The Atlantean One Meditation Helmet

The ATLANTEAN ONE MEDITATION HELMET is the most innovative meditation tool available in which to develop your psychic powers.. When proper used, this tool can help you achieve the highest level of consciousness by stimulating senses beyond those of sight, sound, taste, touch and scent. This helmet can enhance your clairvoyant and telepathic capabilities, even if you have never experienced anything beyond the accepted five senses. These talent are inborn. However, for many , these talents remain dormant to our conscience perceptions, although we all have acted upon them, from time to time... a gut feeling; a hunch; knowing who is calling when the telephone rings.

Smoke Ring Generator

2 foot smoke rings shoot 50 feet into trees and at people.

WEWS TV "Catch 5" Local News Promo from the 1970s

Between the psychedelic animation, goofy photo-flipbook effect, saccharine-sweet music, and the all-around goofy news team, this local news promo is everything the movie "Anchorman" should have been.

Two O'Clock Trailers - All the President's Men

The 60-storey One Family House

This 60-storey house is for just one family.

India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is planning a palace in the heart of Mumbai with helipad, health club, hanging gardens and six floors of car parking.

His wife, mother and three children will live there with him, looked after by 600 live-in staff.

HTML Earrings

Guest Friday Cat Blogging

well hell, as long as we're submitting the "off breeds" of cats, here's Rufus (rhyming with Doofus) after learning American Idol is gone for the season.

Four Parts of a Three Part Douglas Adam's Interview

The camera behind Google's Street View

If you've been playing with Google's new Street View feature--that $25 billion time suck--you may well have wondered how the heck they took those 360-degree images while driving down the street.

Well, wonder no more. Thanks to our good friend Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing, we now know that many of the images, at least those shot outside the San Francisco Bay Area--were shot using this fairly disco-ball-esque device by the outside contractor, Immersive Media.

Fort Lewis to Consolidate Memorials for Dead

Fort Lewis, which this month has suffered its worst losses of the war, will no longer conduct individual memorial ceremonies for soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Instead, the post will hold one ceremony for all soldiers killed each month, the Fort Lewis acting commanding general, Brig. Gen. William Troy, wrote in a memo to commanders and staff last week.

As much as we would like to think otherwise, I am afraid that with the number of soldiers we now have in harm's way, our losses will preclude us from continuing to do individual memorial ceremonies, Troy wrote in the memo, according to a copy obtained by United for Peace Pierce County and posted on the group's Web site. A post spokesman confirmed the policy change Tuesday. It will start in June.

There are 10,000 Fort Lewis troops in Iraq, more than at any other time since the March 2003 invasion. The post has reported 16 soldiers killed there so far in May, by far the most in any month of the war. The previous worst month was December 2004, when nine soldiers were killed, including six in the Mosul chow hall bombing. In all overseas deployments since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, 124 Fort Lewis soldiers have died.

Shoddity

An Index to Creationist Claims

Daily Dose of Ingersoll

Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.

–Robert Green Ingersoll, "The Gods" (1872)

The Toenail Necklace

Gosh, what is an ultrarunner to do with all the lost and blackened toenails from those 100-milers? Why, make a necklace, of course!

I kid you not - below is a picture of Jan Ryerse' toenail necklace that he made from the remnants of his Badwater, Western States, and other expeditions. He also takes donations if you would like to send yours in.