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Alek Komarnitsky is back with his web-controlled Christmas lights. These are the lights that started out as a hoax, but have transformed, by popular demand, into something real. Alek writes:
There are three live webcams and X10 powerline control technology system so web surfers can not only view the action, but also *control* the 17,000 lights. Heck, you can even inflate/deflate the giant Elmo, Frosty, Santa, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Homer Simpson – D’OH! While people around the world (157 countries last year) enjoy seeing the lights ON, environmentalists will be happy to know that they can turn the lights OFF with a click of the mouse. Better yet, this is the 4th year I'm using 100% Wind Energy and even though that is "clean" energy, I even did a Carbon Offset contribution for the 0.61 Tons of CO2 for the ~MegaWatt-Hour of power consumed; that's about the same as *one* cross-country airline trip. Finally, by providing viewing via webcam, you don't need to burn fossil fuels by driving around to see christmas lights - Al Gore would be proud!

Last week Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao released the first photograph taken by the Chang-e 1 lunar probe. The picture showed the surface of the moon. Wen declared, "Chinese people's dream of flying to the moon for more than 1,000 years has started to materialize."But then people on the internet started to point out that the picture looked an awful lot like a NASA picture from 2005. In fact, the two photos looked almost identical. So now the Chinese lunar probe programme is defending itself against charges of fakery.To be fair to the Chinese, the two photos aren't entirely alike. The shadows are different, and the Chinese photo shows an extra crater. So the similarity is likely a result of the fact that both photos happen to show the same part of the moon. But it's nice to see that China has just as many conspiracy theorists as America does, ready to doubt anything produced by their government space program.

Death by Cell Phone Report DisputedIt turns out that the death of a South Korean man was not due to an exploding cell phone, as many media outlets recently reported. Instead, police are attributing the death to a co-worker who backed into him with a drilling vehicle, and then tried to frame the cell phone.

Fake Euros fool shoppers"A publicity stunt by a German firm which sent out fake 300 and 1,000-euro notes adorned with naked women has backfired after people began using them as legal tender. The firm Planet-Present said it had permission from the Bundesbank and European Central Bank. Only close scrutiny shows the notes are fakes.

The rumor going around online is that in one of the previews for the new Disney movie Enchanted, you can hear someone say "Get the f*ck outta here."The preview in question shows the Prince attacking a bus. The exclamation can be heard around 30 seconds into it, as the bus driver is walking out of the bus.The first time I listened to it, it definitely sounded like "Get the f*ck outta here." But when I listened to it again, it sounded more like "Get that bus outta here." Basically, it seems to me it could be interpreted either way. Who's to say what the correct way of hearing it is.

Hoaxes

Each year, a few people will be drowned mysteriously in Huadu's Furong Reservoir. It was not until recently when the son of a certain official went swimming in the reservoir with his friend and were drowned that the secret was unravelled!
It's a 3 metre long man-eating catfish whose head alone is 1 metre wide! After cutting up the catfish people were surprised to find the remains of a man inside!
Because this was a huge incident, and the local government was afraid of the impact on local tourism, they imposed an embargo on the news, but people came away with these pictures taken on their cell phones of the man-eating fish!
Swimming in the reservoir is now forbidden because it is feared another similar man-eating catfish is still lurking in the waters.

Forgeries of the Medieval ChurchSure, they devoted their life to God, but that didn't stop the men and women of the Church from engaging in a little creative forgery. In fact, the medieval church was probably one of the most prolific sources of forged documents of all time.Donation of Constantine History of Crowland

Pope Joan Pope John VIII ruled for two years. However, while riding one day from St. Peter's to the Lateran, he had to stop by the side of the road and, to the astonishment of everyone, gave birth to a child. It turned out that Pope John VIII was really a woman. In other words, Pope John was really Pope Joan.

Medieval Travel Lies As Europe lost contact with the rest of the world during the dark ages, classical knowledge of the outside world receded, and what emerged in its place was a peculiar mixture of fact and fiction. European scholars inhabited the lands to their east with unicorns, cyclops, and other fantastic creatures. Strangely, travelers who returned from abroad routinely confirmed the existence of these imaginary creatures.

