Saturday, March 31, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Now Playing: Safe House
Really great score by a favorite composer - Ramin Djawadi (Fright Night, Clash of the Titans, Iron Man).
Click below for a track:
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Revisiting Deadwoods
So many amazing props and images.
Would LOVE to do a walk through of this Haunt by Pam of Labyrinth Creations.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Farewell, Tolerance
In a bizarre case of political correctness run wild, educrats have banned references to “dinosaurs,” “birthdays,” “Halloween” and dozens of other topics on city-issued tests.
That’s because they fear such topics “could evoke unpleasant emotions in the students.”
Dinosaurs, for example, call to mind evolution, which might upset fundamentalists; birthdays aren’t celebrated by Jehovah’s Witnesses; and Halloween suggests paganism.
Read the article here.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
A Different Place
The trees group themselves differently; they draw closer together, as if in fear. The very silence has another quality than the silence of the day. And it is full of half-heard whispers - whispers that startle - ghosts of sounds long dead. There are living sounds, too, such as are never heard under other conditions: notes of strange night-birds, the cries of small animals in sudden encounters with stealthy foes or in their dreams, a rustling in the dead leaves - it may be the leap of a wood-rat, it may be the footfall of a panther. What caused the breaking of that twig? - what the low, alarmed twittering in that bushful of birds? There are sounds without a name, forms without substance, translations in space of objects which have not been seen to move, movements wherein nothing is observed to change its place. Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!
Ambrose Bierce
Sunday, March 25, 2012
The Enfield Poltergeist
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Now Playing: Spiraal Phase I-III
This track always reminds me of the tail end of Halloween night. When the packs of kids have mostly gone and the only ones you see are older kids, teens, walking quickly down the center of the street, maybe on the way to a party.
And this track always seemed to be playing on my mix.
Click below to listen to this gem by Raison D'Etre:
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Weather As A Force Multiplier
In 2025, US aerospace forces can “own the weather” by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications. Such a capability offers the war fighter tools to shape the battlespace in ways never before possible. It provides opportunities to impact operations across the full spectrum of conflict and is pertinent to all possible futures. The purpose of this paper is to outline a strategy for the use of a future weather-modification system to achieve military objectives rather than to provide a detailed technical road map.
That story yesterday reminded me of the infamous Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 military document.
Click here to read it.
Click here for more on that ground-rumbling story.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Mysterious Booms And Trembles
Police, residents and experts are baffled by the source of mysterious booms and shaking that have been plaguing the town of Clintonville, Wis., for the past three days, and have caused some residents to flee.
...Tobin says it does appear the sounds are either coming from the surface of the ground or just underneath the surface. He says that he is just as confused and intrigued as anyone as to what exactly is causing the sounds, and adds that there are other instruments that could be put out in the region where the sounds are to record noise in the air, and also ground vibrations at a higher frequency.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Ritualistic Mortuary Cannibalism.
The word kuru means "shaking death" in the Fore language, and describes the characteristic symptoms of the disease. Because it affects mainly the cerebellum, a part of the brain involved in the co-ordination of movement, the first symptoms to manifest themselves in those infected with the disease would typically be an unsteady gait and tremors. As the disease progresses, victims become unable to stand or eat, and eventually die between 6-12 months after the symptoms first appear.
