Clooney Hires Psychic to Contact Dead Pet Pig
George Clooney has hired to psychic to help him contact his beloved potbellied pig Max, who died in 2006. George reportedly told a friend: “The psychic told me Max had a great life with me. He is very happy in spirit and still hangs out with me sometimes.
“I am not sure she was telling the truth but I do want to believe her.” The actor was left devastated after 300lb Max passed away at home while the actor was promoting his movie ‘The Good German’. Max, who had suffered from partial blindness and arthritis, had lived with George for 18 years and the pair often shared a bed. The 48-year-old hunk regularly took Max to interviews and photo shoots and joked it was his longest-running relationship.
How to reduce blushing
In what sounds like a rather unpleasant experience, participants who were given false feedback that they were blushing, subsequently blushed more and anticipated being negatively judged by the people they were conversing with. The finding could help explain why some shy people fall into a vicious of circle of fearing blushing, feeling that they are blushing more than they are, and ultimately fearing social situations because of it.
Warwick Castle’s Dungeon Attraction Freaks The Crap Out of You
In the first month since the dungeon opened, 15 people have fainted and another four have vomited, apparently due to fear. Visitors to the medieval dungeon are greeted by fake blood and life-size models of victims on the rack. Guides demonstrate how prisoners used to have their tongues ripped out.
Sue Kemp, general manager of Warwick Castle, said: “Our first month has certainly proved that the castle dungeon isn’t for the fainthearted or those of a delicate constitution.” An official commented: “If there are many more incidents like these then the dungeon will have to be toned down.”
Sorry if the blog goes quiet – were off there NOW!
WHAT IS THE QUACKOMETER ALL ABOUT?
The quackometer is a project based around the automation of debunking quack medicine on the web. The web is full of pages supporting dubious medical claims and inflated capabilities for cures. The freedom that the web gives us to express our views, entertain and do business also gives quacks a way to make a living by promoting nonsense treatments to unsuspecting people.
Spotting these web sites appears to be easy when you know what to look out for. If it is that easy, can the process be automated? The quackometer project intends to find out.
The Shady Agendas Behind Popular Conspiracy Theories
Barack Obama isn’t a natural born citizen of the United States and so legally cannot be president and while Governor of Arkansas, Bill and Hilary Clinton, was involved in a cocaine smuggling operation. Shady Jewish organizations secretly run the world. Fluoridated water is the first step of a Soviet plan to conquer America and global warming is a hoax being perpetrated by scientists to attract funding, and by undercover Socialists/Communists.
Scientists create “sonic” black hole
June 17, 2009 — A black hole created by Israeli scientists won’t destroy Earth, but it could make our planet just a little bit less noisy.
Using Bose-Einstein condensates, the scientistscreated a black hole for sound. The new research could help scientists learn more abouttrue black holes and help confirm the existence of as-yet to be discovered Hawking radiation.
“It’s like a black hole because waves get sucked in and can’t escape,” said Jeff Steinhauer, a scientist at the Israel Institute of Technology and the corresponding author of the article recently posted on the ArXiv.org pre-print Web page. “But in this case we use sound waves instead of light.”
Enigma Tickets Competition winner: Tatavska
We have a winner @Tatavska. It’s her husbands birthday and he dosen’t know yet!
Well done – check back Monday for a new competition.
Opening Night
In one of the many odd traditions of theatre, ‘Opening Night’ happened on the third night of the run. And it was an early start, to give the journalists time to write up their glowing doxologies after the event. It felt like a rather good night: full of pace, with some excellent volunteers on stage and a lively, enthusiastic audience. Plenty of members of the press found themselves catching the frisbees and heading up on stage too, which was fun. Sadly a few have printed spoilers in their reviews, despite my request not to, so be careful reading them if you’re coming to see the show and wish to enjoy it fully.
Guests at the party included Charlie Brooker and Reece Shearsmith, two recent faces on this blog. The ‘best dinner-party guest in history or the scariest man in Britain’ quote that my press persons used for some time and which sits on the front cover of ‘Tricks of the Mind’ was written by Charlie years ago, and I was finally able to thank him for it. And I was able to apologise for the fact that they’d replaced the third ‘balls-out con artist’ option with a discreet ‘…’, at least until I read as much in one of Charlie’s books and immediately had the missing section reinstated. So, job done. This was the first time I’d met him properly and he was delightful. Reece and I spoke about Psychoville, which I am desperate to see. We were discussing the option of me going over to his place and watching all seven episodes with him, back-to-back. Which we abandoned as only one of us would be able to see the screen. Doh! We may do that soon. It sounds like a wonderful afternoon to me.
I’m hugely under-slept at the moment, having missed much of the last couple of nights. I’m sat in town, trying to work on the book, but finding it hard to keep my eyes open. I shall sleep at the Adelphi this afternoon. I’ve just come from doing a brief TV interview with David Frost (I haven’t done any TV like that for years). There’s a man who loves people and famously carries about him a conspicuous, easy charm. I nearly fell asleep on his lap. And I’m waiting to meet a very lovely journalist from the New Yorker, Adam Green, who comes over to see the shows when they open. He’ll probably have to wake me.
I thought I should mention that the other night I was having dinner, upstairs from where I am now, in the same restaurant as both Noel Fielding AND Russ Abbot. How about that. What a thought. No, they weren’t sat together, but there you go. Both in the same restaurant. Imagine.
Enough celebrity gossip. If I find any nice pictures from the party I’ll put them up. Now I’m just going to close my eyes for a few moments. Ssshhhh….
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Scientist will attempt to blow up the moon
In an unprecedented scientific endeavor — and what may be one of the coolest space missions ever — NASA is preparing to fly a rocket booster into the moon, triggering a six-mile-high explosion that scientists hope will confirm the presence of water.
The four-month mission of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which will be directed from NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, is to discover whether water is frozen in the perpetual darkness of craters near the moon’s south pole. As a potential source of oxygen for life support and hydrogen for rocket fuel, that water would be a tremendous boost to NASA’s plans to restart human exploration of the moon.
But the launch is scheduled for Thursday at Cape Canaveral, Fla. It was delayed a day to allow repairs to the space shuttle.
Shuttle Endeavour must fly by this weekend. Otherwise the mission to deliver the final piece of the Japanese space station lab must wait until mid-July because of unfavorable sun angles that would heat up the shuttle. The moon mission — NASA’s first in a decade — must be launched by Saturday as well. Otherwise it will have to wait until the end of the month for another shot.
