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How the CIA Helped Disney Conquer Florida – The Daily Beast
Starting in the mid-1960s when Disney set out to establish the Disney World Theme Park, they were determined to get land at below market prices and Disney operatives engaged in a far-ranging...
View ArticleDid Admiral Byrd Fly Over the North Pole or Not? : Discovery News
On May 9, 1926, famed American explorer Richard Byrd took off from the Norwegian Arctic island of Spitsbergen along with his pilot, Floyd Bennett, in an attempt to be the first to fly to the North...
View ArticleInternet Archaeology: Behold the Most Hilarious Abandoned Websites |...
For every new website that goes up, there are some like these that get lost or forgotten – along with a sense of what online culture used to look like. We may have faster network speeds and better web...
View ArticleIs this the first ever web page? If not, CERN would like to know • The Register
Boffinry nerve-centre CERN has attempted to recreate the very first website to mark 20 years since the official launch of the World Wide Web. It is feared the first ever web page is lost to the sands...
View ArticleThe Shifting Perceptions of Ancient Culture – NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/arts/04iht-melikian04.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 How profound the attraction of ancient Greek culture was on the European establishment is revealed in a brilliant...
View ArticleThe Oatmeal’s Latest Fundraiser To Save The Tesla Tower – Forbes
Matthew Inman (perhaps better known as web comic creator The Oatmeal) has an ambitious fund-raising project up his sleeve—to save Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower. Wardenclyffe Tower is rich in history, a...
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Ruins of Maya City Discovered in Mexico | LiveScience
An entire Maya city full of pyramids and palatial complexes has been discovered in a remote jungle in southeastern Mexico, archaeologists report. Covered in thick vegetation, the ruins were found in...
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Voynich Manuscript, Undecipherable Book, Contains A Message And May Not Be A...
A mysterious manuscript written in a so-far indecipherable language, which some believe was fabricated centuries ago, may actually contain a message, according to a new analysis of the text. The...
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Adolf Hitler’s Los Angeles Nazi Empire Compound
It was built by the Silver Shirts, a sinister group of 1930s fascists who took their name from Hitler’s Brown Shirts grass roots organization. Fascism had been on the rise in the wake of the Great...
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Taking Back Transmedia
From The Eyeless Owl “Might we contrive one of those opportune falsehoods … so as by one noble lie to persuade if possible the rulers themselves, but failing that the rest of the city.” - Plato in The...
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Remember Attention Trust? An Idea Whose Time May Have Come Again
I was a member of the Attention Trust Consortium and had hopes that it would influence the then emerging “Social Media” world with it’s idea that a users attention data in fact belonged to them....
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The Mainstream Media Just Discovered Foucault and They’re All Wrong
With the “revelation” that the US National Security Agency is spying on millions of Americans for shits and giggles, liberals and conservatives alike are infuriated over the overstepping of executive...
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Kenneth Grant [DOWNLOAD]
Kenneth Grant (23 May 1924 – 15 January 2011) was an English ceremonial magician and prominent advocate of the Thelemite religion. A poet, novelist, and writer, with his wife Steffi Grant he founded...
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Far Out: Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Came from Outer Space
Ancient Egyptian beads found in a 5,000-year-old tomb were made from iron meteorites that fell to Earth from space, according to a new study. The beads, which are the oldest known iron artifacts in...
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A 50 Year Backward Glance
The summer of 1963, then, marked by graduation from the liturgical approach of loose, liberal Christianity to the crazy quilt Moorish Orthodox Church of America, my natural next home. An offshoot or...
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The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian
From January 2013 to March 2013 a working was performed in the Mojave desert, east of Los Angeles. This working was a continuation of a working that occurred in the same area during the same calendar...
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A nation of truthers
A new history of political paranoia argues that it’s a fundmental part of our national character “It was a paranoid time,” writes Jesse Walker after recounting an elaborate, half-forgotten conspiracy...
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Creating a PEAR Museum
Create a museum to preserve and display the experimental equipment from the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory. About the Project The purpose of this project is to create an...
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World Leaders Who Killed Their Lovers
The allegation that Kim Jong-un had an ex-lover killed has echoes in history. It’s good to be the king. It’s sometimes less good to be the king’s paramour. From England’s Henry VIII, who notoriously...
View ArticleMapped: Every Protest on the Planet Since 1979
From Cairo to Wall Street to the West Bank, plotting a world of upheaval. This is what data from a world in turmoil looks like. The Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) tracksnews...
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