Rosies Juke Joint Aired on Dec 13th, 2014

Posted on 2014-12-18 by Rosie Posted in Rosie's Juke Joint

Steve Strongman What I Believe
JW-Jones Coming After Me
Wailin’ Walker Drink Muddy Water
Devon Allman Back To You
Devon Allman Midnight Lake Michigan
Lisa Mills I Wish I was In Heaven Sitting Down
Jarekus Singleton Crime Scene
Jack Hadley Bye Bye Baby (Blues Is My Life)
Ruthie Foster Singing the Blues
Big Bill Morganfield Devil At My Door
Matt Minglewood Can’t You See
Slim Harpo Baby Scratch My Back

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New Comics Update for December 17

Posted on 2014-12-17 by MonsterMike Posted in Where Monsters Dwell

We’re postponing Episode 320 due to some uncooperative weather tonight. Rain, freezing rain, ice pellets and snow are all on the menu this evening – but hey, ’tis the season, right?

With that said, we DO have this week’s new comics day picks from our friends at Strange Adventures AND, if you’re tuning in at the usual time, we’ll be replaying a few episodes for your listening enjoyment here on wmdradio.com.

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Homemade Jams 2014-12-17

Posted on 2014-12-17 by Bondo Posted in Homemade Jams

Track Listing:
1.) Off Season – Princesse Lily

2.) Rufus Du Sol – Simplicity is Bliss (Sydney, Australia)

3.) Emotional Problems – Hurricane Arthur

4.) Brother Octopus – Honey (Edmonton, AB)

5.) Rich Aucoin – They Say Obey

6.) Before the War – Melody

7.) SoHo Ghetto – Man Down

8.) Mo Kenney – I Faked It

9.) Alert The Medic – Echo and Fade

10.) Grand Theft Bus – Gold Mine

11.) English Words – Bad Joke

12.) LEs Paiens – Cul-De-Chiac

13.) Mike Trask and the Precious Memories – Sadie

14.) David R. Elliott – Shadows

15.) The Stogies – What Have You Done? (For Rock n’ Roll Lately)

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Pardon My French – Episode 17

Posted on 2014-12-16 by JE Sheehy Posted in Pardon My French

Episode 17: Je continue à y croire… don’t stop beh-li-vehn

Playlist:

Dumas – Ne me dis pas

Balmoral – Pour une dernière fois

Midget – L’occident

Altesse – Les connexions

Il danse avec les genoux – Arachno-botanique

Le chemin de la honte – Francine Parrot

Robert Nelson – Dorothée

Alpha Wann – Steven Seagal

wilowamsgood – Les jeunes

David and the Woods – Feu follet

Le Havre – Nord-Sud

Marie Jo Thério – Bodily Deltas (Live)

Rosie Valland – Mets des pierres

La Féline – Ta main

Nimbes – Wezo

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Homemade Jams 2014-12-16

Posted on 2014-12-16 by Bondo Posted in Homemade Jams

Track Listing:

1.) Joel Plaskett – When I Have My Vision

2.) Adam Washburn – Dead Of Winter

3.) Stephen Lewis and Friends – A Little Shy

4.) Sills & Smith – Where You’ll Find It (Ottawa, ON)

5.) Josh Sangster – Tomorrow Never Comes

6.) Andy Brown – You Wear Me Out

7.) Rebekah Higgs – Shake It Off

8.) Merchandise – Telephone (Tampa, Florida)

9.) The Thymes – Cucaracha

10.) Grand Theft Bus – Don’t Treat Me Like That

11.) Molly Thomason – Silence Don’t Scare Me

12.) Tortue – Abe

13.) Little You Little Me – Yer Skin

14. )Kuato – The Great Upheaval

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Anything Goes 2014-12-16

Posted on 2014-12-16 by Bondo Posted in Anything Goes

Track Listing:

1.) Hey Rosetta! – Soft Offering (For the Oft Suffering)

