Dr. Strangelove is even better than I remembered it to be… I think its one of those rare goodies that lets you find new stuff with every viewing.I don’t remember the last time I saw it… maybe a decade and a half ago? Maybe longer. It was on Channel 29 (WFLX) before it was a Fox station.. back when they could show horror movies and not have to cut out the gore. The specialties there were Doctor Nausea (in the Elvira’s Movie Macabre / Commander USA’s Groovie Moovies vein – Saturday bad movie horror or kung fu with costumed wise guy host) and the “8-o’clock movie, with only 2 commercial intermissions” (The First time I saw Zardoz in full.. bored poor Pam half to death… She and I never quite saw eye to eye on bad/cheesy entertainment… We both tried, but her own bad-fandom lay elsewhere. She liked Seaquest DSV, for example… while I liked Roger Ramjet cartoons.)

I really miss some of the old independent stations.. cable pretty much wiped them out. That Channel 29 was where I first caught Videodrome, too, oddly enough.

Random Scotto factoid: I called it Dr. StrangeGlove for about a year before ever seeing the movie. I think it was because of this promotional picture.

---

Ping-Pong Ball Avalanche Homepage

Japanese researchers drop 320,000 balls down a steep ramp, with videos

---

via lj_nifty –

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/sixdegrees.bml

memcache makes this really fast (and just gets faster the more people use it) so we’ll probably stick this at the top of userinfo.bml by default later…. if you’re logged in, you’ll always see the path from you to the user you’re viewing. And maybe a little icon beside the path (footsteps?) which link to the above URL where we could add some extra options… showing multiple paths, etc.

It’s a lot faster than the lj_connect tool, but doesn’t have all of the nifty toggles. The upside is that it’ll be integrated into userinfo.

---

Who knew Crayola had a database of colors? This one links to Burnt Sienna, and includes a cultural history of brown, and historical information on this Crayola crayon. What a fun reference tool!

---

RSS Reader from Yahoo (in beta). If you are on MyYahoo, you can have it add RSS feeds from blogs, news sites, etc. to your page.

---

My life has been rated:
See what your rating is!

Your BBFC rating is: 12A

Suitable for 12 years or older, but under 18s must be with an adult. This is virtually identical to the 12 certificate, in that we’ll have some adult-themed storylines, but no real meat or detail. No scary bits, but some language and maybe a bit of skin.

Examples: Die Another Day, Lord Of The Rings

---

Japan has developed a terrifying new weapon of mass destruction: Giant Godzilla-type reptiles they plan to unleash on the United States to avenge the bombing of Hiroshima!

Horrified U.S. intelligence officials uncovered the sneak-attack plot, which they say is orchestrated by a fanatical element that has “hijacked” the Japanese government and is obsessed with restoring the national honor besmirched by the country’s humiliating defeat in World War II.

“We estimate that 450 of these genetically engineered creatures have already been hatched on mountainous, uninhabited islands in the Sea of Japan,” says a CIA source who’s been briefed on the crisis.

“At full maturity, each one stands at least 100 feet tall and weighs approximately 35 tons — more than five times the size of an adult T-Rex.”

The sheer aggressiveness of the amphibious carnivores — which are capable of crossing the Pacific Ocean within 21 days — is “absolutely terrifying,” according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“In secret tests, one of these creatures reportedly ripped apart a school of great white sharks as if they were minnows,” he says.

“This is the ultimate bio-weapon — if even a handful of these behemoths reach the West Coast of the United States, they will inflict devastation on an almost unthinkable level. Estimates of the number of civilian casualties within the first 72 hours run into the tens of millions.”

While most Americans think of Japan as a trusted friend of the U.S., that view is quite naive, experts say.

“The truth is that many Japanese harbor deep-seated resentment toward Americans,” the source explains. “They’ve never forgiven us for the bombing of Hiroshima, which resulted in at least 140,000 deaths.”

A cult-like secret society known as the Order of the Dragon has been plotting revenge ever since Japan’s surrender in 1945, and it is these nuts who’ve quietly seized control of the government.

“In Asian culture, the dragon is a symbol of good,” the source explains. “The leaders have long preached that by summoning forth some form of ‘dragon,’ they could restore the Japanese Empire to its former glory.”

Since the 1950s, the group has been working to breed real-life dragons. In the early days, they tried exposing reptiles to high levels of radiation.

“All they succeeded in doing was creating the world’s worst sushi,” the source reveals.

But in the 1990s, as gene-splicing technology emerged, the group began employing it.

The real-life Godzillas are a witch’s brew of genes borrowed from komodo dragons, crocodiles, pythons and half a dozen other reptiles.

“They took the most vicious traits from each,” the source says. If the audacious plot succeeds, North America will be turned into a hellish Jurassic Park, packed with towering, ravenous monsters.

“Our country just isn’t prepared to face this kind of threat,” admits a source at the Department of Homeland Security. “Worst of all, this is happening at a time when our military is spread out over the globe.”

Prime minister Junichiro Koizumi has been reduced to “puppet status” by the fanatics, who intend to make Emperor Akihito an absolute monarch. “With America under siege, Japan will be an imperial power that controls the entire Pacific,” the CIA source warns.

The White House refuses to comment on the report. But a senior administration source confirms, “The president is weighing a preemptive strike on Japan.”

See also- Evil Mole People found in Wyoming!