Weirdness: February 2012

RIP Thomas Watters, International Brigades Veteran

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/the-last-scottish-veteran-of-spanish-civil-war-dies.16871172

RIP Buck Compton

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/band-of-brothers-veteran-buck-compton-dead-at-90/2012/02/27/gIQAd4xmeR_story.html?tid=pm_pop

Gummy Haggis

http://www.stupid.com/Gummy-Haggis_p_2864.html

RIP Davy Jones

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/tv-zone-1.811968/davy-jones-dead-monkees-singer-was-66-1.3567282

Happy Leap Day!

http://www.timeanddate.com/date/leap-day-february-29.html

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/nerve-prosthetics/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru

I'm always in awe of stuff like this. Really incredible.

(Thanks for the link, Dennis!)

Happy Birthday Joanne Woodward!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0940946/

Happy Birthday Mary Jo Pehl!

http://www.maryjopehl.com/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0670447/

Happy Natonal Strawberry Day!

Yum!

My next t-shirt

http://www.snorgtees.com/t-shirts/wanted-dead-and-alive

A blog devoted to Edward Gorey!

http://goreyana.blogspot.com/

For All True Gamesmen

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/134593/beer-and-board-games-webseries

Irreconcilable Differences....

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/99-year-old-italian-man-divorces-96-year-old-wife-finding-secret-love-letters-1940s-article-1.998455

Fallout shelter ads

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/fallout-shelter-ads-1960s/

I still remember seeing these for sale at a store on Duke Street...

Musicians VS Robots!

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/02/musicians-wage-war-against-evil-robots/

A bypass of the Internet?

http://www.kurzweilai.net/bypass-the-internet

This sounds quite interesting to me, but I do wonder if the technology can exist in the near future to do it efficiently.

(Thanks for the link, Infidel753!)

Earthquake Music

http://wtop.com/?nid=109&sid=2762332

Happy Birthday Johnny Cash!

http://www.johnnycash.com/

Happy Birthday Godfrey Cambridge!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0131387/

Happy Birthday Fats Domino!

http://www.history-of-rock.com/domino.htm

Happy Birthday Francis Marion!

http://www.patriotresource.com/amerrev/people/patriots/marion.html

Cthulhu Cupcakes!

http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/2012/02/mint-chocolate-cthulhu-zelda-red-velvet.html

A new collection for the Cthulhu Mythos!

http://titanbooks.com/black-wings-of-cthulhu-volume-one-5939/

We're #1! We're #1!

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=109&sid=2759267

I would offer one footnote to this rather telling article. Yes, the town is awash in liars, cheats, and monumental hypocrites. But please remember, almost all of them came from somewhere else. You elected some of them to come here, and their corruption and amorality attracted others, and so on..

Tazer Ball

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/890770-ultimate-tazer-ball-allows-players-to-zap-opponents-with-stun-guns

The smallest transistor

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-single-atom-transistor.html

Fascinating!

Mother of Cod!

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/890449-first-time-angler-catches-record-breaking-fish-in-english-channel

A new bomber being developed

http://defense.aol.com/2012/02/24/new-bomber-program-underway-but-cloaked-in-secrecy/?a_dgi

I wonder if this will feature the "pulse engine" of the long-rumored Aurora project?

(Thanks for the link, Dennis!)

Happy Birthday to Yes, Minister!

Premiered on this date in 1980. One of my faves.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080306/

Happy Birthday to Your Show of Shows!

Premiered on this date in 1950.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042173/

Happy Birthday Zeppo!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0555688/

Happy Birthday George Harrison!

http://www.georgeharrison.com/

Happy Birthday Carroll Borland!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0096968/

Happy Birthday Jim Backus!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000822/

Happy Open That Bottle Night!

http://www.openthatbottlenight.com/

Happy National Clam Chowder Day!

Yum!

Top 10 Weirdest Theme Parks (at least according to Time Magazine...)

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2106937_2106938_2106939,00.html

(Thanks for the link, Dennis!)

Happy Birthday Michelle Shocked!

http://www.michelleshocked.com/

Happy Birthday Franz von Stuck!

