24 January 2012
23 January 2012
21 January 2012
Ebert's Glossary of Movie Terms
http://academic.sun.ac.za/forlang/bergman/tech/glossary/ebert_glos.htm
"Fruit Cart!"
An expletive used by knowledgeable film buffs during any chase scene involving a foreign or ethnic locale, reflecting their certainty that a fruit cart will be overturned during the chase, and an angry peddler will run into the middle of the street to shake his fist at the hero's departing vehicle. (Of all the definitions in the glossary, this has become the most popular. It has been gratifying to be part of an audience where people unknown to me have cried out "Fruit cart!" at appropriate moments. The movie SKI PATROL even contained a "Siskel and Ebert Fruit Cart.")
18 January 2012
1992 BBC documentary concerning the FWBO (Triratna Buddhist Community)
An interesting video on the FWBO / Triratna "Buddhist" cult.
This video, recently uploaded to the internet by the Dialogue Ireland website, is called ‘Going For Refuge’. It was made by BBC (East) and broadcast in the Eastern region of the UK on 12 November 1992, as part of BBC East’s ‘Matter of Fact’ series. It is about the organisaton formerly known as The Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO), which was rebranded in 2010 as the Triratna Buddhist Community (TBC). Its leader is Dennis Lingwood, known as Sangharakshita.
17 January 2012
Amoco alien
The "Amoco alien" is one of my favourite image from UFOlogy. The double page advert it first appeared on can be found here: http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1989/1989%20-%202190.html
William Cooper said he tried to figure out information about the very life-like model, but the company told him several different stories. According to Cooper, they said it was made of bronze. Depending on the time period in his career, he believed it was either a real alien entity or a genetically produced creature designed to make the population believe in aliens. He repeatedly pointed out the details of the eyes, the lips and the nose as well as small hairs on the neck of the creature as being evidence it was possibly a real being rather than a model. Although this is a scan, it is a very good one and I don't think that kind of detail is really there.
It's a very well taken photo as the lighting obscures the details and makes the mind fill in the missing information. Looking at it it seems like it might possibly be a painting rather than a photo.
26 December 2011
The Dear Leader is dead, again
It is sickening to see the echoes of Mao Zedong’s tyranny still being played out in North Korea, 35 years later.
20 December 2011
Theodore Dalrymple: The Wilder Shores of Marx
This is an excellent description of the hell-hole that is North Korea, from Theodore Dalrymple (Dr. Anthony Daniels):
http://blog.skepticaldoctor.com/2010/01/15/classic-dalrymple-the-wilder-shores-of-marx-excerpt-1991.aspx
I find the reaction of the Scottish Communist is especially interesting.
Read the rest here:I went several times during the festival to Pyongyang Department Store Number 1. This is in the very centre of the city. Its shelves and counters were groaning with locally produced goods, piled into impressive pyramids or in fan-like displays, perfectly arranged, throughout the several floors of the building. On the ground floor was a wide variety of tinned foods, hardware and alcoholic drinks, including a strong Korean liqueur with a whole snake pickled or marinated in the bottle, presumably as an aphrodisiac. Everything glittered with perfection, the tidiness was remarkable.It didn't take long to discover that this was no ordinary department store. It was filled with thousands of people, going up and down the escalators, standing at the corners, going in and out of the front entrance in a constant stream both ways - yet nothing was being bought or sold.
http://blog.skepticaldoctor.com/2010/01/15/classic-dalrymple-the-wilder-shores-of-marx-excerpt-1991.aspx
I find the reaction of the Scottish Communist is especially interesting.
18 December 2011
16 December 2011
Scareships
So, what was torpedo-shaped and capable of flight in 1909? An airship, of course. The press (metropolitan and provincial) certainly assumed that the most likely explanation for these 'fly-by-nights' was an airship or airships, generally terming them 'phantom airships', 'mystery airships', 'scareships' or something similar.