The Shroud of Turin Is it the true image of Christ, or just a medieval fake? Throughout the twentieth century researchers have dueled back and forth over this question. In 1982 a group calling itself the Shroud of Turin Research Project declared it to be genuine after studying samples lifted from the cloth using tape. However, radiocarbon tests performed later during the 1980s dated the shroud to approximately the fourteenth century, indicating that the relic was a fake. Waiting for the Apocalypse The medieval mind fixated on the end of the world. Predictions of imminent, world-encompassing disaster turned up during the middle ages with almost clockwork regularity. This atmosphere of constant dread had its ridiculous elements. For instance, we read about medieval survivalists frantically storing up grain or heading to high ground in anticipation of the final days. But it also had serious consequences for the course of European history.

Medieval Pranks and TricksA number of texts have preserved the 'tricks of the trade' of medieval pranksters. The notebook of Thomas Betson, a fifteenth-century monk at Syon Abbey in Middlesex, records his joke of hiding a beetle inside a hollowed-out apple. When the apple began to mysteriously rock back and forth people believed it to be possessed. Other manuscripts include instructions for more mischievous tricks, such as how to make beds itchy and meat appear wormy.

Fun FaCts

Did you know the Mississippi state legislature removed fractions and decimal points from the mathematics curriculum of public secondary schools. Television's Mister Ed was a horse. Mobile homes are so named because they can be moved from place to place. The design of the California state flag was the result of a mistake. The Kentucky Fried Chicken chain changed its name to KFC in order to eliminate the word "fried" from its title. The nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" originated as a coded message used for recruiting pirates. The derisive title of one of George Bernard Shaw's plays was changed after it wreaked havoc on theater attendance. When the Titanic hit an iceberg in the north Atlantic, the silent version of the film The Poseidon Adventure was being screened aboard ship. The town of Tarzana, CA was named after the famous ape man. Weird right?

John Barrymore once pulled a risque screen test prank on John Carradine. Hogart Humphrey was the model for the gerber babe. Humphrey Bogart was born on Christmas Day. Clara Bow serviced the entire USC fottball team during orgies. Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. Charles Chaplin's remains were stolen and held for ransom. Iron Eyes Cody was an Indian. Kevin Costner was caught in bed with his wife of Orioles infielder Cal Ripken, Jr. in August 1997, forcing the Orioles to cancel a game so that the distraught Ripken's consecutive game streak would not be in jeopardy. Finally Jamie Lee Curtis is a hermaphrodite.

311's name masks sinister ties to white supremacy, because K is the eleventh letter of hte alphabet, and three times K equals KKK. Bono announces every time he claps a child in Africa dies, someone from the audience tells him to stop doing that. David Bowie's wife once caught him in bed with Mick Jagger. Mariah Carey said she'd love to be skinny like "starving children". When asked for a reaction to the death of King Hussein of Jordan, Carey mourned the loss of the greatest basketball player of all time. Mariah Carey possesses a severn-octiave coval range. R and B singer Ciara was once a man. A caviar advised Eric Clapton to take "a few moths to practice" before playing his guitar in church. After the beleaguered lead guitarist of a band responds to heckling by asking if anyone in the audience thinks he can do better, Clapton steps onto the stage and shows him up.

The Beatles hid "Paul is dead" clues in their albums and songs. The Beatles created the infamous butcher cover as a protest against Capitol Records "butchery" of their music. The little Lucky in the Sky with Diamonds was chosen because it initial letter form the acrostic l-s-d. ELO's debut album was mistakenly retitled No Answer when released in America. Ordered by a judge to hand over all the profits from his next album to his ex wife as part of a divorce settlement, singer Marvin Gaye deliberately recorded a wretched album designed to sell poorly, which he sardonically entitled, Here, My Dear.

I thought theses were some fun facts so I hope you were able to enjoy them!!

WeIrD and FuNnY TaiLs

Licky Tattoos Linked to Drugs.I heard from my mom which heard it from many people that people put drugs in licky tattoos! Little kids use these tattoos all the time I still use them when I babysit to give the kids something interesting to do There there is the Razor Apples I heard from a friend,of a friend,of a cousin that they found a razor blade in their caramel apple!Kidney Theft People say that there is a kidney theft ring in New Orleans. Some say that people who get their kidneys stolen, they will wake up in a bathtub full of ice. (The reason that this isn't true is because "The National Kidney Foundation" has repeatedly asked for requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell their stories. So far they have None. None as in Zero).

