A welcome distraction, apparently self-propagating like crop-circles, during the height of the pandemic in 2020 has returned, we learn via Damn Interesting, in a mirrored format in a mysterious monolith spotted in the desert of the state of Nevada in the American southwest. Authorities were similarly puzzled after encountering the original and we had forgotten how copies started cropping up shortly thereafter, with ones appearing on the Isle of Wight, Wales, Romania and California. Given the previous viral fascination, we wonder how much we’ve evolved from those apes at the beginning of 2001.
Wednesday 19 June 2024
orthostat (11. 640)
Tuesday 18 June 2024
9x9 (11. 636)
who is this imposter: AI ruins classic, static reaction memes with animation
๐ฅ: the bygone baguette boxes of French Polynesia—via Messy Nessy Chic
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crystal lake: the preponderance of 1980s horror movies set at summer camp
ball & chain: Nag on the Lake shares a special memory from Festival Express, the touring show of Monterey Pop, when the musicians came to Toronto
message in a bottle: the dozen times humans have tried to communicate with extra-terrestrial intelligences—see previously here, here and here
encarta: the short, happy reign of the multimedia CD-ROM as part of Fast Company’s 1994 Week—via Slashdot
casa bonita: a 1974 amusement park restaurant reopens under new management and with a monumental wait-list
surgeon general’s warning: US top doctor urges health notices for social media
synchronoptica
one year ago: an AI’s take on emoji (plus synchronoptica), assorted links worth revisiting, a human computer plus Adsense (2003)
five years ago: Sweden’s alcohol monopoly, the UK Carbon Brief plus more links to enjoy
six years ago: a Banksy gallery opens, first issue magazine covers, the War of 1812, a space slingshot, more links worth the revisit plus Trump and Merkel
seven years ago: the US withdrawal from the Paris Treaty plus even more links
nine years ago: tobacco introduced to the Old World, more links, Hocus Pocus plus the nobiliary particle
Sunday 5 May 2024
the santilli film (11. 541)
First screened to invited members of the press and UFO researchers on this day in 1995, packaged and
produced by various media outlets within months and broadcast world wide with several encores and iterations, the pseudo-documentary by British entrepreneur Ray Santilli, despite its poor quality, grainy black-and-white footage and overall incredulity, became a cultural phenomenon and garnering high-ratings, an amateur video likely subjected to as much public scrutiny and debate since the release of the Zapruder film, according to some monitoring the sensation. Purported to show the postmortem conducted on an extraterrestrial crew member found in the wreckage of the Roswell Incident, a military cameraman leaked the footage from 1947 to the producer and promoter. Ahead of a 2006 feature comedy (of the same name) lampooning the infamous hoax, Santilli recanted, admitting it was a fabrication though maintaining it was a “re-creation” inspired by true events and a lost tape. The home video itself was sold as an NFT in May 2021 with the physical master-copy apparently destroyed.
one year ago: assorted links worth revisiting plus a classic from The Stranglers
two years ago: more on defining the metre plus the 1984 EuroVision winner
three years ago: your daily demon: Buer, malingering on the metric system plus a modest proposal for solving resource scarcity from 1983
four years ago: Lusophone Culture Day, a view of the village, artist Howard Arkley, more on the unwritten rules of English plus a green office block in Dรผsseldorf
six years ago: the material properties of silk plus self-destructing emails
Thursday 2 May 2024
space cowboy (11. 529)
Before Star Wars or even the failed vision of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune—see also, a writer-director called Tony Foutz, who was also friends to the planned main cast, conceived of a sci-fi, fantasy project called Saturation 70, a retelling of Alice in Wonderland, in which a Victorian child falls through a wormhole and discovers himself in a dystopian Los Angeles after the climate collapse and his befriended by a group of time-travelling aliens to save the Earth from pollution—the extra-terrestrials are outfitted in hazmat suits against the toxic atmosphere, the title referencing the tolerance for carbon monoxide in blood.
