Simon Bar Sinister

a big heaping platter of fried tarantulas: they're popular in Cambodia. they don't look deep fried, so I didn't put this in the deep fried thread.

according to this guy, it is. The people pushing it are trying to make other people stop reading the Bible. http://gawker.com/5608853/emc2-is-a-liberal-conspiracy

goth style harvest festival

Mean Salley was dropping some Irish there. maybe in reaction to the name Caitlin, don't know.

chicken-fried bacon! I don't know whether to or

here's some dark reading: http://io9.com/5607692/are-physicists-just-making-up-dark-energy

I think this idea of a goth/industrial takeover of a skating rink was actually discussed here at one point. oh, well - glad to see that someone did it.

http://io9.com/5608324/hp-lovecrafts-nyarlathotep-is-getting-an-uber+cute-anime-series

"curiosity" - Iggy Pop

i didn't forget about you - i just have to figure how to word it in such a way that a) I hit most of the general points, and b) I don't make myself sound like I've eaten 2 handfuls of 'shrooms.

he's way old school - using a knife. thankfully, said choice of weaponry has limited his effectiveness; not all his victims have died. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38578073

^ that clip may be fake...so this one will have to do:

Shu's theory is already taking a beating for, among other things, failing to account for the cosmic background radiation - that 3 degrees K microwave noise that's regarded as one of the chief pieces of evidence for the Big Bang. From what I've gathered ( just heard about his idea a couple of days ago myself), if he's right, then it shouldn't be there - but it is. Doesn't mean he's completely wrong...but he gots lots of 'splanin' to do. personal fave theory at the moment: M-brane.

Troy, do you ever go over to www.edge.org? it's a wide open discussion site that draws many of the world's best scientists in various disciplines to...well, have a verbal steel-cage death match at times. Discussions are usually polite, but they've been known to get heated on occasion. There's a book of some of the more provocative contributions from edge.org called Science At The Edge that you may be able to find at your local library. It's a very good intro to the edge.org world. I highly recommend it.

holy shit!!

did u sign up?

love the badass ladies

I'm all for dark energy tearing apart all the matter in the universe in the long run if it means antigravity in the short run. :D

Harold & Kumar III may have already started filming locally; if not, then they'll be here soon. oh, and Richard Gere is doing his latest here, too.

I can't create polls, so I have to do it like this: how would you like to see civilization go out? zombies? worldwide plague (non-zombie)? war with hostile artificial intelligence? comet/asteroid impact? hostile alien invasion? although even a non-hostile contact could end it for us. ...or something else? what would that something else be? I vote impact.

TV Morticia or movie Morticia? upon further thought, TV Gomez or movie Gomez? in my opinion, TV Morticia and movie Gomez would be the optimal pairing.