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/symbolism/Franz-Von-Stuck.html

One of my faves.

Happy Birthday George Thorogood!

http://www.georgethorogood.com/

Happy National Tortilla Chip Day!

Yum!

Happy Pully Lug Day!

An unbelievably obscure English holiday that I am single handedly resurrecting.

John Peel's record collection in an online museum!

http://www.nme.com/news/john-peel/62216

This is incredible news for anyone into rock'n'roll!

(Thanks for the link, Erik!)

The Batman garage sale

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8b3f7778ce/batman-garage-sale-with-adam-west

If you're of a certain age, this is brilliant!

(Thanks for the link, Dennis!)

Flying Manta Ray in Lynchburg?

http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-flying-manta-ray-sighting-lynchburg.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhantomsAndMonstersAPersonalJourney+%28Phantoms+and+Monsters%29

I seem to remember a similar phenomena being reported about 35 years ago. The photos were quite like the ones now being shown, but the "creatures" were much larger, and I think it was in the upper Midwest. I think Fate Magazine did a story at the time.

A nice interview with Trace Beaulieu (MST 3000)

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/118026

Happy Birthday Majel Barrett!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000854/

Happy National Chili Day!

http://www.hardtimes.com/

Today is Iwo Jima Day

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

I am in awe of those guys.

My next t-shirt

http://poopstudios.com/?duka=poe-boy

Wargaming - A Comparative Exercise

http://grognews.blogspot.com/2012/02/wargaming-comparative-exercise.html

Pretty accurate!

(Thanks for the link, Dennis!)

How Condoms Are Made & Tested

http://gizmodo.com/5887448/watch-how-millions-of-condoms-get-made-tested-and-electrified

Pretty neat, despite the high giggle factor.

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Beerjobber

http://www.beerjobber.com/Home/Index

This looks like a good site for ordering microbrews - they need to add a lot more breweries to their list, however.

(Thanks for the link, Rick!)

The Eyes Have It

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/health/aging-of-eyes-is-blamed-in-circadian-rhythm-disturbances.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1329922868-vuxhQ0XaQcqx9QYGTeQccw

Absolutely fascinating! I love it when someone takes a totally different tack on a question or problem.

(Thanks for the link, Linda!)

Milton Berle in Star Trek!??!

http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/8968/lost-star-trek-script-from-norman-spinrad-found.html

Happy Birthday Edward Gorey!

Genius. Essential.

http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/

http://www.goreyography.com/

Happy Birthday Sheldon Leonard!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502766/

Happy Birthday Dwight Frye!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296859/

Only 250 Days Until Halloween!

Happy Birthday George Washington!

A local boy who did good.

http://www.mountvernon.org/

Happy Birthday Mary Chapin Carpenter!

http://www.marychapincarpenter.com/

DC's finest. One of my faves.

Happy Mardi Gras!

RIP Michael Davis of the MC5

http://www.wbez.org/blog/jim-derogatis/2012-02-19/linksomania-rip-mc5%E2%80%99s-michael-davis-rem%E2%80%99s-trestle-city-winery-more-965

(Thanks for the head's up on this, Perry!)

A new documentary on the Hollies!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDjh0x9sGBo

Very cool!

(Thanks for the link, Peter!)

Happy Birthday Richard Matheson!

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

Happy Birthday Sidney Poitier

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001627/

Happy Birthday Joel Hodgson!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0388273/

http://www.cinematictitanic.com/

http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Joel_Hodgson

Genius. Essential.

Happy Hoodie Hoo Day!

http://holidayinsights.com/other/hoo.htm

Happy Birthday to The Bowman Body!

The bowman Body premiered on this date in 1971.

http://www.bowmanbody.com/

Happy Birthday to the Phonograph!

Edison patented it on this date in 1878.

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

Happy Birthday Bobby Hart!

http://www.bobbyhart.net/

Happy Birthday Smokey Robinson!

http://www.smokeyrobinson.com/

http://rockhall.com/inductees/smokey-robinson/

Happy Birthday Copernicus!

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/

Posting will be down for 2 days

See you Monday!

hitler's French son???

