No Agenda Episode 265

This Episode’s Executive Producers: Sir Sam Leung
Associate Executive Producer: Troy Rutter
Art By: Nick the Rat
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Moon Base on Mars




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No Agenda Episode 264

This Episode’s Executive Producers: Sir Lennart Renkema, David Chapman
This Episode’s Executive Producers and 264 Club Members: Gordon Walton, Francois Proulx, Jeff Dailey, Eric Wilka
Associate Executive Producer: Tom Byrne
Art By: Thijs Brouwers

Chatter on the Interwebs





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Merry Christmas!

See you in a couple of days.  That is all ...

No Agenda Episode 263

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Baron van Pelsmaekers
This Episode’s Executive Producer: Sir Greg Birch
This Episode’s Executive Producers and 263 Club Members: Allan Bose, Steven Wilkinson, John Cosimano, Alex Kroke, Noel Plomarit, Jonathan Jackson, Sheigh Obrien,
Associate Executive Producers: Jon Terada, Niven Brooks, Ann Nonymous, Adam Williams
Knighthoods: Allan Bose, Greg Stone
Art By: Nick the Rat
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Yell



 
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No Agenda Episode 262

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Geoff Crowther
Associate Executive Producers: Ann Nonymous
Art By: Nick the RatPR:Amazon.com: In The Morning: Gx2: Music

Mothra Will Save Us!




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Kuriositas: Fly Geyser – Not Quite of this World

They look as if they were taken on another planet, or at least on the set of a new and very expensive science fiction movie. Yet these pictures are of the Fly Geyser which is very much of planet earth even though – and herein lies the surprise – it is effectively man made.

The geyser can be found in Hualapai Valley near Gerlach. It is a little seen phenomenon as the land upon which it sits is private. It can be seen from State Road 34 but unless you have permission the view from a distance is all you should attempt.



A great set of pics.  Even man can create something beautiful by accident.  Enjoy ...

The Polite Way To Pee

During one of her daily classes, a teacher trying to teach good manners, asked her students the following question:

“Michael, if you were on a date having dinner with a nice young lady, how would you tell her that you have to go to the bathroom?”

Michael said, “Just a minute I have to go pee.” The teacher responded by saying, “That would be rude and impolite. What about you Sherman, how would you say it?”

Sherman said, “I am sorry, but I really need to go to the bathroom. I’ll be right back.”

“That’s better, but it’s still not very nice to say the word bathroom at the dinner table. And you, little Edward, can you use your brain for once and show us your good manners?”

“I would say, ‘Darling, may I please be excused for a moment? I have to shake hands with a very dear friend of mine, who I hope to introduce you to after dinner.’”

The teacher fainted…

Nyuk nyuk ...

Video: BMW subliminal ad burns logo onto your eyelids

From autoblog.com

How far is this from having the ads at eye-level in a pubic urinal?

BMW recently created a special video advertisement, and those that viewed it had no choice but to remember it. Huh?

It was shown at a movie theater in Germany and left viewers with an image of the BMW logo imprinted on the back of their eyelids. How did they do that?

When you look at the sun and then close your eyes you see a circular dot as if projected on the back of your eyelids. BMW used the same technique, using a large Profoto Pro-7B flash unit, a big version of the flash utilized on digital cameras. In front of the flash device was a hollowed out BMW logo. The audience couldn't see it as it sat behind the screen they were viewing the advert on.

During the ad, the motorcycle driver tells the audience to close their eyes. For those that followed his directions, they saw the BMW logo with their eyes closed. As far as we're aware, there have been no big complaints yet of taking subliminal advertising to new heights. But the people who saw the ad also reported seeing a lot of genitalia images in the ice of every liquor ad they saw the same day...



Makes you wonder if this has been done before in a movie, or such.  A little Psy-Ops? ...

No Agenda Episode 261

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Will Lisac
Associate Executive Producers: John Smith, Michael Hager
Art By: Dennis Cruise
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AQ-USA




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Of Course You Feel Great ...

Thanks to the New Yorker ...

Electronic Pickpocketing

 

Will this become a new identity theft issue? I could see it working in a crowded place like an airport, train station or sporting event ...

