If you find an M72 anti-tank weapon....

This is the last thing you should do. Without more than a cursory glance any trained individual can see the safety is out and the weapon is cocked. And, it turns out, there was a live round in the tube.

People are still scratching their heads as to where this thing came from, after being discovered on the Malahat, just south of Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island.

Hint: These things don't have serial numbers, but they do have batch numbers. And the sights are ancient compared to later versions.

Perhaps future posts will include pictures of an infantryman swinging a chainsaw or an engine room artificer running a wood chipper he found in the bush.

Today is the day Stockwell Day celebrates as the Day it all began

Don't be bugging Stockwell Day for anything today. He will be wrapped up in Genesis 1 - 2 marveling at how some entity out there in... wherever, got bored and decided to invent a planet complete with a few dozen species of plants, some animals (dinosaurs included, although they aren't mentioned in the books Day will be reading), the odd fish, daylight, night-time and some pretty points of light in the night sky to keep the pagans occupied.

PZ Myers reminds us that today is... Creation Day! The world, (which did not wear out in 1997 as forecast) was created on this date in 4004 BC according to the Ussher chronology. As PZ points out, this is an occasion for heavy drinking. (Not that I personally ever needed such a reason).

It also makes people do weird things. Like create enormous complex graphs of the history of the world, the likes of which you can't possibly fathom, especially since the first 2200 years of Earth "history" is condensed into one small book written by an anonymous individual who would have you believe that people lived for hundreds of years... back then.

So... it's party time! Or not. In this century if you continue to believe in such rubbish you shouldn't be in a position to govern anything more than a chicken coop.

Same as it ever was . . .

J.B.S. HALDANE once observed, "My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose". It seems like it's always been that way, as a site called Black and WTF displays in wonderful images from yesteryear.

Give us your money...

... and we'll hold it until after you've died and been reincarnated. It's true.

The idea is that you start by believing in reincarnation and then put a bunch of money in the Reincarnation Bank. When you pop back into the world in your new life, you've got money in the bank.

Interestingly, this scam, designed for some of the stupidest people on the planet (Can you hear me down there in Montgomery County?) doesn't have a mechanism for actually withdrawing any money.

PZ Myers presents the "bank" with an even more delicious dilemma.