2.) Jenn Grant ft. Buck 65 – Spades

3.) Swamp Thing ft. Ghettosocks and Wordburgular – Corinians

4.) Ben Stevenson – Ecstacy

5.) Ben Stevenson – Girls Like You

6.) Spain – Love At First Sight

7.) Ill Scarlett – Love is Strange

8.) And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead – Doomsday Book

9.) Hair Force One – Stay

10.) Telephone Explosion – Sane Bullet

11.) Second Culture – Samadhi Space

12.) Illuminated Minerva – The Peculiar Life and Death of Philip Schneider

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Something to do With Bats Episode 6

Posted on 2014-12-16 by Pieter Deurloo Posted in Something To Do With Bats

Tracklist:

Nitzer Ebb – Join in the Chant

Youth Code – To Burn Your World

Mild Peril – The Sentinel/The Bell

Displacer – Tarrasque

Daniel Lanois – Sioux Lookout

Jared Louche and the Aliens – Search and Destroy

AlterRed – A Different Face

The Birthday Massacre – Oceania

Slick Idiot – Blast

Haujobb – Demon

Rabbit Junk – IDONTGIVEAFUCK

Death Grips – Takyon (Death Yon)

Bella Morte – Regret

cEvin Key – bobs ShadoW

Lié – Rat River

Distorted Memory – Throwing Stones

3Teeth – Master of Decay

Die Form – Necrophilia

Delica – Snowing in Here

Roxette – The Look (Xenturion Prime Remix)

In Death it Ends – Veil of Clouded Verse

Vllhll – Pentagramophone [Dark Skies]

Wychdoktor – Walking the Crooked Epoch (Iszoloscope Remix)

Aaimon – Bruising

Sabled Sun – The Facility

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(Epic) Episode 66: Geek Gift Giving (Nutty Bites Crossover)

Posted on 2014-12-16 by Marc Cabot Posted in EPIC!

Epic and Nutty Bites talk about what you can get for that special geek in your life.

Hosts

Marc Cabot (@MarcCabot)
Joel Richard (@JoelARichard)
Andy McMullen (@AndyLastName)
Nuchtchas (@Nuchtchas, nimlas.org)
The Clockwork Doctor (@The_Clock_Doc)
Adam (@dr4physics)

Music

Matt Andersen – Alberta Gold
http://www.stubbyfingers.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Matt-Andersen/39153635945
http://www.twitter.com/matt_andersen
http://www.youtube.com/user/mattandersenmusic

Kyle Mischiek – Somethin’ Bout Summertime
http://music.cbc.ca/#!/artists/Kyle-Mischiek
https://www.facebook.com/Kylemischiekmusic
http://www.youtube.com/user/KyleMischiek
https://twitter.com/KyleMischiek
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/fallin-in-deep/id663075811

Show Notes

DHMO Facts: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

Hoodies and Coats: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/hoodies/?icpg=HP_Feature1_Apparel_hoodiesJackets

DHMO: http://dhmo.org/

8Bit Wreath: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e9fc/?pfm=Search&t=8%20bit%20wreath

Dr who sonic screwdriver remote: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008MYVNXO/?tag=059-20

Star wars history prints: http://thirteenthfloor.us/collections/prints/products/star-wars-bundle-4-prints

Corrections

If you noticed any issues with this episode and would like us to post a correction, email us here: epicchsr@gmail.com or tweet us at: @epicchsr

Credits

Produced in partnership with CHSR 97.9 FM in Fredericton, New Brunswick
Post Editing: Marc Cabot
Opening Sketch written by: Marc Cabot
Opening/Closing Music: ”Cheezee Lab” by Kevin MacLeod via Incompetech.com
Epic is published by CHSR Broadcasting Inc.
All views expressed on this program are solely those of the individual and not necessarily that of CHSR Broadcasting or Geekloo.

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Episode 320 – Flash Mid Season Review

Posted on 2014-12-15 by MonsterMike Posted in Where Monsters Dwell

This week on WMD Radio we welcome back Monster Mike as we talk about the The Flash mid-season finale. Mike has some big theories about who’s who and what’s what, and he’s going to tell us all about them.

