The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi' : NPR
7 days ago by kevan
"When a computer running an older version of XP can't find any of its "favorite" wireless networks, it will automatically create an ad hoc network with the same name as the last one it connected to -– in this case, "Free Public WiFi." Other computers within range of that new ad hoc network can see it, luring other users to connect."
computers
illusions
7 days ago by kevan
The Beauty of Twitter's Unfollow Bug - Megan McArdle - Technology - The Atlantic
17 days ago by kevan
"Polite evasion is an underrated principle of social interaction and it's nice to see Twitter arrive at it by accident."
society
illusions
17 days ago by kevan
ClueDB: Write shorter email
february 2012 by kevan
"People don't like to receive one-word email replies, but will forgive you when you are on a Blackberry or iPhone or whatever. So add 'sent from my iPhone' to your desktop email program, and people will forgive you."
email
illusions
lies
february 2012 by kevan
CCTV police officer 'chased himself' after being mistaken for burglar - Telegraph
february 2012 by kevan
"[The CCTV] operator radioed that he had seen someone “acting suspiciously” in the area. But he failed to realise that it was actually the plain-clothed officer he was watching on the screen."
surveillance
illusions
february 2012 by kevan
TrackMeNot
january 2012 by kevan
"TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines. [...] It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles."
web
surveillance
illusions
via:zarba
january 2012 by kevan
VIDEO: OWS Occupies Movie-Set Replica Of Itself, for Real | Mother Jones
december 2011 by kevan
"A few hours after television producers set up a replica of Occupy Wall Street for the filming of a new episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit, the real Occupy Wall Street announced plans to occupy the fake one."
society
illusions
television
via:waxy
december 2011 by kevan
More Mixed Language Scams Making the Rounds on Facebook - Softpedia
december 2011 by kevan
"The first window has the purpose of training the user to click on 'Jaa' which means 'share' in Finnish, but also 'yes' in informal English. The second window is a real Facebook share dialog intentionally displayed in Finnish to confuse users about its true purpose."
language
scams
illusions
december 2011 by kevan
540 - "Sham Paris": An Entire City’s Stunt Double | Strange Maps | Big Think
november 2011 by kevan
"The capital’s topography was to be transplanted onto the existing villages of Maisons-Laffitte, Sartrouville, Montigny-les-Cormeilles, Herblay, Conflans-Ste-Honorine, Beauchamp and Pierrelaye."
maps
illusions
paris
november 2011 by kevan
The Dangerous Politics of Internet Humor in China - NYTimes.com
november 2011 by kevan
"[Censorship] forces people to invent indirect ways to get their meaning across, and humor works as a natural form of encryption."
china
humour
surveillance
illusions
november 2011 by kevan
Socialbot Network finds it easy to harvest data from Facebook users | Naked Security
november 2011 by kevan
"Once the socialbots had befriended one person, they would then attempt to become Facebook friends with their friend's friends, and so on. As they became more embedded within friend networks, the acceptance rate of friend request reached 60%."
simulation
society
illusions
november 2011 by kevan
The Associated Press: Wildlife officials use robo-deer to catch poachers
october 2011 by kevan
"Once a plan is in place, authorities put the mechanical deer near a road where it can be seen by passing cars. Then they hide nearby and keep watch, waiting for someone to take the bait, occasionally using the remote control to move the decoy's head and tail."
robots
mammals
weapons
illusions
crime
via:blech
october 2011 by kevan
513 - Then We Take Berlin: When East Ate West | Strange Maps | Big Think
may 2011 by kevan
"This resulted in numerous so-called Geisterbahnhöfe (ghost stations), abandoned as the Wall went up (and projected downward) on 13th August, 1961, particularly on two U-Bahn lines and one S-Bahn line connecting different areas of West Berlin."
transport
history
maps
illusions
may 2011 by kevan
Fun and Games with Cognitive Biases - Less Wrong
march 2011 by kevan
"Caution: Dark Arts! Explicit discussion of how to exploit bugs in human reasoning may lead to discomfort. You have been warned."
