Now the Morlocks Attack
A 100-foot lake in the Andes has disappeared, and nobody knows why. It left a big hole and the ice chunks that used to float on the surface behind. The scientists need to clear out and bring in the...
View ArticleWater Vapor on Extrasolar Planet
For the first time, scientists have confirmed the existence of water vapor on an extrasolar planet. This is huge news as water is a requirement for life (as we know it) and confirming water exists on...
View ArticleSigns and Portents
Children Are Scary Sometimes Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri. “Look what I drew, Daddy!” This doesn’t bode well. This doesn’t bode well at all. About Mike OliveriMike Oliveri is a writer, martial...
View ArticleAaaaaliens!
So the latest viral video to hit my inbox claims to be a Haitian UFO sighting: http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1006571&cache=1 Of course, it’s a complete fake. I thought so for many reasons...
View ArticleThis is Your Modern World
Watching Windows install itself is about as exciting as watching paint dry, particularly when it’s going onto a new hard drive in a server that puked its guts up the day before, Dell failed to deliver...
View ArticleScaring Them Senseless
CNN has a timely Parenting article about what scares children and how to handle it. It’s not bad reading, and a lot of it rings true to my own experiences. But what they really need is a little more...
View ArticleNews of the Web
So much to blog, so little time. Here’s a couple quick hits: Congrats to Automattic, creators of the bestest blog software on the planet (WordPress), for landing $29 million in funding. Not too shabby...
View ArticleJoin the Space Cult
I glanced at a table near the bathroom in the local Borders store and found an Illinois MUFON application staring back at me. I was in the mood for a laugh, so I snapped one up. It turns out for twenty...
View ArticleHuman Ingenuity
In my aliens-as-religion post a couple weeks back I mentioned the way some people undersell human ingenuity. For example, there are those who believe aliens must have built the pyramids because they...
View ArticlePoltergeist Children
In what I’m sure is an April Fool’s prank, New Scientist is reporting Italian scientists are speculating psychic emanations from children going through puberty is responsible for poltergeist activity....
View ArticleThis is Still Your Modern World
There’s a Czechoslovakian man who believes aliens are trying to assassinate him. Meteorites have struck his house five times in the past several months, and because this defies the odds, he’s concluded...
View ArticleSon of Your Modern World
I just read that albinos are being murdered in Tanzania for the alleged magical properties of their limbs and organs. We’ve split the atom, condensed the sum total of human knowledge onto silicon...
View ArticleYour Modern World Spites Your Face
In today’s entry of Your Modern World, we find motorcyclists in Nigeria are using dried pumpkin shells as helmets in an attempt to comply with new helmet laws. Many of them are being arrested, yet they...
View ArticleYour Modern World Kicks Your Balls In
Two more entries to Your Modern World tonight. First up, diseases are a common problem in the modern world. Sure, we’ve made many advances and have eliminated things like smallpox, but we still have to...
View ArticleHungry Hungry Aliens
Just a thought I had today: The closest star to our planet is 4.2 light years away. Let’s assume life exists there, and they have ships advanced enough to fly ten times the speed of light. That means...
View ArticlePhoto Friday: The Overlook
I first visited the Stanley Hotel back in 2003. As a horror writer, it’s almost mandatory to drop by and check out the influence for one of the horror genre’s most famous landmarks, Stephen King’s...
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