Billions of dollars has been made off the series of movies called The Star Wars that is beloved by millions. Many big fans of this space opera, do not know that the fantasy epic they enjoy is not a simple entertainment, but Satan’s Battleground for their very souls!
In this “Final Episode” of the Star Wars, EVIL triumphs using the Force – a greater force they claim than God! This is a Dangerous LIE! This is no mindless entertainment, but an attempt by DEMONS to distract you from your real 75 year mission on planet Earth, to give yourself to Jesus! Do not trust a Yodah puppet from Satan’s dream factory, trust in the Word of the Bible!
Patrick Acton is building his matchstick version of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as seen in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter.
Scheduled to be finished in December 2006, the matchstick building will contain over half a million matchstick held together with 15 gallons of carpenter’s wood glue!
CNN Headline News’s Mike Galanos interviewed our pal Will Pearson of mental_floss (hi Will!) on the 40th Anniversary of Star Trek a week or so ago.
And of course, mental_floss didn’t disappoint with some Star Trek trivia: like did the Monkees influence Star Trek? Which came first Dr. Spock (the pediatrician) or Mr. Spock (the Vulcan)? Why can’t Scottie do the Vulcan greeting? Was the Enterprise designed upside down? And, did the first interracial kiss happen on Star Trek?
Find out the answers: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] | Don’t forget to visit mental_floss website.
Posted by Alex in Health on September 13, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Mike Ciarciello has been blind since birth, but thanks to University of Montreal’s neuropsychologist Maurice Ptito, he may soon "see" by using his tongue!
At the University of Montreal, researcher Daniel Chabat prepared Ciarciello to walk for the first time through an obstacle course without his cane. Chabat began by mounting a small camera on Ciarciello’s forehead. The camera sends electrical impulses about what it sees to a small grid placed on his tongue.
"It’s a concept in which you replace a sense that was lost by another one that is there," said Maurice Ptito, the neuropsychologist supervising the study. "They sense the world through their tongue, and that gives them the feeling of seeing. You don’t see with your eyes. You see with your brain."
Comedy writer Adam Mutterperl made this funny mash-up parody trailer to poke fun at all movie trailers: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks Dave Title! | Adam’s website
Posted by Alex in Art, Pictures on September 13, 2006 at 6:16 am
Paul Curtis aka Moose is no regular graffiti artist. In fact, he’s the reverse-graffiti artist. He created his street art by *cleaning* the dirt and grime off of surfaces!
Authorities are baffled: is selective cleaning a crime?
The tools are simple: A shoe brush, water and elbow grease, he says.
British authorities aren’t sure what to make of the artist who is creating graffiti by cleaning the grime of urban life. The Leeds City Council has been considering what to do with Moose. "I’m waiting for the kind of Monty Python court case where exhibit A is a pot of cleaning fluid and exhibit B is a pair of my old socks," he jokes.
Neatorama reader Anne wrote to us about Kurt Gohde, a Lexington, Kentucky artist who created baseball cards featuring homeless people and drug addicts:
This year is the "rookie" season of the project and successive years will follow the individuals through their challenges of homelessness and addiction. More importantly, the art is viewed not in a museum or gallery, but by personal interaction with the participants as each is given cards to handout to the public. The goal is to create awareness not by a sterile viewing of artwork but by shaking hands and experiencing the living conditions of the millions of Americans affected by drug addition and homelessness.
Posted by Alex in Pictures on September 13, 2006 at 6:12 am
Ah, the irony. Famous photographer Margaret Bourke-White (she was the first Western photographer allowed into the Soviet Union!) took this photo of a bread line during the Louisville Flood in Kentucky in 1937.
Posted by Alex in Health on September 13, 2006 at 6:11 am
The duck started off well, then became more like a turkey and finally a four-legged abstraction.
Scientists studying a female patient with semantic dementia (a form of dementia where patients lose the ability to recognize the name of common objects and their significance) asked her to draw a duck:
When the original picture of a duck was in front of her, she sketched an excellent copy, showing that she was perfectly capable of seeing correctly and taking in information, but when asked to wait and draw from memory, a very different effect was seen.
With a ten-second delay, she gave the duck a turkey-like head, a mouth and an eyebrow, and started to draw a third leg before remembering that the bird had only two. With a 60-second delay, the duck became a four-legged abstraction with a wild tail, a more pronounced eyebrow and a smile.
Matthew Lambon-Ralph, who conducted the study, said: “The initial copy was very good, but with a delay you have to rely on recalling the meaning of what you have seen. As understanding is distorted, confusion sets in. Birds start to be confused with other animals, and that’s when you get a four-legged duck.”
No will power to diet? Then you need the DDS system, a dental plate that fits on the roof of your mouth. It works by slowing down your eating and preventing you from eating large bites of food – so, you eat less and lose weight.
From the blog dedicated to human oddities, J. Tithonus Pednaud presents: The Human Marvel:
On occasion, an embryo will begin to split but will fail to complete the process. A dominant twin will begin to consume the other and manifest it as an extra limb, an entire dangling torso or even as a second head. These twins are very much alive and living off the blood of their hosts like a parasite …
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