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April 28th, 2008

godzuki

09:24 am - If we lose contact with New Zealand - we know why. Technicians in New Zealand are set to begin defrosting a rare colossal squid, following a day's postponement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7367774.stm "We removed the colossal squid from the freezer and took it out of its plastic container bin," explained Te Papa's Chris Paulin on the museum's squid blog. "We discovered that the specimen filled the entire bin, and therefore there is very little ice surrounding it. Consequently the specimen would thaw well before Wednesday." Wow...Squid Blog... Current Mood: uncomfortable

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February 28th, 2008

tweedlesmart

06:55 pm - Octopus http://videos.howstuffworks.com/reuters/2060-wicked-smart-octopus-in-new-zealand-video.htm

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February 27th, 2008

vonjunzt

11:40 pm - Mysterious Deaths of 9 Skiers Still Unresolved Mysterious Deaths of 9 Skiers Still Unresolved By Svetlana Osadchuk The Saint Petersburg Times Staff Writer Nine experienced cross-country skiers hurriedly left their tent on a Urals slope in the middle of the night, casting aside skis, food and their warm coats. Clad in their sleepwear, the young people dashed headlong down a snowy slope toward a thick forest, where they stood no chance of surviving bitter temperatures of around minus 30 degrees Celsius. Baffled investigators said the group died as a result of “a compelling unknown force” — and then abruptly closed the case and filed it as top secret. The deaths, which occurred 49 years ago on Saturday, remain one of the deepest mysteries in the Urals. Records related to the incident were unsealed in the early 1990s, but friends of those who died are still searching for answers.

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February 19th, 2008

failing_angel

11:40 pm - Dark Lovecraftian Steampunk and Neovictorian Silliness [Flagged up by fortyhumans]

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February 15th, 2008

vonjunzt

09:06 pm - Cambridge's secret library Cambridge University is supposedly posting online the contents of its secret library. They claim that, although campus legend is that the 200,000 volumes in a seventeen-floor tower library are pornography, they are actually Victorian etiquette manuals which were locked away because they were not the sort of thing serious students should be wasting their time with. Clearly Cambridge is trying to cover up some still more hideous truth by digitizing these books. They're probably covering up for the fact that the library really contains thousands of works on black magic which can be used to destroy the fabric of the universe if they enter the wrong hands. The lie that the material is really porn is no longer working to dissuade people. Someone must suspect what's really in that library, so they've been forced to pretend to come clean. It must have been very expensive to buy all these Victorian manuals to cover up for this fact.

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January 31st, 2008

pond823

11:39 am - Submarine network cables 'cut' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7218008.stm Is something Altantian rising from the depths in the Mediterranean? Are the dwellers below moving north from their squalid home deep beneath Africa?

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January 30th, 2008

pond823

10:36 pm - Pilot 'breakdown' diverts flight http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7217977.stm What was it a saw in the bleak winter sky that threw him into the depths of insanity?

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January 15th, 2008

failing_angel

01:52 pm - The Stars Will Be Right? A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is racing towards a collision with the Milky Way "It contains enough hydrogen to make a million stars like the Sun, say experts, and its leading edge is already hitting gas from our galaxy…Smith's Cloud, as it is known, may set off spectacular fireworks when it smacks into our galaxy." Sadly it looks like we have 20-40 million years to wait. Meanwhile,. It’s been discovered that supermassive" black holes at the centres of most galaxies could be spinning at a dizzying rate "These celestial monsters may be rotating so fast, they are close to the maximum rates allowed by Einstein's theory of relativity."

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aardvarkoffnord

12:58 pm - I'm going down to Dunwich Underwater cameras are going to be used to explore the sunken town of Dunwich in England They're even talking about bringing up artifacts. I wonder what they'll find...

