Month: October 2011

Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan inspired by SimCity? .. could be.

Panic descended on the Conners Farm Corn Maze in Danvers, Massachusetts. At around 7pm, on Tuesday this week, a 911 call put the maze on the map and caused a nationwide marathon of jokes. The Everett family were on the maze.. a couple with two children, one age 5 and one only three weeks old. … Read moreNews of the strange: Family lost in a corn maze dials 911 for help

Chalk it up too creative marketing.. And while Lady Goo Goo may have been an up and coming favorite among kids, Lady Gaga would have none of it: She clamped down before it got too late. Because after all, Lady Gaga’s image matters, right? .. It all began as one of 52 characters on Moshi Monsters–a … Read moreLady Goo Goo no more: Gaga wins one for the monsters

The lonely vision of autumn as taken from an interstate in Pennsylvania on Earth Informer equipment.. The hazy shade of summer is ending.. the lazy nights of fall have arrived. And soon, after the leaves are gone from the stressed trees, snow will fall on top of ice to make life miserable –but beautiful all at the … Read moreFriday photo of the week

President Obama will send 100 American soldiers to Central Africa. Obama said today in a letter to House and Senate leaders: ‘I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield.I believe … Read moreObama sending troops to Africa

image released of the newly discovered Asteroid Amateur astronomors found something that professionals did not: An asteroid about 18 million miles away from the planet Earth. European scientists from the Space Situational Awareness program released images this week of the asteroid.. Ironically, a telescope from the earthquake and volcano-rattled Canary Islands picked up the image … Read moreAmateurs find something the professionals didn’t

Reports indicate that there are two separate fissures less than 2.3 miles and 1.7 miles from La Restinga..

While the Canary Islands are shaking, the earth may now be moving somewhere else, too.. Around Katla, clusters of small earthquakes are being detected, which means an eruption could be imminent. Iceland watching. EarthInformer is, too.

The Halloween season brings with it typical tales of ghosts, goblins, and other high strangeness–stories most hope are only fiction. This year, a very real event is unfolding in South Dokata. Perhaps there is no better time than October to explore a modern mystery: Why did a church buy an abandoned ghost town anyway? The … Read moreThe ‘Church of Christ’ buys a ghost town

The internet is buzzing with rumors about impending volcanic eruptions in the Canary Islands. The theory, as spoken about by vulcanologists would have it that earthquakes or a volcano would strike La Palma, a significant part of the island would collapse into the ocean and spawn a massive tidal wave–one that would smash into the … Read moreThe puzzle: Would El Hierro erupting cause an East Coast tsunami?