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Scott Rench of Yosoh blog sent us this photo from when he visited Denmark. A quick Googling found that there was also the town of Middlefart. No word whether there is an Upperfart or a Goodfart. Thanks Scott!
Update 11/12/07: Here’s another strange sign, this time in Sweden: Infart! [Flickr] That’s gotta hurt! – Thanks Jim Croce!
Finally! Someone had done the mashup of the 300/The Simpsons trailer!
Not to be missed: Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – Thanks John!
Image: Giovanni Maria Pala
Musician Giovanni Maria Pala claimed to have discovered a hidden musical score for a solemn hymn in da Vinci’s masterpiece "The Last Supper." And what’s more, the musical notes themselves encode for a Hebrew text, and even a image of the chalice!
The Apostles, represented in groups of three, gave him a hint that the piece should be played in 3/4-time, like much 15th-century music. But it was their hands, always in relation to the breads on the table, that provided the real score — to be read from right to left, in line with Leonardo’s writing.
"I marked the pieces of bread on the table and the Apostle’s hands as music notes. Then I drew a pentagram over the scene between the tablecloth and Jesus’ face. I couldn’t believe my ears when I played the music. It sounded really solemn, almost like a requiem," Pala said.
But there was much more. Pala noticed that the notes, in their position, produced strange symbols — similar to ancient cuneiform script — when united to each other by lines.
Examined by Father Luigi Orlando, a biblical scholar at the Antonianum Pontifical University in Rome, the cuneiform writing turned out to be a sentence written in ancient Hebrew: "bo nezer usbi," which means "with Him consecration and glory."
Link (with video) – Thanks Stratoblogster!
Someone really, really likes his ginseng: a hundred-year-old ginseng was recently auctioned off in Guangzhou, China for 1.88 million yuan (about $250,000)!
Link (with larger pic) – Thanks Jee!
And that’s not even the highest price someone had paid for the herb: a 300-year-old ginseng was sold for $400,000 a few months ago!
In this news story, the BBC reports that the launch of a £3.6 billion UK military communications satellite program was delayed when a solid fuel boosters malfunctioned.
But that’s not why it’s here, folks. It’s the name of the program. Either someone’s being cheeky or hasn’t ever watched the Terminator movies, or we’re in for it as the end of humanity has begun. See, the Brits are launching … Skynet.
Link – Thanks Chad Cloman!
A vertebrate “food chain” fossil has been found in Germany. It was a shark that had eaten an amphibian that had eaten a fish. Scientists compared the fossil to Russian nesting dolls.
The fossilized trio lived 290 million years ago in the shallow coastal waters of a freshwater lake in the Saar-Nahe Basin of southwestern Germany. The lake had previously been linked to the sea but was landlocked for millions of years before the three animals lived and died.
Several pieces of evidence suggest the animals must have formed part of a single food chain.
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