Update:
This was originally a short story written by Terry Bisson and published in a 1991 issue of OMNI and can be read online here.
Day: May 6, 2006
Network TV Logos Over the Years
This page consists of the many icons from the major US TV Networks. The Big 3 networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, are listed below. The additional page after them features the 5 other networks and their affiliates. And now we present to you the vintage signature idents from TV’s golden past.
(via Linkfilter)
Antichrist to be Revealed on June 6
Good news everybody. 6/6/06 should be the day when the antichrist will be revealed.
In order for Antichrist to come on June 6 2006 6/6/06, a series of events must happen between Jan 06 and June 06. Here are these events and how they raise the probabilities of Antichrist revealed on June 6, 2006 (6/6/06)
(via Bifurcated Rivets)
Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
(Thanks PVC)
Smedley Butler
Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed “The Fighting Quaker” and “Old Gimlet Eye,” was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. Butler was awarded the Medal of Honor twice during his career, one of only 19 people to be so doubly decorated. He was noted for his outspoken non-interventionist views and his book War is a Racket, one of the first works describing the military-industrial complex. After retiring from service, Butler became a popular speaker at meetings organized by veterans, communists, pacifists and church groups in the 1930s. Butler came forward to the U.S. Congress in 1934 to report that a proposed coup had been plotted by wealthy industrialists to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(Thanks Duane)
The White House Putsch
Wikipedia’s entry on the plot to overthrow FDR.
The Business Plot, The Plot Against FDR, or The White House Putsch, was an alleged conspiracy to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 by a retired general backed by big money interests. The allegations of the plot came to light when retired Marine Corps General Smedley Butler testified that one Gerald MacGuire told Butler that he had been selected to lead the plot. Butler testified before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee in 1934 [1]. In his testimony, Butler claimed that a group of several men had approached him as part of a plot to overthrow Roosevelt in a military coup. MacGuire vehemently denied any such plot. In their final report, the Congressional committee supported Butler’s allegations on the existence of the plot, [2] but no prosecutions or further investigations followed, and the matter was mostly forgotten.
Chronicles of the Chronically (and Voluntarily) Bedridden
Christy suggested this blog yesterday about a volunteer in a NASA sponsored study.
i’m currently participating in the NASA-sponsored bedrest study at the Cleveland Clinic. these are the chronicles of three full months of bedrest, in addition to the craziness leading up to it, and the who knows what afterwards. edit: this is now a team blog with more than one bedrest subject (or potential bedrest subject) adding entries!
(Thanks Christy, awesome suggestion)