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The National UFO Reporting Center, of all things, now is located on a former missile base.
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for last items, it is not made of plastic rather steel covered with enamel - yours truly had a chance to touch it in past, it is cold enough.
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There are no nuclear warheads in Hungary and never was :o)
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Those were neutralized anti - aircraft missiles on their way to Ukraine to disassemble them. Great site anyway :o)
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Well I don't know - some of those traffic cops appear to have a suspicious 'glow' about them. ;)
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That's not a new japanese fetish, or even japanese. It's Macrophilia (giant fetish), known for over 50 years. The miniature trainset is for fantasy of being tiny compared to the woman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrophilia
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hi
the first comic is from www.wulffmorgenthaler.com
what You have here must be a translated version.
respects.
adm
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Hello Avi,
First, thank you for all these pictures on your website.
I found the autor of some pictures ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phitar/14366311/in/set-179428/
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/phitar/320363895/in/set-179428/
(it's the same baby :-)
It will be nice if you can add the name (or a link) to this guy (Phitar)
Best regards,
Phil.
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Wonderful! I updated the credits, thanks.
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The second drawing - "I wish my drawings would come to life" - is by Matt Hammill
www.matthammill.com
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i love this site & the posts are normally fantastic but this one was feeling a bit...half-assed to me.
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These are the people that will help show us all how to become Green and
use fewer resources?
wait.....
???
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The heart of Tokyo is Ginza? I think you meant Shinjuku. I've lived in Tokyo for three years and I've gone to Ginza maybe twice. Other than that, I think you captured the spirit of Tokyo and Osaka pretty well.
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Grotesque.
Nothing says "junk-consumer-society" like corridors of neon.
We humans are pathetic.
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In real life, these places look less brilliant than they appear in pictures. These shots have been enhanced to make everything look more vibrant and glowing.
Tokyo is one of the ugliest cities in the world. All that neon is just garish and the buildings are pretty ugly. It has the worst skyline of any major city in a developed country in the world because it's all unplanned.
It's still an interesting place to live and has many good points (great public transport, relative safety for a major metropolis, good job opportunities), but it's not beautiful.
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just got back from living just outside of tokyo. these pictures make me miss japan!!!
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Ginza and Shinjuku are both good for neon. The big Korean cities have some spectacular neon too.
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I wanted to say that the Iron Train that runs from Zouerate to the coast at Nouadhibou, is not the longest train..
There was one in australia measuring 4.8 Miles (7.3Kilometers)
And there is another in the United States, i don't remember if the raiload was located in colorado,but it's 4.5 kilometers long.
But if you aim for ''Today's Longest Train'' you got that right!
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You should check out www.thunderbolts.info
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050811richatrevisit.htm
Like all Craters on every planet, (besides maybe the domed craters of mars which are giagantic concretions) they were carved by electricity. That is why they are all circular.
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the link of intrepidearth is uncorrect. Is 'dot' net instead of 'dot'com
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Thank you. Link fixed.
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Avi, you have used numerous times Mrbabyman to digg you stories & failed miserable. Now you want to cash on the sentiments of the people by using events of 9-11 & I should appreciate the timing of your post & choice of your digger. Shame on you & how can you call yourself a blogger? Just to make a quick buck, want to divert traffic from digg to your senseless post? Avoid such cheap gimmicks!
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I don't think that is what he is trying to do. Almost every website today is commemorating 9/11, is he not allowed to? It would be kinda silly if he posted this blog a fews from now while everyone else is talking about it today!
Avi, I recently stumbled upon your website, and to be honest I think it is a great website/blog. Keep up the good work...and forget about the critics. You can never make EVERYONE happy.
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Here's another one: www.geheimgemein.de/gallery/combined.jpg
These Trading Cards (INWO by Steve Jackson games) were printed in 1993/1994
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"how can you call yourself a blogger?"
As if being a blogger is some kind of honor. Big deal - you sign up for a free account and write about whatever pops into your head.
At least Avi is doing something useful with his blog - entertaining us. Where else would I get my updates on weird happenings and inventions?
Other bloggers post daily updates about how someone gave them 2 sugars instead of 3 in their coffee, taking up useful disk space and bandwidth. Avi, keep up the good work, you have one of the most useful blogs out there.
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I liked the stamp and the pakistan ad (weird).
I have the same WTC brochure from 1984 in my house and thought the same thing.
Nice work
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Check out "Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center," which was published in January of 2001:
link to amazon page
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you forget this spanish comic from 1984
http://predicadormalvado.blogspot.com/2007/09/rebelde.html
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sorry:::
http://predicadormalvado.blogspot.com/2007/09/rebelde.html
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MrBabyMan submits to digg on his own. ...as do dozens of others who like our articles. We don't rely on Digg traffic.
