Quite often, among our friends or acquaintances, there is someone who has astonished - or appalled! - us with a few magic tricks. The Ease of Learning and Performing Basic Magic Tricks Most children and adult libraries have a selection of books on the how-to of a wide range of magic tricks. These sh...

Quite often, among our friends or acquaintances, there is someone who has astonished - or appalled! - us with a few magic tricks. The Ease of Learning and Performing Basic Magic Tricks Most children and adult libraries have a selection of books on the how-to of a wide range of magic tricks. These sh...

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Weird Wednesday This morning, Brad wrote about one enterprising individual's success with getting lightweight Linux window managers running on an Android handset. That's cool and all, but a user at Polish site FrazPC has taken things to a whole new level of nerdiness. His...

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Wednesday demanded that a prelate who denied the Holocaust recant his positions before being fully admitted as a bishop into the Roman Catholic Church. It also said Pope Benedict XVI had not known about Bishop Richard Williamson's views when he agreed to lift his exco...

In comments yesterday in Washington, DC, Republican congressman Connie Mack revealed his use of telepathic mind ray technology in service of Homeland security functions: The men detained at Gitmo are terrorists. They seek to destroy our way of life, and have committed some of the most reprehensible ...

Aleister (Alexander was his birth name) Crowley, the self-proclaimed Magus of the Aeon, was destined from his inception to be an exception. His father, a preacher, hounded him relentlessly to “Get right with Godâ€�; his mother, equally obsessed with biblical lore, referred to him repeatedly as a â...

I talked a little the other day about the popular toy trends for 2009 featured at this years CES. The Consumer Electronics Show for 2009 wrapped up last night, so I thought I’d share some more of the cool toys and gadgets that were featured there. Green and cheaper was the main trend for the 2...

Remember how excited you were when Nintendo came out with the Wii and you could throw a bowling ball by swinging a remote and hoping it wouldn’t escape from your hand and hit the TV? Photo From Robert Scoble Looks like Matel is coming with a series of games where you control objects using your...

Filed under: CES 2009 Mattel was on hand showing off a pile of new toys at CES to be released in the fall. Easily the most intriguing is the Mind Flex, the perfect toy for someone who loves puzzles but hates themselves. With the Mind Flex, you guide a foam ball through a completely customizable obst...

It is quite instructive to survey Robert Priddy’s current ten Top Posts posts out of his great many articles on his blogsite at: http://robertpriddy.wordpress.com Below are the titles, accompanied by a quote from these. Extract from Wiki Encyclopedia: Robert Priddy (born 1936) is the British a...