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National Post: “Tales of a giant, hairy ape-like creature tramping through the woods are running wild in a northern interior B.C. town after a rash of sasquatch sightings.

There have been three reported sightings in the area within a month, said Brian Vike, the Houston, B.C.-based director of HBCC UFO Research. ‘To be honest with you, I don’t know what to make of all this,’ said Mr. Vike. ‘I know with UFOs we’re doing well in B.C., but I don’t know with the sasquatch. I’m just trying to figure it out.’

One of the sightings was reported by Houston resident Delores Harrie, who was at home on July 28 just after 6 p.m., when her two dogs began barking furiously. She saw the doorknob rattle, and when she went outside to investigate, she saw a shaggy creature running across the tree line into the bushes.

‘It was huge - about seven to eight feet tall - and hairy,’ said Ms. Harrie, 45. ‘He had long hair, shaggy… in a pine-beetle colour, totally covered.’ ‘I couldn’t believe how fast he moved,’ she added. ‘I can’t see it being a grizzly. They run but they don’t run on two legs. I know it’s not a moose either.’

Ms. Harrie, who was ‘freaked out’ about the encounter, said she’s trying to be open-minded about what she saw. ‘There are so many things out there. I think it would be a little crazy to think we’re the only ones here.’”

Bug infestation (or woodpecker excavations) on north side of our house in McBride, B.C. at junction of siding and soffit, about 4m above ground.

Kongelige Bibliotek (Danish Royal Library): “The French-burgundian parchment manuscript, Chansons d’Amour — also known as The Copenhagen Chansonnier — was produced in the late 15th century.”

(Via Bibliodyssey.)

New York Times: “For years, cyclists who ride on city streets have cherished an unusual superstition: if they wear a helmet, they are more likely to get hit by a car. ‘I belong to an e-mail list for cyclists, and they complain about this all the time,’ says Ian Walker, a psychologist at the University of Bath who rides his bike to work every day. But could this actually be true?”

bibliodyssey: “I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men”
[Sir Isaac Newton, after losing a fortune (£20,000) in the bubble]

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I Make Projects: Pull a pin, and after a few seconds these ‘grenades’ emit a very loud and annoying alarm - instead of shrapnel.

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TurnYourHead is a service that makes custom-lathed dowels that contain your profile, like an MC Escher litho come to life, starring you, you, you.

Cellular: Fires four .22s.

Link: A former Mexico City helicopter pilot has posted a gallery of his aerial photos of the city and environs.

The Onion: The Information Age was dealt a stunning blow Monday, when a factual error was discovered on the Internet. The error was found on TedsUltimateBradyBunch.com, a Brady Bunch fan site that incorrectly listed the show’s debut year as 1968, not 1969.

The Adventures of Teapot the Cat: Yi Tien Electronics today announced a breakthrough news delivery system for the restroom. At a press conference, Yi Tien Electronics unveiled the rsstroom reader™, an rss reader for the restroom which prints directly to toilet tissue through RapidResolution® inkjet technology. Complete with wireless connectivity, the rsstroom reader™ will print out up to the minute articles from rss 2.0 and atom newsfeeds.

Intuitor: “In the name of physics decency, to protect the minds of children everywhere, so that they may grow up in a world where they know the difference between speed and velocity, we have taken the responsibility to rate movies for their portrayal of excessively bad physics.” Worst move ever: The Core.

eyetricks: Source for optical illusions, brain teasers, games, 3D images and other mind teasing oddities.

Guardian Unlimited Technology: According to a scientific report, planet Earth’s computers are wide open to a virus attack from Little Green Men. The concern is raised in the next issue of the journal Acta Astronautica by Richard Carrigan, a particle physicist at the US Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. He believes scientists searching the heavens for signals from extra-terrestrial civilisations are putting Earth’s security at risk, by distributing the jumble of signals they receive to computers all over the world. The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (Seti) project, based at the University of California in Berkeley, uses land-based telescopes to scour the universe for electromagnetic waves.

Sage Wisdom: Never let Salvia be used where firearms, knives, or other dangerous objects are present.

To make a quid from dried leaves, weigh out 2-8 grams of dried leaves. Place the leaves in a small bowl of cool water. Once the leaves are wet and have been soaking for about 10 minutes, remove the leaves from the water, squeeze the excess water out of them, and ball them up into a quid.

fcmx.net: They are elegant, erotic, witty, dramatic; well worth a visit (Виртуальные открытки II - Вся коллекция) [Via Tim Bray]

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U.S. President George W. Bush shakes hands with Albert Hubo, a 130-cm-tall, two-legged robot topped with a head modeled after Albert Einstein.

Media Laboratory, MIT A study using a network analyzer reveals that rather than protecting the brain from invasive radio signals used for mind control, tinfoil beanies actually amplify the signals. “Statistical evidence suggests the use of helmets may in fact enhance the government’s invasive abilities. We speculate that the government may in fact have started the helmet craze for this reason.”