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Distasteful in my opinion especially for 9/11. A tribute in pictures would have been better if you wanted to touch an such a topic.
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I call bullshit on the stamp.
The US Postal Service has never issued a stamp like that.
It's a clever photoshop.
Notice the bottom is cut off where the caption/denomination of the stamp would be.
The postmark doesn't look correct either.
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Did not see the movie but apparently Super Mario Bros movie had a scene showing one or both of the buildings damaged.
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IMHO that was a mistake
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Screw the people that think this was inappropriate.
EVERYONE else has enough coverage of the day, this was a little different, and I liked it.
Go watch CNN if you feel like weeping...
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Hey folks, you do realize that the internet is just like the TV or radio? If you don't like it, don't read it.
I think this was a fascinating subject, especially how the Twin Towers seemed to be a really popular symbol of the U.S. overseas, perhaps moreso than it was in the U.S. itself.
It's been six years. There's only so many tears than can be shed in that time.
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Who are these people who come on this blog and say "I find this distasteful." Are friggin nuts? Have you ever seen what ELSE is out there that the majority of sane people actually find distasteful?
I was in NY on 9/11 and my wife was one of those people who ran from the towers. There is NOTHING offensive or distasteful about this post.
SHAME SHAME shame on you people who judge. You need a reality check.
Critics tend not have the ability to think for themselves.
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And in other media we have the pilot episode of the "X-Files" spin-off series "The Lone Gunmen" in which there is a plot to crash a passenger jet into the WTC in order to justify a foreign war.
(The conspiracy nuts have been having fits over this one)
Chilling...
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There is also a children's book about flying a 747, the title of which escapes me at the moment. One page shows the view of the WTC from the cockpit. I don't know when the book was printed; probably late 80s/early 90s.
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There's a New Yorker cover that has two seagulls flying towards the Twin Towers. I'm sure it's laying around here somewhere...
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Speaking of 9/11 coincidences, the WTC attack was actually the second time in 2001 when Muslim radicals destroyed two towering structures before an outraged world.
Remember the giant stone Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, laid low by the Taliban a few months before September 11th?
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That's not Optimus Prime, it's Rodimus Prime.
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This guy really predicted the attacks . He´s name is Benjamin Solari Parravicini, he´s argentinian and take a look what he has drawn http://www.losenigmas.com.ar/images/bspwtc.jpg
the text says "The North American freedom will lost his light, its torch will no longer be lighter like yesterday, and the monument will be attacked twice" ... scary!
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re: Benjamin Solari Parravicini
Wow, I gotta read up on this... quite a prophetic picture, drawn in 1939, before towers were even built!
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Noone says anything about the Lone Gunmen pilot premiered months before the attack. In that story the heroes saved the two towers from the attack of a plane organized by the government.
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Dream Theater also
had a cover depicting New York (and the WTC) in flames*— released on September 11th, 2001. They recalled it and issued new artwork but my husband has a copy of the original cover because he had been eagerly awaiting the album. (The image is at the bottom of the page.)
*One of the band's recurring symbols is a flaming heart in barbed wire— they'd just added the NY skyline to that image.
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Great post. Don't listen to the fool who believes you're "disgracing" the "blogosphere." They sounded bitter to me!
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Don't forget the movie "Escape From New York," which starts when terrorists hijack Air Force One and crash it into a Manhattan skyscraper. I'd say that gave the terrorists some ideas.
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http://wiki.hehz.net/images/0/0d/Nojoo.jpg
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There is an opinion, that 9/11 - a handwork of masons. And thus they warned each other. Marasm? May be... May be..
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I pretty much liked the "Asbestos Poster".
But don't make the mistake to think about how asbestos was going to save the WTC on 9/11,
The thermite and C4 explosives used to bring down the three world trade center buildings were placed with surgical precision.No one could of save these poor souls...
May they rest in peace...
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On Sept. 11, Jackie Chan was supposedly about to start filming a movie at the World Trade Center where he fights terrorists who want to blow it up. See
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/jackchan.htm
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There's also a painting by Alex Grey (Fans of the music group, Tool, will know who he is), entitled
Gaia, depicting two planes flying towards two towers while Bush Sr., Saddam Hussein and a phallic looking demon-creature are walking together, arm-in-arm in the foreground. Its nearly impossible to see the detail from the image on his site (
http://www.alexgrey.com/), but if anyone wants to see it, up-close, there's a video about it on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08R8tgvXa7o
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Don't forget the Hardy Boys mystery
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c343/urbanesmala/1184477567682.jpg
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Makes you wonder.. At the risk of getting flamed here. I dont really think the U.S. did not know this was going to happen and I also think that the U.S Big wigs were behind it in some way.