psychology
illusions
hacking
brains
march 2011 by kevan
Fuel to the fire | Media Standards Trust
march 2011 by kevan
Chris Atkins on churnalism. "It was both a powerful and terrifying feeling, knowing that I could bash out some gibberish text and hours later have it appear verbatim in Britain’s largest selling newspaper."
news
illusions
via:tomscott
march 2011 by kevan
Placebo Buttons « You Are Not So Smart
august 2010 by kevan
"In many offices and cubicle farms, the thermostat on the wall isn’t connected to anything. Landlords, engineers and HVAC specialists have installed dummy thermostats for decades to keep people from costing companies money by constantly adjusting the temperature."
design
illusions
psychology
august 2010 by kevan
IanVisits » London Underground’s “secret” tube station
july 2010 by kevan
"[West Ashfield] is a fully fitted out fake tube station built by London Underground on the 3rd floor of an office block in West Kensington and is used to teach new employees what goes where and when."
tube
illusions
simulation
via:james
july 2010 by kevan
Researchers develop “HoneyBot”, Social Engineer IRC Users automatically | IRC-Junkie.org – IRC News
june 2010 by kevan
Terrifying prototype IRC spambot that talks to two people at once, getting its half of the conversation from the other person and, after a while, dropping its own links into the dialogue. "To make the users talk about a certain topic, Honeybot can insert probing questions into the conversation." TinyURL links were the most commonly clicked.
spam
illusions
camrad
via:zarba
june 2010 by kevan
Maps - the new rock’n’roll - Telegraph
may 2010 by kevan
"[There] is manipulation, selection and omission in the making of [Google] maps, which are composites of satellite images supplied by different countries and agencies. The Dutch blur out their royal palace, while the Swiss colour in Switzerland much greener that it already is to make it look nicer."
maps
illusions
via:blech
may 2010 by kevan
Action Half-Life: The 5 a.m. | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
april 2010 by kevan
"Looking away from the monitor it was with no small amount of gut-terror that I realised something was very wrong and turned back to type a message to my friends. [...] Our real worlds had turned monochrome. Some optical trick involving those red and white tiles had broken our eyes, and we could only see in pea green, sickly yellow and all the shades in between."
games
design
illusions
eyes
light
colour
puzzles
via:weir
april 2010 by kevan
Into The Abyss: Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness
april 2010 by kevan
"So, since people (flesh-tones) exist in almost every frame of every movie ever made, what could be better than applying complementary color theory to make people seem to 'pop' from the background. I mean, people are really important, aren't they?"
films
colour
illusions
via:minkette
april 2010 by kevan
Time doesn’t really freeze when you’re freaked - Behavior- msnbc.com
october 2009 by kevan
"This watch-like device flickered numbers on its screen [that] were too fast to see. If the brain sped up when in danger, the researchers theorized numbers on the perceptual chronometers would appear slow enough to read while volunteers fell [from 150ft]. Instead, the scientists found that volunteers could not read the numbers at faster-than-normal speeds."
time
illusions
delusions
science
october 2009 by kevan
Destination: Argleton! Visiting an imaginary place « Walking Home to 50
september 2009 by kevan
Visiting a possible trap street town on Google Maps. "Various software packages use Google's geographical information, and Argleton seems to have primary claim on the surrounding postcodes - one can rent property there, or read inspection reports for its nurseries, at least according to the internet."
maps
illusions
lies
via:qwghlm
september 2009 by kevan
Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind - life - 28 August 2009 - New Scientist
august 2009 by kevan
"[Sports psychologists] showed video clips of [taekwondo] bouts to 42 experienced referees. They then played the same clips again, digitally manipulated so that the clothing colours were swapped round. [In close matches] red competitors awarded an average of 13 per cent more points than when they were dressed in blue." Maybe I should start picking red more often in board games.
psychology
colour
sport
illusions
august 2009 by kevan
IDEO Labs » Amazing 3D immersion technology
may 2009 by kevan
"IR-sensitive cameras use [markers on 3D polarised glasses] to determine the precise location of each eye within the room. From those positions, stereo images for each projector are calculated and rendered on the fly, and the result is absolutely amazing."