We’ll also be talking about the Sons of Anarchy series finale, if Red Shirt hasn’t seen it yet, too bad for him.

Join us won’t you?

As always, we welcome you to participate in the show. You can post any questions or comments you may have in our Facebook group, on Twitter (@WMDRadio) or call us at 506-452-6056.

WMD Radio is brought to you by Strange Adventures and Club Fred Grafx.

WMD Radio gets it’s pop culture news from SciFi Mafia.

Homemade Jams 2014-12-15

Posted on 2014-12-15 by Bondo Posted in Homemade Jams

Track Listing:

1.) Old and Weird – Peachy Beachy

2.) Sloan – Losing California

3.) Hey Rosetta! – Kintsukuroi

4.) The Town Heroes – Cowboys and Indians

5.) Peter Forbes – My Love For You

6.) Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers – Beautiful

7.) Matt Minglewood – Runaway

8.) The Doug Boyer Band – Ready For The Wolf

9.) Kirby Sewell Band – The Devil’s In The Details (Calgary, AB)

10.) Grady Champion – Bootleg Whiskey (Mississippi, USA)

11.) Ermine – Glacier

12.) Before the War – Melody

13.) The Fourth Well – Apollo Olo

14.) Mike Bochoff – Lost In Transit

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The Lunchbox 2014-12-15: Cat Herding Day

Posted on 2014-12-15 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

Sometimes it feels like there are a million more things to do every day. Maybe it’s social media, maybe it’s the weather, maybe it’s just a way of modern life.

Whatever it is, it can feel like herding cats: an impossible task that you just do anyway, because you have to. Today’s a day to celebrate those that need to do it, day in and day out.

It’s also a Monday, which for many is an uphill climb to begin with…

We also celebrate one of the few symbols that all Canadians seem to agree with (even if they didn’t at the time): the modern Canadian flag.

Music today:

Close Talker described it perfectly: Slow Weather, from their album Flux.
And Hey Rosetta! gave us a vision behind the monitor with Neon Beyond from their album Second Sight.

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CHSR 97.9FM Top 30 Album Chart – December 5th – 13th

Posted on 2014-12-15 by Bondo Posted in Charting

CAFFEEN! Playlist for 2014-12-13: “Ocean Eleven’s”

Posted on 2014-12-15 by the Encaffeinated ONE Posted in CAFFEEN!

The world is covered in water. Deep water.

What lies beneath? We think we know, but do we, really?

What if you saw something, a fleeting glimpse, blurry, indistinct, huge, inexplicably menacing, unexplainable?

What if the official story didn’t ring true for you?

Moya by Godspeed You Black Emperor! from the album Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada.
Estuarine by Loscil from the album Endless Falls.
Silent Films by Mid Atlantic from the album The Great War.
Gusty Winds May Exist by Wild Domestic from the album Wild Domestic.
Defencelessness Is Their Defence by Oceanic from the album Origin.
Adult Male Beluga Whale by The Basement Paintings from the album Time Lapse City.

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The Crazy Train Episode #XXII

Posted on 2014-12-15 by Chris Waddell Posted in The Crazy Train

Episode 22! Steve ‘The Buzz Man” Dunnett was off sick for this show, leaving me to conduct the train solo!

We had some great tunes from Hero’s Last Rite, Super Destroyer, Greber, Hair Force 1 and much more

Hour II of the show had some requests including Led Zep, Death and Fozzy, whom I’d never really listened before, but really enjoyed the track, who knew a WWE Wrestler’s Metal band would be that good?

Next weekend is our Crazy Christmas Craptacular! Make sure you tune in to hear some of your LEAST favorite Christmas carols slashed, cut and redone in a very Merry Metal fashion! The first hour will be our regular fare of Indie Metal from across our Great Nation!

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TWS301: Caught In The Gravitational Pull Of Thought

Posted on 2014-12-13 by weirdshow@gmail.com (the Encaffeinated ONE) Posted in The WEIRD Show

On the show this week:

Front Page
Your Brain On Thugs
Extras

CQ: Will we ever eliminate the need for sleep? And should we?