To star the then five-year-old son of Rolling Stone Brian Jones, country singer Gram Parsons, Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas and Nudie Cohn, much of the principal footage had already been shot before funding fell through and the production called off, many scenes filmed without a permit during a 1969 convention of alien abductees at Giant Rock near Joshua Tree in the Mojave Desert. Douglas Trumbull who created the special effects for 2001 and later The Andromeda Strain was also involved. Aside from a brief showreel and a few stills, the film has been lost and regarded by cinephiles and Parsons’ fans as a rumour, nearly undocumented for nearly four decades, only a gallery showing in 2014 at London’s Horse Hospital but the story is being told in book form, featuring some never before published on-set photographs and scripts. More from Dangerous Minds at the link up above.
Monday 29 April 2024
7x7 (11. 522)
diddly doodly: a live action, 1950s version of The Simpsons in the works
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so your property has been banksyed—now what: conserving the artist’s murals and the difference between the studio and the street
unfrosted: Netflix’s Pop-Tarts movie from Jerry Seinfeld
the aethererius society: the London cab driver who became the voice of the Interplanetary Parliament in 1954
the complete mashography: DJ Earworm takes on Taylor Swift
anti-social network: Aaron Sorkin plans a sequel to the Facebook film, blaming the social media giant for the January Sixth Insurrection
synchronoptica
one year ago: the Roddenberry Archive, custom game cartridges plus the fired Florida principal gets to visit the David
two years ago: a Martian probe encounters the wreckage of an earlier mission plus viewing tectonic shifts
three years ago: International Dance Day with Colin’s Bear plus deepfake satellite imagery
four years ago: the evacuation of Saigon, the Golden Hat of Schifferstadt, daily constitutionals, zen toast plus assorted links to revisit
five years ago: the inspiration for Thanos’ power glove plus not taking God’s name in vain
catagories: ๐ข, ๐จ, ๐ฌ, ๐ถ, ๐ฅฃ, ๐ธ, networking and blogging, The Simpsons
Monday 15 April 2024
wunderzeichen (11. 490)
We quite enjoyed pursuing this collection of sixteenth century German woodcuts cataloguing ominous signs in the heavens, the unexplained and inexplicable occurring with enough frequency to create a carve-out—and still does—parallel to the nascent publishing industry for special bound editions of pamphlets and broadsheets circulated on the topic, “wonder books” as sort of a personal log to curate, update and hand down of the phenomena, preserving an otherwise ephemeral record of strange occurrences happening too often to otherwise commit to the historical record, sightings and encounters spurred on by sightings and sermonising speculation that was also propelled by the printing-press. Much more from Public Domain Review at the link up top.
Wednesday 6 March 2024
over the psychic radio (11. 403)
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one year ago: America’s Frozen Food Day plus assorted links to revisit
two years ago: more links to enjoy plus a LIFE parody in poor taste (1970)
three years ago: your daily demon: Seere, the Zapruder film, a Banksy mural plus more links worth the revisit
four years ago: the Pillar of the Boatmen, the winnowing oar plus negative reviews of the great outdoors
five years ago: hauntology, the Period Table (1869), even more links, the fashions of Edward Gorey plus Soviet home computers
Friday 5 January 2024
zoo hypothesis (11. 246)
Via tmn, the supposition of renowned astrophysicist Enrico Fermi (see previously, one of several observations, later expanded and championed by others, why we might appear to be alone in the Universe) that advanced extraterrestrial civilisations are keeping terrestrials in the dark about their existence and holding humans under a technological veil is gaining traction—especially in the light of seven decades on, how many exoplanents we have found that could harbour life. Perhaps, like Star Trek’s Prime Directive, there is a general consensus towards stewardship and insulating primitive cultures so not to influence their beliefs and outlook but it hardly seems like something that would be universally adhered to across the vast distances and time of space—though I guess it would only take one to throw a veil over us and any civilisation capable of exploring the Cosmos could surely do so under cloak, at least to us—but I suppose there could be glimpses and difference factions of aliens that think humans and their ilk would benefit and should be afforded a more inspiring and aspirational view (why let us see the stars at all and keep us happily content with our geocentric point of view). What do you think? I suspect the Great Silence is a combination of factors (see above) with intelligence out there being too alien for our comprehension, maybe that we are kept creatures and possibly too uninteresting to be bothered with.
