Badger Posted September 16, 2018 Report Share Posted September 16, 2018 9 hours ago, Cygnia said: Man Dies in First Fatal Shark Attack in Massachusetts in More Than 80 Years Florence cause a sharknado? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 22 hours ago, Badger said: Florence cause a sharknado? The sharks are coming in to chow on seals on their way South. Kind of a dine and dash situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 No, this is what Florence is causing... Expert warns Florence floodwaters may carry venomous snakes into homes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 Evidence of 13,000-year-old beer found in Israeli cave Of course, this item is from the BBC. Cygnia and pinecone 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 27 minutes ago, Cygnia said: No, this is what Florence is causing... Expert warns Florence floodwaters may carry venomous snakes into homes SNAKENADOS!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Spiders blamed after broken siren played creepy nursery rhymes randomly at night to UK townsfolk https://boingboing.net/2018/09/17/spiders-blamed-after-broken-si.html/amp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Australia: if it isn't the spiders or snakes, it's the strawberries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 7 hours ago, Cygnia said: No, this is what Florence is causing... Expert warns Florence floodwaters may carry venomous snakes into homes Yeah, that tends to be the danger with floods in the area, especially with water moccasins (or that is what we call them in my area) Note: Luckily, I live on high ground, so we only got a puddle worth in the basement corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Woohoo, free snakes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 9 hours ago, Cancer said: Evidence of 13,000-year-old beer found in Israeli cave Of course, this item is from the BBC. You can tell it wasn't found in Britain...there's no way it would have lasted that long. Cancer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 7 hours ago, Old Man said: Woohoo, free snakes! ...on a floodplain. RDU Neil, Lord Liaden, BoloOfEarth and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 Student driver ends up in pool Cue 'carpool' jokes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 10 hours ago, Starlord said: Student driver ends up in pool Cue 'carpool' jokes For me, that loads a page humorously entitled "collectConsent" with the message, "Yahoo is now a part of Oath It looks as though your cookies are disabled. Please enable and try again." Funny, the only thing I'm blocking are cross-site cookies. MSN and Fox work, though. https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/c/student-driver-in-maryland-ends-up-in-swimming-pool/vp-BBNtFn6 *Oath is, of course, the creepy name of the holding company that Verizon created when they bought Yahoo! and slapped it together with the zombie remnants of AOL. Edit: I checked my cookies, and Yahoo had actually placed 4 of them. As expected, only third-party cookies are turned off in my browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Note that Oath bought Yahoo and promptly went through Yahoo users' mailboxes for sales tracking info. There's nothing you can do about whatever's in existing mailboxes, but users who don't want to be tracked should consider moving mail services to another provider--perhaps Apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Happily, I last used a yahoo address in the late 1990s, and e-commerce didn't really exist back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 7 hours ago, Ternaugh said: *Oath is, of course, the creepy name of the holding company that Verizon created when they bought Yahoo! and slapped it together with the zombie remnants of AOL. OATH--Organization for the Advancement of Total Harmony. Faux-religious outfit whose public line is that they want to help people find the path to "the harmony within" but privately their focus is on mind control techniques and emptying the bank accounts of its members. Feel free to steal that for your superhero/modern day campaigns. pinecone, DShomshak and BoloOfEarth 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 The planet Vulcan has been discovered Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Young Narwhal Adopted By Totally Chill Beluga Whale Pod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 You had one job...... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-45572275 tkdguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 On 9/17/2018 at 3:16 PM, Cancer said: Evidence of 13,000-year-old beer found in Israeli cave Of course, this item is from the BBC. I once entertained my son by explaining that Beer is the reason for civilisation. We need agriculture, to grow stuff for beer! Weneed storage devices, like pots for Beer! We need writing and math, to keep track of the beer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 On 9/17/2018 at 10:50 PM, Sociotard said: Australia: if it isn't the spiders or snakes, it's the strawberries. And they caught one kid. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/boy-arrested-in-australia-after-admitting-putting-needles-in-fruit-a3939811.html But there may be copycats, so some stores are doing their part by not selling needles https://www.businessinsider.com/australian-store-woolworths-stops-selling-needles-people-hiding-them-in-fruit-2018-9 Just tragic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 Wrongly imprisoned golf artist released after media publicity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 On 9/12/2018 at 9:23 PM, Cancer said: The newspaper item linked from the Popular Mechanics thing you posted mentions National Solar Observatory, though the picture in the PopMech thing is of a nearby but different place, Apache Point Observatory. I have been to APO several times over the last 20-plus years, and I was WSU's science rep on the APO governing board for the last three years they were members of the consortium. Nothing seems to have happened at APO: there's no disruptions noted in their night logs or other operating reports. NSO I do not know anywhere near as well, having been there only once and that as a tourist. It seems to be slowly being phased out of operation as its science gets shifted to better observing sites in Hawaii. (I haven't seen a clear, open declaration of that, but lots of functions have been moved out of New Mexico and the trend seems clear.) Roughly a year ago they closed their visitors center, apparently for good. What remains there at NSO might (I emphasize "might") include some classified military (most likely USAF) project; that has certainly happened before, and there is a half-century history of observatories making their telescopes available to secret detector/sensor development projects in exchange for some limited scientific use of the new, hot, and otherwise unavailable new tech. If this is the situation, and if the largely depopulated observatory had some unauthorized outsider get in after hours and end up in a place they should not be, then I can imagine the feds entering immediately and not wanting to talk about it. That would be my guess, but it is strictly a guess. I probably know people who know more, and maybe I can pass on more at some future time. Turns out my guess was wrong, and it is much more boring than anyone would guess. Turns out an employee was using the site's high-bandwidth internet connection to collect child porn. Sociotard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 On 9/19/2018 at 5:04 AM, Starlord said: The planet Vulcan has been discovered If I'm understanding the article correctly, it's even a desert planet with a higher surface gravity than Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 21, 2018 Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 On 9/19/2018 at 7:06 PM, pinecone said: I once entertained my son by explaining that Beer is the reason for civilisation. We need agriculture, to grow stuff for beer! Weneed storage devices, like pots for Beer! We need writing and math, to keep track of the beer! Many people who study the subject would say you're not that far off. In Sumerian cities, part of the workman's wage was paid in barley, with which he would brew beer.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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