PSoTD

Anyone else's "hoax sense" flare up with this story?

Irish archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction worker who spotted something while driving the shovel of his backhoe into a bog.

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"This is really a miracle find," said Pat Wallace, director of the National Museum of Ireland, which has the book stored in refrigeration and facing years of painstaking analysis before being put on public display.

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The book was found open to a page describing, in Latin script, Psalm 83, in which God hears complaints of other nations' attempts to wipe out the name of Israel.

People who took an illegal drug made from mushrooms reported profound mystical experiences that led to behavior changes lasting for weeks — all part of an experiment that recalls the psychedelic '60s.

Many of the 36 volunteers rated their reaction to a single dose of the drug, called psilocybin, as one of the most meaningful or spiritually significant experiences of their lives. Some compared it to the birth of a child or the death of a parent.

There's a reason they were called "magic".

I'm not one for posting Flickr photos here, but this one from our recent trip to Idaho just turned out too well to not post. Sorry...

My second year of college there were four of us sharing an apartment across the river from Cal State University, Sacramento. We had a tiny deck and a sliding glass door to the deck. Being guys, we left the sliding glass door open a lot in the spring, going back and forth to the deck for various reasons. Eventually, bugs came in.

One day I saw this gigantic fly buzzing around the room, and when it landed on the glass door, I rolled up a magazine and whacked it dead on. Squished it all over the magazine and the glass door. I was already pretty disgusted, and went to throw the magazine in the trash and get a paper towel to clean up the dead fly. It couldn't have been more than 30 seconds when I returned, but it was very disgusting what I found - dozens and dozens and dozens - maybe hundreds - of tiny white maggots crawling away from the fly guts. It just about made me hurl right then. I cleaned it up and sprayed about a whole can of Lysol all over that window, I was so grossed out.

To this day, it's very difficult for me to eat if there are flies around. I'm VERY attentive to make sure no flies land on my food, and if they do, I won't touch that food again.

The History of The Bikini. (Would you believe it is 60 years old?)

This would make an interesting movie.