No Agenda Episode 260

This Episode’s Executive Producers and 260 Club Members: Sir Steven Pelsmaekers, Sir Sean Connelly, Aaron Ramroth Knighthoods: Dame Ruby von Pelsmaekers
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Russia's Putin says wind turbines kill birds

By Darya Korsunskaya

KHABAROVSK, Russia |
Mon Dec 6, 2010 9:43am EST

Putin, who has overseen all major energy deals Russia made in recent years, is keen for the country to maintain its role as a major oil and gas producer. He has repeatedly expressed his skepticism about alternative energy.

"Windmills, which are so widespread in many European countries seem to be an environmentally friendly kind (of energy), but in fact they kill birds," Putin told a conference of his United Russia party in the Far East.

"Vibration there is such that worms come out of the ground, not to mention moles. This is a real environmental problem," he said, adding that solar energy was the only alternative source that was entirely harmless.

Renewable energy accounts for only 1 percent of all power generated in Russia, but under a plan backed by President Dmitry Medvedev, Putin's partner in Russia's ruling tandem, this share should grow to 4.5 percent by 2020.

Germany's Siemens plans to create a joint venture with Russian power firm RusHydro and state holding firm Russian Technologies to develop windmill parks able to produce 5 gigawatts by 2020.

Atomenergomash, a unit of state nuclear power holding Rosatom, announced similar plans and said the company was looking for an international partner, estimating the potential share of wind in Russian power generation at 5 to 10 percent.

Atomenergomash said wind power generation would become profitable in Russia after the government introduced incentives for producers.

Medvedev in May asked the government to draft proposals on mandatory purchases of energy generated from renewable sources at market prices rather than at state-regulated tariffs. There has been no response from the government to date on the proposal.

Putin complained that European and U.S. makers of equipment generating energy from alternative sources were pushing their products at the expense of Russian manufacturers.

However, he expressed support for Icelandic companies' plans to develop geothermal energy on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, home to Eurasia's only geyser valley.

(Writing by Gleb Bryanski, editing by Jane Baird)

OK, I had to double-check that this wasn't an article from "The Onion" ...

With electronic contact lenses, bionic eyesight could become reality

A new generation of contact lenses built with tiny circuits and LEDs could make bionic eyesight a reality.

Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have created contact lenses with built-in electronics and an LED, powered wirelessly by RF.

“These lenses don’t give us the vision of an eagle or the benefit of running subtitles on our surroundings yet,” University of Washington professor Babak Parviz writes in IEEE Spectrum. “What we’ve done so far barely hints at what will soon be possible with this technology.” ...



An old article but still pretty interesting, just imagine ...

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What Shall We Call It?

No Agenda Episode 259

Lucy Napolitano in Yemen

This Episode’s Executive Producer and Sole member of the 259 Club: Sir Larry Lee
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Tim Flach Photography

nuff said ...

No Agenda Episode 258

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Sir Steven Pelsmaekers
This Episode’s Executive Producer: Taylor Stewart
Associate Executive Producers, Exclusive members of the 258 Club: Mark Keulen, Sir Charles Jordan, Cap’n Underpants
Art By: Jesse Anderson
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sigmavirus24/No_Agenda_Bat_Sig at v0.2 – GitHub

Persistent Jet Contrails





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No Agenda Episode 257

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Sir Mike Menzies
Associate Executive Producers: Paul Palcsek, TipTopWebsite.com, Hans Hafner, Matthew Lacey
Art By: Nick the Rat
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The Moment of Truth





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Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures

All these pictures are from the book Microcosmos, created by Brandon Brill from London. This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items.

These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye.


A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip

Now I know why Howard Hughes was obsessed with cleanliness ...

No Agenda Episode 256

Cheerleaders for Science

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Matthew Schauer, John Grumling 
Associate Executive Producers: Sir Kelly Spongberg, Noah Kuttler
Art By: Nick the Rat
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No Agenda Episode 255

Radioactive Butts

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Norman Mcdonough
Associate Executive Producers: Christopher Skalenda, Simon
Bennet, Jonas Astrom, Phillip Smith
Art By: Jesse Anderson

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Drew Hopper Photography

I hope you enjoy his site

Why is "patience" a virtue?

:-)

Amazing Insect Images By Igor Iwanowicz

Cool site, great macro photo's ...

