Archive for November 9th, 2011
The Quija Board – Parlor Game or Portal for the Paranormal?
I was inspired to conduct a bit more research on the Quija board after watching an episode of Paranormal State. A family was being plagued by some disturbing, rather violent paranormal activity including the insinuation of violent thoughts in the mind of one of the family members. Of course, this was extremely frightening and the family called upon the Paranormal Research Society for help. It was revealed that one of the family members had been “experimenting” with an old Quija board. Suspecting demonic forces at work, the PRS team called in a team of experienced demonologists who surmised that this malevolent activity may have been unwittingly “invited in” by playing with the Quija board. Protective and cleansing rituals were immediately performed as well a “release” ritual with the affected family member. After relieving the family and their home from the dark forces, the demonologists also admonished that the Quija board should be destroyed and never “played with” again.
via The Quija Board – Parlor Game or Portal for the Paranormal?.
The pillow that makes long-distance relationships less lonely – The Week
The video: Being in a long-distance relationship isn’t easy. But of all the hardships, sleeping alone while your beloved is hundreds or thousands of miles away might be the worst. Now, a Scottish designer named Joanna Montgomery has created a product called “Pillow Talk” to ease the pain. Each member of a couple wears a special ring sensor at night, and places a fabric panel inside his or her pillowcase. When one person goes to bed, the ring wirelessly communicates with his lover’s pillow and causes it to gently glow.
via The pillow that makes long-distance relationships less lonely – The Week.
Alaska threatened by ‘one of the worst storms’ on record | The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond
November 8, 2011 – ALASKA – A rapidly intensifying powerful storm was approaching the west coast of Alaska late Monday and could become “one of the worst on record,” the National Weather Service said in an alert. The alert, issued by the NWS in Fairbanks at 10:37 p.m. AKST (2:37 a.m. ET Tuesday), said the “extremely dangerous” storm was 600 miles southwest of Shemya at the end of the Aleutian Islands. It is forecast to move to just west of the Bering Strait by Tuesday night and into the southern Chukchi Sea on Wednesday. The storm would likely be “life-threatening … one of the worst on record,” the service said. Storm surges were expected to cause tides of 8 to 10 feet above normal along the west coast from Cape Romanzof North to the Bering Strait including Saint Lawrence Island and Little Diomede, causing flooding.
“All residents should take action now to prepare for the strong winds and coastal flooding,” it added. It advised people living along the coast from Cape Romanzof to the Bering Strait and from Cape Krusenstern to Point Hope to prepare for floods and beach erosion. The alert said “severe beach erosion is expected” in many parts and that areas containing ice may see ice pushed onshore. Southeast winds of 50 to 70 mph were expected along the coast beginning Tuesday night and into Wednesday, with gusts reaching 90 mph along parts of the Chukchi Sea, Bering Strait and Saint Lawrence Island coasts. -MSNBC
via Alaska threatened by ‘one of the worst storms’ on record | The Extinction Protocol: 2012 and beyond.
Dead neo-Nazi robbers linked to cop-killer case – The Local
German authorities say they are confident they have solved the 2007 murder of a police woman after her pistol was found near the bodies of two neo-Nazi bank robbers. Their accomplice has turned herself in Tuesday.
Stuttgart public prosecutor Klaus Pflieger said he thought the neo-Nazi gang had to be responsible for the police woman’s murder as “one does not pass on such weapons.”
Speaking to SWR public radio on Tuesday, Pflieger said he thought the entire messy case was connected to drugs.
Police officer Michéle Kiesewetter was shot in the head and instantly killed in April 2007 as she was sitting in her patrol car in Heilbronn, northern Baden-Württemberg. Her colleague was badly injured and was in a coma for weeks, unable to help much with the investigation after he recovered. Their service weapons were stolen from the scene.
via Dead neo-Nazi robbers linked to cop-killer case – The Local.
Surgery to Prevent Strokes Is Found Ineffective – NYTimes.com
An operation that doctors hoped would prevent strokes in people with poor circulation to the brain does not work, researchers are reporting. A $20 million study, paid for by the government, was cut short when it became apparent that the surgery was not helping patients who had complete blockages in one of their two carotid arteries, which run up either side of the neck and feed 80 percent of the brain.
The surgery was a bypass that connected a scalp artery to a deeper vessel to improve blood flow to the brain.
