This guy balanced some eggs on top of other eggs and didn’t stop until he created a miniature city. I didn’t even know one could balance an egg on top of another egg. If anyone out there knows more about this guy please let me know.

Ko Ko Kachoo - Link via Spluch

You might not want to be buried in a pet cemetary, but you may very well be dining at one. Soylent Green in the house. This is mind-blowingly twisted if it is true.

All of the dead animals in California are added to the feed of chicken, fish, beef, shrimp, etc., which we humans eat every day. Virtually all of the animals killed in shelters and veterinary clinics, road kill, medical laboratories, feed lots, deceased wildlife, etc., are sent to one company, West Coast Rendering in Vernon, CA, where they are piled up and left to decompose for days before being “rendered” into a saleable product.

Read all about it at the DELTA (Dedication & Everlating Love To Animals) Rescue website

Kraftwerk x Lost In Space mash-up awesomeness. In case you are unaware, Kraftwerk inspired the Zulu Nation’s Afrika Bambaataa to create Planet Rock.

This kid does some freakin’ amazing stunts in a wheelchair, including the world’s first wheelchair back flip. Props to you dude! Youtube video link

2 Great tastes that go great together - Zombies and The Beatles! Youtube video link

“I played D&D for the CIA”

In the process of researching my book, I came across myriad stories, some of them completely believable, a few of them verifiable, many of them outlandish. One of the strangest stories that I found believable was from a man who claimed that, in the early to mid 80s, he had been involved in a CIA plot to infiltrate a Dungeons and Dragons campaign at Cal Tech.

This was back in the old days, long before the idea of “geek chic” had crossed the minds of marketers and scriptwriters. Playing D&D meant sitting in a basement or a dorm room full of almost exclusively male nerdlings, driven by the will to power, sexual frustration and Jolt! Cola by the gallon. This was also when rumors started to circulate about “waves of D&D related suicides” and about people who became convinced they really *were* their characters and murdered people or went to live in the sewers brandishing wooden swords and insisting poker chips were gold pieces. (Note: As far as I can tell, there was exactly one D&D related suicide, which was committed by a boy named Dallas Egbert who had way more problems than his spellcaster failing to advance a level. )

The CIA was aware of these rumors and they wanted to know what was going on. Anything that seemed so effective at causing people to dissociate or take on new identities was of interest. So they sent an asset to infiltrate a game at Cal Tech, one of the hotbeds of nerd activity.

This poor agent spent three months playing a human ranger with (almost exclusively male) physics and chem students in some dude’s dorm room. The reports he filed made extensive use of such phrases as “hapless” “inept” “pointless” and “bizarrely obsessive”. Though he witnessed several slapfights, a number of 19 and 20 year old men crying and innumerable dodecahderal dice flying through the air all in the names of dungeonmaster unfairness or rules violations, he saw nothing of real value to conditioing or dissociating personalities.

The story was, to me, amusing. I enjoy the fact that the CIA was involved in a conspiracy to infiltrate and subvert a D&D campaign. It’s also illustrative of the power that urban myths (the waves of D&D suicides, promulgated at that time by parent groups, Christian fundamentalists and Jack Chick) have even over the intelligence community.


Authorship: “peabody; a member of AboveTopSecret.com”

Title: “I played D&D for the CIA”

URL: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread300668/pg1#pid3482985.

When I first saw Terry Gilliam’s movie Brazil I marvelled at the preposterous view of the future he presented. The notion that it was prepostorous has changed recently with a few news items I have come across. First there was an article on giving your loved ones medical gift cards for the upcoming holiday season. If you saw the movie you will remember when Sam’s mother gave him medical gift tokens for the holidays. Today I see an article on perscription medication vending machines, which reminds me of the vending machine that dispenses fresh air. I have also been thinking about the future bans on LCD flat panels as they are energy hogs and I wonder if we would be using small screens with magnifying lenses over them in the name of saving the earth? I am almost 100% positive this is just around the corner. You don’t need a psychic to tell you the future, just watch the movie.

The greys have been here for a long time. Found over at Rense.com

People are so talented. don’t you think?

The world’s first unofficially licensed gay Star Wars figure according to the creator. The Sucklord has also created a commercial for his toys that is NSFW, but awesome nonetheless.

Check out the realm of the Sucklord for more action figure goodness