This is the last planned, regular episode for this year, but there may be some bonus content in the next couple of weeks.

I’m planning another Redictions episode!

(Redictions = Ridiculous Predictions)

I’d love to have your Redictions for 2015 — and beyond!

Email them to: weirdshow [at] gmail [dot] com

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Join the Fans of The WEIRD Show on Facebook!

Or leave a comment here!

Full list of 19 articles after the jump!

Front Page:
- “Hello, person. I wish to know all about the inner you. Please describe your best non-visible qualities.”: Upworthy – A Kinda Snobby Question You Need To Stop Asking When You First Meet Someone
- Thoughts made manifest in skin and ink.: The Daily Grail – Everyday Magical Tattoos
- Let’s start somewhere, shall we, or we will succeed in going nowhere.: New Scientist – Don’t drop the two-degree climate target
- I like Great Order at a Distance. I’ll take a 15″ all meats, and make me One With Everything.: Epoch Times – Blackholes Align in ‘Spooky’ Way, Showing Great Order of Universe
- 1 part space, 2 parts time, stir and let sit forever.: red Orbit – Golden Ratio Also Relates To Space-Time And Biology
- A classified ad 10 million years in the making.: Craigslist – Geneticists Wanted
- A classic manifestation entirely cleaner than ectoplasm, but with a lifespan shorter than science.: HNGN – UFO’s Creation? Mysterious Strands Of ‘Alien Angel Hair’ Captured Falling From Sky In Portugal, Residents Baffled
- Clearly, this is why everything stays in Vegas.: International Business Times – US Military Has Been ‘Working Alongside’ Aliens Since The 50s, Claims Former US Air Force Serviceman: Extraterrestrial Beings Frequented Las Vegas Casinos-Report
Your Brain On Thugs:
- Turns out, what you take into the Matrix determines what you get out of it.: New Scientist – Personality affects maths-enhancing brain-zap method
- How do you think it got there in the first place? By accident?!? This ain’t science, ya know — no accidents here..: New Scientist – Menthol increases nicotine addiction by tweaking brain
- Can someone who makes a living deceiving people really be trusted? Or is this like the most trusted newsperson being a comedian?: The UK Telegraph – James Randi: debunking the king of the debunkers
- It’s okay; it happens to students, too.: The Atlantic – The Mysterious Vanishing Brains
- Mystery solved! If only the math were right, too.: The New York Times – University of Texas Says It Can Account for Missing Brain Specimens
- Is it all some vast conspiracy — or are we just expressing a steady-state pattern dynamically? Nature or nurture? Conspiracy or (lazy) humanity?: The Mind Unleashed – Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
- Soon, video games can play themselves — and enjoy them just as much!: Nintendo Life – AI Program Can Learn To Play Game Boy Games, Next Stop: The Subjugation Of Humanity
- The scientific method: Make a guess. Check your work. Repeat until someone else beats you to it.: Epoch Times – How Much of Scientific Discovery Is Dumb Luck? Coincidence? Intuition?
Extras:
- (EXTRA) “Giant” apparently doesn’t mean what you think it does..: New Scientist – ‘Giant’ fossil hints at the diversity of early primates
- (EXTRA) A lifetime spent searching for a hairy hominid.: Innisfall Province – Canada’s sasquatch experts search for truth
- (EXTRA) Did it swim to the island nation — or was it pushed?: Mysterious Universe – The Bigfoot of Japan

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RFYL Episode: TakeMeOffTheAir

Posted on 2014-12-12 by Matt Nightingale Posted in Run For Your Life!

