TWS202: An Episode That Never Wasn’t

CQ: Whether it is the Occupy movement or the Thrive movement, many have been saying that the societal structure we’ve built up has gone wrong somewhere. What is one concrete, non-abstract, physical or philosophical way that each individual can change society as a whole?

On the show this week:

• Feedback
• Front Page
• Putting the ‘ODD’ in ‘crODDime’
• Texture: Terrestrial
• Extras

Full list of 50 articles after the jump!

• Feedback:
• Front Page:
  • Finally, the record is set crooked.: io9 – 10 Reasons Coffee is Both the Best and the Worst Beverage Ever Invented
  • At least this one they didn’t tart up with gold flakes..: Orange – World’s most expensive mince pie
  • You know it’s Christmas when..: The Huffington Post – Naked Santas Go For World Record In San Francisco
  • They were afraid of being associated with the celebration of humanity’s love.: DPA/The Local of Germany/bk – Repentant Catholics drop erotica publisher
  • I’m all for clever illusions, and vinyl covers for garage doors are clever.: Orange – A garage with a view
  • In all seriousness, you should really have seen this coming. In fact, “described video” already does exist, but is largely invisible to most people.: Orange – Cinema for the blind
  • A power struggle in the struggle for free power?: Pure Energy Systems News – ECat.com Launched by N. Europe Licensee
  • I’m still trying to digest this documentary.. Do we live in an age where the grandest conspiracy has really been created? In any case, getting people to be active in the local community can never be a bad thing..: The Thrive Movement – Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take?
• Putting the ‘ODD’ in ‘crODDime’:
  • Handwriting is still important! Yay!: The Huffington Post – Teller Can’t Read Bank Robber’s Note So He Walks Away Empty Handed
  • “One way the internet deals with that kind of upsetting dissonance is to mock it. ” — Xeni Jardin: Orange – Revenge on cop by Photoshop
  • When the absurdity of the fear-state meets the slapstick, bad things can happen — leaving no one laughing.: Metro – Pilot locks himself in toilet of New York flight and sparks terror alert
  • At least he knows when to use pepper spray, and when to not..: Newser – Seattle ‘Superhero’ Avoids Assault Charge
  • (EXTRA) And that, ladies in gentlemen, is a symptom of the stupidity and greediness of the common human that resulted in their downfall..: The Huffington Post – Mound Of Tires In South Carolina Visible From Space, Could Result In Jail Time (PHOTOS)
  • It could be worse: they didn’t shoot/taze/pepper spray him! (Sadly, that’s not entirely a joke..): The Huffington Post/AP – Man With Rubber Ax: Inducing Panic Charges Dropped Against Bill Morrison
  • The Dark Side of the Farce.: Reuters – Darth Vader claims land plot in Ukraine
  • I suspect that it’s as reasonable an answer as decoding the complex financial machinations..: The Belfast Telegraph – Former billionaire Sean Quinn’s downfall ’caused by fairies’
  • Faeries again! Or art-curses..: The UK Daily Mail – Councillor who tried to rid town of historic ‘cursing stone’ blamed for local disasters dies suddenly
  • I guess that breaks the record of “666 days without incident”, then..: The New York Times/AP – Lawsuit: Ga. Man Fired for Refusing to Wear ‘666’
  • My question: why does the prison have so many cigarrettes on hand? For trading?: Metro – Thieves break into prison to steal cigarettes worth ?8,000
  • (EXTRA) Were they at least being fed to live snakes afterward? Because that’s ok, right: feeding live mice to snakes?: The Huffington Post – Mouse-Stomping High-Heeled German Women Convicted For Perverse Video
  • (EXTRA) Some bad businesses just don’t stand up to scrutiny when under pressure…: The Huffington Post – Gary Winner Pleads Guilty In Erectile Pump Scam
  • A very heavy crime that will *never* sit well..: KATU.com/AP – Police: Fake doc injected cement in woman’s buttocks
  • (EXTRA) There’s so much irony here that it set off an alarm. Scary.: The Scotsman/The Edinburgh Evening News – Cop sues over fear of sirens
  • (EXTRA) Question: would we start handing fines to parents of babies whose baby talk sounds obscene?: The Huffington Post – ‘Cursing’ Baby Doll Upsets Parents
