Cliff 's RealityCarnival

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(04/19/04) Warping space-time

(04/19/04) Mystery man devotes life to honoring Kiran Chetry, a woman born in Kathmandu, Nepal.

(04/18/04) Cool mystery: To whom and for what was the first U.S. patent issued?

(04/18/04) Who is the only US President to hold a patent?

(04/18/04) Man invents X-ray goggles

(04/18/04) We will never meet this woman, never know her name, never know if she is truly happy

(04/17/04) Chris Langan -- America's highest-IQ man -- discusses God, Hawking, reality, Mensa, and language

(04/17/04) Man levitates frogs

(04/17/04) Miss Beat, 1959

(04/16/04) CIA's homepage for kids

(04/16/04) Frank Steiner says universe is shaped like medieval horn

(04/15/04) The latest animal-human hybrids

(04/15/04) Publisher offers wild array of unusual books sure to shatter the minds of Reality Carnival readers

(04/15/04) Blow your mind: Spacetime Warps and the Quantum: A Glimpse of the Future

(04/14/04) A computer mouse that has been worked too hard

(04/14/04) Project HAARP: The Pentagon's provocative plan to superheat the earth's ionosphere

(04/14/04) Posthuman System #1: cockroach with wireless video

(04/13/04) Man devotes many months to creating synthetic monkey head

(04/13/04) Man catalogues and presents every extremely influential author, past and present, known to humanity

(04/13/04) Can a computer learn to produce good art?
Professor Clint Sprott has his computer automatically generated a new fractal every day

(04/12/04) Man "dreams of pi" and discovers a new universe of forms. (Magnify bottom-most figure on page)

(04/12/04) My colleagues are intrigued and disturbed by this haunting image. What are we truly seeing here? Why is there a fire? Is this a woman?

(04/11/04) Japanese man creates a Woman with
strange tongue. (From Gallery)

(04/11/04) The religious experiences of Philip K. Dick

(04/10/04) Was the universe designed to produce us?

(04/10/04) Sushi photo of the week

(04/10/04) Face or zoo?

(04/09/04) We will never meet this woman nor understand the precise nature of the device she proudly exhibits

(04/09/04) Can we imagine the far future -- Year 3000?

(04/09/04) What are we truly learning from this musical selection in an exotic language we can never fully comprehend?

(04/08/04) We will never know who this woman is, what she is doing, why she is smiling, or if she would make a kind companion in this journey we call "life"

(04/08/04)
Man invents device that emits beautiful scent when component overheats, so someone
can switch off device before it bursts into flames

(04/08/04) Man precisely catalogs 36 miracles of Jesus. Do you believe each one took place? Which impresses you most and least?

(04/07/04) Artist says star that last visited solar system during time of Noah is, again, about to appear

(04/05/04) Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of Hoaxes

(04/07/04) Piers Anthony, in his most recent
Newsletter, suggests that women carry the plastic "Impact Kerambit" to decrease their chances of being raped or killed

(04/06/04) Eric Heller creates transcendent art from "two dimensional electron gases"

(04/06/04) Man attempts to rebuild Noah's Ark!

(04/06/04) Here is a Magnetoid Movie.
These strange Devices
are becoming all the rage.

(04/05/04) Man devotes life to creating robotic snakes

(04/05/04) Cliff Pickover's Internet Encyclopedia of the Bible

(04/05/04) Today, I bought this hot book: Poplorica : A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that Shaped Modern America

(04/04/04) Man creates trans-dimensional jellyfish from human skin

(04/04/04) Janet Cooke Hansen makes electronic bras that glow using super-bright LEDs programmed using mathematical algorithms

(04/04/04) Man discovers book in used bookstore that scares the hell out of him

(04/03/04)
Mysterious photo of a woman looking at a paper that appears to be from the future,
and showing the woman looking at the paper.
(Image from j-walkblog.com)

(04/03/04) Man discovers strange green flash as sun sets

(04/02/04) Author's dragon fetus hoax pays off with book deal

(04/01/04) Billionaires' Dinner for greatest minds on Earth. With whom would you most like to have dinner? Marry? Start a business?

