A Drone Over Chernobyl

Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl by Danny Cooke who earlier this year had the opportunity to visit Chernobyl whilst working for CBS News on a '60 Minutes' episode which aired on Nov. 23, 2014. Bob Simon is the correspondent. Michael Gavshon and David Levine, producers.

quote [Chernobyl is one of the most interesting and dangerous places I've been. The nuclear disaster, which happened in 1986 (the year after I was born), had an effect on so many people, including my family when we lived in Italy. The nuclear dust clouds swept westward towards us. The Italian police went round and threw away all the local produce and my mother rushed out to purchase as much tinned milk as possible to feed me, her infant son. It caused so much distress hundreds of miles away, so I can't imagine how terrifying it would have been for the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens who were forced to evacuate. During my stay, I met so many amazing people, one of whom was my guide Yevgen, also known as a 'Stalker'. We spent the week together exploring Chernobyl and the nearby abandoned city of Pripyat. There was something serene, yet highly disturbing about this place. Time has stood still and there are memories of past happenings floating around us. Armed with a camera and a dosimeter geiger counter I explored...].

The mistery of Numbers station

A numbers station is a type of shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often created by artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, letters, tunes or Morse code. They are transmitted in a wide variety of languages and the voices are usually female, although sometimes men's or children's voices are used.... more and more.

The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations.

And also... How to Listen to Real Spy Broadcasts Right Now.

According to the notes of The Conet Project, which has compiled recordings of these transmissions, numbers stations have been reported since World War I. If accurate, this would count numbers stations among the earliest radio broadcasts. It has long been speculated, and was argued in court in one case, that these stations operate as a simple and foolproof method for government agencies to communicate with spies working undercover. According to this theory, the messages are encrypted with a one-time pad, to avoid any risk of decryption by the enemy. As evidence, numbers stations have changed details of their broadcasts or produced special, nonscheduled broadcasts coincident with extraordinary political events, such as the August Coup of 1991 in the Soviet Union.

Plastic guns made by 3D printers

I'm not a Second Amendment Supporters but this site called DEFCAD is quite stunning!! DEFCAD is officially the anti-MakerBot, a 3D-printing gun site where you'll learn how build a real plastic gun.

Superheroes in history by Agan Harahap

For his Super Hero series, Agan Harahap inserts the likes of Superman, Batman, and Darth Vader into historical photos.
[Previously on ...superheroes]

48 Minutes of Itchy and Scratchy

quote [I love The Simpsons and I love Itchy and Scratchy so I made this because I know there are alot of hardcore fans like me out there :P. Enjoy!!!].
[Previously on ...The Simpsons at Unscathed Corpse]

Insect army by Job van der Molen

Dutch artist Job van der Molen has created his own personal infantry, made up of the toughest soldiers around - insects. Try Insect Army.

Playing Civilization II for 10 years

I've been playing the same game of Civilization II for 10 years. Though long outdated, I grew fascinated with this particular game because by the time Civ III was released, I was already well into the distant future. I then thought that it might be interesting to see just how far into the future I could get and see what the ramifications would be. Naturally I play other games and have a life, but I often return to this game when I'm not doing anything and carry on. The results are as follows:
- The world is a hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation.
- There are 3 remaining super nations in the year 3991 A.D, each competing for the scant resources left on the planet after dozens of nuclear wars have rendered vast swaths of the world uninhabitable wastelands.

Illuminati Countdown (updated)

On November 28 I blogged about the strange illuminati countdown to December 7. Well ...it was 3 days ago but everything in the world seems the same, no strange creatures, not end of the world. There's a video @youtube with the last minute of the countdown. It was probably a weird joke, but now there's more. Now we have a new countdown!

Right now the website www.illuminati.org doesn't work. Instead at 7december.org there's a new countdown to January 7 (Control+A or highlight the page to see it), a candle in the address bar and new strange message:

FIRST CASTLE HAS FALLEN!
Darkness is knocking the door!... We are still sleeping!? Final countdown is in progress. We still have the power to defeat the darkness, otherwise "brothers of the cosmos" will reborn. The last candle is dying. Only the illuminated ones will understand the last secret!
_ v _ _ t _ _ s _ _ i _ _ _ m
f _ _ a _ _ n _ _ _ _ _ _ i _ _ _ _

There's a new puzzle and if you right click with the mouse you get the url of brothersofthecosmos.org with the same content.

Now browsing on the net i realized that someone solved that puzzle. It's: "aviators of islam, fly among illuminati" and backwards it's "machines outlive Machiavelian Sharif".

No clue about "Machiavelian Sharif" ... but even more disturbing... Islam? I browsed "Islam" and "January 7" and: "If this is Islam, and if the date ends on January 7th (UT) there is far more meaning in this countdown then we are giving credit for. January 7th marks the begining of the final 20 weeks of Mankind's self rule (half a time), that day marks the beginnig of the most devistating period of Earth's history ending on May 27th 2012".

