Vandor Wood Clock, Star Wars, 13-1/2-Inch

The Force is strong in this clock that comes straight from a galaxy far, far away. Quartz movement 13.5" Star Wars wood cordless wall clock. Requires 1 AA battery (not included).

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Mysterious Journey 2

Mysterious Journey II: Chameleon is a first-person perspective puzzle-oriented adventure game that follows on from the best-selling adventure game Schizm. Combining eye-catching environments with challenging puzzles gamers seek to save an ancient colony from destruction.
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UFO sightings and mysterious lights in the sky in New Zealand

New Zealand is finally releasing classified documents that include UFO sightings. These 'x-files' detail the country's best-known UFO mystery, which took place in 1978. A cargo plane reported strange lights following it and air traffic controllers detected radar blips that could not be explained... and never have been.

The thousands of government documents cover more than 50 years of New Zealanders' reports of encounters with unidentified flying objects. Most of the released files suggest natural explanations for the sightings, (including meteors and reflections off boat lights) but they don't explain everything.

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Giant squirrel attacks San Diego

Is it a sign of the End Times? The great squirrel-shaped rainstorm of 2010 in California has been impressive, with 15 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevadas, tremendous amounts of rain on the coast, and so on. But it pales against the "Super Ark" storm of 1861-62, a 45-day beast (animal shape unknown) that made unusable something like one-third of California's taxable land, and created massive lakes in the Central Valley!

Still the freak, giant-squirrel storm of 2010 remains a frightening shocker... if for nothing else than it's menacing shape alone.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [Blu-ray]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a seamless continuation of Peter Jackson's epic fantasy based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. After the breaking of the Fellowship, Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) journey to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power with the creature Gollum as their guide. Meanwhile, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) join in the defense of the people of Rohan, who are the first target in the eradication of the race of Men by the renegade wizard Saruman (Christopher Lee) and the dark lord Sauron. Fantastic creatures, astounding visual effects, and a climactic battle at the fortress of Helm's Deep make The Two Towers a worthy successor to The Fellowship of the Ring, grander in scale but retaining the story's emotional intimacy. These two films are perhaps the greatest fantasy films ever made, but they're merely a prelude to the cataclysmic events of The Return of the King. --David Horiuchi

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Repo! The Genetic Opera

Likening Repo! The Genetic Opera to its predecessors, Little Shop of Horrors and Rocky Horror Picture Show, conveys this film’s high camp and operatic bursts of song, but does little to describe how absolutely bizarre Repo! is. Like Rocky Horror, Repo! was written for stage performance by Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich, who stars as a Graverobber, dolled up in vampiric makeup to resemble Rocky Horror’s iconic tranny, Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Hiring newbie director, Darren Lynn Bousman, fresh out of film school to shoot this mutant movie, Smith and Zdunich clearly focused on writing comedy into extremely gruesome slasher scenes, which works with mixed results. Stills of comic strips contextualize each scene, telling the story of biotech corporation Geneco’s repossessions of organs that they implanted into various patients to save human lives during a long history of operations. Organs, here, were bought on credit, and as the economy nosedives, citizens of this a makeshift Gotham City cannot pay bills, and must forfeit their lives to repo men make a killing around town, literally. Heading this enterprise is CEO Rotti Largo (Paul Sorvino), who has two bickering sons, Luigi (Bill Moseley) and Pavi (Nivek Ogre), whose white facemask is third generation Phantom, borrowing directly from Winslow Leach’s in Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise. Central to the plot is head repo guy/slaughterer, Nathan Wallace (Anthony Head of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who hides his career path to preserve his sexy teenage daughter, Shilo’s (Alexa Vega), innocence. As Shilo discovers her godmom, Blind Mag (Sarah Brightman), and the "Z"-addicted surgery slut, Amber Sweet (Paris Hilton), she embarks on adventures through an urban landscape constructed of metal gear, corpse piles, and S/M zombie girls, while dad straps people up in his torture chamber to take back body parts. Hmmmm. Since Repo! looks likes a Marilyn Manson video, its musical niche sensibility will only appeal to fans who like Goth and Industrial music. To anyone who doesn’t go for that look, it does impress for its sheer dedication to choreography and song. In the least, Repo! The Genetic Opera is an anomalous glimpse into visionary horror.

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There may be scientific evidence for ESP, says researcher holding up a flash card with a couple of wavy lines

A Cornell psychology professor has written a piece (based on experiments with his students) that suggests that the future influences the past with regard to human thought - a concept known as "retrocausation." In some of the experiments, students were able to guess at future events at levels of accuracy beyond what would be expected by chance. In others, events that took place in the future appeared to influence those in the past, such as one in which rehearsing a list of words enhanced recall of those words, with the twist that the rehearsal took place after the test of recall.

But he's not alone.  Hundreds of articles reporting significant results on psi experiments have already been published in dozens of academic journals. What's the big deal?"  To begin with, this is not just any psychologist; he is one of the most prominent psychologists in the world.  In fact, he was probably mentioned in your Psych 101 textbook, and may have even co-authored it!  Granted, these psi effects are generally small.  But let's remember that it shouldn't even be possible to peer into the future at all (even a little), given what we generally understand about how the world works. Time is only supposed to go one way. Perception is supposed to be limited to the past or the present and only to those phenomena immediately and locally accessible by our five senses. When exceptions to these rules are observed, particularly under controlled laboratory conditions, they deserve a closer look.

Take running the four-minute mile. If scientists had studied even thousands of people in the 1950s, they might have concluded that running a four-minute mile was not humanly possible. Over time, however, it was found that a few people could actually do it -- an extremely 'small effect' to be sure, but these anomalies proved that it was, in fact, possible. Not only do we now know that running a four-minute mile is possible, it is the standard for professional middle-distance runners (for those of you paying attention, that was the example with the running man).

I 'predict' that science will soon develop a renewed interest in psi effects!

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