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9088865/Hitler-had-son-with-French-teen.html

Maybe... I'd have to know a lot more than this article is displaying to have an opinion.

(Thanks for the link, Dennis!)

Chainsaw Juggling

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/chainsaw-juggler-dextre-tripp_n_1282856.html?ref=weird-news

And the Darwin Awards holds its breath...

Death by Lava Lamp

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/death-by-lava-lamp-expert_n_1282229.html?ref=weird-news

Well, I certainly hope that Vanilla Fudge and Iron Butterfly tunes were played at the funeral.

The acoustics of Stonehenge?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/16/stonehenge-based-magical-auditory-illusion

Interesting theory.

Horny

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100885/Longest-horns-world-Texas-Longhorn-bull-JR-Australia.html

Milky Way discovery

http://www.discoveryon.info/2012/02/milky-way-humming-in-mysterious-haze.html

That's nothing, I've got a brother in law who's been humming away in a haze for years....

Classic toys from the 60's

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/60stoys.html

Fun stuff!

Happy Birthday to Hello, My Name Is Blotto!

http://www.blotto.net/

A fun little album. Released on this date in 1980.

Happy Birthday Sonia!

http://www.soniadf.com/_nSite2012/index.html

http://www.disappearfear.com/nSite_09/index.html

One of my faves.

Happy Birthday Jack Palance!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001588/

Happy Birthday Gahan Wilson!

http://www.gahanwilson.com/

Genius. Essential.

Happy Drink Wine Day!

Yum!

Teddy Bears Killing Spree

http://teddybearskillingspree.blogspot.com/

Fun stuff!

(Thanks for the link, Audrey!)

Great moments in free throw heckles

http://www.jockular.com/13397/most-hilariously-creative-free-throw-heckles/page/1

Fun stuff!

(Thanks for the link, Audrey!)

Happy Birthday John Sullivan!

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

A Patriot.

Happy Birthday Jerry Moore!

The horror host of DC's own Monster Madhouse.

http://www.myspace.com/jerrymoore2

http://www.virginiacreepersmovie.com/virginiahorrorhosts/monstermadhouse.htm

Happy Birthday Sonny Bono!

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

Wuss America - Feed 'Em Soylent Green...

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/nanny-state-nc-preschool-sends-homemade-lunch-home-after-inspection

This is wrong on so many levels, and typical on so many levels of what a bunch of little whiny worrywart pseudo-commissars we've become. They now have lunch police!?! With inspections!?! And in North Carolina - a land I most remember for the Klan billboards that greeted you when you drove into the State? Sheesh! I'd finish by pointing out that many/most Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, and not a small number of Christians and neopagans would have a problem with meat being forced down their children's gullets by these so-called health rules, (which sound strangely enough as if they were written by the pork and poultry industry that dominates the State's agriculture...).

(Thanks for the link and title, Mike!)

Truth In Advertising

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=267&sid=2748829

Happy Birthday Harvey Korman!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0466327/

Happy Birthday Matt Groening!

http://animatedtv.about.com/od/mattgroening/Matt_Groening_his_biography_career_and_interviews.htm

Wuss America

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/02/fbi_terrorism_guidelines.php

My next teapot

http://cakeheadlovesevil.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/skull-teapots/

Mad Dogs & Englishmen...

http://www.strategypage.com/cic/docs/cic380b.asp

Both articles are interesting, but the second one is the one I'm focusing on - What a life! This is a movie script!

(Thanks for the link and title, Dennis!)

The U-2 - Still Flying

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/articles/20120214.aspx

Amazing longevity.

Happy Birthday Ray Teller!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller_%28entertainer%29

Happy Birthday Robert Shea!

http://bobshea.net/

Happy Birthday Jack Benny!

Genius. Essential.

http://www.jackbenny.org/

Happy Birthday Norton I, Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico!

http://www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com/articles/n/nortonJoshua.html

Happy Valentine's Day!

