An Italian Musician has claimed to have de-crypted a musical score hidden in Da Vinci’s Last Supper using Catholic symbolism. Dan Brown and Tom Hanks, what have you wrought?

Check out this interesting piece on the pervasiveness of racism. It’s written by a guilty academic and centred around postcards. I mean bad post cards, not bad like the ones that show bikini babes that say “Wish you were her”. P.S. I just got a 38.8% pay raise. Suck it whitey.

So apparently Poo donation can save lives. People suffering from C. Difficile infection, one of the “superbugs” causing so much trouble these days, can benefit from “fecal transplants”. That’s right, take my poo and put it in you. My poo-bacteria will then make themselves at home in your poo tract and fight off the nasty […]

Marvel has unveiled a new subscription service . For as little as $5 a month you can have access to all your favorite Superheroes. Mine is Major Mapleleaf. The second one, not the first one. He was so good he didn’t need any superpowers, only a super powered horse. Yeah that’s right, a horse. Wolverine […]

Slate Magazine has an article on Live Action Role Playing (LARPS) and a documentary that was made about one of the larger events, Darkon. The article is a good commentary on societal bonds and how people are not interacting with each other like they used to. Slate: Feel the Sting of My Foam Sword “But […]

A senior intelligence official, Donald Kerr, the US Principal Deputy Director of Intelligence wants to redefine what privacy is. Now, this is not really a huge shocker considering the ongoing wiretapping controversy, but this is definitely going a bit further. The idea that we should accept the government spying on us and trust them to […]

The idea of an abandoned Titan Missile Bases fascinates me. A while ago I posted about one that is for sale (Missile Base Dream Home). Today I came across a blog entry by Science Fiction author Jay Lake where he describes, along with pictures and video, a tour he took through Larson Air Force Base […]

I’m not a doctor, but I am a health statistician. So a new study out of the USA (Estados Unidos as my maid calls it) is not surprising at all. It shows that the overall health risks of being overweight are overstated, and that in certain cases being overweight is associated with less risk of […]

Boil Before Drinking isn’t on there so it’s not that important. Fun times though, two of my favorites are nominated, Fark!, and TheSuperficial. Fark is of course kicking ass thanks to it’s unparalleled ability to move traffic anywhere, anytime, for any damn thing. Go check out the nominees, a great way to find quality blogs […]

A must-have for those that count both the undead and philosophy amongst their interests. “Zombies don’t stop. Zombie’s don’t rest. And yet, zombies are at peace with this ceaselessness. And you can be too.” The Zen of Zombie: Better Living Through the Undead by Scott Kenemore