Are UFOs actually the devil’s minions sent not from the stars above but the fires of hell below? Over a Fortean Times, Sheffield University folklorist David Clarke surveys this odd niche of ufology literature identifying ETs as demons or, if we’re lucky, angels. From the article:

“On the one hand there is a group of evangelicals – mainly Americans, such as Dr Billy Graham – who have said the UFO occupants may be angels sent by God to watch over us. The best-known exponent of this idea is the Presbyterian minister Rev Barry Downing, author of Flying Saucers and the Bible. Downing appears to be open minded about aliens as part of God’s creation and to look to the scriptures for evidence of early ET contacts. ”

At the opposite end of the spectrum are some members of the Christian Orthodox Church 1 who find it impossible to accept that there is any goodness in the elusive and contradictory nature of UFO behaviour. The most extreme expression of this view is that there can be no ETs because life on other planets is not mentioned in the Bible. It’s a point of view that leads its proponents to a further conclusion: if there are no aliens in the Bible and the UFO occupants aren’t angels, then UFOs can only be demonic in origin.

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Cha-Ching!

Luckily my Cholesterol is in check, however, I’m always on the lookout for nutritional supplements as alternatives to over the counter medicines. Here is a new product called Vascor, which claims to lower cholesterol by up to 20 points.

Thats pretty impressive. Especially since you supposedly only need to take it once a day and at just over $1/pill it’s still much cheaper than any OTC prescription.

Because they are.

Link to 30 days of Halloween Costumes

I told him 3 times to stop messing around with the laundry hamper.

Then shortly thereafter I heard him crying downstairs. When I went to see why this is what I saw.

And what was my first reaction? Grab the camera!

“The captain goes down with the ship, and when famed Bowery club CBGB closes Sunday night, it’ll be with a final send-off by Patti Smith. You can imagine how the cultural obits will read: CBGB, the scrappy and scraggly home of art-punk, dead of palpitating rent payments at 33. But the most sensible paean has already come via Smith’s guitarist Lenny Kaye. Doing some quick napkin math in the Village Voice, Kaye reckoned that at three bands a night, 365 days a year for more than 30 years, the club hosted somewhere around 50,000 bands and 200,000 musicians. Even allowing for repeat performances, that’s an army, mostly drawn from the ranks of the pretty good drummers, the not-so-bad bassists, and the promising guitarists you never hear of again. The club will always be connected to famous names like Smith, but its real glory was in nourishing the infinitely branching root system of the good to indifferent musicians—the schlubs, the schmucks, the shredders—that underlies any rock ecosystem. I know: I was one of them.”

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Johnny Ramone is rolling inhis grave, oh and PLEASE HILLY, don’t turn it into another “house of blues”.

Here is a new eBay listing tool that really simplifies the whole process of listing and selling something. It would be the perfect tool for elderly neophites (thats NOT a bad word!) who need an easy and quick way to sell things on eBay.

It features:
-A completely new AJAX enabled keyword search to help you find the right category.
-Unlimited free image hosting
-A partnership with Photobucket
-Templates that actually make your listing look good

They have been perfecting this tool for over 5 years and its all web based, which means it’ll work with my parents Mac!

So the guys over at MyHeritage.com have a neat free face recognition program where you upload a photo of yourself and it scans it’s database and show you matches that look like you. I did this and had a collage made to post below.

Now a couple of these I guess I can see a little resemblance, and the nod to Iron Maidens drummer Nicko Mcbrain is pretty cool. Hell, I don’t even mind the Madonna reference….But GW?

C’Mon?

I mean, throw a picture of a monkeys ass up there and I’d be less offended………oh wait………they did.

My bad.

Cha-Ching!

Wow, I’m not sure a financial expert would reccomend that you refinance a car loan considering the depreciation of a car plummets as soon as you drive it off the lot. However, the guys over at RateGenius.com have Auto Refinance plans to do just that.

I’ve bought several cars where I’ve felt taken advantage of by the smoth talking salesman shortly after walking out of the showroom, and this service would allow me to change that if I think I had been had. they also have very competitive initial rates if your shopping BEFORE you buy.

Kinda like a Geico for car loans. great idea!

This guy Jason over at calacanis.com (no I WON’T link it, wait, well ok, yeah I will) is spewing about PPP and how evil it is.
I guess thats his right to do so.