eyes
illusions
technology
via:waxy
may 2009 by kevan
Life Lessons: Don’t Make Eye Contact with Gorillas | GOOD
april 2009 by kevan
A Rotterdam zoo issues enclosure visitors with pinhole cardboard glasses that show eyes looking to one side, to stop eye contact from distressing the gorillas.
apes
eyes
illusions
paper
via:amuchmoreexotic
april 2009 by kevan
Urban Camouflage
march 2009 by kevan
Sinister ghillie suits made from dishcloths, shopping bags and cardboard boxes.
illusions
art
monsters
via:holly
march 2009 by kevan
YouTube - Richard Dawkins interviews Derren Brown
december 2008 by kevan
Uncut hour-long version of an interview about cold-reading and connected subjects, from the Enemies of Reason documentary.
dawkins
psychology
delusions
illusions
december 2008 by kevan
Dragonfly trick makes missiles harder to dodge - 28 June 2003 - New Scientist
december 2008 by kevan
"Insects that use this technique sneak up on their prey in a way that makes them seem stationary even though they are in fact moving closer. They do this by keeping themselves positioned between a fixed point in the landscape and their prey."
insects
illusions
war
weapons
technology
december 2008 by kevan
julianoliver.com - LevelHead
october 2008 by kevan
"LevelHead deploys three small (5x5x5cm) plastic cubes with a unique image (marker) on each face. [Software] on the host computer is trained to recognise the marker such that it can overlay 3D content on a per-face basis."
games
illusions
via:waxy
october 2008 by kevan
Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » Indexed out of existence...
may 2008 by kevan
"Whether in fact this man was a returning astronaut suffering from amnesia, the figment of an ill-organized advertising campaign, or, as some have suggested, the second coming of Christ, is anyone's guess."
books
ballard
illusions
advertising
may 2008 by kevan
Whispers of War - The British World War II rumour campaign by Lee Richards
april 2008 by kevan
"The rumour he submitted to the UPC was sent for clearance to the Inter-Services Security Board (ISSB) who were responsible for clearing rumours and had power of veto over any of a military nature which might inadvertently be a real security risk."
war
history
lies
illusions
psychology
memetics
april 2008 by kevan
Living Dolls - Gaby Wood
march 2008 by kevan
Vaucanson's Duck through to the Mechanical Turk, and beyond. Good background reading, but it tries a bit too hard to be philosophical about any glimmer of possible metaphor.
booklog
technology
robots
chess
birds
illusions
hoaxes
via:holly
march 2008 by kevan
Observations on film art and FILM ART : This is your brain on movies, maybe
february 2008 by kevan
"He posits that in general, when we reread a novel or rewatch a film, our cognitive system doesn’t apply its prior knowledge of what will happen." [...] "Our moment-by-moment processes evolved in response to the brute fact of nonrepetition."
films
psychology
illusions
via:webb
february 2008 by kevan
Gamasutra - The Watery Pachinko Machine of Doom: Project Horseshoe's Thoughts On Story
january 2008 by kevan
Some nice fragments. "Giving AI's knowledge of player's existing social graph in order to inform NPC decisions. [...] The AI is ultimately playing a strategy game that involves manipulating and cultivating the social graph of the player community."
games
design
society
illusions
narrative
january 2008 by kevan
DVD, Blu-ray & HD-DVD Review - Blade Runner: The Final Cut - All Versions
december 2007 by kevan
"Harrison Ford was unavailable due to scheduling issues, so his son Ben was brought in correct this [with] the same chin scar (via make-up) that his father has, saying the correct lines. His mouth was digitally inserted over his father's seamlessly."
films
technology
illusions
hacking
via:lmg
december 2007 by kevan
Studies Report Inducing Out-of-Body Experience - New York Times
august 2007 by kevan
"In another variation, Dr. Blanke projected a 'rubber body' - a cheap [mannequin] and dressed in the same clothes as the subject - into the virtual-reality goggles. With synchronous strokes of the stick, people's sense of self drifted into the mannequin."
brains
illusions
simulations
via:collision
august 2007 by kevan
kameraflage(tm)
august 2007 by kevan
"Kameraflage is possible because digital cameras see a broader spectrum of light than human eyes. By rendering content in these wavelengths we are able to create displays that are invisible to the naked eye, yet can be seen [through] a digital camera."