The Last Marx Brothers Appearance

http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/02/12/todays-video-link-52/

Happy Birthday to Black Sabbath (the album)

A great LP, released on this date in 1970.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath_%28album%29

Happy Birthday Peter Gabriel!

http://petergabriel.com/

slavery represents "individual rights"

http://news.yahoo.com/minn-city-councilman-defends-confederate-flag-outside-home-154818571.html

It is always fascinating to someone who studies history how the slaveholders' rebellion is described as a matter of liberty and rights. A cursory reading of the speeches and writings of the time will prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that the only supposed right being fought for was to own and brutalize those of another color. It's also interesting to see someone who is obviously a white supremacist accusing others of playing the "race card"...

A nice article about "The Kiss"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/arts/television/tv-kisses-lose-impact-they-had-in-sammy-davis-jrs-day.html?_r=1

Planet of the Twains

http://io9.com/5884195/behold-dr-zaius-as-mark-twain-courtesy-of-john-hodgman

Twisted and brilliant.

Happy Birthday Dracula (the film)

One of my all-time fave movies. Premiered on this date in 1931.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021814/

Happy Birthday Ray Manzarek!

http://www.raymanzarek.us/

Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln

The cutting edge of drive-through

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/889920-drive-through-funeral-parlour-offers-convenience-for-mourners

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Great shots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQLabmNWZF0

Some of these are almost supernatural.

(Thanks for the link and title, Mike!)

The Love Bug?

http://theclicker.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/10/10375183-man-has-intimate-relationship-with-his-car-on-my-strange-addiction

The Dangers of Monty Python...

http://newsok.com/oklahoma-insurance-department-communication-director-resigns/article/3647790

Firesign Dinner Theatre!

http://www.thebradentontimes.com/news/2012/02/11/art_and_culture/dining_with_danger_delivers_a_whole_new_take_on_dinner_theater/

This sounds like fun!

An interesting article on synesthesia

http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2012/02/06/inside-the-mind-of-a-synaesthete/

A mutiny in WWII?

http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2012/02/10/australian-historian-uncovers-mutiny-on-world-war-ii-us-base/

I'm a little curious about this. It's possible. And I've even heard a rumor that there was one full-blown firefight between Australian and American troops over the usual frictions and resentments, that incurred several deaths and was hushed up to prevent any escalation of tensions.

New details added as the Mossad files are (partially) opened on capturing eichmann

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098112/James-Bond-tactics-used-Israeli-spy-agency-Mossad-capture-Nazi-Adolf-Eichmann-South-America.html

Neat-O!

Senor Wences sells cereal

http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2012/02/senor-wences-for-post-cereals-1961.html

Nice review of the new Whisperer In Darkness film

http://sheneverslept.com/newsandreviews/archives/8002

The Building Climber

http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2012/02/crazy-building-climber.html

Unbelievable...

Upcoming Horror Movies

http://www.upcominghorrormovies.com/

Just like the title says, a nice reference for fans of the genre.

It's What's For Dinner!

http://blisstree.com/eat/nutrition/andrew-zimmern-eats-cow-placenta-315/

A nice recap article on 'The Bloop'

http://io9.com/5883622/meet-the-bloop-the-mysterious-sound-from-the-bottom-of-the-pacific-ocean

Cthulhu, obviously....

Interesting article on the state of cancer research

http://io9.com/5883180/why-havent-we-cured-cancer-yet

The Space Jump

http://io9.com/5883029/record+smashing-supersonic-space-jump-will-happen-in-2012

Insane...

Zombie Musician

http://io9.com/5882577/zombie-musician-rises-from-the-dead-in-south-africa

I wonder if he performs 'Time of The Season'?

The PinUp Calendar for the Apocalypse

http://www.tarusov.blogspot.com/2012/01/apocalypse-tomorrow-2012-calendar.html

the rot sets in

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2012/0210/Nazi-flag-incident-puts-culture-of-Marine-snipers-in-spotlight

It's interesting to see Marines lying like a sack of shit. "Sniper Scouts", eh? Those punks knew EXACTLY what that flag stood for, as did the paid mouthpiece who came up with this defense of the indefensible. I wonder how many American service men were killed by the SS - certainly thousands, both in combat and afterwards, (see Peiper - Battle of the Bulge, for an example of what the SS did to captured Americans). I wonder how their progeny feel about members of our (I guess that they're "our" - maybe not anymore) military now openly glorifying the schutzstaffel. It's obvious that the usual whitewash/cover-up/stonewalling has already begun, with vague talk of classes, and talk of talks, and talk of talks about talks. Heaven forbid anyone actually be punished, or at least tossed out. It's sickening.
I would also point out to these obergruppenfuhrer wannabes one other little fact - the ss lost. REAL Americans helped beat 'em....

