It wasn’t until 2007 that Robert Murch, a noted paranormal enthusiast and Ouija Board collector and historian, set out to find the grave, and Elijah Bond finally got the respect he deserved for his invention. Murch claims it took him fifteen years to locate the precise grave in the Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland – and several of those spent working closely with the cemetery owners themselves to accurately identify the grave.
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Peter Schneider’s compilation of some of the infamous children from horror flicks. Schneider omitted a lot of other examples, but there’s more than enough here to give us nightmares tonight.
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Panni Malekzadeh’s paintings of young girls juxtaposed with sex store neon signage deal with human vulnerability, boredom, fragility and the imprisonment of oneself. Her work has always been about things in herself that she felt incredibly uncomfortable and embarrassed by. Suggesting ideas of beauty vs. despair, shame, embarrassment and vulnerability that woman many times experience in their lives, Malekzadeh exploits what’s dangerous and what scares her about herself.
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Spanish drivers were treated to an amusing sight at the weekend – a truck electronically towing a chain of cars behind it.
What they were witnessing was the first real-world test of ”platooning” technology, which places a vehicle at the head of a convoy, with a string of automatically driving cars trailing behind it. -CONTINUED-
CMGW Photography snapped this beautiful shot, “First Contact,” in which a young girl and a manatee share a moment through a pane of glass.
First Contact – via BOING BOING
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Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95 machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV. And when the entire world has adopted devices with sleek, silent touch interfaces, where will we turn for the sound of fingers striking QWERTY keypads? Tell me that. And tell me: Who will play my GameBoy when I’m gone?
My ten-year plan is to complete the data collection phase by the year 2015, and spend the next seven years developing the proper markup language to reinterpret the sounds as a binary composition.
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For something that only exists as a theory so complex that no two people can actually agree on how it would work, time travel is immensely popular. So much so, in fact, that whenever some yahoo comes along claiming to be FROM THE FUUUUUUTURRRRRE…OR THE PAAAAAAAST, WHICHEEEEEEEVERRRRR, people just wet themselves with excitement. And it doesn’t really matter how many times we’ve been burnt by fakes and hoaxes, we’re always ready to wet ourselves over the next big time lord. Observe:
What a brilliant marketing campaign! Simple, to the point, and bloody (pun intended) awesome. If you were lucky enough to see a select handful of B-movies and other cinematic treats in the 60′s, 70′s and 80′s, you may have gotten your very own vomit bag to commemorate the experience.
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Get you a beer, simmer down, and watch the latest from ASHTRAY CANDY (episode III). Featuring NO PIT CHERRIES, MAD MELODIES, NEW FINLAND RADICALS, BERZERKER MODE and more from the INDY scene! All this and more comedy than you can handle, with a special appearance by a classic 80′s icon, our first viewer hate mail, and the Grim Reaper! It’s here, it’s NOW, it’s ASHTRAY CANDY episode III comin’ right at ya!
Two ancient curses dating back 1,600 years depict a deity with snakes coming out of its head. This deity may be none other than the goddess Hekate, the Queen of the Crossroads. Invocations in the curses resemble those used for her.
Music was flourishing in Europe in 40,000BC – millennia before Beethoven or the Beatles.
European’s earliest ancestors were playing musical instruments and showing artistic creativity more than 40,000 years ago, a study has shown.
Evidence of the musicians was unearthed in Germany in the form of primitive flutes made from bird bones and mammoth ivory.
Qzina Specialty Foods has broken the world record for the world’s largest chocolate sculpture by building a replica of the ancient Mayan temple – the Kukulcan pyramid of Chichen Itza in Mexico. The sculpture which weighs a whopping 18,239 pounds surpasses the previous record of 10,736.5 pound set in Italy in 2010.
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She’s cute, but always kinda annoyed me. Anyway, here’s Sarah Silverman from some new movie called ‘Take This Waltz’. Check out the GALLERY for more nudes…
A clock which has no hands or numbers and “eats time” has gone on display.
The Midsummer Chronophage is inspired by the idea that everyone experiences time differently. Dr John C Taylor designed the timepiece, which is controlled by a Chronophage – a mythical beast which eats time. It sits on top of the clock face and slowly opens its jaws for 59 seconds before snapping shut on the 60th and eating the minute.
Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center have unveiled how and why the public perceives some magic tricks in recent studies that could have real-world implications in military tactics, marketing and sports.
With birds chirping all over the place, and the sun shining across fields of flowers, Spring is in full bloom. What better time to have a little contrast by delving into the dark and grisly world of monster sculptures. With artists like Jordu Schell and Chris Ryniak, and other stars in this niche, it’s a great time to be scared.
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This dude really loves Wonder Woman! But, who can blame him really?
