01-09-2011, 08:58 PM | #201 | |
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01-10-2011, 05:18 PM | #202 |
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Five dastardly plots perpetrated by the Mossad -- at least according to certain Middle Eastern media reports.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article..._alleged_plots - Trained spy vultures conducting aerial recon of Saudi Arabia - Killer sharks set loose to undermine the Egyptian tourist industry. (Head-mounted lasers not yet ready for deployment.) - Heavy metal festival organized to embarrass Gaza flotilla (particularly the German band) - Facebook (for undermining the 2009 Iranian election, but really, do you have to have a reason to hate Facebook?) - the "Christmas Day bomber" (to provide an excuse to retaliate, of course) |
01-11-2011, 11:18 PM | #203 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
I've just recently stumbled on the Georgia Guidestones, a granite monument with creepy new-agey instructions for the future, and a Rosicrucian connection, that may have been commissioned by Ted Turner. I want to know how I've gone so long without hearing about this sooner, and why there isn't there an Illumaniti or INWO card for it?
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01-11-2011, 11:36 PM | #204 |
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That one is a bit obscure. I'm from Georgia, and I'd never heard of it for 30+ years; only after I'd moved out.
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01-12-2011, 06:36 AM | #205 |
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Automated stock traders placing strange and currently-inexplicable orders (which don't even get filled):
http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...traders/60829/
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01-12-2011, 05:07 PM | #206 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
Makes me think of covert channels {wikipedia article} in computer systems. Skynet has to communicate among its elements somehow.
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01-15-2011, 05:43 PM | #207 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
A sculptor is placing his artwork under the sea. It looks amazing. It can be found here.
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01-20-2011, 09:51 PM | #208 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
I wish I could remember exactly where I saw or heard this (book? TV show?). But it was something about weirdness in the built environment of London.
Somewhere in the city is a building, and in the basement, there's a metal grate. Lift it up, and there's running water underneath. Nobody has the faintest idea what the running water is or where it comes from. |
01-20-2011, 10:47 PM | #209 | |
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This strange non-specific introduction makes it sound eerily similar to an urban legend. |
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01-20-2011, 10:57 PM | #210 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
The description reminded me of Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere".
Basement damp and flooding is apparently not uncommon in London. Last edited by Anaraxes; 01-20-2011 at 11:02 PM. |
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