Theses are some more..just because you can never get enough of legends. $200 Cookie RecipeNeiman Marcus ( A department store in New York) that had a cafeteria was selling cookies. This lady asked the cook how much the cookie recipe cost. The cook said 2. The lady thought that he meant 2 dollars. So she said just put that on my credit card. What she didn't know was that the cook meant 2 hundred dollars. The lady didn't know that until she got her credit card bill. For a revenge, she would tell everybody the recipe. (This isn't really true because Neiman Marcus never did sell cookies. So shifting the gear a little bit. Halloween. Halloween is the best time of all, spooky costumes and weird houses.

A few decades ago, Halloween decor amounted to a lone jack-o-lantern left fringing in a home's window as a welcome to trick-or-treaters. More recently, that aspect of the annual candy grab has been elevated to dizzying displays of crchestrated spectacle even as the door-to dooring of costumed tykes has dwindled to the merest tickle in some areas. The more sedate homeowners urban enough to set out a plastic skull or two or festoon their property's shrubbery with fake cobweb's but their more exuberant neighbors go whole hog with eh spooks and gore. On 26 October 2005, the corpse of a 42 year old woman was left suspended in public view for hours in Frederica, Delaware, because her lifeless body was assumed to be yet another Halloween display. The unnamed woman hung herself from a tree located across a moderately busy road from some homes. Her body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could easily be seen from passing vehicles.

This next one if pretty inappropriate but I have to put it in here. Ten reason why Halloween is better than sex. 10.You're guaranteed to get a little something in the sac. 9.The uglier you are the easy it is. 8. It doesn't matter if the kids hear you. 7. Less guilt the next day. 6.It doesn't matter if you fantasize your somebody else because you are. 5.Forty years from now you'll still enjoy candy. 4.If you don't get what you want you can always go next door. 3.If you get tired you get another chance. 2.you don't have to compliment the person your with and finally, 1.you can do the whole neighborhood.

This is all I have for you I hope you enjoy it.

WeIrDThings

Nostradamus, the most famous astrologer who ever lived, was born in France in 1503 and published his barely scrutable collection of prophecies, The Centuries, in 1555. Each four-line verse (or "quatrain") purported to foretell world events far into the future, and ever since Nostradamus' time devotees have claimed his work accurately predicted wars, natural disasters and the rise and fall of empires. Yet it is plain to see that Nostradamus couched his "prophetic" verses in language so obscure that the words can be, and have been, interpreted to mean almost anything. What's more, the interpreting is always done after the fact, with the benefit of hindsight, and with the concerted aim of proving the relevance of a given passage to an actual event. If the aftermaths of past catastrophes are any indication, in the coming weeks and months we can expect a bumber crop of arcane tracts purporting to show beyond doubt that Nostradamus foresaw the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of September 11, 2001.In fact, thanks to the efforts of anonymous Internet pranksters, the he-told-you-sos have already begun. "Spooky" quatrains allegedly foretelling the events of 9/11 with incredible specificity were circulating online within hours of the first jetliner crash in New York City — completely bogus quatrains, as it turned out. It wasn't a question of whether or not they accurately predicted anything; Nostradamus simply didn't write them. Would that be weird if you found out that someone could actually predict a major event in the United States history. Do we actually have fortune tellers or people who can predict the future. That just seems crazy to me.
I have heard a story doing the rounds and want to know if you think it's based on any fact at all. I must admit it does smell of "urban legend."
It concerns a girl who orders a McChicken Sandwich from McDonald's with no mayonnaise. She then proceeds to leave the restaurant before eating the sandwich, only to discover there is mayonnaise on it. Not too fazed, she finishes it and thinks no more of it.
The next day she is ill with stomach cramps. It gets so bad she is taken to the hospital, where her stomach is duly pumped. The contents of her stomach are then sent to the lab for analysis.
She is later informed that she ingested a cyst belonging to a chicken. She then realises that is was the chicken's cyst which had burst as she bit into her McChicken Sandwich which gave the look of mayonnaise. I eat at McDonald's a bunch...I will make sure not to eat McChicken ever again.
This is absolutely disgusting but I have to share it because it does not get much worse than this. Its just like from an alien movie be very careful when u get caught with dust...as following pics will show effects of bad dust to a person.
While he was walking he felt an eye irritation, thinking that it was just regular dust, he started to rub his eye, in an effort to remove the dust.... then his eyes got really red, and he went and bought some eye drops from a pharmacy....few days passed n his eyes were still red and seems a little swollen.Again he dismissed it as the constant rubbing and that it will go away. The days go by the swelling of his eye got worse, redder and bigger.... till he decided to go and see a doctor for a check up.The doctor immediately wanted an operation, being afraid of a tumor growth or cyst. At the operation, what was thought to be a growth or cyst, actually turned out to be a live worm..... what was thought initially to be just mere dust actually was an insect's egg......because of that, my friends, if u do get caught in dust, and the pain persists, please go see a doctor immediately. EWWWWWWWWWW
A travel agent friend of mine swore this happened to her clients, but it's got all the signs of an urban legend (not only crude, but racist to boot):
A couple from suburban California were vacationing in Jamaica when their room was broken into and everything stolen, with the exception of their camera and their toothbrushes. Considering themselves fortunate to have retained the camera with their vacation photos, they returned home where they had the film developed.
Two pictures were unidentifiable -- something like an aerial view of two mounds of dark earth with a pole in between. They later realized, to their horror, that it was a photo of their toothbrushes up someones rear end. This is so gross and weird, but I found it and had to put it on this page. Could you imagine having that toothbrush in your mouth. Uhhh nasty.
I hope none of this stuff never happens to me and I will be sure to post more and new exciting blogs coming up. See ya.

