Month: October 2013
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FAA Allows Use of Electronic Devices Throughout Flights
from nytimes.com: Airline passengers can use electronic devices to listen to music, read and play games in “all phases of flight,” the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday, but using a cellphone to talk and text will still be banned. The changes will most likely take effect before the end of the year, the F.A.A. said,…
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Halloween grinch in North Dakota? Fat notes replace candy
from cnn.com: Instead of handing out candy, a local woman called into a radio station, saying she plans to pass out letters to trick-or-treaters she feels are “moderately obese.” How do you say killjoy? “I just want to send a message to the parents of kids that are really overweight,” said the woman, who identified…
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Haunted History of Halloween
Halloween began over 2,000 years ago among the Celts and their priests, the Druids. Samhain, the Druids most important ritual, signified the death of Summer on November 1. In a blog titled, “Halloween: A Covenant with Death & Hell,” Dr Terry Watkins sees mostly evil and informs, “The Druids believed, during Samhain, the mystic veil…
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New World Next Week: Episode171 – Russell Brandwagon, CIA Healthcare, Food Stamps Riots
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode171 – Russell Brandwagon, CIA Healthcare, Food Stamp Riots Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Russell Brand Isn’t Waking People Up – He Is Putting You Back…
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Oklahoma Man Destroys Own Apartment After Meeting ‘Gay Demon’
from boingboing.net: Jeremy Jarnell Anderson, 22, was taken to jail and charged with arson Thursday after “going ballistic” in his Oklahoma City apartment, reportedly kicking doors off hinges, pouring salt and soap over himself, and setting fire to it. Officers arrived to find him “screaming random things on the front porch,” according to KFOR-TV: “Anderson…
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Dark Matter Still Missing After 100-Day Experiment
from theregister.co.uk: The most sensitive dark matter detector ever built has failed to detect any dark matter. It’s not yet a problem for the instrument, the LUX Dark Matter Collaboration that The Register described here and here. What it might mean is, in an echo of the kind of iterative narrowing-down that characterised the hunt…
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New York To Raise Cigarettes Sale Age To 21
from bbc.co.uk: New York City Council has voted to raise the minimum age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21. New York will now become by far the most populous place in the US to impose such a high age limit, the Associated Press reports. The new age limit includes electronic vapour cigarettes. Across the…
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Take a Hellish Tour of America’s Most Satanic Landmarks
from theatlanticcities.com: All right, kids, the bags are in the trunk and we’re ready to get this road trip started. Let’s just grab the map to see where we can go. Devil’s Swamp – hmm, that doesn’t sound very fun. Mount Evil… uhh, no. Satan Hill. Lucifer Falls. Lake Chaos. Wait a second – what…
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Motorola Wants Everyone To Build Smartphones Like Legos
from readwrite.com: Google has teased us before. Rumors swirled for months that Motorola would introduce a customizable smartphone that would let consumers decide what kind of hardware — a bigger battery, choice of processor, a better camera—they wanted. The notion of a consumer-grade open hardware platform quickened the heartbeats of geeks across the globe. What…
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Do Food Stamps Riot Predictions Give Blank Check for Mayhem?
Food Bank CEO Warns of Riots over Major Food Stamps Cuts* from rt.com: The US food stamp system is to be reduced by $5 billion starting in November. The average benefit will shrink and the overall number of people receiving it will diminish by millions. The CEO of America’s largest food bank says the cuts…
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California City Sues Sriracha Factory Over Stench
from bbc.co.uk: A California city has sued the maker of Sriracha hot sauce saying the factory’s smell makes the area uninhabitable. The city of Irwindale has asked a judge to prevent Huy Fong Foods from making the spicy condiment until the factory submits plan to reduce the smell. Huy Fong representatives have said they are…
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Fuku-what?: Climate Change Pact Signed By California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia
from mercurynews.com: Saying that the West Coast must lead the way in battling climate change, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington, along with a representative of the premier of British Columbia, signed an agreement Monday committing the Canadian province and the three states to coordinate global-warming policies. Each state and the Canadian province promised…
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Penn State to pay nearly $60 million to 26 Sandusky sex abuse victims
from csmonitor.com: Penn State said Monday it is paying $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The school said 23 deals are fully signed and three are agreements in principle, but it did not disclose the names of the recipients.…
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Occult Death Series: Michael Jackson
Ra Imhotep declares Michael Jackson a blood sacrifice in blog, “The Murder of Michael Jackson Decoded.” Our cool blogger deftly announces you’ll never understand unless well-versed in occult customs: “In this article, and from now on, I will refer to the power behind the music industry as the machine. Those that operate and control the…
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The mystery of Google’s floating barges
from usatoday.com: A mysterious four-story barge floating near Treasure Island here has people wondering what Google is up to. A local TV station and CNET offer two theories behind the contents of the boat, which is stacked with shipping containers. CBS-affiliate KPIX, citing an unnamed source close to the project, says Google is constructing an…