(04/01/04) LastWishes.Com releases your private messages to loved ones (and enemies) after you die

(03/31/04) Chemical experiences of a hyperspatial nature

(03/31/04) Bernal Sphere is 1 mile in circumference and houses 10,000 people. Would you like to live in one?

(03/31/04) Design your own God

(03/30/04) What exactly is "frozen light"?

(03/30/04) The mystery of Laurie Dhue

(03/30/04) Man thinks cat's eyes are like jewels, to be collected and admired

(03/29/04) Man devotes webpage to "God hates shrimp"

(03/29/04) Man sees God on computer and decides to nail himself to cross

(03/28/04) Man creates a liquid humanoid that you drag with mouse

(03/28/04) Mia, an avid Reality Carnival fan and avant-garde violinist, posts a new
Photo or herself at her blog,
which can be accessed from here

(03/27/04) Pioneers explore neurology of religious experience

(03/27/04) Who is this mystery woman? From (Unio Mystica)

(03/27/04) Who is this mystery woman? (From Noosphere)

(03/26/04) Juicy Mandelbrot sets, ripe for picking

(03/26/04) What is "edible light"?

(03/25/04) Man spends lifetime carving semi-pornographic coconuts

(03/25/04) Propagandists, artists, and designers tell how they would redo the Google interface

(03/25/04) China creates new reality by building more and faster than ever before in human history

(03/25/04) Man obsessed with vehicles limited to one wheel

(03/24/04) I'm in love with this amazing formula for pi, involving just one digit

(03/23/04) Poet and mathematician invent Dream Machine, a device that induces drugless visions and lucid dreaming

(03/22/04) Larry Carlson inspires visions. See more beautiful visions here (From LarryCarlson.Com)

(03/22/04) Hear the voice of Reality Carnival editor as he talks about the reality of time travel. (Skip to time 41:22 in the show to hear segment. Requires Real Player)

(03/21/04) Devilishly difficult sphere puzzle confounds viewers of all ages

(03/21/04) Hypergraphia: the brain-induced compulsion to write

(03/21/04) Brain worms are real

(03/21/04) Man reveals secrets of Amazon.Com rankings

(03/20/04) Alien sexuality? Image from DanielLee.Com

(03/20/04) Today's hot book (which I'm currently reading): How Proust Can Change Your Life

(03/20/04) Man searches world for photos of every woman ever to have appeared in the original Star Trek

(03/19/04) Computer progam generates essays given single word as input. Boy hands in essay to teacher

(03/19/04) The women of Survival Research Lab produce "the most dangerous shows on earth" using ritualized interactions between machines and other robots

(03/19/04) Did Tolkein use Jewish mythology?

(03/19/04) The latest gossip on DMT machine elves

(03/18/04) d'Holbachie Yoko (photo) creates
artwork
that blows the mind.

(03/17/04) Gorgeous women perform lobotomy-like brain surgery on themselves to see Jesus

(03/17/04) Man takes strange photos before (left side) and after (right side) alien abduction.

(03/16/04) Seconds after you read these words, tell a friend about RealityCarnival.Com. Enjoy browsing some of my artworks as a reward

(03/16/04)
With whom would you rather work?
Ann Coulter
(famous lawyer/author/commentator)
or
Dr. Lera Boroditsky
(brilliant linguist studying language and its effect on reality)?

(03/16/04) People using DMT see a colorful, glass chrysanthemum before penetrating an alien reality filled with strange beings

(03/15/04) Stan Romanek finds mystery equations by side of bed

(03/15/04) Physician finds snake in man's small intestine

(03/14/04) Oh God, a church made of bones

(03/14/04) 2000 people agree to be nude, hunched over like sheep

(03/14/04) Using machine gun and quantum mechanics, man proves we will live forever

(03/14/04) Descending by Thomas Disch: a story about a man on an escalator in an ordinary department store, which will warp your mind forever

(03/14/04) Was this painting created while using mescaline?

(03/14/04) Brains of human being, pilot whale and elephant
(From Elephant Intelligence)

(03/13/04) Amazing puzzle. How many squares can you find?

(03/12/04) Do these photos make your eyes moist, recalling your younger years when you dreamed of having one of these?

