Watch Panorama Tonight!

As has received much attention in the press, in tonight’s Panorama, veteran journalist John Sweeney reports on the Scientology cult. In an interview on the Heaven and Earth Show, the editor of Panorama gives some background, describing harassment and intimidation techniques that were used against the BBC film crew. Scientology has made its own documentary attacking the BBC (Independent on Sunday coverage), and I expect these bizarre tactics will be the focus of the programme tonight.

Scientology is currently deepening its campaign against the men in white coats (psychiatrists): blaming them for everything from the Virginia Tech shootings to the Holocaust.

Loads of Scientology-related video clips on the Xenu TV blog.

Update, Tuesday 15th: the programme is currently available to view on the Panorama web site

Colour-changing card trick

I have to admit this had me fooled totally. From psychologist, magician and skeptic Richard Wiseman:

Meat wedding cake

Thanks to craftzine.com for highlighting a lovely wedding cake made of meat….

Mobile phone rock guitar thingy

Over at we-make-money-not-art (one of the favourite blogs over at www.glittyknittykitty.co.uk - a very fine blog in it’s own right, let me tell you) there is a report of some excellent footage of a performance from the Mobile Music Workshop, where a group of people played their mobile phones as guitars… go see.

The Mona Lisa in MS Paint

If you’ve ever tried using MSPaint (you know, the crappy drawing program that comes with Windoze), you’ll appreciate just how damn cool this is:

Dance, dance, the musical suit

Come see the man with the musical suit! Yes, he looks a bit like a reject from Tron, but stick with it! You can create your own tunes, and Pjotro will dance along to your ‘compositions’, which you can then save out. Quite neat, although not enough guitars for my taste.

Who Doesn’t Believe in Evolution?

Several of the GOP presidential candidates, it would seem. Short clip from the debate: Who Doesn’t Believe in Evolution?

Are you watching carefully: then we’ll begin.

A little thought experiment for you to try at your leisure.

See if you can count the number of times that a ball is passed between white-shirted people. It’s not as easy as you may think.

Extreme Noise Terror: Murder

Continuing our previews of acts that will perform at the Venn Festival:

Herbert Kornfeld RIP

Damn, beeyotches! I tell y’all how on da street it’s dawg eat dawg, and y’all don’t listen. The H-Dog is no mo’! Ain’t no Accountz Reeceevin’ brotha worthy to step into da man’s desk. Respec’ da H-Skillz! Word.