Playlist:

TV On The Radio – Lazerray
Brody Dalle – Meet the Foetus / Oh The Joy
The Hot Wires (Louisville, KY) – Howling
Mokomokai / Public Animal split track from Bandcamp.
The Kills – Satellite
Hearts Under Fire – Knots
SpellBlast – Sign of the Unicorn
Psychostick – Choking Hazard
Beneath the Grid Music – Grim Dylan – Cyclone
the black frame spectacle – Neverborn
Sumo Cyco – We Ride

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Homemade Jams 2014-12-12

Posted on 2014-12-12 by Bondo Posted in Homemade Jams

Track Listing:

1.) Reagan’s Rayguns – Pizza Song

2.) Reagan’s Rayguns – 1,2, Go Punk Song

3.) Stegosaurus – Puma

4.) Green Lung Grinders – Pizza Lovers

5.) Single Mothers – Marbles (London, ON)

6.) Rancid – Raise Your Fist (Bay Area, USA)

7.) Learning – Burth

8.) The Motorleague – Burned in Effigy

9.) Burning Coast – Stranger

10.) Before the War – The Wreck

11.) Billie Dre & The Poor Boys – Gold Fang

12.) Hey Rosetta! – Soft Offering (For The Oft Suffering)

13.) The Olympic Symphonium – Flame

14.) Jenn Grant – Trailer Park ft. Sarah Harmer

15.) Michael Dalton – Seeds

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The Lunchbox Interview: Kelsey & Nicole of the UNB/STU Swing Dance Club

Posted on 2014-12-12 by encaf1 Posted in The Lunchbox

What’s it take for you to get up and really move?

Are you looking for an exercise which is really just a fun activity?

Swing dance is amazing. It’s energetic, fun and social. It’s a gas, man, a real jive mood. I had the chance to speak to Kelsey and Nicole, two of the members of the UNB/STU Swing Dance Club. First off, don’t be fooled: the Club is open to all people in the community, not just students. And second: it’s not about what you already know how to do, as much as you being willing to give it a whirl.

We talk about the dancing, the fun, how to jump in and the January Jive Swing Dance Masquerade event coming up in the new year.

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Against The Mat – December 10th, 2014

Posted on 2014-12-12 by AgainstTheMat Posted in Against The Mat!

We were back this week with our wins and fails, we covered the huge signing in UFC that was announced on this past weekend’s UFC event, went through our lists of best and worst gimmicks, and made our predictions for this Sunday’s Tables, Ladders, and Chairs (… and Stairs) event.

Download/Stream the latest episode or Subscribe to our podcast.

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(Epic) Episode 65: Tropes

Posted on 2014-12-11 by Marc Cabot Posted in EPIC!

We discuss some our worst and best TV and movie tropes.

Hosts

Marc Cabot (@MarcCabot)
Nuchtchas (@Nuchtchas, nimlas.org)
The Clockwork Doctor (@The_Clock_Doc)
Adam (@dr4physics)

Music

Seventh Stone: The World’s a Little FuNky
Sherman Downey + the Ambigous Case: The Sun In Your Eyes The right idea

Show Notes

Breaking Bad Alternate Ending
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/91034065]

Big Bang Theory Without the Laugh Track

Corrections

If you noticed any issues with this episode and would like us to post a correction, email us here: epicchsr@gmail.com or tweet us at: @epicchsr

Credits

Produced in partnership with CHSR 97.9 FM in Fredericton, New Brunswick
Post Editing: Marc Cabot
Opening Sketch written by: Marc Cabot
Opening/Closing Music: ”Cheezee Lab” by Kevin MacLeod via Incompetech.com
Epic is published by CHSR Broadcasting Inc.
All views expressed on this program are solely those of the individual and not necessarily that of CHSR Broadcasting or Geekloo.