(03/11/04)
Psychedlic Futurism is a collaborative blog cruising the intersections of higher intelligence, accelerating technology, anthropological exodus, utopian dreams, and trance

(03/11/04) Artist eats mushrooms. Goes insane with technical drawing pen

(03/11/04) Danielle, an 18-year-old genius (photo), posts
a new movie, showing million volt flash arc in self-destructing transformer. People scream at the end in fear (attemptfailure.com)

(03/10/04) Cables and the quest for transcendence

(03/09/04) Sushi boat photo of the week

(03/09/04) Do pennies dropped from the Empire State Building kill people on the street below?

(03/08/04) Man spends life cataloging mysterious hums no matter how far from his home they may be

(03/08/04) I typed Flying Woman into Google and found this image from brucebriscoe.com

(03/07/04) Danielle, an 18-year-old genius (photo), posts
a movie, showing an unusual electrical phenomena, rarely captured (attemptfailure.com)

(03/07/04) Woman spends life, alone yet free, riding a motorcycle through the Chernobyl "dead zone", soaring into new realms of imagination

(03/06/04) Man discovers world's strangest bird nest resembling an alien hive

(03/06/04) Famous judge writes The Fractal Murders, a novel involving mathematics and dead people

(03/06/04) Man writes Sushi Never Sleeps, a novel involving mathematics, parallel universes, intelligent spiders, & sex

(03/05/04) Linda Bucklin, who has suffered through depression and taken medication, creates unique fractal art

(03/05/04) Woman obsessed with cats and fractals combines her two life passions

(03/05/04) Oh God, what is a Long-nosed Chimaera Pup?
What is an Umbrella Mouth Gulper Eel?
See more alien aquatic life here

(03/04/04) Man sells crucifixion nails

(03/04/04) Mysterious, last written words of Albert Einstein found, unfinished, next to his bed when he died.
His last spoken words are forever shrouded since they were in German and spoken to a clueless American nurse.

(03/04/04) These brilliant people each got $500,000 "genius" prizes. With whom would you most like to have a candlelit dinner?

(03/03/04) The latest gossip on "Angel hair" phenomena

(03/03/04) I typed Rocket Scientist Girl into Google and found "Nellie"

(03/02/04) You've see Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Now see how it all started

(03/02/04) Scholars already compiling lists of errors in Mel Gibson's breathtaking
The Passion of the Christ

(03/02/04) How to see God. Literally.

(03/01/04) Unusual man attempts to make Jesus out of cheese, for no apparent reason

(03/01/04) Scientists discover actual face of Jesus

(02/29/04) Unusal artwork from another dimension

(02/29/04) Man describes difficult journey in publishing his science-fiction novel

(02/28/04) Man sells glowing brain in a bubbling vat for $225

(02/28/04) Obsessed man
samples a movie every second and generates a tiny 8 x 6 pixel snapshot. Each row represent one minute of film time

(02/27/04) Image of the day: Fractal, from NightSwimming.Com

(02/27/04) Image of the day: Stonehenge made from Twinkies, from NightSwimming.Com

(02/26/04) Mia, an avid Reality Carnival fan,
is interested in violins, nanotechnology, cryptozoology,
Freemasonry, the Montauk project,
Joshi Puroresu, Japanese horror manga, robot-building, superheros,
cult investigation, ghost-hunting,
urban exploration, foreign languages,
Marguerite Duras, Faulkner,
Nick Bantok, Noam Chomsky, Asimov,
writing, film, painting, &
taking apart/rebuilding things

(02/25/04) The precise meaning of this site may be forever beyond human understanding. (Leave on screen for 30 seconds for full mind melt.)

(02/25/04) People born blind can see during a near death experience

(02/24/04) Gold Lace screen saver inspires psychedelic visions and thoughts of new realities, using secret algorithms

(02/24/04) Here's a survey from the past I'd like to revive. What is the strangest, coolest book title you can find at Amazon.com?

