"Vampire" Unearthed in Venice |
A little history first: Female "vampires" called Lamatsu date back 4,000 years to Mesopotamia. Lamastu (translates to "she who erases") would suck blood from young men bringing disease, sterility and ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:20:00 GMT |
New Technology Allows Others to Read Your Mind |
Neuroscience tells us that our brains' activities are linked to certain thoughts. It appears now possible, using funtional MRI, to read someone elses mind. Maybe the guys with the aluminum-foil hats...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:04:00 GMT |
Torture Simulation Teaches Important Lesson -- It Works! |
What has not been exposed is the secret alliance between the US Military and Blizzard Entertainment, commissioned to better train America's youth in such techniques after embarrassing revelations at A...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:44:00 GMT |
Supreme Court Rules Possession of Bart Simpson Cartoon Punishable by 10 Year Jail Term |
While the Judge had difficulty distinguishing line-drawn cartoons of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie from actual people, as Matt Groening created them in April 1987, each character would be...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:54:00 GMT |
NASA Astronauts Guilty of Space DUI |
One can only wonder who would actually write the citation? I keep envisioning Marvin the Martian pulling over the capsule mid-space, pointing his model x39634 space demodulator at the crew, and ...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:40:00 GMT |
Kidnapped German Boy Sparks National Attention |
Had this been in America, Fox News would have surely been tracking the vehicle on sky-cam, with Geraldo Rivera live on the scene for the opening of the trunk... M Dwarf Mechanic Mi...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 14:13:00 GMT |
Microsoft Admits It Finally Showed Its Ass |
While Grand Theft Auto may have come under fire by regulators for allegedly "hidden" content of a mature nature in a videogame presumably for teens, Microsoft takes cake on this one. However, co...
Posted by on Fri, 25 May 2007 23:38:00 GMT |
Bat Boy Found! -- in Sacramento |
Given the history of the US government and US intelligence (did I really use those two words together?) abuse of "exceptional" persons (telepaths, etc.), I'd say the kid's&nbs...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:20:00 GMT |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Eat Your Heart Out |
I will grant you that Herbie was cute, but a VW still lacks all the necessary requirements. If one could add James Bond's front mounted machine guns and a set of Batmobile wings, I'll ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:37:00 GMT |
Computer AI Will Respond to the Emotional Needs of Users |
Computer AI has certainly come along way from Eliza, but up until now lacked the capacity for an accurate emotioinal response. The question remains if the recent advances in this area borde...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:48:00 GMT |