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Homemade Jams 2014-12-10

Posted on 2014-12-10 by Bondo Posted in Homemade Jams

Track Listing:

1.) Before the War – The Wreck

2.) David, the White – Bleeding Out

3.) The Olympic Symphonium – Predictor

4.) Redwood Fields – Jacqueline

5.) Ross Neilsen – When My Trouble’s Gone (Shack Up Sessions)

6.) Pepper Tree – You’re My People

7.) Pepper Tree – Carry On

8.) Oh No, Theodore – You Can Do Better Than Me

9.) Tweedy – Where My Love (Chicago, USA)

10.) Ben Stevenson – Start Over (Edmonton, AB)

11.) Jon McKiel – New Tracy

12.) Cedric Noel – Baby Baby, Please

13.) Lisa LeBlanc – You Look Like Trouble (But I Guess I Do Too)

14.) Tomato Tomato – Toss It All Away

TWS300: Peak Depth

Posted on 2014-12-10 by weirdshow@gmail.com (the Encaffeinated ONE) Posted in The WEIRD Show

On the show this week:

Front Page
Body Of Work
Hi Lo Tech
Extras

CQ: Are we are in a temporary period of turmoil, with old patterns being transformed, augmented and disrupted by technology — or are we in the new “normal”, where the constant change is a permanent feature?

Full list of 20 articles after the jump!

Front Page:
- Sometimes ideas are more real that reality — and harder to kill.: Reuters – Wisconsin girl in Slenderman case still believes in him: lawyer
- Not every idea needs to be killed, does it?: Examiner – Image of Virgin Mary grows on tree in Iowa
Body Of Work:
- A classic tale in a new, old location.: Bigfoot Evidence – U.S. Soldier Spots Possible Bigfoot In Afghanistan
- They may be slow, but they’ve been after us for years!: New Scientist – First carnivorous-plant fossil is 40 million years old
- I wonder if they get cable with that?: BBC – Plants talk to each other using an internet of fungus
- We should recognize that symbiosis more often, rather than just spraying Raid!.: New Scientist – Armies of ants keep New York squeaky clean
- Yeah, but can’t an awkward hug just provoke weirdness in most people’s brains?: New Scientist – ‘Hug’ brain test could diagnose disorders like autism
- A blessing? Or a boy with lots of expectations?: The UK Daily Mail – Baby born with four arms and four legs has been dubbed God Boy by his parents because they say he looks like an Indian deity
- It would be weird to steal body parts, if they weren’t already being stored in a museum rather than a cemetary..: Bangkok Post – Bottled body parts stolen from Siriraj Museum
Hi Lo Tech:
- It’s like a sequel!: New Scientist – Hayabusa 2 probe begins journey to land on an asteroid
- We’re goin’ back to space, people!: New Scientist – I helped build Apollo and the shuttle – Orion is next
- (EXTRA) I can’t wait to see how they update the cow-catchers!: New Scientist – Locked-on lasers burn through leaves on train lines
- It’s the first step to Robot Jox. Yeah!: New Scientist – Cleaning bot operators get censored view of your home
- (EXTRA) Clearly, it was a cloaked quinjet, and S.H.I.E.L.D. was on the case.: The UK Daily Mail – Were mysterious bangs heard all over Britain and in New York caused by U.S. stealth jet?
- (EXTRA) It’s possibly the last time we’ll ever have film to give any strength of evidence.: Metro – New Area 51 alien autopsy image is “smoking gun”, researcher claims
Extras:
- (EXTRA) Sounds like a summer vacation..: Roadtrippers – Strange creatures, psychic spies, and “time-travel” experiments haunt America’s strangest state park
- (EXTRA) Clearly, it’s Santa’s summer home.: Siberian Times – Who built this Siberian summer palace? and why?
- (EXTRA) It’s not bad, but I think it’s a little derivative (of animals).: New Scientist – Shell ‘art’ made 300,000 years before humans evolved
- (EXTRA) And what did it have on it?: Atlas Obscura – Who Stole a Fragment of Georgia’s Esoteric Tablets?
- (EXTRA) Who were they trying to keep out?: Epoch Times – Buried in Time: The Great Wall of Texas Could Change History

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TWS299: Comet To Getcha!

Posted on 2014-12-09 by weirdshow@gmail.com (the Encaffeinated ONE) Posted in CHSR News Bulletin, The WEIRD Show

On the show this week:

Front Page
Out of This World
Not As It Seems
After Death
Extras

CQ: For space exploration, which should we work on first: completely autonomous robots or better ways to deliver humans?

Full list of 32 articles after the jump!