(02/24/04) The latest gossip on mysterious 3-billion-year-old manufactured spheroids

(02/24/04) I typed ROBOT GIRL into Google and found this page

(02/23/04) People taking DMT (a drug) or having a near-death experience (NDE) often see complicated "cities
of light," leading some researchers to believe that DMT and NDEs open portals to actual worlds

(02/23/04) Everything you ever wanted to know about the Internet

(02/22/04) Various attractive women call themselves "HypoChicks" and promise to alter your reality through
hypnosis. Here are just two: Pamela Paperno and De'Anna

(02/22/04) Who is Chantal Kreviazuk?
There is no reason that this person should be at Reality Carnival, accept that she appeared on the same
Google page as one of the "HypnoChicks," and I like random, serendipitous associations of concepts.

(02/21/04) Shock and awe: Vintage Cheerios boxes with guided missile launcher and devastating nuclear payload.
See back of box for details.
(Courtesy of TheImaginaryWorld.com)

(02/21/04) I'll give one of my books away free and autographed to a randomly-selected person who responds here.
To win, you must also post three choices for books that you would like to receive, and I'll pick one to send you on Feb 24.

(02/20/04) People obsessed with going through other people's trash create bulletin board offering their latest finds

(02/20/04) What are we seeing here, and why are we seeing it?

(02/19/04) Children, who claim to have been abducted by aliens, post drawings for world to study

(02/19/04) Intense man encases computer in horrific foam mass for no apparant reason

(02/19/04) The latest gossip on Matrioshka Brains -- megascale superintelligent thought machines

(02/19/04) The latest gossip from scientists who claim that semen is an antidepressant. Women agree

(02/18/04) Mathematical genius Paul Chaikin (photo) achieves breakthrough in the mathematics of M&M candies

(02/18/04) Man discovers exact means by which people robbed his ATM card information

(02/17/04) Danielle, an 18-year-old genius (photo), discusses her new stock market theories, her recent one-day increase in $12,000, and her total portfolio, which is close to $100,000

(02/17/04) Piers Anthony, famous author, discusses heart-shaped pubic regions in women, Linux, spam, and the publishing industry

(02/17/04) Laurie Lipton's strange reality artwork mystifies viewers

(02/16/04) Attractors are mathematical shapes spawned by simple formulas

(02/16/04) Pardon me, waiter, but there's a live shrimp on my plate

(02/15/04) Intellectuals play game in attempts to survive for more than 30 seconds

(02/15/04) Telescope sends rose for Valentine's Day

(02/15/03) Man takes LSD and draws psychedelic sketches. Want to hang one on your wall?

(02/15/03) Researchers studying Quantum Suicide say you will never die

(02/14/04) A strange valentine to give the person you love, from meish.org

(02/14/04) Jewish genius William Sidis was the smartest human who has ever lived (IQ > 250).
Yet, history hardly remembers him. Why did this monster mind apparently achieve so little?
(photo)

(02/13/04) People with Kluver-Bucy Syndrome (brain damage) attempt to have carnal relations with inanimate objects, such as road pavement or food

(02/13/04) How do lava lamps work?

(02/12/04) Danielle, an 18-year-old genius (photo), discusses technology that transforms your ordinary Windows screen to an entirely new look and experience

(02/12/04) Crab-like entity found in photo of Mars

(02/11/04) People with "Cotard's Syndrome" mistakenly believe that they have lost organs or that they have died and are walking corpses

(02/11/04) The Voynich manuscript: a puzzle from beyond

(02/10/04) The beauty and mystery of Arabic handwriting

(02/10/04) Computer geeks build weird-looking computers

(02/10/04) Computer recipes for producing adventure and beauty

(02/10/04) Danielle, a mysterious 18-year-old genius, ponders the state of computer software and
Offers Advice on
free, alternative software that she considers superior. Danielle is a member my
Discussion Group

(02/08/04) The latest gossip on origami architecture

(02/08/04) Can a great mathematician be blind from birth?

(02/07/04) More quaterion fractals to whet the mathematical appetite

(02/07/04) We may never truly understand this page, but it is compelling nonetheless

(02/07/04) A new kind of spam?

(02/06/04) If all Chinese jumped at once, would cataclysm result?

(02/06/04) Face of demon seen in smoke

(02/06/04) The 16 best-ever freeware utilities

(02/05/04) Explore the beauty and mystery of quaternion mathematics

(02/05/04) Oh God! A man patents a ladder to be used by spiders!

