Category Religion/Myth/Belief

Jun 6 2010

Thor’s Helmet

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day today is a cosmic cloud called Thor’s Helmet, for obvious reasons.

Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor’s Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet is actually more like an interstellar bubble, blown as a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble’s center sweeps through a surrounding molecular cloud. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. Cataloged as NGC 2359, the nebula is located about 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Canis Major.

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Jun 5 2010

25 Funniest Fox News Screen Captures

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“What do you get when you lock a bunch of ornery, old and ultra-religious Republican men in a room with a bunch of hot women? Well, apparently you get the Fox New channel. Sure Bill O’Reilly is an a-hole and Glenn Beck is a douche bag jabroni, but you have to give that network some credit for their choice of female anchors and field reporters. Those chicks are hotter than apple pie right out of the oven, if you know what I mean. Yee-haw!”

Jun 5 2010

What the EL is going on around here?

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What the EL is going on around here?
mad – http://www.upsidebackwards.info

“So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”
~Genesis 3:24

“When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer, superstition ain’t the way.”
~Stevie Wonder

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Jun 2 2010

H.P. Lovecraft Art Exhibit Opens Next Week

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We love both H.P. Lovecraft and fun art openings. So when Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura told us he was curating a Cthulhu-centric art show in Brooklyn, we bellowed a hearty “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!”

The show — A Love Craft: Art Inspired by Monsters, Madness and Mythos — opens at Observatory on Friday, June 11th at 7:00 PM. Here’s the show’s description.

May 28 2010

Growing Network Preparing for Armageddon

If the proverbial you-know-what hit the global fan, would you be prepared? The answer to that question is most likely a big, fat no.

After all, it’s hard to develop life skills (e.g., growing/storing your own food, filtering water) while playing myriad video games or scrounging the Internet for funny videos to post on Facebook.

Turns out, though, that while you may not be concerned about mass chaos and world destruction, a growing number of people are.