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December 12th, 2007

fresh_panini

11:38 pm - Well that'll teach me... Monday night I had one of my favourite dishes, squid in chilli and tomato with rice. I've eaten squid all my life and thoroughly enjoyed it. However, it's entirely possible that Cthulhu has taken umbridge to me listening to Shoggoth on the Roof, because I had an allergic reaction and spent the night in hospital on an IV and a nebuliser before being packed off to my GP with orders to get a medic alert bracelet and start carrying an adrenaline pen. The only good thing about it was the ER doc's kept referring to me as "The Squid Lady" which I guess must be the first step towards Deep One.  Sweet! ;o) Current Mood: weird

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December 7th, 2007

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November 21st, 2007

sack_boy

10:03 am - Giant Sea Scorpions! An 8ft long Sea Scorpion has been found, admittedly it was a fragment of a fossil but ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7104421.stm ( The blurb ) Current Mood: scared Current Music: Melanie C: I Turn To You

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November 7th, 2007

aardvarkoffnord

07:00 pm - Cheaper Sanity Insurance Today's Bunny is excellent

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November 1st, 2007

failing_angel

10:00 pm - Comet 17P/Holmes ”And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us...” 17P/Holmes Holmes is currently moving away from the Sun, and is almost midway between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter But over the last few days it's brightened incredibly - over a million times its usual level in a few hours! - and is now visible to the naked eye. Astronomers are baffled and are calling it one of the cometary events of the century. It seems to have either exploded, shed its outer crust or broken up after an impact. The dust cloud around it is a vast and expanding sphere. All very unusual and worth following. Today the reputable space site SpaceWeather says that in fact Comet Holmes's physical diameter (including its diffuse coma) is seven times larger than the planet Jupiter! ------------ From www.spaceweather.com: Comet 17P/Holmes has been relentlessly expanding since its explosion on Oct 23rd and now it spans an angle in the sky almost half as wide as the full Moon. Using a picture of the comet he took on Oct. 30th, Helmut Groell of Moers, Germany, created this animation for comparison Actually, the comet is even bigger than it looks. While the Moon is a mere 240 thousand miles away, Comet Holmes is 150 million miles from Earth. The comet's physical diameter is thus seven times wider than the planet Jupiter--and it is still expanding. ------------ See here for the sequence Image from news.com Image on imageshack this page shows the sequence of expansion and some 'mystery fragments' As initially directed to by fractalgeek and from an email by Nick L (sans-LJ) Current Mood: impressed

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October 29th, 2007

davywavy

09:52 am - A great resource for anyone running 'Call of Cthulhu' in Egypt. http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/

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October 7th, 2007

aardvarkoffnord

10:40 pm - Somebody has a sense of humour This weekend, I bought myself a food flask to take hot lunches to work. It is made by Aladdin. It is a shiny metal canister, short and squat. On the side is marked miGO. *insert muffled hysterics here* Current Mood: amused

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October 4th, 2007

aardvarkoffnord

09:50 pm - *giggle* Where the Great Old Ones Are

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September 20th, 2007

sack_boy

07:16 pm - Lolthulhu Lolcats meet Cthulhu http://lolthulhu.com/ Current Mood: giggly Current Music: Deep Purple: Black Knight

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September 19th, 2007

sack_boy

02:12 pm - Giant "Lobster" Poseidon is a Pink Spiny Lobster recently caught 200 miles south west of Cornwall, strictly speaking he's a member of the Crayfish family not a true Lobster. He's two feet long (at least double that when he flips his antenna forward) and weighs over 9 pounds. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=482488 http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_03/BigSmallLobAPX_800x411.jpg Ok, so he's a crustacean not a cephalopod but something must have caused his immense growth ... Current Mood: amused Current Music: The Mission: Butterfly On A Wheel

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sack_boy

09:24 am - Scores ill in Peru 'meteor crash' "Hundreds of people in Peru have needed treatment after an object from space - said to be a meteorite - plummeted to Earth in a remote area, officials say. They say the object left a deep crater after crashing down over the weekend near the town of Carancas in the Andes. People who have visited scene have been complaining of headaches, vomiting and nausea after inhaling gases. A team of scientists is on its way to the site to collect samples and verify whether it was indeed a meteorite." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7001897.stm Hmm ... Current Mood: curious Current Music: Faithless: Drifting Away (Paradiso Mix)

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