You see how most of our so called presidents love to play war games.
I was in the Military/ I know the bull shit that gets fed to the public and what really goes on behind closed doors.
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Hi, I would like to tell you something that happend to me, I had a dream about the twin towers and a huge explosion about a week before it happend. My dream was strange to me, and at that time I did not understande it, I had never seen or even thought about the twin toweres so you can understande the shock I felt the day I heard the news on the radio, about 9 11, in my dream there were two very large buildings side by side one had a purple light around it and the other a green light, ( that part about the colores I still do not understande.)
anyway I was standing out side with the towers in plane view, suddanly there was a huge explosion (I did not see the plane in my dream thou) however after they explosion there was dabree and ash flying ever were.
There may be people who do not beleve what I have written however
this is they hounest truth.
I Wish this had not come to pass
and to all those who lost someone in this terrible event, I am truly sorry for your loss pain and suffering it has brought.
kay.
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Kay, that's pretty fascinating
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In early 2001 I was designing a computer simulation of a tensegrity model where you could build a structure and test it's strength, and one of the ideas was to test the strength of the model by flying aeroplanes of varying sizes into it (inspired by a game called BridgeBuilder where you test the strength of a bridge by driving a train across it). On the splash screen of this game would have been an illustration of the B-25 bomber that crashed in to the Empire State Building in 1945.
I was distracted by other projects so I never completed it (thankfully!) but on September 11th 2001 the friend who I had been discussing this idea with phoned me up to say "Remember that building simulation game we were discussing earlier this year? Turn on the telly!"
I turned on the television to see a replay of the second plane hitting the South Tower. My immediate thought was "That was my idea! Bastards got there before me!" before the horror of it all sunk in.
Premonition? I don't know - certainly not a supernatural freaky one. There was a lot of anxiety about working in skyscrapers and terrorist attacks - a friend of my mother's had warned her son not to accept a job in the Canary Wharf Tower, London, because the West had made a lot of enemies and tall buildings were vulnerable to attack. That fear was certainly around before the events of 9/11.
My idea, strangely enough, is still on the back burner...
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Alex Grey's Gaia painting is the best 9/11 premonition pic out there, add that / check it out!!!
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thank you floacist, great tip... I saw this trailer in theaters
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One thing not mentioned here is the album cover of the Cassandra Complex' 1988 album "Theomania". What's in a (band's) name…
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=164235
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so good.
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Around the time of the attacks, a German DIY store chain ran a billboard campaign which showed the glass-roofed shopping arcade (destroyed in the attacks) near the World Trade Center and the bases of the towers. Oddly enough, the slogan of the campaign was "Lamps make every space beautiful".
One of the billboards was left up for several months after September 2001. They probably forgot to remove it.
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Dom DeLillo's Underworld had an interesting cover
http://www.amazon.com/Underworld-Novel-Don-DeLillo/dp/0684848155/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243389103&sr=8-2
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Don't forget the King Kong remake poster,whic had the big guy straddling the two towers ,or "Godzilla vs Magalon," the poster for which had them battling atop them. I was amazed at Chris Carter's series "The Lone Gunman," which had as a plot, a government faction remotely controlling a plane to crash into the towers in order to start a war with the terrorist countries, for weapsons sales.
Those towers were fated for destruction.
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It is eerie - but not surprising.
I don't know if people born after 1990 will understand just how tall the WTC towers were.
The architecture was an act of hubris on the skyline, accentuated by the total lack of any soaring feeling in those two shoeboxes, combined with an impersonal, empty plaza.
They were not far from being the tallest buildings in the world, and when I visited as a kid, I had a sense of unease, like a human shouldn't be up there.
This made it startling when, the last time I saw the WTC, I had a feeling I should go there. I was only in NYC for a few hours, but I inexplicably felt the urge to get off at the station below, for no good reason. I hated the building but found myself arguing why not to get out and look up. I stayed on the train. That was in August 2001.
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Though logically it should be noted that in 1945 a small plane did crash into the Empire State building and took out a big chunk (but not structural), and that probably inspired a lot of renderings and speculations about what might happen with a bigger plane or a taller building.
Also the Towering Inferno was a popular movie when the WTC towers were built, reinforcing the idea that it might be possible to build too high.
That, and it was a landmark, especially shortly after it was built - King Kong or Planet of the Apes would probably seem less unlikely and eerie.
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Great set of links. Also check out
gCaptain.com which has some amazing maritime photos and stories.
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I know that's got to be fake, but I'm afraid someone will try it and kill their cat.
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