  • (EXTRA) Never underestimate the selective blindness of drivers with regard to signs..: Metro – Giant 30mph sign leaves drivers in no doubt what village speed limit is
• Texture: Terrestrial:
  • Also know as: “15 places Mark has to go before he dies”. Well, maybe except for the hair museum..: CNN – 15 of the world’s weirdest museums
  • But before you judge the article, just hear it out..: New Scientist – Bias rules the way we judge the world
  • (EXTRA) It’s not enough to track where you are going, so much as to track where you will likely be..: New Scientist – ‘Pre-social network’ finds you friends in your hang-outs
  • Is there a biological basis for being gay? Are people “born this way” or are they “made this way”? Neither, of course, but there are landmines on either side of the argument..: The Huffington Post – Jose Benitez, Peruvian Mayor, Fears Tap Water’s Minerals Will Turn Town Gay
  • (EXTRA) Well, wouldn’t it?: Orange – Noodle-cooking robots attract diners
  • It’s when they start talking about making it an “annual event” that things start to get “hinky”..: The Huffington Post – Yeti Evidence Falls Flat: Scientist Says Local Officials Staged Siberian Snowman Hunt For Publicity
  • (EXTRA) It’s like a stroll through the woods with a chance of phenomenal encounter.. And maybe Sasquatches.: Der Speigel – Hiking the Redwoods with California’s ‘Squatchers’
  • (EXTRA) It’s not that the lack of concrete evidence is so daunting, it’s that the small amounts of unresolved evidence are so anomolous..: Detroit Lakes Online – The hunt for the elusive Bigfoot
  • Indiana Jones is a documentary..: io9 – Triangle-Headed Alien Mummy discovered in Peru – we’re not alone!
  • Earthly body modification or extraterrestiral love child?: The UK Daily Mail – Is this an alien skull? Mystery of giant-headed mummy found in Peru
  • (EXTRA) We sometimes forget that life on this planet is remarkably *young*, and that other ways could have been going on for a lot longer..: Wired – Search for Alien Life Should Include Exotic Possibilities
  • (EXTRA) Exploring the strange life and society foreign to most of us: within SETI! 🙂: Space Daily – Civilizations beyond Earth: Extraterrestrial Life and Society
  • (EXTRA) The Japanese Atlantis?: The Epoch Times – Yonaguni: Mysterious Underwater Pyramid in Japan
  • (EXTRA) Tested on our closest dinosaur analogue, the chicken..: New Scientist – Watery secret of the dinosaur death pose
  • (EXTRA) It’s certainly a lot easier to understand than most religions..: io9 – Meet the Raelians: Inside the World’s Strangest – and Nicest – UFO Sex Clone Religion
  • (EXTRA) Wait.. does this mean the flooding was a bad thing?: Archeology News Network/AP – Depleted Texas lakes expose ghost towns, graves
  • (EXTRA) Proving that we’ll do almost anything for entertainment..: Gather – ‘Warriors of Goja’ Beat Each Other Bloody on Indian Talent Show! (Video)
  • Is this The Amityville Horror all over again?: This Is Kent/Cantebury Times – Herne Bay gran struggles to sleep because of groping ghost
  • As opposed to the US, where it’s often left out o fthe description..: CNN – Hong Kong’s hot market in ‘haunted’ houses
• Extras:
  • (EXTRA) Another dense discussion of philosophy impact.. that I need a week to decipher.: Intangible Materiality – Part One of Mass and Energy : Is Imagination A Palatable Physics Of Information?
  • (EXTRA) Wait.. is it “here” or “coming”?: Mysterious Universe – The Singularity is Here: Human Knowledge and the Coming Intelligence Explosion
  • (EXTRA) There’s probably some Heisenbergian restriction on this knowledge..: Archeology New Network – Date and Rate of Earth’s most extreme extinction event pinpointed
  • (EXTRA) I’ve been hoping that there would be an explanation for the Electric Universe for a while.. Turns out, they’ve been producing it, and I just forgot to look..: thunderbolts.info – Essential Guide to the EU (Electric Universe): About This Guide
  • (EXTRA) Where did the Electric Universe theory come from?: thunderbirds.info – Essential Guide to the EU — Introduction
  • (EXTRA) This is as far as I could get before I realized I needed more time to study the stars..: thunderbirds.org – Essential Guide to the EU — Chapter 1

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