Zombie Threat
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Add comment November 7th, 2007
Posts filed under 'Weird'
Make: technology on your time
Make: Blog is the blog for the magazine Make. Make Magazine is for Makers; people who like to make things. The magazine and blog are devoted to all things Do It Yourself. From knitting to pumpkin cannons to Tesla coils. Contributors to Make have created some amazing stuff, often with limited resources. Check it out for endless hobby ideas.
The first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, MAKE Magazine unites, inspires and informs a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages.
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Add comment May 23rd, 2007
Resistance is Futile
My Little Golden Book About Zogg
This site is an online adaptation of a children’s book. The book has been modified into a creepy tale about an alien race disguised as children, bent on conquering the universe. They will control the minds of animals and destroy humans to conquer the Earth. You really have to see it for yourself…
WE ARE ZOGG.
Our kind travels between the stars as an endogenous retrovirus encoded into a modulating radio carrier wave in the 1800 kHz range.
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Add comment March 15th, 2007
Mail Tests
From the improbably research files comes U.S. Postal Service experimentation. The experiments involved attempting to mail various strange, valuable, unwieldy, pointless, suspicious, and disgusting items. The majority of these items were actually delivered indicating a high level of tolerance among postal workers, or maybe even a sense of humor. Some examples include a ski, a can of soup, a large wheel of stinky cheese, and a feather duster. Most items were unwrapped, all with appropriate postage affixed to them in some manner.
Deer tibia. Our mailing specialist received many strange looks from both postal clerks and members of the public in line when he picked it up at the station, 9 days. The clerk put on rubber gloves before handling the bone, inquired if our researcher were a “cultist,” and commented that mail must be wrapped.
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Add comment March 6th, 2007
The Hanging Elephant
This is a strange tale of a murderous elephant and her frustrated executioners. The story of how Mary the elephant killed her trainer Red Eldridge isn’t clear, but the attempts to exact revenge on the elephant are what legends are made of.
Guns hardly phased her. 44,000 volts of electricity only made her dance. So they decided to hang Mary.
It doesn’t seem surprising that the chain from which Mary hung snapped shortly after she was raised off the ground. It was, after all, just a 7/8″ chain, and Mary weighed 10,000 pounds. She hit the ground and sat upright, immobilized from the pain of a broken hip.
“It made a right smart little racket when the elephant hit the ground,” says eyewitness George Ingram, with admirable understatement.
Seeing Mary loose, not knowing that she had broken her hip and couldn’t move, the crowd panicked and ran for cover. Then one of the roustabouts “ran up her back like he was climbing a small hill and attached a heavier chain”; the winch was put in motion a second time, and Mary died.
They left her hanging for a half-hour, witnesses say, and then they dumped her in the grave they’d dug with a steam shovel 400 feet up the tracks.
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Add comment March 1st, 2007
Magnetic Sense
A Sixth Sense for a Wired World
Wired has a great article on some body hacking using rare earth magnets. Implanting these magnets in their fingertips “body-mod artists” Jesse Jarrell and Steve Haworth were able to obtain a “sixth sense.” The magnet works by moving very slightly, or with a noticeable oscillation, in response to electromagnetic fields. This stimulates the somatosensory receptors in the fingertip, the same nerves that are responsible for perceiving pressure, temperature and pain. Huffman and other recipients found they could locate electric stove tops and motors, and pick out live electrical cables.
What if, seconds before your laptop began stalling, you could feel the hard drive spin up under the load? Or you could tell if an electrical cord was live before you touched it?
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Add comment January 4th, 2007
Mushroom Mushroom
This site is entirely dedicated to a strangely hypnotic animation featuring some badgers, a mushroom, and a snake. Be warned, it will infest your mind with its repetitive music and simple 2-D animation.
It’s too late for me, the badgers now control my mind…my last act of free will is to warn you of this insidious web site in the hopes that you can avoid its nefarious clutches and save humanity…badger, badger, badger, badger, badger…
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Add comment December 23rd, 2006