Tue 10 Nov 2009
Restaurant Name Fail
Posted by anaglyph under Oops!, Signs
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A local Chinese Restaurant. I’m not inclined to sample their wares.
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Mon 19 Oct 2009
A Message from Uranus?
Posted by anaglyph under In The News, Science, Signs, Skeptical Thinking
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This strange cloud anomaly over Moscow was captured on video last week. Predictably enough, the loonies are out in force attempting to ‘explain’ it and we’ve had everything from a ‘HAARP mothership’ ((If you don’t know what HAARP is, do a Search™, but be warned, your brain may rot due to a deluge of stupidity)) to a Sign of the End Times. More than a few have obsessed over the black dots that fly across frame at about the 5 second mark (birds, you idiots) and the most perplexing thing about the whole phenomenon is that there doesn’t seem to be – anywhere that I could find – a single rational attempt to explain it. I also note that there doesn’t seem to be any other footage of this odd event – in this era of ubiquitous image-capturing devices that does seem to me to be slightly unusual. Unless of course everybody who was actually there found it unremarkable, which is another fairly hefty indicator that it’s not a spaceship from Zeta Reticuli.
For the record, my hypothesis is that underneath it somewhere there is a source of thermal disturbance, perhaps a power station, which has caused some kind of convection activity in the low clouds above.
UPDATE: A single user comment on one of the many propagations of the video led me to a possible expanation: a hole-punch or fallstreak cloud. You can see lots of examples by doing a Search™. Hole-punch clouds are caused by aircraft disturbing thin cloud layers. If this is a hole-punch cloud, it is particularly unusual for its symmetry.
Tue 14 Jul 2009
Detour
Posted by anaglyph under Philosophy, Signs
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Special big thanks to Bronni for spotting & snapping this excellent signage!
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Thu 4 Jun 2009
Conservatively Speaking
Posted by anaglyph under Books, Scary, Signs
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Sometimes the gags just get handed to you on a plate. (Original image.)
Next issue: ‘Major John to Ground Control!’
Mon 1 Jun 2009
Pointless?
Posted by anaglyph under Signs
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O-k-a-a-a-y... And we do that by… er… sticking our fingers in the hole and feeling around…?
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Thanks to Pil for her continuing services in the name of The Cow.
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Thu 28 May 2009
The Big Hand is on the Apocalypse
Posted by anaglyph under Signs, Spam Observations
[12] Comments
This just in:
From: Jesus Dawkins
Subject: Classy watches for people from any economic class.
Date: 28 May 2009 1:59:12 PM
To: reverend@tca.comThe only thing that differs our fantastic watches and brand watches is the price. Instead of having one timepiece you can have five or ten. Who would reject such an offer?
Putting on our semiotic hats we can read the real message beneath the subtext here: Jesus Dawkins is surely the Antichrist offspring of God and Richard Dawkins, so this message can’t be anything other than a sign that we should watch for the End Times.
