Tue 24 Oct 2006
Dead By Dawn
Posted by anaglyph under Spooky
[12] Comments
… evidently not for the people (?) beating some kind of drum and chanting that I sometimes hear if I pass by late.
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Mon 23 Oct 2006
Soul Food?
Posted by anaglyph under Cats, Scary, Spooky
[9] Comments
Ever get that creepy kinda feeling that you’re being watched?
Mon 12 Jun 2006
Holy Toast!
Posted by anaglyph under Religion, Sister Veronica, Spooky, True Fiction
[11] Comments
It’s a miracle!
So, I was making toast in The Metropolis and when I took out the perfectly toasted slice, what did I see but an image of the Virgin praying! OMG!!!*
Oh, very well, yes, I admit, first of all I had stamped it with the Holy Toast Bread Stamp from ‘Fred’ so I wasn’t as surprised as all that.
But it does look good in the toast rack.
Now, what to spread on a piece of Virgin toast? Vegemite? Marmalade? Decisions, decisions.
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*Sister Veronica is helping me out with a few tips on making The Cow “really hot and ready to pa-a-a-r-t-y!!!“
Thanks go to Our Man in New York, Sarah, for the wonderful Holy Toast Stamp.
Thu 8 Jun 2006
The Numbers of the Beast
Posted by anaglyph under Spam Observations, Spooky, Technology
[5] Comments
Something very weird’s going on in cyberspace. I’ve been receiving a number of spams of the format:
Subject: 1545453
Date: 6 June 2006 6:33:59 PM
To: reverend@tetherdcow.com969
That’s it. No spiel, no links, no products, no attachments. I know other people have been receiving these too.
What’s going on?
Well, let’s Google ‘1545453’ (I’m doing this as I write). The first hit that turns up, after hits referring to the spam itself, is a link to the NCBI database – a Center for Disease Control abstract for an influenza vaccine demonstration.
Hmmm.
Let’s try ‘969’:
The first hit, strangely enough, is a Sydney radio station, Nova 969. Then some links from Wikipedia for the year 969 then… ooooo… what’s this…? Another scientific abstract from the NCBI database. This time, a profile of gene CD69 (Homo Sapiens). It appears to be a gene active in the immune system.
Did the hairs just go up on your arms…
Searching for ‘1545453′ and ‘conspiracy’ returns its first hit to a blog that has gone dead.
But the Google cache is still active.
Keith Graham traces the origination of the email to a server in Australia.
More news as it comes to hand.
If The Cow goes AWOL, start worrying.
Sun 4 Jun 2006
Don’t Take ’em for Granite
Posted by anaglyph under Art, Religion, Science, Spooky
[3] Comments
Another gargoyle from Sydney University (they’re made from sandstone, if you were wondering).
A few years back, two of the gargoyles from the university appeared for sale on eBay. The seller claimed that they had been legally removed due to superficial damage. I was skeptical but I bid on them anyway.
The reserve was not met and he removed the auction.
I like to think that not long after, the gargoyles came to life and devoured him.
Wed 24 May 2006
Nightmares in Stone
Posted by anaglyph under Art, Religion, Science, Spooky
[6] Comments
If I leave my house and head east, in about ten minutes of walking I come to the grounds of Sydney University. It’s a pretty big campus, but the best part by far is the old building that makes up the original uni.
It’s decorated with hundreds of stone gargoyles. I’ve photographed many of them, and I thought I might post a few of them here for you to see from time to time.
