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unholy thing

Oh my god. This creepy, unthinking mechanical thing is the precursor to the terrible things that will replace us. I, for one, welcome them with open arms.

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Spore

Will Wright is an incredible genius! The man behind the “Sim” games, his new game, Spore, is most definitely going to be the most amazing and mind-blowing game ever created. It will be a very, very, very long time before anybody ever tops this one. Watch the entire video to get a sense of the sheer godawful scope of this gargantuan thing. Mere words simply cannot do it justice.

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link roundup

The Secrets of Rennes-le-Château; Notes on a Strange World (Skeptical Inquirer November 2004) This is a must-read for fans of Holy Blood Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code.

National Geographic: The Lost Gospel of Judas Found in the 1970s, and recently pieced together and translated. Paints Judas not as a traitor, but as the best pal, handpicked by Jesus to turn him in.

And MySpacers, please read this: Hacking a MySpace Layout by Mike Davidson of Newsvine. Complete with downloadable sample CSS and a tutorial, this post is easily the best thing referencing MySpace in a long time. Here’s what i did to mine. (Note the banner up top: Latin for “this place is terrible”.)

WikiTruth: censored Wikipedia articles, retrieved from the digital void and set out in the sun again. No editing, natch.

Even Generals want to see Rummy quit.

10 Wackiest e-commerce sites, from Wired.

Great works of art, as the artists might have done them as children. (Check out the Escher!)

Nahuelito, presumably a close cousin to Nessie, recently spotted and photographed. Clever hoax, or real?

Make those cool stickers like the feed linkifiers on the sidebar.

California Department of Corrections (not the Billboard Liberation Front, as was previously stated) salutes US Military in Iraq.

Big Brother has his eyes on you, NYC.