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Answer to: What is it?

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I little while back we asked the question What is it?, well below is the answer to the question.

“Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving his time in Sing Sing prison in the late 1800s when guards found him dead in his cell. On his body they found seven regular straight pins whose heads measured the typical 47/1000ths of an inch or 1.17 millimeters in diameter. Under 500 magnification it was found that the tiny etchings seen on the heads of the pins were the words to The Lord’s prayer, which is 65 words and 254 letters long. Of the seven pins, six were silver and one was gold - the gold pin’s prayer was flawless and a true masterpiece. Schiller had spent the last 25 years of his life creating the pins, using a tool too small to be seen by the naked eye. It is estimated that it took 1,863 separate carving strokes to make it. Schiller went blind because of his artwork.”

So there you have it, that thing with 254 letters carved on it is the head of a pin. Pretty incredible.

Blackmore’s Night - The Times They Are a Changin

Video: Blackmore’s Night via YouTube

What an excellent version of Dylan’s famous song, The times they are a changin, different, but still good. If you like this version of the song by Blackmore’s Night maybe you like an earlier post with 2 beautiful Christmas songs by them, see them here Blackmore’s Night Christmas Songs.

Blackmore’s Night is a Renaissance-inspired folk rock band led by Ritchie Blackmore (of Deep Purple fame) and Candice Night. If you are interested in Blackmores Night, you can see their website at the link below.

Website: Blackmores Night

Fire Piston! DIY Diesel Lighter

Video: Metacafe

For the survival nuts, in the scheme of things I guess this could be a handy little tip… I on the other hand, always find basic physics somehow both interesting and reassuring.

Wind Cathedral Namibia 2005

Photo: Stumble via Paul Godard

Man mother nature throws up some strange things, mmm. Then I thought, wait a second, Namibia, isn’t that the place that Cheney and Co. said that Saddam was trying to buy Uranium form for his WMD’s?

They of course haven’t found the WMD’s yet… but the rhetorical question is, are they still looking? I mean they were absolutely sure Saddam was about to attack America with an Atomic bomb, and they used this unseen invoice; I guess it was an invoice or something like that, as part of their proof.

OK later, in regards to the Namibia link they said, Oops we made a mistake the document was forged. But the questions remains, what was the providence of the document referred to, where did they get this document from… or was it just found online and they thought ‘It must be true’?

You know it’s the little details like that that can do you in… and it would be interesting if someone would thoroughly investigate the providence of that document wouldn’t it. I bet CIA, NSA & MI6 won’t want to go there… curiouser and curiouser eh?

Healthy old lady

Website: Office-humour.co.uk

Komputer Tutor Infomercial

Komputer Tutor Infomercial Part 1

Video: YouTube

I remember these Komputer Tutor infomercials airing on TV in Australia, I think it was during 1991 that I first saw them. They seemed like they would be just what the average computer user would need to get themselves going in the world of computers.

POST CONTINUES see more of the Komputer Tutor Read more

Moon Landing: The truth about what really happened

Video: YouTube

So this is how the moon landing really happened. Finally the footage has been released for the public to see. I guess it is almost 40 years and about time that NASA showed us the truth. Who would have thought this was how it all panned out.

The first manned Moon landing in 1969

Video: NASA via YouTube

The United States achieved the first manned landing on the surface of the Earth’s Moon on the 20th July 1969. Neil Armstrong was the first human to step onto the moon, with those now famous words “One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind.”.

The Apollo 11 mission was manned by Neil Armstrong, Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin and Michael Collins, however only Armstrong and Aldrin proceeded to the moon, Collins remaining in orbit while the lunar module was landed. I would feel just a little ripped off if I was Michael, imagine going all the way to the Moon and having to stay in the command module and wait in orbit while the other 2 get to travel down to the moon.

The thing that I find amazing about the whole Moon landing thing is that I have more processing power and memory in my Sony Clie handheld PDA than the computers on the whole of the Apollo 11 spacecraft. It is just incredible what can be done with the will and the knowhow.

Website: Apollo 11 Moon landing

OH GOD!

Photo: Stumble

Now the church, a church which needs you to go to church, so they can lay a guilt trip on you about sex and get you to help pay off the billions of dollars of compensation, which they have had to pay off for their pedophiles; settled out of court with no disclosure clauses… did I miss something?

Now I’ll have to stay indoors every time there’s a thunderstorm… not because I’m scared that god will zap me, but because if I do get zapped they’d say it was because I am blasphemous.

Question: Why is it a him? Why is it White, I could understand a less white version (Jewish or Italian), but why white. And finally why would a god who’s all powerful want me to worship it… is it insecure or something?

Website: Roman Catholic sex abuse cases

Synchronized swimming done by… Goldfish!

Video: Daily Motion via Nuoto sincronizzato… I think.

Man I got to say Synchronized swimming should never have become an Olympic sport… but then neither should Taekwondo in my opinion, for various reasons, including some possibly slanderous reasons; related to a few individuals who control it which I wont go into here.

Anyway, enjoy the fish… and the observers obviously impressed too.

PS Don’t eat the green ones (Fish called Wanda).

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