Nerd Blerp - 10 Great Horror Films You've Never Seen Being a fan of all things horror, I thought it high-time I showed some love for the genre on this site. Horror films are great because they appeal to our most base natures, but also because they are allowed to be as loopy and imaginative as they want...well, at lest they used to be. These days, imagination has been replaced by lots of gore and cheap 'jump-out-of-your-seat' shocks. Horror films no longer follow you home and haunt your dreams in the stillness of the night. 10. This twisted gem from the eighties owes a lot to Freddy Krueger, but is also original and creepy in its own way. 9. This Finnish horror film moves at a delibarately slow pace, but is unsettling as all hell. 8. Q really feels more like two films. 7. This movie actually shares the same writer-director as Q, b-movie mogul Larry Cohen. 6. 13 Tzameti This Georgian thriller can best be described as 'Saw without the bullshit'. 5. Ha. 4. 3. 2. 1.
KPI Library The Occult - Occultopedia: The Occult and Unexplained Encyclopedia Welcome to Occultopedia, the premier internet index of the paranormal, occult and inexplicable. In addition to being the foremost online destination for information about the supernatural, unusual phenomena and the occult, Occultopedia also features a variety of resources for the pagan community, new age buffs, unexplained phenomena enthusiasts, curious minds, and skeptics as well.Occultopedia is the genuine article, the original and the best internet index of the extraordinary and uncanny, shamelessly copied by many, but never equaled. Online since 1995 — at first in a free web space provider, and in 1997 finally with its own domain name and hosting — Occultopedia still is the principal online resource for those looking for the unexplained, the curious and the unusual. Occultopedia is a work in progress, and is not completed. There are so many aspects to the occult and the extraordinary, it would be next to impossible to actually finish such a project.
Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone Remember those flat round things you may have found lying around the house? Those that never really worked well as flying saucers. Well, the other day I happenned to have a good look at one through a magnifying glass. When scanned, some records seemed much denser than others. Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" was fine When illuminated in parallel with the groove's direction some sort of depth-modulation became visible. This made me guess that one of the stereo channels might be encoded in the depth/angle plane while the other was encoded in the radius/angle plane, the later being the one I initially noticed. The nature of my scanner and of the records reflectiveness caused only the lower half of the record's radius/angle modulation to be exposed on each scan. Thus, to supply the virtual gramophone at least one complete revolution of the record, four regions had to be separately scanned. Once the image was ready, writing the decoder was very simple.
The 55 Funniest Signs From the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear from FOD Team We know that we're a little late to the game and that plenty of other websites have already posted best signs of the rally. But this is the internet, and since we are a website on that internet, we are required to post this. So without further ado… Here are the 55 funniest signs from the Stewart/Colbert rally. (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via) (via)
Leaders in the crisis McKinsey Global Survey Results - McKinsey Quarterly - Organization - Talent Executives around the world are working longer hours, taking on additional responsibilities, and experiencing higher levels of stress as they struggle to address the economic downturn, according to a McKinsey Quarterly survey. What’s more surprising, rather than feeling as turbulent as the economy, executives say they feel relatively stable and content about their companies, their work, and their performance as business leaders since the crisis began. All is not well, though. In this survey, a range of executives—from corporate directors and CEOs to middle managers—were asked if and in what way the crisis has led to changes in their professional roles and the ways in which they spend their time on and off the job. Most respondents are working more hours since the crisis began, and nearly 40 percent have more responsibilities without the benefit of a new title. Quantity and quality of work Prepared with people skills Outperforming the boss? Middle managers get hit Stress? Looking ahead
Paralumun New Age Village The News Business: Out of Print: Reporting & Essays The American newspaper has been around for approximately three hundred years. Benjamin Harris’s spirited Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick managed just one issue, in 1690, before the Massachusetts authorities closed it down. Harris had suggested a politically incorrect hard line on Indian removal and shocked local sensibilities by reporting that the King of France had been taking liberties with the Prince’s wife. It really was not until 1721, when the printer James Franklin launched the New England Courant, that any of Britain’s North American colonies saw what we might recognize today as a real newspaper. Franklin, Benjamin’s older brother, refused to adhere to customary licensing arrangements and constantly attacked the ruling powers of New England, thereby achieving both editorial independence and commercial success. Until recently, newspapers were accustomed to operating as high-margin monopolies. Additional oddities abound.
For '90s Kids Like Me | If you’re like me and you grew up in the ’90s playing with Ninja Turtles action figures while watching Power Rangers as you sat next to your video cassette of Space Jam, your Goldeneye cartridge as you hummed “Hakkunah Matatah,” you’ll appreciate this post. It’s an avalanche of nostalgia that will cause you to daydream away the better part of the afternoon as you long for your lost youth. Or at least it might make you go open that box of old toys in the basement.