If you’ve been following the murkier corners of the Internet (as I do, habitually), you’ve probably heard of Jeff Peckman. The Denver native claims to have video that ‘proves’ aliens are real. It was supposed to be screened exclusively for the media today, but it has (surprise!) been leaked to the interwebs. Hmmm. Not exactly [...]
This is easiest weirdest news story I have seen in a loooong time: Cat turns into woman in P/Harcourt Bolaji Ogundele, Port Harcourt – 22.05.2008 WHAT could be described as a fairy tale turned real on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as a cat allegedly turned into a middle-aged woman after being hit by [...]
Funai, Brazil’s national Aboriginal foundation, has released photos of a native village deep in the Amazon. The residents have apparently never had contact with ‘modern’ civilization. Two things: it’s kinda neat that in a world as populated and seemingly inter-connected as ours, there are still folks living much as they did thousands of years ago. [...]
High-five, humanity! Coooool. This photo of the Phoenix were taken by the HIRISE camera, stashed on the Mars Orbiter. For the full-size pic, go here. This is like some giant ‘it’s awesome to be human’ moment. Wicked badass awesome. We sent something thousands of miles to another planet, got it to land all by itself, [...]
Here’s a classic from today’s Toronto Star: Boring machine stuck in Vaughan muck Well, I guess if it’s so boring, nobody will really miss it. Hey-o! Seriously though, it costs like $5 million, so somebody is totally getting fired.
This entry is cross-posted with blogTO. Creating a new play isn’t easy, especially when you eschew more mainstream conventions of story and character. Like, say, if you were to take an utterly mundane daily activity and explode it into an extraordinary moment of self discovery. Such is the challenge of the Independent Aunties/ Theatre Centre [...]
There’s a mini-controversy brewing about some comments made by Sharon Stone, b-lister extraordinaire whose nether-regions are now familiar to thousands of young males, on the devastating earthquake in China: “I’ve been concerned about how should we deal with the Olympics, because they are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend [...]