Amusing Accidents

Think of some of the weirdest things that could happen and then put them on a web page. This is the kind of site I came across today. Some of these myths of whatever you want to call them are just flat out funny but try to actually believe in some of them! Some are also very sad.....

A young girl had decided to sneak out of the house to go to a party her protective parents wouldn't allow her to go to. While she was there she hooked up with a guy she liked and they went to a local make-out spot. The guy was drinking heavily and when he got too demanding she insisted on him taking her back to the party. On the way back they crashed into another vehicle. When the girl awoke in the hospital she knew she was dying, she was told that they guy she'd been with had died in the accident and so had the couple in the other car. She begged a nurse to tell her parents that she was very sorry she'd disobeyed them, the nurse just looked at her. After the girl died another nurse asked why she hadn't said anything with the teen had asked her to give the message to her parents. The nurse said, "I didn't know what to say, the people in the other car were her parents." Could you imagine. That would be horrible. This teaches you that you should always tell your parents where your going because you might just run into them later and not know it.

Another story I came across was about tanning. Everyone knows that tanning is bad for your skin yet millions of young boys and girls still enter the tanning booths everyday. A woman decided at the last minute to get a quick tan for a special occasion. When she found out about the limits the salons set on their tanning beds, she signed up at several different tanning salons. A few days later, her husband told her she "smelled funny". She showered and showered but the smell wouldn't go away. When she finally went to the doctor he ran some tests and told her: "I'm sorry, it seems you've microwaved your internal organs, there's nothing we can do for you." Summary of this story is don't go tanning because 1) its bad and 2) you might die.

This next story definitely makes me believe there is a higher power. An atheist who was training for the Olympics had been given special pool privileges at the university he was attending. Late one night he was considering the arguments a religious friend had been confronting him with as he climbed the high-dive for a little late-night practice. He stood on the board and prepared for a backward flip when he noticed the shadow he was casting on the wall formed a perfect cross in the partially-lit room. Shaken, he sat down on the board to think. As he sat there a maintenance worker came into the pool area and turned on the rest of lights and the diver saw that the pool had been drained for maintenance. How scary is that, you could have been dead but because you took one extra second to think are now alive. This story is crazy.

I personally don't like this story but someone might enjoy it so here it is. To help put out a forest-fire helicopters sometimes scoop large containers of water out of lakes and oceans to dump on the blazes. During one such occasion a man enjoying a bit of scuba-diving was accidentally scooped up and dropped into the burning trees. I highly doubt that this is possible but you never know. I wish I could come up with some crazy stories like the ones I find.

Those Myths You Never Want To Hear About

So I search the web each day trying to find new fun facts I can entertain you with. So I come this one website with all kinds of different myths. Bloody Mary, The Concerned Mother and The Hairy Hitch Hiker are just a few of the crazy stories that people have come up with over the years.