No Agenda Episode 254

Final Jeopardy

This Episode’s Executive Producer: David Montoya
Art By: Nick the Rat
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No Agenda Episode 253

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Brendon Matheson
This Episode’s Executive Producer: Snorre Steen
Associate Executive Producers: Michael Tanga, Sir Larry Lee, Guy
Boazy, Sir Shane Brady, Arthur Kessler, Roger Harrington
Art By: Jesse Anderson
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Love Pats

The Most Basic Form of Mind Control is Repetition

The Most Basic Form of Mind Control is Repetition from Adam Cosco on Vimeo.

Flying With The Birds

Amazing video taken by tiny spy cameras strapped to the fastest bird on the planet, the Peregrine Falcon, and the best handling, the Gos Hawk.



Wow, just wow ... to be a bird ...

No Agenda Episode 252

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Gavin Warren
Associate Executive Producers: Sir Sean Connelly, Arthur Kesler
Art By: Jesse Anderson: Iowans For Accountability | Scott County IFA

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The Oatmeal

a humourous blog by Matthew Inman, worth bookmarking ...

No Agenda Episode 251

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Carrie Schön
Art By: Jesse Anderson
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Opt-Out of Naked Body Scanner. Get Cuffed and Brutalized by TSA Thugs.

Is this for real? ...

No Agenda Episode 250

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Craig Peters of CKPCreative.com
Associate Executive Producer: Steven Pelsmaekers, Scott Schoenberger
Art By: Nick the Rat
Knighthoods: Sir Tristan Lennon, Sir Peter (god-son of Baron Von Pelsmaekers)

Transportation Sexual Assault (TSA)

Streaming-Madness.net

Watch Top Documentaries Online! Stream Space Science, Astronomy, Biology, Physics, Social Issues and more. Top Documentary Films. Easy streaming. Free your mind!


Streaming-Madness.net // Watch enlightening documentaries online

There is so much here... I have linked the to The World According to Monsanto, but this is just my preference ... lots and lots of good stuff ...

I triple dare you to watch this all the way through

OMFG. I would freeze getting out of the elevator!!! ...

No Agenda Episode 249

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Scott Schoenberger
Associate Executive Producer: Craig Lennox, Allan Bose
Art By: Nick the Rat
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Multidimensional Poverty Index

100+ Jaw Dropping Concept Cars

Porn for the car lover :-) ...

No Agenda Episode 248

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Steven Pelsmaekers
Associate Executive Producer: Jarred Forrester, Edgar Rothermich, Jeremey Ash, Paul Sankowski
Art By: Michael Birch
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Stop Albedo Now!

Philosoraptor

I chuckled at this one ...

Ayn Rand - Faith vs Reason

Interviewer: You do not accept the existence of a god, a divine prime mover?
Ayn Rand: No.
Interviewer: Now the reason you don't is because you can't prove that such an entity or being or energy exists.
Ayn Rand: I can't nor can anyone else. There is no proof.
Interviewer: There is no proof so therefore you've concluded that there isn't one?
Ayn Rand: That's right.
Interviewer: You can't prove there isn't.
Ayn Rand: You are never called upon to prove a negative. That's a law of logic.



I have been a fan of hers for years and yet, this is the first time I have heard her speak ...>

No Agenda Episode 247

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Sir Charles Jordan
Associate Executive Producer: Sir Robert Alter
Knighthoods: Dame Carol Jordan, Sir Robert Alter
Art By: Nick the Rat
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Welcome to the global Resistance!
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How God and the Devil Spend their Time

Puts things in a different perspective, don't you think? ...

From Joel Pett

Joel Pett / Lexington Herald-Leader (October 22, 2010)

:-)

Time Traveller Unearthed from 1928 Film Clip?

Like JCD said, could be a hoax, but pretty convincing. I'm sure Adam Curry will love this ...

No Agenda Episode 246

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Ron Lange
Executive Producers: Nolan Waugh, David Wright
Knighthoods: Ron Lange
Art By: Nick the Rat
PR: Welcome to the global Resistance!

Code for Biodiversity!

Super Accurate Engine Impressions

Super Accurate Engine Impressions - Watch more Funny Videos

we should all have a talent, excellent impressions ...

No Agenda Episode 245

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Borislav Marinov
This Episode’s Executive Producer: Fredric Guimont
Executive Producer: Adam Burkepile, Eric Hertha, Thomas Nussbaum
Associate Executive Producer: Marco Scari
Knighthoods: Sir Adam Burkepile Sir Thomas Nussbaum
Art By: Nick the Rat
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Bow to the Aqua Buddha

Women Makes Hilarious Video For Her Own Funeral

Carla Zilber-Smith died May 21st, 2010 of ALS, but at her funeral, she had one final surprise: a video that she had kept secret for over a year, even from her own family, that brought the audience (because of course her funeral had an audience) to laughter and tears.

