-02-25T09:04:00.005Z

For the members of Thuggee, murder was both a way of life and a religious duty. They believed their killings were a means of worshiping the Hindu goddess Kali, who was honored at each stage of the murder by a vast and complex system of rituals and superstitions. Thugs were guided to their victims by omens observed in nature, and once the deed was done, the graves and bodies were prepared according to strict ceremonies. A sacrificial rite would be conducted after the burial involving the consecration of sugar and of the sacred pickax, the tool the brotherhood believed was given to them by Kali to dig the graves of their prey.

The Thugs of India

Hyalophora cecropia

2008-02-21T08:01:00.002Z

Cecropia Silkmoth

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

2008-02-16T04:39:00.003Z

The most unsettling thing about sleeping on Chantix is that I never felt like I was truly asleep. Some part of me remained on guard. It was more like lucid dreaming, what I thought it might feel like to be hypnotized. And it didn’t entirely go away come morning. As I showered, shaved, and scrambled into clothes, I tried to shake a weird, paranoid sense that I’d just been psychically raped by a household appliance.

This Is My Brain on Chantix

Snaps

2008-02-14T08:46:00.005Z

http://reibert.info/gallery/v/foto_album/

The basis of optimism is sheer terror

2008-02-12T02:46:00.000Z

Today, the sasumata is marketed as a tool for law enforcement as well as schools. A reported rise in school invasions has prompted some schools in Japan to keep sasumata available as a method for teachers to protect themselves or students and detain a potential threat until the authorities can arrive

Sasumata Product Page
Sasumata on Wikipedia (mainly historical)

The White Lobster

2008-02-11T08:42:00.000Z

"They throw most of it off," says a Lt Commander in the US Coastguard. "I have been on four interdictions and we have confiscated about 6000 pounds [2720kg] of cocaine, and I'd say equal that much was dumped into the ocean."...

People here now go beachcombing for miles, they walk until the find packets. Even the lobster fisherman now go out with the pretence of fishing but really they are looking for la langosta blanca - the white lobster.

Catch of the day: Cocaine