As we become too lazy to do our own work, we send technologically augmented turtles and seals to be our detectives and scientists. (via BoingBoing and NewScientist)
All posts tagged News of the Weird
A natural progression
Posted by Ben on September 21, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/a-natural-progression/
Not the best track record
Which is, really, fortunate. “10 other dates when the world failed to end.” One of my favorites: Sept 11-13 1988 – Former Nasa engineer Edgar Whisenant sold 4.5 million copies of his book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988, mostly to evangelical US Christians. Follow-up works, which revised the prediction for dates […]
Posted by Ben on September 11, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/not-the-best-track-record/
Much better than first generation wings
(Cybertek Wings Version 2)
Posted by Ben on September 4, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/much-better-than-first-generation-wings/
Compelling explanations
Winnie-the-Pooh, a panther, and a mouse rob a passer-by of $160. Also questionable: the robbers were wearing their costumes on account of “they had run out of clean clothes.” (Although… probably not actually $160, as the setting of the crime in question is Tokyo.) Related: Winnie-the-Pooh, Soviet style. (via Reuters: “Winnie-the-Pooh held for robbery?” [12 […]
Posted by Ben on August 26, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/compelling-explanations/