Chinese Claim Teleportation over 10 Mile Radius

"Quantum teleportation has achieved a new milestone or, should we say, a new ten-milestone: scientists have recently had success teleporting information between photons over a free space distance of nearly ten miles, an unprecedented length. The researchers who have accomplished this feat note that this brings us closer to communicating information without needing a traditional signal, and that the ten miles they have reached could span the distance between the surface of the earth and space."

700 year old preserved brain

Evolutionary psychology tends to receive harsh criticism, and often rightly so. One of the main reasons for this is the severe lack of evidence for many of it’s proposals given that the paucity of fossilised brains fails to bolster many a case. And it isn’t even anyone’s fault. That’s just the way it goes sometimes, that the brain is a jelly-like substance that is subject to decay after death, and there’s no way we can objectively analyse or verify any differences in brains of long ago with brains of today.

Unsleepable Pillows

I recently came across this series of Forensic Pillow designs and couldn’t help thinking they are not the most relaxing things out there.

Imagine walking in on someone sleeping under this:

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New Book: THE CRYPTOTERRESTRIALS

-Posthumous release from author, Fortean researcher, and prolific blogger Mac Tonnies-

Likewise, with any luck I'll be a weekly contributor over here for the next couple months; a new website tribute to the late Mac Tonnies who passed away Oct. '09....
macbots.wordpress.com/

Monsters and Marilyns

Monsters and Marilyns is a project by Jesse Lenz. The hair and make-up from Andy Warhol's 'Marilyn Monroe' painting is placed on politicians, dictators, public officials, as well as old horror movie monsters that are liars, murderers, and tyrants.

By doing this the statement is made that no matter how much popular culture or the mass media tries to dress up and beautify these people, they are still monsters.

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360 degree panorama of Stonehenge

An exclusive image of Stonehenge taken from within the inner circle - normally out of bounds to the public. To move around the image click the left mouse button and hold down whilst dragging the mouse around. To zoom in press A and to zoom out press Z.

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Masturbate in Style...

Both fun and functional, these glow in the dark gloves are great for parties and raves, but are also intended for sign-language users to use at night.

Using the latest photo-luminescent materials they charge up from the sun or any bright light source, so they can be used again and again – they’ll just keep on glowing for up to two hours per charge!

(Sorry, I post funny titles sometimes. And I'm not responsible for any penile cancer which might ensue due to prolonged usage of glow gloves!)

Creepy Singing Android Heads

Extinct Goat was Cold Blooded, Reptilian

The goat, Myotragus balearicus, lived on what is now Majorca, a Spanish island. The island had scarce resources, and there was no way for the goats to leave, and so scientists wondered how they had thrived for so long. A recently published research paper reveals the extinct goat survived by adjusting its growth rate and metabolism to suit the available food, becoming cold-blooded like reptiles.

Peacock Spider

This is a kind of jumping spider, and it’s only about 5mm in size. The males have a colorful pattern on flaps that extend from their abdomen during breeding/mating. In addition to this, they raise their back pair of legs and dance from side to side to win over their plain brown females.

Only found in Australia, they were classified as species Maratus volans because people originally thought the flap was for gliding after jumping. Wiki

Animal Mummies

Wrapped in linen and reverently laid to rest, animal mummies hold intriguing clues to life and death in ancient Egypt.

What a bird brain, Hummingbird that is!

Also works wth dogs, though the pork chops can get heavy.

Eye Candy

I wasn’t all that impressed with these swirling colors until I started playing with the sliding controls. You can change the size of the colored splotches, the amount of blur, the color change rate, and other dimensions until you find a very pleasing sequence of eye candy. Link

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TV project in works based on Bat Boy, other characters

Move over, Astro Boy and Iron Man -- Bat Boy could be stepping up to the plate soon.

The half-bat, half-human character is just one of 30-odd wacky creations spawned by the erstwhile supermarket tabloid Weekly World News and now up for grabs in Hollywood.

CAA has signed WWN to a representation deal, and DreamWorks is developing a TV show that likely will be the first to tap into the company's library of characters and its tens of thousands of offbeat stories.

Giant Posable Centipede

Thankfully, here’s something you don’t see every day, a Giant Posable Centipede! Yes, that’s right, now you can finally have your very own 56 inch long, one hundred legged centipede to play with. This realistic killer insect is foam-filled, hand-painted and fully posable. You could have a total blast playing pranks with this thing.

Easter Island Ice

Stone Cold Ice Cube Tray – $7.95

Here’s one for your next party: the Stone Cold Ice Tray that makes ice shaped like the moais of Easter Island! Perfect for your tropical drink.

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A hot spot called Hell’s Café

Modern franchised theme restaurants can’t hold a proverbial candle to what may have been the first restaurant of its type.

A hot spot called Hell’s Café lured 19th-century Parisians to the city’s Montmartre neighborhood—like the Marais—on the Right Bank of the Seine. With plaster lost souls writhing on its walls and a bug-eyed devil’s head for a front door, le Café de l’Enfer may have been one of the world’s first theme restaurants. According to one 1899 visitor, the café’s doorman—in a Satan suit—welcomed diners with the greeting, “Enter and be damned!” Hell’s waiters also dressed as devils. An order for three black coffees spiked with cognac was shrieked back to the kitchen as: “Three seething bumpers of molten sins, with a dash of brimstone intensifier!”

How in the world can I be impressed with an old baseball bat on the wall at TGIFriday’s when Hell’s Cafe had writhing lost souls on the walls?

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Rare Apple has Split Personality

Ken Morrish of Colaton Raleigh, Devon, England picked a bizarre Red Delicious apple off his tree. It looks as if someone stuck together half of a green apple and half of a red apple, but these colors are natural.

John Breach, chairman of the British Independent Fruit Growers Association, said: ‘I’ve never seen this happen before to a Golden Delicious. It is extremely rare. It is an extreme mutation.

Zombie Pin-Ups and other Retro Horrors

Kristian Hammerstad's posters features well-dressed zombie women, an alien invasion, and other images out of scifi-influenced horror, rendered in a nostalgic, Charles Burns-influenced style.

12 Surface IQ Pentagon

Move over, Rubik’s Cube: the 12-Surface IQ Pentagon is a Rubik’s Dodecahedron that promises to train both your left and right brain, if it doesn’t permanently scramble it into goo first.