Silly people. There's no such thing as a "Bilderberg Group", it's just a paranoid fantasy like Karl Rove or the so-called city of Roswell.

Sarah 83 - well, after a while a nice man or lady in white comes and invites you inside....

I thought the crew in the picture already looked dead and stuffed - but reading about the work of Harry Whittier Frees it appears that I was mistaken. All the more amazing, then.

I think it would be way cooler if it was an actual stuffed head of a weasel. Or maybe a baby squirrel. It's not much of a trophy if you just make a sculpture out of metal.

Yeah, you see guys like that around in Finland. You get used to it, and then monster films just don't feel the same any more. And as Bobsyeruncle said, some of those guys even play ice hockey in the NHL. Of course monsters with hockey masks aren't totally unknown in films, either.

The hard part isn't the walking in the wrong direction - it's when you change directions and first start walking back in time, and again when you turn back forward in time: if you aren't careful, you risk bumping into yourself in your subjective past and causing a time paradox.

If you turn around carelessly, you may end up existing more than twice at the same moment of time, and that only increases the risk of shoving yourself around in time and space. Once you accidentally have more than a few copies of yourself at the same moment of time near the same point, you'll need a lot of open space to converge on a stable timeline where no copy of yourself bumps into another.

If there's no space - say, you try to switch time-directions in an elevator - just a small mistake in the turn can end up in tragedy, as more and more simultaneous copies of yourself bounce around uncontrollably in time and space, and fill the elevator at an exponential rate. Every time an elevator around here explodes, this effect is the first thing that comes to my mind.

So, let's be careful when making videos like this!

It's all we can hope for that he doesn't flip out and kill people.

They ought to figure out a way to insert sensors in the bricks so that you could build something in the real world and have it automatically appear in the virtual world. They'd get my money for sure.

You don't need an oily hobo shirt if you do the smashing right.

Was it a staple gun or a stapler? A powered staple gun is a dangerous tool that can seriously hurt you at close range. (It's also a fun tool to play with if your parents are away.) However, the news article only mentions a "chrome-plated stapler" and even heavy-duty staplers are not that dangerous, except as blunt instruments.

I'm planning to learn dvorak as soon as they abolish daylight saving time and reform English spelling.

That's a great idea... and version 2 of the lamp could have the cow move up along the "beam", disappear inside the saucer and then descend after a few minutes. And the effect won't be complete until you add eerie synthesizer sounds.

If the algorithm is any good, they could begin with the numbers of a couple of dozen slightly naughty individuals and work their way up from there to gradually more and more evil phone owners. As is well known, they only need about six levels of guilt by association to reach whoever is the current ultimate bad guy.

When counting the area controlled by Wal-Mart, you shouldn't forget their 130 distribution centers of over one million square feet each.

Another fun fact: Wal-Mart's total 2006 revenue of $348 billion USD would put it at 23rd on the list of countries by GDP, just ahead of Saudi Arabia. Not bad for a centrally planned economy.