tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:36:50 +0000http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger43125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-7813386082636105317Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:30:00 +00002008-01-31T20:38:43.322-06:00 The Mindscape of Alan Moore is a 2003 feature documentary which chronicles the life and work of Alan Moore presents the story of his development as an artist, starting with his childhood and working through to his comics career and impact on that medium.http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2008/01/mindscape-of-alan-moore.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-5028733548843348685Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:27:00 +00002008-01-01T12:34:40.842-06:00Frankenstein Is Published (1818)Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus is a gothic novel that spawned a new genre of horror stories and films. It tells the story of Frankenstein, a scientist, who discovers how to bring inanimate matter to life and, in the process, creates a man-monster. When Frankenstein fails to provide a mate to satisfy the creature's human http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2008/01/frankenstein-is-published-1818.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-772355093666997206Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:11:00 +00002007-12-24T14:18:28.034-06:00this is simply one of the best Sci-Fi show/movie ever. yes better then star wars or star trek "Everything about Ergo Proxy is rich and impressive, from the gorgeous music, tight writing and purposefulepisode-end cliffhangers to the sophistication of its futuristic society..." Tasha Robinson - SciFi.comhttp://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/12/ergo-proxy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-2932232708602706035Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:52:00 +00002007-12-12T08:10:35.920-06:00The Immortal Lily The PinkThe 100th anniversary of the FDA marks a milestone in medicine before which cranks and charlatans ran amok Lydia Pinkham, as she appeared on an original antique advertising card, circa 1880.This year has represented a little-remarked-upon major milestone in American medicine: the 100th anniversary of active Federal regulation of food and drugs. The Pure Food and Drug Acthttp://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/12/immortal-lily-pink.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-8697876537520529604Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:48:00 +00002007-12-10T20:24:28.888-06:00http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/12/gta-4.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-8836837913090855360Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:47:00 +00002007-11-12T18:55:40.854-06:00A technical breakthrough has enabled scientists to create for the first time dozens of cloned embryos from adult monkeys, raising the prospect of the same procedure being used to make cloned human embryos.Attempts to clone human embryos for research have been dogged by technical problems and controversies over fraudulent research and questionable ethics. But the new technique promises to http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/11/now-i-will-have-my-whole-clone-army-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-3751841833744276295Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:48:00 +00002007-11-11T08:53:18.889-06:00A Dutch guy seems to have set up a small network of bluetooth scanners. He has all the information logged to a central database and you can search it over the web. On his website it says "Some of these matches were only minutes apart. Therefore I could even calculate the approximate speed of someone moving from one location to another.". There are also some interesting statistics on his site http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/11/homegrown-dhs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-2641510830465752130Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:04:00 +00002007-11-08T08:14:18.259-06:00The Rose Revolution in the former Soviet state of Georgia is collapsing under phalances of riot-cops. This is distressing, but also fascinating -- who knew that the Georgian riot cop standard issue included a freaky white Mickey Mouse mask?http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/11/georgian-riot-cops-in-mickey-mouse-gas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-1801503952346990437Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:55:00 +00002007-11-03T09:57:02.531-05:00Godzilla Opens in Japan Sept 3rd(1954)The first Godzilla film opened in Tokyo more than 50 years ago, and its 20,000 ton star, an enormous lizard, has been smashing up cities and towns ever since. Initially inspired by King Kong, Godzilla soon spawned several other motion pictures and TV shows. Its widespread popularity inspired Japanese filmmakers to develop a number of other monsters and heroeshttp://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/11/godzilla-opens-in-japan-1954.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-1221036651188879841Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:02:00 +00002007-11-01T15:06:45.449-05:00"In a development reminiscent of nineteenth century pseudo-science, the father-son team of Kong Thon and Shaw Wei Tsen recently demonstrated that the tobacco mosaic virus can be destroyed in vitro by nano-scale mechanical resonant vibrations induced by repeated ultra-short pulses from a laser. The total energy required is reportedly far below the threshold for human tissue damage and the http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/11/superfast-laser-turns-virus-into-rubble.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-1990198753602478895Wed, 31 Oct 2007 01:47:00 +00002007-10-30T20:47:56.993-05:00Political Scientists Discover New Form Of GovernmentWASHINGTON, DC&#8212;Political scientists at the Cato Institute announced Monday that they have inadvertently synthesized a previously theoretical....onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow: hidden !important;zoom: 1;}.http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/10/political-scientists-discover-new-form.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-4281988961704803581Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:34:00 +00002007-10-25T08:38:18.285-05:00He wanders the wilderness to avenge his father's death. He is a man of few words, trained in the ancient ways of the Japanese samurai. He sports an unruly Afro."Afro Samurai," the star of an animation series of the same name featuring Samuel L. Jackson, is headed for a second run on U.S. network Spike TV — and finally winning a following in its native Japan, where it will debut on the big screen http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/10/afro-samurai-creator-takashi-okazaki.