Entries tagged: conspiracy

US15 Million will be deposited in your account

Recently I have been inundated with scam-spam offering me millions of dollars if only I help someone unlikely steal an even larger amount of money for themselves.

An overview of the Inclusive Holiday

The Inclusive Holiday is a mixed media work begun in 1996, and still continuing. It is based, in large part, on the gnostic writings of Philip K Dick and Dave “Dave Cutlass” Cutlass, the importance of whose work is largely overlooked. What is presented here is a schematic outline of the main narrative thread of the piece.

BugMeNot – disposable email

Yesterday I found BugMeNot, which provides a very simple and potentially very useful service.

Cold Reading

How do psychics work? How do they manage to convince people that they are receiving messages from “the other side”, from loved ones who wish to communicate or console?

Heretics and mega prims

There are two controversies currently causing apoplexy and distress in Second Life. The lesser controversy concerns so-called mega-prims, which are now available for sale or for free. But should they be?

Heretics and superstition

More than fifty shops have closed in Second Life as a result of the copybot and the fact that “Linden Labs are doing nothing about it”. I found this discussion at Pixel Pinup. I found at least three aspects worrying…

Hidden Mysteries: a source of, erm, stuff

It has been a long time since I have had time to delve into the area of online conspiracies. Today, as part of the final research for my Memi thesis, though, I looked at some of the articles at Hidden Mysteries.

Innocent bystanders, or what?

People who happen to be in the right place at the right time and thus find themselves carrying out a burdensome task that will prove to be bafflingly rewarding.

LOLCat and birthdays

I discovered that there is a project to translate the complete bible (both old and new testaments) into LOLCat, a kind of made up gibbersih with a cat-like flavour.

Pirate Bay, Sealand and Ladonia

According to The Register the Pirate Bay is making moves to raise sixty five million pounds to buy Sealand, the independent fortress off the British coast.

Robert Anton Wilson dies

Today I learned that Robert Anton Wilson had finally died after a long illness brought on by his childhood polio

The Beatles never broke up!

I found a website yesterday which claims that in another dimensions the Beatles never broke up. It has been started by a man who wishes to be known as “James Richards” for the moment.

The problem of authorship & authenticity

In his column in today’s Guardian, Marcel Berlins wrote that he had just discovered that “one of my favourite endings, to one of my all-time favourite short stories, written by my second favourite short-story writer ever, had not been written by him at all”.

What do we want? Decent rap!

Apparently there is a growing movement to clean up rap. Apparently there has been a march today in which numbers of people, including the Reverend Al Sharpton, marched from one place to another to demand that bitches, hoes and n*ggers be referred to more politely in future.