But Evil? Geeesh!

What’s with this trend of ill-informed Jackasses who are allowed to spew untrue slander without really understanding what they are talking about? I hear it all the time on conservative radio, and it seems to trickle down everywhere, including unfortunately the web.

I guess his biggest issue is the fact that most bloggers don’t disclose their paid posts from their non-paid posts. Big F’n deal! Oh and as you know if you read my blog – I DO DISCLOSE – AND I ONLY BLOG ABOUT THINGS I SUPPORT! I turn down opps all the time because it A: dosen’t interest me or B: Is shit!

I’m not gonna reccomend something if it’s shit.

Oh and how about the fact that there is a checkbox within PPP that allows you to send your post profit to a charity?

Blog Advertising!.Evil my ass. Bite me.

Well,

The Tigers proved again that good pitching will beat good hitting. But by the time they were done with the Yankees, they were better at just about everything.

The Tiger beat the Yankees in 4 games to win the 1st round. If anyone saw the game it was incredible. The team came out of the locker room with bottles of champaign and celebrated with the fans for the better part of 30 minutes – Unheard of – and defintately not something you would have seen in New York.

With all the million dollar contracts, doping scandals, and other blemishes on the game, it was nice to see the team humbly acknowledge the fortitude of the Tiger fans. Considering that the lions lost and are now 5-0.

Cha-Ching!

If you are a CAD design firm you know how valuable not only your actual CAD files are, but also the intellectual property contained in those files. Unfortunately those files are often available for people, including your competition, to view or even steal.

The guys over at Pinion Software have come up with a File Security that not only allows them to secure your CAD files but other files also. This allows you to set restrictions on how the recipient uses your file.

Cha-Ching!

Although much of todays healthcare and law practices are using digital media to record their contracts and information, most still have file cabintes full of paper information. In most cases manually converting these is time consuming and costly.

Finetooth.com has Contract Management Software that can not only automate the process, but give yiou a searchable database to properly mine the information you have.

Cha-Ching!

Hey sports fans! the guys over at AccSelect.com have live webcasts of all the ACC Sports you can’t get on television…Like Hockey!

Go watch Boston College kick some butts!

So now Republican Mark Foley has not only checked himself into rehab because he’s “an alchaholic” but he has also divulged that he is “gay” (duh!) and the latest, that he was sexually molested by a catholic clergy when he was a child.

Uy Yuh Yuy!

Our children should be safe in the US Congress….oh shit wait!
Our children should be safe in Church….oh shit wait!
Our children should be safe in School….oh shit wait!

Here is a NSFW dramatic recreation of Mark Foley’s instant message conversation with the 16 year old boy taken directly from the transcript – this guy is a real pervert.

Oh and Dennis Haster needs to go too.

Okay, let me preface this by asking NOT to send me emails about being racist.
This cracks me up because of the blatant un-PC nature of it.
Wonder Showzen pushes the limits sometimes and gets away with murder.
If anything, send yer hate mail to MTV for airing it.

Okay Here It Is

The Guys over at TechCrunch.com produced a podcast of the interview with PayPerPost.com’s Ted Murphy and Josh Stein.
Once again, their biased, condesending interviewing where on the verge of insulting. Why these guys hate PayPerPost so much is beyond me. I understand all the ethical reasons, but they fail to see that the bloggers are all individuals with alot of creativity and ideals. Most of the PPP bloggers, myself included, only blog about opportunities that we believe in or have tried out personally.

In his podcast, and elsewhere, Michael Arrington has sited that his one big dilema with PP is “if someone is taking money to write about a specific product or company or whatever, particulary if their not disclosing that they are taking money to do that, that this is unethical”

Hey Butt Munch, it happens everywhere.

And again, the people are smart enough to filter that information, and the bloggers are smart enough not to blog about it if they feel strongly about it.

Geesh!

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Oink lang syne? I’d like to think that this piggy speakers would have the chops for it. Available in either pink or white and able to snort at 2.1-channel output, I am all ready to bring this little pig home. Do the ham radio thing by tweaking its ears. And if it’s not squealing loud enough, well, feel free to give the tail a tug (volume control). Just don’t go telling animal welfare on us unless you fancy pork knuckles in your face.

Get yer own set for $12.99