Firday Freakout: Hart's Seafood Buffet

Haunting and eerie. Watch it all the way through to get seriously creeped out.

Firday Freakout: Alien Abduction

"WE'RE NOT GONNA HURT YOU!!!!!"

Firday Freakout: Cymatics

Father-son team Thomas J. and Stuart Mitchell have apparently used the awesome power of cymatics, plus the skills Stuart developed as an RAF code-breaker in WWII, to unlock a "secretly coded piece of music" hidden for 600 years in the stonework of wingnut-fave mystery site Rosslyn Chapel, of The DaVinci Code infamy.

Check this reel for some sweet cymatics goodness:


Here's the Mitchells' story as told to the Sunday Mail [link] plus... some bonus supa-old-school cymatics courtesy of Wavemasta Hans Jenny himself:

"What were medieval pie crusts like?"

Hello, friends. If by some chance you're not checking out the Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society on a semi-regular basis, you're missing out on semi-regular weirdness. And not just your run-of-the-mill Intenet wierdness, either, but classy weirdness and miscellany.

Today, thanks to the Proceedings, I learned a lot about how all those D&D wizards and warriors from the catapult days kept body and soul togther, and got the straight dope on the still-mysterious -- but certainly non-James-Bond-related -- origins of the noble broccoli.

So, what were medieval pie crusts like? I still have half an hour to kill before my next incredibly boring meeting, so let's find out!