Front Page:
- Let’s just start here, and see if we can maintain the mood of rainbows..: National Geographic – Real-Life ‘Unicorn’ Found; Deer Has Extremely Rare Deformity
- Yup, it’s official: 2014 blew!: Orange – ‘Vape’ named word of the year for 2014
- We all know that they will destroy other baubles, and transform your tree into a wasteland..: Metro – Outrage after Nazi Christmas baubles are put up for sale on online marketplace
- Turns out: it’s a hole… lot more interesting.: Siberian Times – Exclusive new pictures INSIDE Siberian crater
- Turns out: it’s not a hole.. lot more interesting..: Orange – Optical illusion tattoo goes viral online
- Because they were math long before it was trendy..: Mic.com – The Mathematical Reason All Hipsters Look the Same
- All Your Newz Are Belong To Them?: Newstweek – Newstweek
- WHAT’S IN THE BOX?!?: Roadtrippers – A mysterious time capsule was just discovered at the Washington Monument
Out of This World:
- Look! More rainbows! Find more unicorns!: Digital Journal – Bizarre unidentified rainbow object spotted in Australian sky
- Rosetta: “Yo, Phil. You take a break. I got this.”: New Scientist – Philae lander sleeps but Rosetta mission lives on
- I’m amazed both by the fact that these conspiracy theories exist, and by the fact that they are really so booooring..: The UK Guardian – Philae comet lander alien “cover-up” conspiracy theories emerge
- A conspiracy so good, we can repeat it twice!: The Examiner – UFOs revealed? Rosetta comet mission is an ‘alien’ space structure, NASA coverup
- And I thought *I* was bad for squirrelling away stuff for later!: New Scientist – Hair-raising moon shot to cache your DNA — for cash
- We may not be able to store our stuff on the moon if it turns out to be a badly projected hologram.. : Anomolist/YouTube – Lunar Wave (Hologram?) Confirmed By Two Additional Videos Youtube
- And by “city”, they mean “art project”, and by “top secret” they mean “nobody locally who knew, cared, and nobody who might care, really knew”.: Roadtrippers – For 40 years, a top secret city has been quietly built near Area 51
- To find matter? Look to time. : New Scientist – Dark matter could be seen in GPS time glitches
Not As It Seems:
- (EXTRA) Can we be taught to fundamentally see the world differently? Maybe — for a little while, anyway.: New Scientist – People taught synaesthesia learn to read in colour
- (EXTRA) The first Andorian? A cyborg, anyway, who clearly intended to provoke attention-getting..: BBC – Neil Harbisson: The man who hears colour
- (EXTRA) I know it’s bad, but.. I really want to have that, because I’m *always* hungry and thirsty..: LiveScience – Mysterious Condition Makes Boy Never Feel Hungry or Thirsty
- (EXTRA) I still haven’t gotten a handle on /regular/ biology, so.. Probably not!: New Scientist – Are we ready for quantum biology?
- (EXTRA) … although all it really proves is that desynchronized mimicing robots are creepy, and I could probably have told you that from the beginning..: Wired – This Robot Makes People Experience a Ghostly Presence
- (EXTRA) Nothing like doing bad science by presuming a cause from an effect.. WRONG. Try again!: The UK Telegraph – Ghosts created by scientists in ‘disturbing’ lab experiment
- (EXTRA) And hey, we all know how that worked out in the movie, right? : Metro – Mammoths could live again after ‘Jurassic Park’ breakthrough
After Death:
- (EXTRA) Or at least, it might be discovered, if someone actually looked..: Ken and Sussex Courier – Mass grave discovered in Tunbridge Wells
- (EXTRA) Really, isn’t this just the science of the time? (They just had lousy peer-review..): The UK Independent – Witchmarks to protect King James I from evil found at Knole
- (EXTRA) Clearly, we aren’t quite over our superstitions..: CBS News – Woman burned alive in Paraguay after witchcraft accusation
- (EXTRA) Of course, some people call them “superstitions”, and others call them “religion”.. Some even call them “therapy”..: Vice – Denmark’s Only Exorcist Is Rather Busy
Extras:
- (EXTRA) A decent biographical summary of the trickster-skeptic.: NY Times – The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi
- (EXTRA) Because nostalgia has a price tag.: Orange – World’s worst video game fetches thousands
- (EXTRA) The squirrel is actually a pretty good cinematographer, but the script is a bit up and down..: Orange – Thieving squirrel helps make wildlife video
- (EXTRA) Can they add a part where there’s a fire-breathing dragon? Because then the story gets interesting again..: The UK Independent – Jesus ‘married Mary Magdalene and had children’, according to ancient manuscript
- (EXTRA) I was simultaneously disappointed that it was peddle- or gravity-poweredm, and thinking about making a suit with a backpack on it..: Orange – Daredevil reaches 207mph on a bicycle