But whose airship? Where was it from?
http://airminded.org/2006/12/22/the-scareship-age/
1 December 2011
22 October 2011
Skilluminati is back
After a period of not posting, it seems that the blog Skilluminati is back online. This, and the linked blogs, are fascinating reading for those that are interested in intelligence services, social control, systems of power, politics and those behind the scenes.
1 October 2011
Bongo
Visit any Australian trucker’s forum and search for “Pilliga”, or “Piliga”. You’ll soon be rewarded with stories of “min-min” lights (an old aboriginal legend), vicious unseen creatures, ruined vehicles and sightings of the Pilliga Princess.
On a late night-early morning Australian radio programme called ‘Overnights‘ (2am – 6am), they held a few special nights dedicated to stories from the Pilliga region. Listeners could call the station and tell their Pilliga stories on the air. On that night, the radio station had two of their people in the Pilliga Scrub reporting live by satellite phone. At one point, the connection dropped and the signal wasn’t restored for some time. When it finally returned, the reporters were OK and the cut signal was unexplained.
During the programme, one caller who identified himself as “Bongo” told a harrowing story of the night he endured in the Pilliga way back in 1978. The ordeal he endured that night affected him in such a terrible way that, to this day, he remains in psychiatric care.
http://bitey.com/2010/07/pilliga/
28 September 2011
19 July 2011
I Know What I Saw
I think this is the best UFO documentary that has ever been made. Level headed and it sticks to the facts rather than silly speculation.
The Secret Sun "The New Normal"
Having closely watched the Fundamentalist Conspiracy underground for 20 years I've seen a strange process take shape- the arcane power of all of those strange occult symbols has obviously taken hold of many of the researchers who claim to be "exposing" it.
http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-normal.html
For a great example of this - from Bill Cooper, a guy I genuinely like - see the following video:
28 June 2011
21 June 2011
6 June 2011
Regrets of the dying
People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone's capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. Every single patient found their peace before they departed though, every one of them.
When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again.
http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html
22 May 2011
17 May 2011
SomaFM: Mission Control - Celebrating NASA and Space Explorers everywhere
Celebrate Space! A mix of ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program. And when a space shuttle mission is happening, we mix it in live from launch to landing.
http://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
21 April 2011
22 March 2011
19 March 2011
Zoviet France - Live
Here are many hours of live Zoviet France recordings.
Personally, I consider ZF to be the best industrial/experimental group to ever come out of the UK.
11 March 2011
2 March 2011
A periodic table of shapes
From Imperial College London
Mathematicians are creating their own version of the periodic table that
will provide a vast directory of all the possible shapes in the universe across
three, four and five dimensions, linking shapes together in the same way as the
periodic table links groups of chemical elements.
The three-year project, announced today, should provide a resource that mathematicians, physicists and other scientists can use for calculations and research in a range of areas, including computer vision, number theory, and theoretical physics.
The full article has several images and videos.
6 February 2011
The Unwritten Laws of Engineering
From Mechanical Engineering magazine.
Part one
Part two
Part three
These are intended for engineers, but are excellent guides for anyone working in any career.
Part one
Part two
Part three
These are intended for engineers, but are excellent guides for anyone working in any career.
25 January 2011
23 January 2011
The Equanimity Project
Use this free timer to time your meditations. Choose a preparation time, and a sitting time, and click 'Begin'. A bell will ring once when the preparation time is over and three times when the meditation time is over. Preparation time is an optional period that you may want to use to settle and get comfortable.From The Equanimity Project: Helping the world meditate since 2009
This is a free online version of the iPhone app "Equanimity". The app is incredibly useful and I really, really suggest that you buy a copy. There is a free version of the app, but the tracking/diary system that the paid version has is really worth the time as it will inspire you to keep you meditating daily.
22 January 2011
21 January 2011
DEE3 | DATAMIXES
I've posted one or two of these before, but here are many more dubtech / deep house / minimal mixes by CaN.
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