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-4103465156449189099Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:05:00 +00002007-10-03T08:21:17.121-05:00Klein has just published a controversial best seller entitled The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. In it she defines shock doctrine as “the use of public disorientation following massive collective shocks—wars, terrorist attacks, natural disasters—to push through highly unpopular economic shock therapy.”The metaphor of “shock” is important because her thesis stems from a http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/10/shock-doctrine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-3792822967190408976Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:18:00 +00002007-09-17T20:20:37.062-05:00Despite it all being very natural and above board, there remains something a little weird about groups of humans -- children included -- hiding in the bushes watching animals have sex…and paying for the privilege.http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/09/nature-expedition-or-merely-deer-porn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-4527051468064388282Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:17:00 +00002007-09-13T08:20:59.718-05:00"The Computer and Communications Industry Association — a trade group representing Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, among others — has issued a report (PDF) that finds fair use exceptions add more than $4.5 trillion in revenue to the U.S. economy and add more value to the U.S. economy than copyright industries contribute. "Recent studies indicate that the value added to the U.S. economy by copyrighthttp://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/09/fair-use-worth-more-than-copyright-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-7120155790554937845Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:10:00 +00002007-09-13T08:16:33.380-05:00 Thailand has become synonymous with crazy vacations where English-speaking tourists can find anything and everything under the sexual sun, but a lot of men who make the journey find something even wilder than they could have imagined—like a girlfriend or even a wife. This interesting mini-documentary about the tropical paradise looks at gents who get more from the nation's famous "bar girls" http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/09/ahh-if-i-had-not-gone-to-thialand-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-3016622881339022186Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:27:00 +00002007-08-30T18:29:59.697-05:00You probably recognize this shot......because it's the opening shot of the most famous science fiction film ever created.That shot almost never happened. Indeed, it was so difficult to get that the man who realized it--Richard Edlund, who did visual effects for Star Wars--procrastinated shooting it until the very end of production, when there wasn't enough money left to create this scene using a http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-handful-of-desperate-innovators.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-4348024312534957473Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:22:00 +00002007-08-30T08:28:59.570-05:00Socialist Revolutionary Attempts to Assassinate Lenin (1918)Fanny Kaplan was a political revolutionary who was executed for attempting to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. She became disillusioned with Lenin as a result of the conflict between the Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik party and decided to take action, shooting Lenin three times as he exited a Moscow factory. Though she confessed http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/08/this-fanny-shure-got-spanking.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-366756636834906542Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:49:00 +00002007-08-18T14:52:50.312-05:00/*<![CDATA[*/var divx_stage={size:'large',s:'240x144',v:1152503};/*]]>*/Great little ad from downunderhttp://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/08/fascism-is-fun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-2011016363213698092Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:50:00 +00002007-08-11T13:57:21.992-05:00http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/08/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-5103180799893840651Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:09:00 +00002007-08-06T23:13:23.630-05:0015:38 06 August 2007 NewScientist.com news service Zeeya MeraliIt sounds like a science fiction joke, but it isn't. What do you get when you turn an invisibility cloak on its side? A mini flying carpet.So say physicists who believe the same exotic materials used to make cloaking devices could also be used to levitate tiny objects. In a further breakthrough, two other research groups have http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/08/three-ways-to-levitate-magic-carpet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-4834398182099268823Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:20:00 +00002007-08-03T08:23:16.651-05:00 Robots have been roaming the streets of Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time -- the first time in any warzone -- the machines are carrying guns. After years of development, three "special weapons observation remote reconnaissance direct action system" (SWORDS) robots have deployed to Iraq, armed with M249 machine guns. The 'bots "haven't fired their weapons yet," http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/08/dr-strangelove-meets-terminator-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-6557375754473110754Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:55:00 +00002007-08-01T08:57:10.956-05:00AUSSIE SECURITY experts claim that Second Life and online games such as World of Warcraft are being used to train terrorists.According to the Australian newspaper a terror campaign has been waged in Second Life which has left a trail of virtual dead and injured, and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars' damage.Apparently there are three jihadi terrorists registered and two elite jihadist http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/08/suicide-dragons-bombers-oh-my.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-8211899298621966176Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:10:00 +00002007-07-24T21:16:03.426-05:00about the noise a group of scientists is making to call attention to Executive Order 13422, going into effect today, that gives political appointees final say regarding science-based federal agency regulations. The Union of Concerned Scientists wrote a letter to two Senate committee chairs urging that questions about this executive order be asked at the confirmation hearings for the nominee to http://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/07/coup-against-scientists.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3637864863399780040.post-5244843558352545512Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:41:00 +00002007-07-20T09:43:39.552-05:00Max Blumethal went to the College Republican National Convention Tour and discovered that these well-groomed young men and women strongly support the war in Iraq. But when Blumenthal asked them why they weren't fighting in Iraq, the students offered creative and entertaining excuseshttp://misguidedmiscreant.blogspot.com/2007/07/generation-chickenhawk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0