Intricate crop circles in the shape of Tibetan Buddhist symbol to represent perceptions of reality carved into landscape. By Amy Oliver Published: 11:12 GMT, 13 August 2012 | Updated: 13:02 GMT, 13 August 2012 This is the latest intricate crop circle to appear overnight in a British wheat field. The mysterious pattern resembles the ancient Tibetan Buddhist symbol of an 'endless knot' - a complex loop of lines and circles used to illustrate the eternal flow of time. The symbol has many meanings but because it has no beginning and no end many people who follow the religion say it represents the wisdom of Buddha. Enormous: The 'endless knot' symbol is a complex loop of lines and circles used by Buddhists to illustrate their perceptions of reality Endless: An 'Endless Knot' crop circle has been carved into a field at Cheesefoot Head, Winchester near the A272 Amateur pilot Matthew Williams snapped the pattern near Cheesefoot Head, Hampshire. 'To me, there’s such peace and calm emanating from this formation.
Crop circles have been appearing in fields throughout the summer. Mountain Dew Pizza Restaurant Asks Internet to Name Its New Drink, 4chan Happily Obliges [UPDATE] Getting rick rolled when you go to your link. Happen to have a recording of Johnny Cash and Bod Dylan singing "Good Ol' Mountain Dew", a song about said moonshine. Also, as I understand it, one of the original selling points of Mountain Dew (the soda) was as something you can mix with Mountain Dew (moonshine) to enhance the flavor. This one may be a bit of an urban legend, but...
Sounds like an urban legend, especially as I've never heard of moonshine being mixed with anything, traditionally, and almost everyone I know who drinks modern, legal versions of moonshine, like Georgia Moon, tends to drink it neat. Combining high-proof liquor with Mountain Dew does sound like the original Four Loko, though. (Mountain Dew does have the reputation of being the soda of choice for meth heads, however; the combined caffeine and sugar rush helps give a little boost to tweakers who are starting to develop a tolerance to the drug.
Police composite software makes realistic portraits of literary characters. No, those lines are nothing at all like how the book is written. In fact, that paragraph is quite tame. The way the book is written is...unique to say the least. Let's just say that the narrator is as much a character as the characters, and that narrator has been up for the past 5 nights blitzed on caffeine, watching early 90s MTV, listening to lots of loud, angry punk and grunge, studying hard for a Sumerian mythology exam, watching Kurosawa films, and reading up on the newest information technology that (at the time, which was 1992) was just around the corner. The chapters also follow two timelines that are not always chronologically in synch with each other, but once you get used to it, it's easy to figure out.
The book's style is an acquired taste and the author hasn't really made any books in the same style since, though there's always some hints to the previous style in most of them. The style is unique, but always memorable. I didn't judge it, I asked for insight/clarification. What Dracula really looks like, according to police composite software. Attractiveness discrimination: Hiring hotties. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | The World’s Best Cross-Border Investigative Team. Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark. By the spring of 1862, a year into the American Civil War, Major General Ulysses S. Grant had pushed deep into Confederate territory along the Tennessee River. In early April, he was camped at Pittsburg Landing, near Shiloh, Tennessee, waiting for Maj.
Gen. Don Carlos Buell’s army to meet up with him. On the morning of April 6, Confederate troops based out of nearby Corinth, Mississippi, launched a surprise offensive against Grant’s troops, hoping to defeat them before the second army arrived. Grant’s men, augmented by the first arrivals from the Ohio, managed to hold some ground, though, and establish a battle line anchored with artillery. The Union troops began forcing the Confederates back, and while a counterattack stopped their advance it did not break their line. All told, the fighting at the Battle of Shiloh left more than 16,000 soldiers wounded and more 3,000 dead, and neither federal or Confederate medics were prepared for the carnage. A Bright Spot A Good Light.
Giant 'UFO fragment' falls from the sky in Siberia. Stolen Camera Finder - find your photos, find your camera - StumbleUpon. Hugh Urban: An Interview With the Professor Who Took on Scientology. In June, we reviewed a remarkable new book about Scientology. A review copy of Hugh Urban's The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion, put out by the Princeton University Press, had arrived at our desk almost the same day as Janet Reitman's highly anticipated book about the church, Inside Scientology.
We were impressed by the way Urban, in only 216 pages, not only laid out a robust history of Scientology in a highly readable narrative, but also did what others really hadn't before: put L. Ron Hubbard's creation in the cultural and political context of its time -- Scientology is a Cold War product, and absorbed all of that era's paranoia and desire for secrecy. Urban's book was also impressive for its depth of research -- here in one volume were citations of many of the most significant court decisions that have rocked Scientology over the decades, as well as concise rundowns of many other church controversies. "That was driven by my interest in secrecy and religion. Scientology and the Occult: Hugh Urban's New Exploration of L. Ron Hubbard and Aleister Crowley. Last June, we brought you the first review of The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion by Ohio State professor Hugh Urban, and then the first interview with the good professor himself.
During that interview, Urban told us that he was planning to continue his research into Scientology, and would be looking into a variety of areas. But we didn't know that one of those interests included a closer look at L. Ron Hubbard's wild occult history that preceded his publication of 1950's Dianetics.
Longtime Scientology watchers will be at least somewhat familiar with the tale: that after his involvement in WWII, Hubbard shacked up with Jet Propulsion Lab rocket scientist Jack Parsons, a man heavily into the occult, and in particular the teachings of The Great Beast, British occultist Aleister Crowley. You may even know something about the kinky things Parsons and Hubbard did trying to create a "Moonchild. " Urban's article is titled "The Occult Roots of Scientology? Oh, L. Wow. 1.
Spotting the Trends, Before They Break Out - Advertising. Jane Chong Terry Young, left, the chief executive of Sparks and Honey, meets with two cultural strategists, Maryam Hosseini, center, and Larisa Kluchman, right. Now, the Omnicom Group — the world’s second-largest advertising holding company, behind WPP — is helping to start an agency that seeks to identify emerging trends in popular culture and take advantage of them by creating and distributing content sponsored by brands and products. The agency, Sparks and Honey, is formally opening this week in New York with eight employees and two clients. One client is the Clinique brand sold by the cosmetics and beauty behemoth Estée Lauder and the other is, for now, unidentified.
The agency is being started with the support of Omnicom by Terry Young, who has worked in interactive advertising, direct marketing and customer relationship management for agencies owned by Omnicom, the Interpublic Group of Companies and Epsilon. That also encapsulates the response to Mr. Earlier is better, Mr. Hmmm. Mysterious Phoenix Light Flashes.