Posts by D. H. McKee

Don’t dare smile on your passport photo

Don't smile -- you're Canadian.
The days of grinning from ear to ear for your passport photo are over. The Canadian Passport Office has issued new guidelines to photographers across the country saying smiling is out. Neutral, Politburo-style expressions are in.

How do you say “Cthulhu”?

Very carefully.

SWG – Some Screenshots

Luckily, this SWG game lets you take screenshots. I figure, if my digital camera was destroyed, at least I can...

SWG First News from Zuckervati

Picked up Star Wars Galaxies the other day, and got my glimpse of the vast and buggy virtual world of...

Some Banff trip pictures

Figured I should get some pictures from the Banff trip online. I’ll get the rest up later in a proper...

Whitewater Trip of Death

Terrific trip, but got pinned under my canoe in some level 3 rapids named after a guy who drowned in...

King of the Paranormal

Broadcast on CNN, the July 1, 2003 installment of "Larry King Live" was a sight to behold. The program, in King's words, explored "the incredible events of 56 years ago at Roswell, New Mexico." What most likely crashed at Roswell in 1947 was a government spy balloon, but the panel of guests assembled on King's show preferred a more lurid version of events. Jesse Marcel, Jr., son of a Roswell intelligence officer, claimed that just after the crash, his father showed him bits of debris that "came from another civilization." Glenn Dennis, who worked at a Roswell funeral home at the time, said a military officer called him to ask about the availability of small caskets (i.e., for dead aliens). Later Denis, obviously a UFO enthusiast, observed out of nowhere that the pyramids in Egypt had recently been "[shut down] for three or four days and no tourists going out there on account of the sightings."

Pembroke Fall Guy

Ah, well I had my fun driving around Canada. I’ll be sure to get those pictures online sometime soon (if...

Darth Vader’s Skeleton

Two New York teenagers have been accused of stealing a skeleton from a cemetery and taking it to a party dressed as the Star Wars villain Darth Vader.
Michael Herz, 18, and Michael Sossi, 17, allegedly took the body of an actor who died in 1938, and two skulls, from a crypt on Long Island in November.
"Herz dressed up the full body with glasses and then they put a Darth Vader mask on him," said detective Brian McMenemy.
The two teenagers, and a third youth accused of "receiving a stolen body", all deny the charges.
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Loch Ness myth

The Loch Ness monster is a Loch Ness myth.
At least according to the British Broadcasting Corp., which says a team which trawled the loch for any signs of the famous monster came up with nothing more than a buoy moored several yards below the surface.
The team used 600 separate sonar beams and satellite navigation technology to trawl the loch, but found no trace of any monster, the BBC said in a television program broadcast Sunday.