Well done Carla ...

Healthcare Spending and Life Expectancy by Country

Wow, if true. The US once again is out of control, and quick to demean Canada's system based on??? ...

Down at the end of the garden ...

... is a very special place. Where fantasy and folly meet greenery and stone. Old sits with new made old and cool breezes ruffle scented foliage. In the heat of the day blue water beckons and secret garden rooms are filled with forgotten treasures. Michael Trapp travels the world to find antiques and architectural fragments to weave his magic at the bottom of a very special garden.



This just caught my eye as something interesting, the kind of place I would like to have ...

Mindblowing Macro Photography from The Micro-Cosmos, by Blepharopsis – with Exclusive Interview

For today’s showcase we have a very special and honorable guest: Igor Siwanowicz, a.k.a. Blepharopsis. He is an absolutely amazing photographer and has a life-loving spirit.

This post will present 50 of the best photographs shot by him, along with an exclusive interview that he kindly honored us with and where he reveals not only some secrets about the beautiful art of photography, but also a short, interesting and inspiring biography.

His photos are absolute amazing and we will mix some of them into the interview… Answers continue below the photo…

Let’s get started!



Simply, great ...

Illusions and Paradoxes: Seeing is Believing?

This page illustrates that our visual perception cannot always be trusted. The components of an object can distort the perception of the complete object. Our mind is the final arbiter of truth. Most optical illusions are the result of 1) incongruent design elements at opposite ends of parallel lines, 2) influence of background patterns on the overall design, 3) adjustment of our perception at the boundaries of areas of high contrast, 4) afterimages resulting from eye movements or from kinetic displays, or 5) inability to interpret the spatial structure of an object from the context provided by the picture. How we perceive things has a direct correlation to how we react. Games like bingo and poker provide only partial information and the players have to make decisions based on their intuition. A hand can be perceived as either weak or strong depending on the strategies, such as betting and bluffing, that are used to intimidate opponents.

The altered perception is caused because the eyes combine adjacent colors.
Optical illusions have been studied for millenia. The ancient Greeks used a technique known as entasis which incorporates a slight convexity in the columns of the Parthenon to compensate for the illusion of concavity created by parallel lines. Many of the following illusions have been popularized by psychologists and artists like Hering, Ehrenstein, Meyer, Zöllner, Müller-Lyer, Poggendorf, and Escher.

A nice collection of the many illusions that we have seen on the web. Sorry that I couldn't copy a sample, apparently it is beyond my abilities ...

Is Saturn's Titan Producing DNA in its Atmosphere Without Water? Experts Say "Yes"

Saturn's moon Titan has many of the components for life without liquid water. But the orange hydrocarbon haze that shrouds Saturn's largest moon could be creating the molecules that make up DNA without the help of water – an ingredient widely thought to be necessary for the molecules' formation according to a new study.

The researchers warn however that although Titan's atmosphere is creating these molecules, that doesn't mean that the molecules are combining to form life, But the finding could entice astrobiologists to consider a wider range of extrasolar planets as potential hosts for at least simple forms of organic life, the team of scientists from the US and France suggests. ...

If it's on the Internet then it must be true ...

Mesmerizing Perseid time lapse video

I missed the Perseids last week — a combination of bad weather and having to get up early to go to SETIcon the next day — but I, and now you, can get a good feel for them via this lovely timelapse video taken by photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee:

Joshua Tree Under the Milky Way from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo.

I'm a bit late on this, but still a pretty cool event ...

No Agenda Episode 244

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Ernie Ernst
This Episode’s Executive Producer: Zachary Geesaman
Executive Producer: Janice Kang
Knighthoods: Dennis Cruise
Art By: Nick the Rat

Form 990

John Nolan Films

A great animation, special effects, engineering, and you name it site, my new favourite ...

Stem cells used to grow new windpipe for British teen with cancer

A British teenager has been given a new windpipe grown from her own stem cells in a pioneering operation.



The 19-year-old has now been discharged after having the procedure in Italy.