..and browsing more for "brothers of cosmos" i found a really disturbing video at youtube related to the well know NASA Project Blue Beam and Serge Monast ...in 1994, he published Project Blue Beam (NASA), in which he detailed his claim that NASA, with the help of the United Nations, was attempting to implement a New Age religion with the Antichrist at its head and start a New World Order, via a technologically simulated Second Coming of Christ.

Well... what now? I probably have to stop browsing wasting my time... Anyway i'll wait again to see what will be on January 7 2012.

Illuminati: Countdown to December 7

It's a joke? ...a mistery? ...a viral marketing? ...a conspiracy? ....but if you go to Illuminati.org website, you will discover a black page...
Now highlight the page text (its black on a black background) or simply use Ctrl+A you will notice a countdown timer on the top. The date to zero is 6th of December 2011.
What now? If you change the date in your computer to December 8th, the countdown timer gets to zero and will be displayed "Sorry, you are too late". Now if you press Ctrl+U (control u...) you get your ip and localization.
But what is it counting down to? ...and late for what? I know this could very easily just be a hoax... but looking on wikipedia about Illuminati i found: "In more modern contexts the name refers to a purported conspiratorial organization which is alleged to mastermind events and control world affairs through governments and corporations to establish a New World Order. In this context the Illuminati are usually represented as a modern version or continuation of the Bavarian Illuminati".

Now looking for illuminati.org at whois you get:
Domain Name:ILLUMINATI.ORG
Created On:21-Apr-1995 04:00:00 UTC
Last Updated On:17-Nov-2007 07:17:57 UTC
Expiration Date:22-Apr-2012 04:00:00 UTC
Created on 95, updated on 2007 and expires on 22 April 2012,
Registrant Name:Ancient Order of Bavarian Seers
Registrant Organization:Ancient Order of Bavarian Seers

I went to Archive.org and i asked for an archived version of illuminati.org, but not helped too much.
So... let's wait for December 7, but what does this date represent? On the net i discovered that will be the 70 year anniversary of Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941).

But there's more! There's a website also for 7december.org, black of course, and if you press Ctrl+A or highlight the page, you get "WAKE UP HUMAN RACE. All of us are the brothers and the sisters. We have the power to finish all of the wars and the darkness. If we do not wake up, we will be too late and the darkness will arise..." and again the countdown!!!
And with the right mouse button "WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE OUR DESTINY".

Even more disturbing the website illuminatiorder.info, full of backwards texts "What speaks with one voice, yet walks on four feet in the morning, two feet at noon, and three feet in the evening?" (...and password protected), poems (...black page, ctrl+a again) and strange languages...look at the last address ...itanimulli?? Oh yes illuminati backward...
And what if you type itanimulli.org? Try it yourself!

Cats in Tanks

quote [The Whitehouse editors present you with a fine specimen of Friday Films – watch what happens when cats commandeer tanks. Watch and learn and prepare for the Catocalypse].
[Previously on... cats at Unscathed Corpse]

Windows 68

quote [Windows 68 is a modification of Windows XP that starts a revolutionary in the system. Press Revolution! instead of Start, use Graffiti instead of Paint!].

Ghosts of WWII

quote [Russian photographer (and Photoshopper) Sergey Larenkov merges WWII-era photos with contemporary shots of identical locations in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Leningrad, and other European cities, to haunting effect. Many entries filled with images in sets organized by city at his livejournal].
(via Boing Boing)

M.I.A: Born Free

quote [M.I.A. “Born Free” music video. Directed by Romain Gavras. Warning, somewhat NSFW and disturbing for violence].

Naked Ladies With Swords

quote [...the world is ready for a blog devoted specifically to this subject: Naked Ladies With Swords].

The dog that hasn’t missed a single riot

LINK quote [There has been lots of riots and protests from both anarchists and workers in Athens, Greece specially the past few years. One interesting thing is that there is one dog that is spotted at these riots from 2008 till today].

Board war games from 1830 to 1941

Pictures of games that German children played during World War II and games that Russian children were playing in the 20-30th years. Board games 1830 - 1930.

The Mafia Game

LINK quote [Mafia is a game of deception. Every person is assigned a role at the start of the game. You are randomly sided with either the village or the mafia. During the night, the mafia players secretly kill one person. During the day, the village players must figure out who is the mafia and bring them to justice! You will play as either mafia, villager or somebody else! Your goal is to converse with other players and advance toward your own goals. Your skills in persuasion and lying will determine the course of the game].

Jean Fumeres Artwork

LINK Hope this will not give you nightmares, but have a look to the "disturbing" work of the spanish artist Jean Fumeres.

Comic Europe Map

I found a really strange map of Europe via StuffAZ. It's probably a parody map realized during the First World War.
[Thanks to Vladimir for Full Size].

Iconic Moments of the 20th Century

LINK quote [Art collective Henry VIII's Wives restaged historic photographs with elderly volunteers as the models. All of the models in the series, titled "Iconic Moments of the Twentieth Century," live in a home for the elderly in Glasgow].
(via Boing Boing)