Happy Birthday Bobby "Boris" Pickett!

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

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

Happy Birthday Gene Vincent!

http://www.rockabillyhall.com/gvbio.html

Happy Birthday Sheryl Crow!

http://www.sherylcrow.com/

Happy Birthday Leslie Nielsen!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000558/

Underwater dog gallery

http://www.littlefriendsphoto.com/index2.php#/gallery1/1/

Cute stuff!

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Replica Tiger Tank

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7da_1328812704

Amazing. I would love to have one of these for my commute home...

(Thanks for the link, Dennis!)

RIP Nello Ferrara - candy man

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-nello-ferrara-20120210,0,5564922.story

(Thanks for the link, Mike!)

GULLZILLA!!!!!!!

http://animalsbeingdicks.com/post/17318308537/gullzilla

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

New way to limit population growth in China

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/09/world/asia/china-parenting-video/index.html

Hypothermia as birth control. Now, why didn't I think of that?

Happy Birthday Bertolt Brecht!

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc15.htm

Happy Birthday Jimmy Durante!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002051/

Happy Birthday Lon Chaney Jr.!

http://lonchaney.com/lon-chaney-jr/biography-lon-chaney-jr/

Wuss America

http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2012/02/09/throwing-frisbees-footballs-hereby-banned-at-all-los-angeles-county-beaches/

I am so ashamed. We have become the most delicate little snowflakes in the history of humanity.

(Thanks for the link, Mike!)

Anniversary of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan!

http://www.beatlesagain.com/the-beatles-on-ed-sullivan.html

Happy Birthday Frank Frazetta!

THE undisputed master of sword and sorcery illustration and art.

http://frankfrazetta.org/

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

Happy Birthday to Wizards!

It has its flaws, but it's still one of my favorite movies. Premiered on this date in 1977.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076929/

Happy Birthday Barbara Lewis!

Another of my all-time faves. Genius. Essential.

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

Happy Birthday Carole King!

http://www.caroleking.com/home.php

One of my all-time faves. Genius. Essential.

Happy National Bagel & Lox Day!

Yum!

http://www.tysonsbagelmarket.com/

Your Monty Python T-Shirt of the Day

http://www.hydrogenprints.com/products/black-knight-bridge-security

What Dr. Seuss is really about..

http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrismenning/what-dr-suess-books-were-really-about

Excellent!

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

The Vinyl District

http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/

A wonderful blog/resource for pop music history and events.

(Thanks for the link, Missy!)

Happy Birthday Dan Seals!

http://www.dansealsfanpage.com/

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

Happy Birthday Jules Verne!

http://www.online-literature.com/verne/

Lost Atlantis...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2096928/Google-Earth-removes-gridlike-pattern-sparked-lost-city-Atlantis-rumours-map.html

Persian Female Ninjas

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/iranian-female-ninjas_n_1258180.html?ref=weird-news

I believe I sense a potential Monty Python skit, here. As for this hobby being liberating, I remain laughably cynical. Go ahead, girlies, practice your gymnastics - talk to me when you want to get serious about political change in a theocratic dystopia. And don't bring throwing stars and nunchuks. That's for video game kiddies. Bring explosives and machine guns...

Retronaut

http://www.retronaut.co/

An amazing collection of photos (and a few videos) from the past.

(Thanks for the link, Missy!)

The cutest little sheep herder...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/03/sheep-herding-bunny_n_1252145.html?ref=mostpopular

(Thanks for the link, Audrey!)

Happy Birthday Patrick MacNee!

http://www.patrickmacnee.com/

Happy Birthday Bob Marley!

http://www.bobmarley.com/

Happy Birthday Adam Weishaupt!