Friday 15 December 2023
radio silence (11. 189)
Weird Universe points us to an event that took place in mid-August 1924 in the US that reminds us this other potential coordinated effort to make astronomical observations more successful and reminds how from the earliest days of the communication medium, forerunners like Guglielmo Marconi, Lord Kelvin and Nikola Tesla believed that radio transmissions could be exchanged with extraterrestrial civilisations, the existence of intelligent life on Mars being widely accepted. With the Red Planet approaching its closest point to the Earth for nearly eight decades, scientists at the Naval Observatory used a blimp to lift a “radio-camera” to an altitude of three kilometres and arranging with broadcasters along the eastern seaboard to observe an hourly five-minutes’ cessation of transmissions in order to eliminate interference from terrestrial sources and increase the chance of intercepting a message from Martians. Military cryptologists were on stand-by to decipher any alien signals.
synchronoptica
one year ago: assorted links to revisit plus Last Christmas
two years ago: Gingerbread Dreamhouses, artist Brad Holland plus more links to enjoy
three years ago: more links worth the revisit, Esperanto Day plus Trivial Pursuit
four years ago: more links, the Nobel banquet plus Lisztomania (1975)
five years ago: even more links, the mythos of Zermatism, Wort des Jahres plus early Home Office
Tuesday 21 November 2023
7x7 (11. 129)
last mile-problem: 2003 ad from a defunct automotive line lampooning the absurdity of cars—especially redesigning cities around them
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whistle-blower: ufologist who testified before the US Congress urges declassification of documents on alien technology for America to get ahead of the coming, catastrophic leak
whole heap of zing: new studies may have found the culprit in the phenomenon of the red wine headache
oculi mundi: a gorgeous and interactive collection of antique and ancient depictions of the world to peruse—via Maps Mania
keith number: seemingly recreational, rare and hard to find repetitive Fiboncci-like digits whose sum are a whole of its parts
the marshmallow test: famous experiments in psychology recreated in LEGO
synchronoptica
one year ago: an early exercise craze
two years ago: assorted links worth revisiting
three years ago: the Nurnberg Trials (1945), more links to enjoy, artist Magritte plus cardboard cat shrines
four years ago: more Words of the Year, a Trump appointee turns, Martha Gellhorn plus reforming Ukrainian exonyms
five years ago: the Mayflower Compact, more links to enjoy, a ram registry plus the backstory of an IKEA poster
Saturday 14 October 2023
foia, foil (11. 057)
Given that large language models are designed to guess the next word and fill in the gaps in strings of text, it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that ChapGPT has been enlisted to try to unredact partially declassified documents. Of course, it would be difficult to impossible to check the accuracy of the AI since that information has not been released. What is surprising, however, is that users seem to primarily if not exclusively using the these capabilities to read censored names and locations on documents from NASA on UFO sightings—not that that isn’t an exciting topic worthy of pursuit, at least it used to be, until congressional hearings that seemed to be directed by The History Channel (a rather low information operation posing as educational television) turned apparent government secrecy about the nature of unidentified aerial phenomena into a seminar for the aggrieved in general. I wonder what happens when someone takes on more consequential redactions and what that might mean for future disclosures.
synchronoptica
one year ago: Denmark plans a Synthetic Party led by an AI, the first rail route in Japan (1872), more radio calling cards plus a song from English Beat
two years ago: Faust (1926) plus the architecture of Hรฉlรจne Binet
three years ago: special meal requests plus more natic movements in plants
four years ago: nominees for Word of the Year, Germany’s Mushroom of the Year plus New York City through an AI lens
five years ago: the world’s first motion picture (1888), Apollo 7 transmits from the Moon (1968), The Watersons, The Bells of Rhymney plus diplomatic tensions between the US and Turkey
Sunday 17 September 2023
begleiten wir die orion und ihre besatzung bei ihrem patouillendienst am rande der unendlichkeit (11. 006)
Debuting on this day in 1966 on the West German public-service broadcaster ARD, nearly parallel to Gene Roddenbury’s Star Trek, Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion was the country’s first televised science fiction series set in not too distance future of a united, space-faring Earth following the voyages of a starship commander and crew who patrol the galaxy monitoring for threats. >Pointedly notorious for their defiance of superiors, the complement includes a officer of the GSD (Galakistcher Sicherheits-dienst) military intelligence service assigned to keep the Orion under check—and while the crew do not trust Lt Tamara Jagellovsk, over the arc of the seven episodes of the first and only season of the show, they ultimately develop feelings of respect for her—which is reciprocated by her omitting certain liberties taken in her mission reports to higher headquarters. Cyborgs (Roboter) are also prominently featured as guards and domestics but their use is shown to be problematic and prone to malfunction. Other fictional technologies include the Astroscheibe, which serves the same function as the view screen on the bridge of the Enterprise, Lichtweferbatterie—-photon-torpedos, รberlichtantrieb—Warp Drive, and while no transporter capabilities exist (famously improvised as a way to cut out the expense of depicting launch and landing scenes), the Orion often docks at deep-sea bases, modern and beautiful cities built underwater. The main antagonists were an extraterrestrial species referred to as Frogs. Despite the series’ short run, it quickly achieved cult-status with re-runs and novelisations continuing the story and limning out the characters. The entire run is available online with subtitles.
