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Cepheus Flare Is Cosmic Halloween Treat.
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Check out this ghoultacular image of the Cepheus constellation. Nothing says Halloween like some cosmic ghost imagery. Well, perhaps women in clothing that would make their parents blush and teeth-rotting sugar time.
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iOS Game Helps Disabled Girl Get Operation Allowing Her To Walk. Future x Charity = Awesome.
Grace Windrum is a five-year old with cerebral palsy. Her parents needed £50,000 (I don’t know what that translates to in American Empire credits) for an operation that would allow her to walk with crutches for the first time. That’s where Big Ideas Digital came in.
Monday Morning Commute: The Eye of Samhain
Samhain is upon us! Let’s scream paeans at the top of our lungs and imbibe pumpkin-elixirs and hand out candy to the ghoulish younglings terrorizing our suburban sanctuaries! This is the day we reserve to celebrate autumnal bliss!
Unfortunately, Halloween falls on a Monday this year. Which is lame. But as always, we can ward off the malignant spirits of the workweek by paying tribute to the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE – this is the weekly post where I show you what I’ll be doing to entertain myself so as to survive five days of job-related drudgery. After you check out the treats in my pillowcase, hit up the comments section and share your own!
Let’s get to two-steppin’!
THIS WEEK ON The Walking Dead: Save the Last One
We start this week’s episode with a simple scene. Shane is shaving his head like it’s his first day in Leavenworth and he wants to suck up to the white supremacists. Its short, it’s concise and it sends a clear message; “This is where the episode will end up.” Then we are greeted with another voice over. Rick is telling Lori a story about how Shane was a pimp in high school and he got all the ladies. Great, he was O’Bannon, we get it, stop with the voice overs, you’re not Michael Westin. This episode dealt with more storylines than any previous ones, so there was a lot of jumping around. Because of that, this write up will also be jumping around, try to keep up.
FBI Considers Juggalos To Be National Threat. Fascist Pigs!
The Juggalos are a beautiful national blight that I’m glad exist. A reminder of the banal hyperreality consumer driven identification scheme we all partake in. The FBI? They’re not really feeling them. At all.
GameStop Selling Specialized Android Tables In 200 U.S. Stores. iCare?
Woof! Coming out of the box with a brutal pun. GameStop wants in on the handy-dandy-profit-candy that is mobile wandering gaming time. It’s been known that they were going to release a tablet, and now they’re doing a test run.
The Asteroid Lutetia Is Floating Reminder Of Our Solar System’s Birth.
The asteroid Lutetia is a “primitive body”, which means that the son of a bitch was around at the formation of our solar system. Lutetia is currently single, and despite her advanced age is still looking for love.
Fear Fest: Irrational Fears! Or, That Chair Wants To Kill You.
OCTOBER 30th, Irrational Fears
“I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.”
-Jeanette WInterson
Today we’re going to switch gears a bit. For the past month I’ve been picking one fear per day and running with that. Today we’ll quickly look at some irrational fears. I mean like the really weird fears … the kind that make you laugh. The kind of fears that when someone says they have it, you reply incredulously and probably lose a friendship. So, let’s dive right in.
OCTOBERFEAST – Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
[OCTOBERFEAST is the greatest celebration of the year, a revelry dedicated to pop-culture’s most nutritious Halloween detritus. Plastic screams and artificial sweeteners have never been more bountiful. In the old country, villagers refer to the extended party as Satan’s Snacktime]
If you ain’t ready for a snack on this penultimate day of the OCTOBERFEAST, then you haven’t been partying hard enough. But if you count yourself amongst the hordes of mischievous maniacs that’ve been on a month-long plastic-horror marathon, then you probably need some sustenance to get to Hallow’s Eve. If only just a handful of somethin’ or other.
Fortunately, today is the day for Heretical Confirmation known as Jack O’ Lantern carving. Yes, the day before Halloween is when many of the Feasters disembowel their pumpkins, recite the unholy words, and transform them into gourded sentries. While this rite is important in that it helps cast an orange glow over the conclusion of Satan’s Snacktime, it also yields a most appetizing byproduct.
Pumpkin seeds.
It’s hard to find a treat as intrinsically connected to the OCTOBERFEAST as roasted pumpkin seeds. Sure, apple pies and pumpkin pies and candy all certainly play their respective parts, but they also periodically pop up at other times of the year. But roasted pumpkin seeds? When was the last time you snacked on some of those sonovabitches at Christmas? Most likely, never. Which is a damn shame, because they’re crunchy and salty and fun as junk to make.
Tomorrow’s the day we’ve all been waiting for. Samhain. Hallow’s Eve. The Big Orange and Black Dance. Make sure that you’ve got enough energy to last through its day and night. So just as marathoners gorge on pasta the night before their twenty-six plus, make sure you chomp on pumpkin seeds until they stab your gums and make `em bleed.
Need a recipe? Look no further!
Artificial Blood Made From Bone Marrow Stem Cells? Science: Awesome.
Researches are working on a technique that could created artificial red blood cells from bone marrow stem cells. This is a good thing, because the Forthcoming Vampire Robot Economic Apocalypse will demand that we have food for the vampires, blood to sell, and spare juice for the wounded body parts.