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

My next cellphone

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/01/the-worlds-first-carphone/

RIP Mike Kelley

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/artist-musician-mike-kelley-dead-of-apparent-suicide-20120202

A documentary about The Bayou

http://www.mtitv.com/BayouBlog/

A famous DC rock club from my misspent youth.

Missing Russian Scientists?

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/03/missing-scientists-mystery-deepens-in-frozen-antarctica/

This sounds more and more Lovecraftian...

Maybe the Sumerians weren't a cool as we thought...

http://news.discovery.com/history/sumerians-beer-non-alcoholic-120119.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

No contest - THIS is the coolest music video you're going to see today!

http://boingboing.net/2012/02/04/playing-black-sabbath-on-tesla.html

Crazy Coffins

http://www.crazycoffins.co.uk/index.html

Make your own Cyclops Visor!

http://io9.com/5878267/how-to-make-your-own-cyclops-visor-for-under-30

Meteor Wine

http://io9.com/5878095/hate-earthy-wines-try-one-made-from-meteorites

And yet another in the seemingly endless ways smart people are able to relieve stupid rich people of their money.

Baby Robot

http://io9.com/5878154/this-robotic-baby-crawled-out-of-your-nightmares

Creepy...

Happy Birthday to the Urban Verbs!

Their first, self titled, album was released on this date in 1980. DC's finest, and one of my faves.

http://www.myspace.com/urbanverbs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeVy2f5TR_M&feature=youtu.be

Happy Birthday to The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour!

Premiered on this date in 1967. Brilliant. Essential.

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

Happy Birthday John Carradine!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001017/

Happy Birthday H.R. Giger!

http://www.hrgiger.com/

Happy Birthday James Otis, Jr.!

http://www.foundersofamerica.org/jotis.html

A Patriot.

Roswell & Manned Fugo Balloons

http://desertdarkness.blogspot.com/2012/01/john-keel-screaming-monkey-and-roswell.html

I've always found these two (possibly related) subjects of interest, and find Keel's stories of manned Fugo balloons to be on the edge of the possible. I do know there were serious plans to have light Japanese bombers transported and launched from submarines in the Pacific, bomb the Texas oilfields and then crash land in the Gulf of Mexico, (with the pilots picked up by German u-boats). But they could never quite pull off the logistics. Suicide balloons would have been a much easier proposition, however, (I don't think a human could have made it all the way from Japan, as the non-manned balloons were handled). I look forward to whatever Refern can dig up on this.

A roundup of UFO and strange creature sightings in Pennsylvania

http://www.stangordon.info/wp/special-reports/2011-pennsylvania-report/

This is the future...

http://www.myfoxdc.com//dpp/news/offbeat/corpse-sits-among-oblivious-video-gamers-for-nine-hours-in-taiwan-internet-cafe-ncxdc-020312

hitler schnapps

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096124/You-sell-Hitler-schnapps-Austrian-police-abandon-investigation-sale-alcohol-Hitlers-face-bottle.html

Sigh. It seems inevitable that things like this will occur as we get further along in time. It will be helped along by the general ignoring of teaching things like history, critical thinking, and the lack of empathy that our gadget-obsessed times seems to generate.

RIP Navajo Code Talker Jimmie Begay

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/02/03/navajo-code-talker-jimmie-begay%E2%80%99s-life-commemorated-by-president-ben-shelly-95712

Churchill's gadgets

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/02/winston-churchills-toyshop-the-secret-weapons-and-gadgets-of-world-war-ii/

Neat little article. I confess that I'd never heard of the metal cocoon!

I always cry at weddings

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/cannibal-who-ate-head-of-former-lover-proposes-to-satan-worshipping-vampire-girlfriend/story-e6frev20-1226260269745

The 20 Million Year Old Lake

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/02/01/scientists-to-breach-buried-antarctic-lake-untouched-for-millions-of-years/

I believe there's a Cthulhu Mythos story in here, once they reach the lake...

Happy Birthday Alice Cooper!

http://alicecooper.com/

Happy Birthday Tadeusz Kosciuszko!

http://www.polishamericancenter.org/KosciuszkoHistory.htm

A Patriot.

Happy National Homemade Soup Day!

Yum!

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