She was suffering from a rare form of trachea cancer and would have died without the operation.

Doctors took tissue from her nose and bone marrow stem cells to create a trachea biologically identical to the original organ.

The girl's stem cells were grafted on to the cartilage of another trachea, from a donor, which had been stripped of its own cells.

A similar operation was conducted on British boy in March but in that case the stem cells for the windpipe were grown inside the body. For this latest trachea transplant stem cells were used to grow a new trachea outside the body.

Because the new trachea contained no cells from another person, no anti-rejection drugs were needed.

Doctor Walter Giovannini, from AOU Careggi Hospital, in Florence, Italy, said the British woman was speaking after only three or four days after the surgeries on July 3 and 13.

And people say this is wrong, to use stem cells ...

No Agenda Episode 243

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Michael Zelina,
This Episode’s Executive Producer: John Weaver
This Episode’s Executive Producer: Thomas Nussbaum
Associate Executive Producer: Dennis Laarman
Knighthoods: Sir Ernie Ernst, Sir Fredric Guimont
Art By: Kirk
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Big Soda

Ben Rich Lockheed Skunk Works CEO Deathbed Ufo Confession

Ben Rich Lockheed Skunk Works CEO had apparently admitted in his Deathbed Confession that Extraterrestrial UFO visitors are real and the U.S. Military travel among stars.

According to this article published in May 2010 issue of the Mufon UFO Journal  – Ben Rich, the “Father of the Stealth Fighter-Bomber” and former head of Lockheed Skunk Works gave a Ufo confession upon his last days.

The article was written by Tom Keller, an aerospace engineer who has worked as a computer systems analyst for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A summary of this interview came up with some interesting points:

1 Inside the Skunk Works (Lockheed’s secret research and development entity), we were a small, intensely cohesive group consisting of about fifty veteran engineers and designers and a hundred or so expert machinists and shop workers. Our forte was building technologically advanced airplanes of small number and of high class for highly secret missions.”

2 : “We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.”

3 : “We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it. There is an error in the equations. We know what it is. We now have the capability to travel to the stars. First, you have to understand that we will not get to the stars using chemical propulsion. Second, we have to devise a new propulsion technology. What we have to do is find out where Einstein went wrong.”

...

Yesterday they were supposed to reveal themselves.  As much as we wish that this was true it seems proof  is hard to come by.  What are we afraid of? ...

35 Life Hacks You Should Know

Miscellaneous Hack #1, My skull is close enough to being a parabolic reflect, who knew ...

First frictionless superfluid molecules created

Chill them enough and some atoms creep up walls or stay still while the bowl they sit in rotates, thanks to a quantum effect called superfluidity. Now molecules have got in on the act.

Superfluidity is a bizarre consequence of quantum mechanics. Cool helium atoms close to absolute zero and they start behaving as a single quantum object rather than a group of individual atoms. At this temperature, the friction that normally exists between atoms, and between atoms and other objects, vanishes, creating what is known as a superfluid.

To see if molecules could be made superfluid, Robert McKellar of the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa and colleagues turned to hydrogen, which exists as pairs of atoms. The team created a compressed mixture of hydrogen and carbon dioxide gas and shot it through a nozzle at supersonic speeds. Once released, the molecules spread apart, cooling and arranging themselves so that each CO2 molecule sat at the centre of a cluster of up to 20 hydrogens.
 
I particularly like the comment from FrankenPC, "Hey, if science can make a better sex lube, I'm all for it." nyuk, nyuk  ...

Creepy Wikipedia Articles

Check it out, a source of articles in Wikipedia that are a bit "unusual".  Great time waster, since there are soooo many of them ...

No Agenda Episode 242

This Episode’s Executive Producer: Nicolas Pelsmaekers
This Episode’s Executive Producer: David Hoffman
Executive Producers: Sir Lawrence Roik <-- That's me!!!, Sir Wouter Seljee, Sir Paul Couture
Associate Executive Producer: Anonymous1, Anonymous2, Sheigh Obrein
Knighthoods: Sir Zengarten, Sir Zachary Geesaman, Sir Borislav Marinov, Sir Wouter Seljee
Art By: Paul T. bonus by Nik the Rat
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Squalid Nullification

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!

See you Tuesday ...

Unbelievably Cool – Swedish Subway System

This is really sharp. Looks like a James Bond villain hideout. Yeah Sweden ...