The new study, published on Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, is the second in recent months to find that a costly treatment, one that doctors had high hopes for, did not prevent strokes. In September, researchers reported that stents being used to prop open blocked arteries deep in the brain were actually causing strokes. That study was also cut short.
Both the stents and the bypass operation seemed to make sense medically, and doctors thought they should work. Their failure highlights the peril of assuming that an apparent improvement on a lab test or X-ray, like better blood flow or a wider artery, will translate into something that actually helps patients, warned an editorial that accompanied the new findings. Only rigorous studies can tell for sure.
via Surgery to Prevent Strokes Is Found Ineffective – NYTimes.com.
Students in Saxony pose for erotic calendar – The Local
A coed group of students in Dresden have stripped for the latest “Geist is geil” (“Knowledge is Sexy”) calendar, which is ostensibly meant to promote higher education in the eastern German state of Saxony.
The calendar includes 24 students from the Technical University in Dresden in various states of undress. It has a male and a female side, depending on which way round you hang it.
Some of the pictures show the models in a vaguely academic setting – Mr February, for instance, is shown leaning against a chalkboard with his shirt open. But the other shots range from the more conventional (Ms November, mechanical engineering student Fanny, is pole-dancing), through the athletic (Mr January is indulging in his favourite pastime of kick-boxing), to the slightly seedy (an event management student is straddling a toilet) and the fantastical (Mr August is adopting a menacing pose as a Spartan warrior).
via Students in Saxony pose for erotic calendar – The Local.
The King of Human Error | Business | Vanity Fair
Billy Beane’s sports-management revolution, chronicled by the author in Moneyball, was made possible by Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. At 77, with his own new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, the Nobel Prize-winning Kahneman reveals the built-in kinks in human reasoning—and he’s Exhibit A.
Facebook Charging In 2011: Chain Letter Spreads False Rumor (PICTURES)
Is Facebook about to start charging its users to access the social network? No, but a new chain letter making its way across Facebook walls wants you to think so.
This rumor follows Facebook’s recent f8 conference in San Francisco, where the company announced sweeping changes to its Open Graph platform, allowing more sharing than ever before. During the event, Facebook also unveiled a radical new profile layout that will significantly change the look of users’ personal pages.
The chain letter claiming Facebook will begin charging this year alleges that the site must charge its users a fee to pay for the new profile design.
The phony warning reads thus:
IT IS OFFICIAL. IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS. FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES. IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON, IF NOT YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED IF YOU DO NOT PAY
Take a look at the chain letter, in the form of a Facebook post (below), courtesy of Sophos’s Naked Security blog.
Sophos’s Graham Cluley calls the rumor “poppycock.” Writes Cluley, “Facebook doesn’t need to charge you to use Facebook, it’s making plenty of money already by allowing advertisers to reach its 800 million users.”
We’ve heard similar rumors in the past, all equally untrue. A nearly identical rumor, falsely claiming Facebook would begin charging and deleting free accounts, spread virally on the heels of Facebook’s announcement of a Skype-powered video chat feature.
Whenever doubts arise in users’ minds about whether Facebook will remain free, they have only to check out Facebook’s login page, where the company asserts the following: “It’s free and always will be.”
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Fortunately, the most harm you can do by posting this current rumor is to further misinform your fellow Facebookers. However, scams periodically surface on the social network, and unsuspecting users who fall for them can end up spamming all their friends, or worse. Take a look at the 9 Facebook scams to watch out for (below), a slideshow which originally appeared here.
Clickjackers on Facebook entice users to copy and paste text into their browser bar by posting too-good-to-be-true offers and eye-catching headlines. Once the user infects his own computer with the malicious code, the clickjackers can take control of his account, spam his friends and further spread their scam. For example, clickjacking schemes hit Facebook soon after bin Laden’s death and spread like wildfire by purporting to offer users a glimpse at video or photos of bin Laden’s death.
Clickjackers on Facebook entice users to copy and paste text into their browser bar by posting too-good-to-be-true offers and eye-catching headlines. Once the user infects his own computer with the malicious code, the clickjackers can take control of his account, spam his friends and further spread their scam. For example, clickjacking schemes hit Facebook soon after bin Laden’s death and spread like wildfire by purporting to offer users a glimpse at video or photos of bin Laden’s death.
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