Introducing General Zod

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Movies from an Alternative Universe!

re-imagined by Peter Stults 

Stellar! 

John Wayne at his Most Patriotic!    Spencer Tracy is Pure Kryptonite!
Clint Eastwood is a convincing menace!
--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times


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Movies from an Alternate Universe -- William Shatner and Natalie Wood in "Avatar" !! po.st/MqEeUg via @Po_st

And it's kooky!

Editor's note -- To celebrate the centennial of the late, great cartoonist’s birth, Google feature on Jan. 7th a deft ghoulish “Doodle” in honor of Charles Addams, the longtime New Yorker magazine contributor who was a master of the macabre and a brilliant wit of the weird.

“I think he was so far ahead of his time by realizing that horror was funny,” Robert Mankoff, the New Yorker’s cartoon editor.

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It's creepy! -- CHARLES ADDAMS GOOGLE DOODLE: Spooky ‘Addams Family’ logo celebrates macabre cartoonistwashingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-ri…

Giant elliptical galaxy

Editors note --  NASA's "image of the day" last Tuesday was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 in July 2010.


NASA ellaborated, "Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A." 

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

"Centaurus A contains the closest active galactic nucleus to Earth, at a distance of just over 11 million light-years. The center is home for a supermassive black hole that ejects jets of high-speed gas into space, but neither the supermassive black hole or the jets are visible in this image." 

NASA NASA 

[Image of the Day] Active Galaxy Centaurus A go.nasa.gov/rubWIC #iotd

On this day

Editor's note -- Emperor Julius Caeser consulted with the most prominent astronomers and mathematicians to design a calendar that aligned with the sun's orbit naming Januarius 1, 46 B.C. the first day of his Julian calendar. 


Romans celebrated with sacrifices to the two-faced god Janus, decorated their homes with laurel  branches and attended raucous parties.

Namesake for the Gregorian calendar

But Pope Gregory XIII reformed the calendar in 1582 because the year was too long. After 13 centuries, the vernal equinox had moved to the wrong day.

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HistoryChannel History Channel 

Julius Caesar had to add 90 extra days to the year 46 B.C. when he introduced the Julian calendar. bit.ly/t9M7W4

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Vlad and Kim

Editor's note -- The Washington Post feted our Dear Leader's death with a stunning pictorial of his treacherous life during possibly the worst Sunday Night Football on NBC in weeks.  

Kim Jung Il dead at 69  

Aug. 23, 2002 Vladimir Putin and KimJung Il "party down" in Vladivostok.

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NEWSFLASH: #DearLeader with horribly overprocessed hair dies. @washingtonpost wants us to take a look at his life. Much better than #SNF

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En L'an 2000

Editor's note -- SAD AND USELESS the most depressive humor site on the net found "Illustrations by French artist Villemard in 1910 of how he imagined the future to be in the year 2000". Unfortunately, Boing Boing already ran a Villemard post on Wed. Sept 12, 2007. 

S&U's post wasn't entirely useless as it featured more than one postcard but, sadly, the blog does not have "BB's Paris liaison, Alex Boucherot, editor of
Fluctuat".

Spy Helicopters

Wars will be fought by “combat cars”.

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World in 2000 as Predicted in 1910 | SadAndUseless.com:bit.ly/v4jwO3 via @StumbleUpon - 2011 Best #Useless blog

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A Gentleman's Folly

Editor's note -- Broadway Tower was designed by English architect James Wyatt as a folly for Lady Coventry in 1794. She wondered if she could see a pretend castle 22 miles away from her home. Yes. By 1799, Lady Coventry could see it clearly. 

A folly is a building so extravagant that it transcends the normal range of garden ornaments. 

A Gentleman's Folly, Broadway Tower by Andrew Lockie

Editor's note -- Today, Broadway Tower is an English tourist attraction located on Broadway Hill, one mile southeast of the village of Broadway, Worcestershire, at the second highest point of the Cotswolds after Cleeve Hill.

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GBritishLife Great British Life 

Latest #blog Top 10 Stunning Buildings Photographs: Each week, Mary Brooks, Editor and Publisher of Great Britis... bit.ly/rS42iG

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