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CAFFEEN! Playlist from 2014-12-06: “Impostraphe”

Posted on 2014-12-09 by the Encaffeinated ONE Posted in CAFFEEN!

Do you ever get the feeling that you are missing something?

That what you thought you read has elements that have been “disappeared”?

Have you ever wondered what happens to letters which have vanished —

— and been replaced by an apostrophe?

Trust me, it gets more sinister.

Join me, and explore the sinister world of that carnivorous punctuation.

It’s ne’er o’er!

Entr’acte by The Cinematic Orchestra from the album The Cinematic Orchestra presents In Motion #1.
ponta’c by Simon Guibord from the album ASPCT.
Le’espalace by Do Make Say Think from the album Do Make Say Think.
Pu’er by OneWay from the album (Princess Shook Head after Listening).
chet’s dream by Dogon from the album Notdunjusta.
Bye M’Friend, Goodbye by Maserati from the album Pyramid of the Sun (Bonus Track Version).

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TWS298: Hal-Con Part 2: Cosplay

Posted on 2014-12-09 by weirdshow@gmail.com (the Encaffeinated ONE) Posted in The WEIRD Show

This is the second collection of interviews conducted while at Hal-Con 2014 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This time, it features folks who are interested in becoming the characters they admire, at least for a little while: the costumers!

We all wear costumes. Some of them are thin veils (sweats & a t-shirt), others are deliberate masks (teachers, doctors, lawyers), others are more aspirational (best suit or dressfor an interview or first date, stylin’ chains & gold for the clubbin’ trip).

So, how are costumes at a convention different?

Well, the restrictions are pretty much gone. There are still basic elements of decency (it is a family convention, after all), but you can be outlandish and extreme. You can go for a perfect simulation of the target character, for something purely metaphorical which references the character, or for the range from completely original projection of a media product to something inspired by it.

I spoke with three different folks for this episode: Andrew Ollenbach of Halifax’s Jules Verse Phantastical Society, Luka the Faun, and Riddle the Semi-Pro Cosplayer.

Andrew Ollenbach was finely attired, dressed as a Steampunk Victorian undertaker. I asked around at the Steampunk exhibit in the artists hall at Hal-Con, and he was the guy to talk to. Andrew is a member of Halifax’s Jules Verne Phantastical Society and I believe a curator of the Steampunk exhibit currently on display at Halifax’s Museum of Natural History. We talked about aesthetics, philosophy and the many things that make up a Steampunk.

Luka had a detailed faun-human hybrid costume. I saw her walking around the artist’s exhibit, and couldn’t help but ask her about her costume, and where the ideas came from.

Finally, I have an interview with the enigmatic Riddle, one of the featured guests at the convention. We talked about how she got involved in cosplay, what drives her to do it, and the distinction between self-sustaining amateur and pro cosplayer.

Over all, the costumes I saw at Hal-Con were great! I’ve been to bigger conventions and smaller ones, and it never ceases to amaze me the amount of work that people put in to their costumes, and the amount of fun they have while doing it. I’m inspired to try a few things myself, but only time will tell to see if I’ve got what these people have: drive, passion and dedication!

Bonus: check out my full pictures of my interviews:

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