Chapel Perilous

Soviet Army fought UFOs

I don't know if this has been posted here before but it is definitely on topic. The whole article is interesting.

Soviet Army fought UFOs: "Soviet military encountered many UFOs, maybe for this reason in the end of the 60s a secret laboratory of researching 'flying objects' was created in the USSR.

UFO researchers often blame the military of hiding the cases of alien rockets and disseminating false information of UFO. Army officers are not interested in the disputes about alien civilizations, they are interested in knowing what impact UFO can impose to military equipment and personnel.

1947. Antiaircraft guns of Transcaucasian Military District fired on the flying cigar-shaped object which came from the side of the Turkish border. The object's flying altitude was below 4,000 meters, and the guns were capable of reaching a target at the altitudes up to 12,000 meters, but that time the fire made no harm to the 'cigar'. Then the cigar increased its speed and flew away over the mountains."

 
posted by AWolf @ 10:02 AM ¶ comments (3)

Free Origami Designs

 
posted by olivia @ 5:05 AM ¶ comments (2)

Pixie Dust

More pics in the Gallery and be sure to visit the Stories page before leaving.

Personality: Pixie is outgoing, fun, and likes to be the center of attention. Even though she's new to the outside world, she is not afraid to try new things. Often times, because of her bipolar nature, her mood and look will change from time to time, but she generally remains sweet and kind to everyone around her.
 
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Free Your Inner Bonobo

^via 
posted by Bsti @ 12:27 PM ¶ comments

CollegeStories.com

Stinky Nuts Room Mate
"My RA told me that she was so sorry for me."

Midnight Non-Munchies
"It looked like he pulled out a big wad of yellow chew tobacco." 
posted by olivia @ 4:21 AM ¶ comments

PSYCHOKITTY

 
posted by olivia @ 4:08 AM ¶ comments (4)

Research Day!

When I was a young child, I would spend hours energetically arguing with my best friend about hair. Specifically, about why some hair, such as that on your head, grows long and some, such as on your arms, does not.

I thought hair "stopped growing" for a similar reason that mountains "stop growing": because it achieves an equilibrium with the erosion that results from rubbing on shirt sleeves, pant legs, etc. Perhaps, I thought, our hair growth patterns were dependent on style. It was a promising thought, and my hairless palms was simply the icing on the theoretical cake.

I couldn't have been more wrong, of course. Hair stops growing because, well, it stops growing. Hair follicles run in cycles, squirting hair out for a while, going dormant for a while, then making hair again. The length of the growth phase differs according to the part of body, and determines hair length: it can only grow so long before dormancy happens and the hair falls out.

Speaking of hair, did you know that marijuana is linked to hair growth? As soon as all those middle-aged balding white men in Washington DC find out, the medical marijuana argument will be over and we'll have a whole new class of spam to hate. 
posted by JohnFen @ 9:57 PM ¶ comments (2)

Hershey's Physics

c = 299,792,458 meters per second (~186,000 miles per second)

According to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, it is the fastest speed to which matter can be accelerated. It is the speed of light in a vacuum, and you can measure it yourself, at home, using materials you probably already have laying around.

Measure The Speed of Light With Chocolate and A Microwave
 
posted by justis @ 9:52 PM ¶ comments

17th Century Porn on the Block

"The world's first known piece of printed pornography, described as the 'quintessence of debauchery,' is expected to reach up to £35,000 ($65,040) when it is auctioned next month.

'Sodom,' penned in the mid-1670s, has been attributed to John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester and is described by auction house Sotheby's as a 'closet drama rather than for the stage' with pornography 'in almost every line.' 'We believe this is the first printed pornography in English literature, a unique copy of the quintessence of debauchery,' said Peter Beal, Sotheby's book specialist. 'It is one of the most notorious publications in literature and makes most pornography written 300 years later seem tame.' The book centers on the decision made by a lustful King to 'set the nation free' by allowing 'buggary' to be 'used thro' all the land' and then details the dire consequences."~ CNN (US)

(Found on PervScan)

Or you could get it at Amazon for $13.57. 
posted by olivia @ 3:16 AM ¶ comments (1)

Oops!