Tuesday 12 September 2023
it creeps and leaps, and glides and slides across the floor (10. 998)
Released in US theatres on this day in 1958 and billed as a double feature with the less memorable I Married a Monster from Outer Space, the science fiction horror film introducing Steve McQueen in his first leading role is premised on an amoeba like alien that arrives in a small Pennsylvania community via meteorite, growing larger as it incorporates living matter. Unable to kill the creature, they discover that chill paralyses it and rendering locomotion with pseudopodia impossible and the frozen Blob is airlifted to the North Pole—with the ominous pronouncement that they can stop the terror but not kill it, “as long as the Arctic stays cold.”
one year ago: the Chaos Computer Club (1981), medieval dog names plus the beach photos of Philip Barlow
two years ago: the Battle of Marathon, a sudden revelation plus more nearby abandoned places
three years ago: doom loops, traffic planning and civil engineering, Lascaux Cave rediscovered, flights to nowhere plus the invention of the written word
four years ago: Bonanza (1959) plus the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany (1990)
Friday 1 September 2023
8x8 (10. 977)
diyarbakฤฑr: archeologists discover a massive subterranean city under the Roman garrison at Zerzevan
aaro: the Pentagon launches a website to explore declassified information on unidentified anomalous phenomena, via Slashdot—also watch this instead
space for kitchen aerobics: the latest oversized monstrosity from McMansion Hell—previously
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queso de cabrales: a hunk of artisanal cheese from Asturias fetches a record-setting price—via Strange Company
a directory of wonderful things: an expert curated selection of weird and delightful corners of the internet
chatgop: a conservative media outlet may have interviewed an AI generated Donald Trump
colossus of constantine: plans to restore the monumental statue of the Roman emperor built as a triumph for his victory in the Battle of the Milvian Bridge
Saturday 19 August 2023
8x8 (10. 951)
egress: the oldest door in Britain, a side-entrance to Westminister Abbey—via Strange Company
hold on to my fur: another collaboration with the Kiffness—this time with a talkative orange cat from China
isokon estate: Lawn Road Flats housed those displaced by WWII and its share of espionage
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meow-practise: a limited-run series in the tradition of American day-time soap opera classics like General Hospital and All My Children but with a feline twist
countdown: both Russia and India have Moon missions next week with the goal of being the first to reach the lunar south pole—via Super Punch
no dark sarcasm in the classroom: impressively, researchers recreate Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” by analysing listeners’ brain scans but we wonder—like in the above duet—there isn’t an element of backmasking and suggestion—via Kottke
ingress: the oldest known cat door at Exeter Cathedra
synchroptica
one year ago: the daguerrotype process is gifted to the world (1839)
two years ago: the Ninety-Five Theses as an email, the Treaty of Rawalpindi (1919) plus the Lithuanian sun goddess
three years ago: the launch of Sputnik 2 (1960) plus the album cover art of Milton Glaser
four years ago: more Brexit omnishambles plus the Pan-European Picnic of 1989
five years ago: assorted links to revisit
Tuesday 8 August 2023
33 spaceships for another planet (10. 931)
Via friend of the blog Nag on the Lake, we thoroughly enjoyed contemplating these otherworldly compositions by Karla Knight that use schemata and alien glyphs to craft evoking something ancient and pictogrammatic. Check out Knight’s whole portfolio here and explore how her work is a study in evolving diagrams and flow-charts.