(02/04/04) Woman nicknamed "Optic Nerve" paints eyes on her body

(02/04/04) Man finds elephant eye in galactic whirl

(02/03/04) Would you like to play the "Double Bell Euphonium"?

(02/03/04) More 2-D chalk artwork that looks suprisingly three dimensional

(02/03/04) Transcendent experience and temporal lobe epilepsy

(02/02/04) The family that plays together, stays together

(02/02/04) Although we will never understand the lyrics of this ancient language,
still the music is something quite haunting and beautiful. (Requires 45 seconds to download)

(02/02/04) Language shapes reality

(02/01/04) Danielle, a 19-year-old genius, ponders the stock market and gives advice about physical intimacy. (Click on her eyes after reading about her stocks.)

(02/01/04) Explore the mysterious Subtropolis

(02/01/04) Ray Kurzweill receives patent for software the creates poetry

(01/31/04) Stephen Thaler's first patent was "Thomas Edison in a box"
("Device for the Autonomous Generation of Useful Information"). His second patent was created by the first.

(01/31/04) Man learns to sleep like Edison, with 3 hours of core sleep each night.

(01/31/04) The latest gossip on insect larva art

(01/30/04) Mia, a Japanese-American, 24-year-old woman, builds robots that
twitch. She is "unscrewing the world"
by removing screws wherever she travels.

(01/30/04) What is the Eternity puzzle? Unemployed mathematician won million-dollar award for solving

(01/30/04) Genius porn star invents time machine. (This link is inactive until one of you creates a relevant page and I link to it.)

(01/30/04) Dozens of articles on drugs and reality, all in one place

(01/29/04) 23-year-old woman hates mayonnaise, is fascinated by words, has had severe ADHD, takes 60 mgs of Adderall a day, and is listed here for no apparent reason

(01/28/04) Man makes "See Me Rot" web site featuring live video from inside a coffin

(01/28/04) The Official Skull Overdrive page

(01/27/04) Human internal organs formed from animals

(01/27/04) Man explains Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity using words no more than 4 letters long

(01/26/04) Astronomer and author Carl Sagan was a secret but avid marijuana smoker, crediting it with inspiring essays and scientific insight

(01/25/04) Man catalogs millions of web page to find the "average color of the Web."

(01/25/04) Cubical peppers

(01/25/04) Where do our minds travel when we sleep? Are they open to experiences from other worlds... other dimensions?

(01/24/04) Who exactly is Cliff Pickover?

(01/24/04) A skeptic's view of out of the body experiences

(01/24/04) Millionaire's mysterious home enthralls viewers

(01/23/04) The world's 20 most nightmarish visions

(01/23/04) Man creates salt maze for slug

(01/23/04) Hot story from the past: People using DMT see parallel worlds inhabited by machine elves

(01/22/04) Man invents small robot to stimulate people in pleasurable ways

(01/22/04) Mysterious hole in clouds confounds Alabama residents

(01/21/04) Dolls are frightening, but not sure why. Take a look at the list. Do you shiver?

(01/21/04) The 300 most hip and influential science popularizers of our time

(01/20/04) Why Jews are geniuses

(01/20/04) Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed

(01/19/04) People with Capgras Syndrome enter parallel universes

(01/18/04) Teja Krasek, enchanting Slovenian artist, explores mathematics, art, and symmetry

(01/17/04) Scientists discover rare tree octopus. (Page may require 26 seconds to load due to its extreme popularity. Patience.)

(01/17/04) What are we seeing here, and why are we seeing it?

(01/16/04) Oh God! Leopard slug aerial mating

(01/16/04) What exactly is "transrealism" anyway?

(01/16/04) I typed "red.com" into my browser, and found this page, which does absolutely nothing

(01/15/04) Golgotha Alien Orb. Click to magnify

(01/15/04) Goa Trance: A Psykotropic Trip Through Tribedelic Transcapes

(01/14/04) Owner of the mysterious "Purple.Com" will lease site for $5000 per month. Web sites with such short, common names get lots of hits

(01/13/04) Scientist says time travel is possible

(01/13/04) Man proves that 40% of valid e-mails never reach the recipient.

(01/12/04) Choose one of these people with whom you would most like to have dinner and conversation:
Xeni,