Suitcase stolen with girl, 3, inside
A Russian couple who tried to avoid buying a train ticket for their daughter by putting her in a suitcase were caught out when the case was stolen.

 
posted by olivia @ 3:07 AM ¶ comments (2)

(Found on Roowlant's Weploch)
 
posted by olivia @ 3:02 AM ¶ comments (20)

Happy Weevils

Weevils are cute. I never knew that.
(Found on enschede a/zee) 
posted by olivia @ 2:07 AM ¶ comments (2)

I have to be honest with you, I just don't really have time any more to post interesting things here.

A typical day in SockLand for me~
Wake up, drink some coffee, check e-mail, surf a few of my favorite blogs.

Prep and weigh some sock orders Niq pulled in the morning.

Print stamps for up to 30 orders. This takes almost an hour.

Package all the sock orders for the day.

Run them over to the post office. Lately about six USPS buckets full.
Maybe do a little light shopping while I'm out.

Return home, relax for a bit, do some housework maybe, go over any problems or questions from customers.

Fix dinner, eat, then lounge around and play with the dogs.


Put Lola to kennel, surf around a bit more before going to bed and watch a little tv.

Get up a couple of hours later, and prep and weigh the socks Niq pulled after dinner, while listening to C2C or watching Conan O'Brien.

Go upstairs to my office and play some Halo 2 for an hour or so, then go back to bed.

Get up, repeat.

So in the little time that I DO surf, I read mostly personal blogs or stuff that wouldn't really be considered blogworthy.

So all I can tell you is that, at least during the holidays and until my X-Box stops calling me to play it (which is only at night and only for a little while), content will be sparse.

We've got alot of members, maybe a few of you wouldn't mind throwing a link or two here occasionaly so that people don't think we are Closed.

The Up-Side of all this is that business is good, real good.

The Down-Side is that lately I don't have the energy to dig up good links for your entertainment.

Sorry?

I hope everyone is happy and healthy, as we are.
It's a good life, even when it's too cold for doggies to play outside and too dark to walk them when all the work is done.

 
posted by Bsti @ 10:38 PM ¶ comments (2)

art.com artPad
Pretty fun toy. 
posted by Bsti @ 6:23 PM ¶ comments (1)

Why do we always come here? I guess we'll never know...

Those of you who still participate in the time-hallowed (if obsolescent) ritual of buying postage might be pleased to know that The Muppets are in line for their honors from the USPS.

[From Very Big Blog]

 
posted by ben @ 1:12 AM ¶ comments (2)

.: electric sheep comix | e-sheep.com :.
Unique layout, I think. 
posted by Bsti @ 10:44 PM ¶ comments (2)

Prehistoric Julia Roberts Found
"Bulgarian archaeologists have found what they claim is Europe's oldest skeleton, which they have named 'Julia Roberts' because the woman was a "rare beauty" with a nearly flawless set of teeth."

Personally, I don't think Julia Roberts is a "rare beauty".
Maybe because she looks like her brother.

I would have gone with Kidman, Charleze, Halle, or Angelina. 
posted by Bsti @ 4:38 PM ¶ comments (4)

You Are Scary

You even scare scary people sometimes!

How scary are you?

 
posted by Bsti @ 2:48 PM ¶ comments (3)

Gold - It's not just for breakfast anymore!

During Thursday's Thankgiving festivities, I was again cornered by my uncle to hear the virtues of orbitally-rearranged monatomic elements (ORME). My uncle believes that certain elements (basically all precious metals) can be transformed into a "pure" powder in which the individual atoms do not share valence electrons with each other (hence "monatomic"). Foremost of these is gold, commonly known in its monatomic state as "white powder gold". Supposedly this monatomic gold is the philosopher's stone of the medieval alchemists, and the "mfktz" of the ancient Egyptians which purportedly caused any surface onto which it was poured to levitate.

My uncle also claims that this white powder gold is the "manna" of the Exodus, and is specifically mentioned in Exodus 28:20 ("And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.").

Additionally, monatomic gold allegedly warps space-time and cures cancer. Read all about it here: Amazing Revelations of the Phenomenal Power of Gold
 
posted by justis @ 1:25 AM ¶ comments (6)