synchronoptica
one year ago: Nixon resigns (1974) plus assorted links to revisit
two years ago: your daily demon: Berlith plus another MST3K classic to enjoy
three years ago: motivational sessions for the long-distance runner, Xanadu (1980) plus a selection of LEGO user-interfaces
four years ago: Abbey Road (1969) plus more on the very American problem of gun violence
five years ago: more McMansion Hell, a World War I Allied advance, Trump brand asbestos plus more links worth the revisit
Saturday 5 August 2023
akte x (10. 926)
Our gratitude to the always interesting Maps Mania for referring us to the Anomaly Observatory has been documenting paranormal activity focused mainly on Berlin and environs since 2008 but monitoring the unexplained—from the mundane to the phenomenal—which deviates dangerously from the norm. Like with this instance with the map centred on this location on the Museuminsel recounting how one night last December a torrent of water washing away hundreds of exotic fish causing huge and disruptive flood appeared, nearly eliding over the fact that the source was the sudden and catastrophic explosion of a hotel aquarium, it is difficult to tell if it’s an earnest investigation or a facetious commentary on such endeavours but regardless wonderful weird and dedicated to urban mythos. More to explore at the links above.
synchronopitica
one year ago: Que Sera, Sera, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), assembling the globe by various demographic factors plus more city map generators
two years ago: assorted links to revisit, identifying the location of a sketch by Leonardo plus a Beatles single with an equally good b-side (1966)
three years ago: America tries to ban TikTok, the invention of telegraphy was first dismissed as a gimmick, more links to enjoy, an alternate ending to The Giving Tree plus the Portsmouth Sinfonia
four years ago: air traffic controls in the US strike (1981), the craze of purikura plus a look at the hodiernal verb tense
five years ago: a preview of Star Trek: Picard, a planned remake of 9-to-5 plus more links worth revisiting
Monday 3 July 2023
9x9 (10. 853)
lost animals: a short story by Geoff Manaugh who exorcises haunted houses with mundane equipment
clippit: discontinued Microsoft Office Assistant resurrected as a ChatGPT add-on—see previously
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all-domain anomaly resolution office: newspapers of record passed on the bombshell story of US government programme to reverse-engineer captured extraterrestrial technology—via Slashdot
i do not want my name to be a thing: John Hancock explains his outsized signature on the Declaration of Independence—see also
duty to bargain: Google joins Meta in pulling its headline aggregators from Canada over the so called “link tax”
not to put too fine a point on it: the origins of a selection of hackneyed idioms
the ganzfeld procedure: a cheap, easy and effective sensory-deprivation technique
short fiction: six-word sci-fi prompts
Saturday 10 June 2023
unified floating object (10. 798)
From Hyลryลซ-ki-shu’s “Archives of Castaways” of the late Edo period when the island nation’s isolationist policies and suspicions of foreigners was still prevailing, we learn about the strange, illustrated account of a fishing crew salvaging a mysterious saucer-shaped utsuro-bune (่่, a hollow vessel) off the eastern coast of Japan in 1803.
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Friday 19 May 2023
9x9 (10. 752)
x-date: unless a compromise is found to work with the statutory debt ceiling, the US could default on paying its bills and unleash chaos in global financial markets
the house of mouse: Disney is cancelling plans for a billion dollar Florida annex—and shuttering its immersive Star Wars experience resort hotel—in an ongoing feud with the state’s arch-conservative governor
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superimposition: researchers at the Zurich Institute of Technology create the world’s largest ‘Schrรถdinger’s Cat”
the great silence: we are probably not alone in the Universe but we might as well be—see previously
random access memory: previously unreleased tracks from retired duo Daft Punk
interior design: browser-based application to create and share voxel rooms, via Waxy—see previously
byte-dance: American state of Montana passes a ban of the social media platform TikTok over conflated fears of violations of users privacy
seat at the table: G7 summit hosted in Hiroshima—with nuclear deterrence on the agenda