The Concerned mother starts out like this. A man and wife were driving late one night when they were flagged down by a woman that appeared to be hurt. She claimed she'd been in an accident and her baby was alive but trapped in the car. The man told her to wait with his wife and he'd see what he could do. He got to the car and found a couple obviously dead in the front seat but a baby crying in a car seat. He cut the baby loose and returned to his own car. When he got there his wife was alone, he asked her where the woman had went and she replied that she'd followed him to the wreck. He left the baby with his wife and went back to the car to find her. When he got there he realized the woman who'd been instantly killed in the front seat had been the one who'd flagged him down. Have you ever seen a ghost before because I sure have not. Although what would you think if you ended up saving a baby because you thought you saw something. That would be extremely heroic. I guess I could believe this story in a sense.

The Graveyard Wager goes something like this...A group of young girls were having a slumber party one night and began to exchange ghost stories. One girl claimed that the old man who had been buried earlier that week in the graveyard down the street had been buried alive. She claimed that if you tried you could hear him scratching at the lid of his coffin still. The other girls called her bluff and told her she was afraid to go there tonight. She eventually accepted their challenge and took a stake with her to drive in the ground to prove she'd been there. She headed off to the grave site right away and never returned, the others assumed she had "chickened out" and went home ashamed. The next morning as they passed the graveyard they saw her there at the old man's grave. She had accidentally staked her nightshirt to the ground and died of fright. First of all why would you ever want to go to a grave yard. That is probably the worst and scariest idea ever. I would never ever have the guts to do that even if it was broad daylight. My question is who actually does these things on a Friday or Saturday night?

The next story I came across was about a POW. It's a horrible story and I'm sorry for sharing it but I think that we should all be grateful for what we have and all those people who are out protecting our country.During the war a soldier faithfully wrote his mother every week so she would know he was all right, until one week she didn't get a letter and immediately began to worry. Within a couple of weeks she got a letter from the Army saying that her son had been captured and was being held in a Prisoner-of-War camp, and they assured her that they had no reason to believe the American prisoners were being mistreated in any way. A few weeks later the woman finally received another letter from her son, it read: "Dear Mom, Try not to worry about me, they are treating us well and I'll be released as soon as the war is over. Make sure that little Teddy gets the stamp for his collection. Love you, Joe" The woman was overjoyed to hear the news, but was confused because she had no idea who "little Teddy" was. She decided to steam the stamp from the envelope and have a look. When she did she saw that written on the back of the stamp were the words: "They've cut off my legs".

Last but not least, Bloody Mary. I think I have heard this myth since I was in fifth grade. If you stand in front of a mirror in a dark room and chant "Bloody Mary" twelve times starting at the stroke of midnight, the face of a hideous woman will appear in the mirror. It's the spirit of a girl who was born with a disfiguring disease and was killed by a cruel joke gone awry. Basically, don't stand in front of a mirror and say Bloody Mary or you will be extremely creeped out.

I babysit for a living and yes I do get scared sometimes. After reading this myth however I think I will make a rule its only legal to babysit during the day when no physco paths are on the loose. A teenage baby-sitter put the kids she was watching to sleep in their beds and went back downstairs. The late night news was on the TV -- the reporter said a psychopath from a local mental institution was on the loose and that police thought he might be in the area. He cautioned residents to lock their doors and windows because this guy was very, very dangerous. Well, the teenager checked the locks on the windows and the doors, but she forgot the door on the cellar bulkhead. Needless to say, the psychopath broke in about an hour later, coming up from the cellar, armed with an ax. The children heard some noises downstairs, but thought it was the baby-sitter moving some furniture around. Then it got real quiet. All they heard for the remainder of the night was this noise: "Thump! Thump! Dra-aag... Thump! Thump! Dra-aag..." Evidently, they were too afraid to get up to see what it was. In the morning, their parents came home and were horrified to find the babysitter at the top of the stairs, dead with both arms hacked off at the elbows. She'd been climbing the stairs on the bloody stumps of her arms, pulling her badly injured body along. Was she trying to check on the children? Was she trying to get help? Or in the madness of her tortured soul, was she trying to kill the kids? I personally don't want to answer this question, but I do enjoy reading these stories no matter how weird and creepy they are.