light
illusions
technology
design
advertising
secrets
august 2007 by kevan
Cardboard Children Used To Slow Neighborhood Speeders - Local News Story - WKMG Orlando
august 2007 by kevan
"Mike Wood and his wife said their homemade cutout children make them feel uneasy at times because they look so real but said they force motorists to slow down."
transport
psychology
illusions
children
paper
august 2007 by kevan
Stephen Potter, Gamesmanship: Chess
august 2007 by kevan
"This is [an] effective opening, simple to play and easy to remember, which I have invented for use against a more experienced player who is absolutely certain to win. It consists of making three moves at random and then resigning."
games
psychology
illusions
chess
random
august 2007 by kevan
School For Scoundrels (1960)
august 2007 by kevan
Psychological warfare, and how far you can take it before becoming a cad. The protagonist goes up against some very thin straw men, but it touches on the greatness of the books, and it's good to see some of the ploys being acted out.
filmlog
4stars
education
psychology
lies
cheating
illusions
august 2007 by kevan
Seven Deadly Colours: The Genius of Nature's Palette and How It Eluded Darwin - Andrew Parker
june 2007 by kevan
Seven different colours in nature, seven different mechanisms of colour generation, and seven predator-fooling examples of why eyes aren't so perfectly evolved after all. Good worldview-changing science, with some nice flourishes.
booklog
evolution
light
paint
illusions
birds
frogs
fish
insects
june 2007 by kevan
Avatar Machine
june 2007 by kevan
"Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface."
art
games
eyes
technology
illusions
via:penguin
june 2007 by kevan
Cake Rental
june 2007 by kevan
Fake plastic wedding cakes with a single, real slice. "After the couple's 'feeding each other' act, the display cake is taken back into the kitchen and the guests are served regular sheet cakes from the local bakery or wholesale store."
food
plastic
love
illusions
lies
via:hoaxes
june 2007 by kevan
Good Bye Lenin! (2002)
february 2007 by kevan
The value and cost of selfish, idealised delusions; the timeline and scenery of the film feeling a bit like one itself. Great snapshots of a society in quiet, half-mourned collapse, a lot of good dereliction, and the premise never overplays itself.
filmlog
4stars
germany
delusions
illusions
secrets
politics
television
history
february 2007 by kevan
Nintendo Wii Fake Error Message Prank
january 2007 by kevan
"The Wii Remote has been immersed in liquid. Remove it to continue." From an idle thought about the tricks you could play with the Wii browser. Not very convincing, but it doesn't really need to be.
creations
illusions
lies
wii
technology
january 2007 by kevan
Only a Game: The Joy of Ilinx
january 2007 by kevan
"Ilinx is a pattern of play (identified by the noted sociologist Roger Caillois) associated with the momentary destruction of perception. It can be the vertigo of speed or of spinning, or it can be the intoxicating allure of petty destruction."
games
psychology
design
illusions
january 2007 by kevan
The West Pier - Patrick Hamilton
january 2007 by kevan
The idle, experimental corruption of innocence by a blankly emotionless Hamilton protagonist, back and forth along the seafront at Brighton. Oddly over-explanatory and first-draft feeling, falling towards an inevitably disheartening end, but it works.
booklog
brighton
money
love
lies
illusions
piers
via:holly
january 2007 by kevan
You Must Be an Idiot - Game Preview
november 2006 by kevan
Full rules, carelessly. "On his turn, a player (known as 'the genius') will look at a card and ask two or three of the listed questions. All of the players except the genius are dealt face-down cards. Some of the cards picture an 'idiot.'"
games
illusions
november 2006 by kevan
Stay Free! Daily: Marketing, crystallized
november 2006 by kevan
"To counter a problem that Norelco's two rotary heads, intended to give greater comfort, took longer to shave, Mr. Kress changed the product name to 'Speedshaver' -- 'at least leaving the impression that it shaved fast.'"
advertising
illusions
november 2006 by kevan
Daring Fireball: 'Beta' Is Not an Excuse
november 2006 by kevan
"No, what 'beta' means in this context is 'buggy'. It’s a euphemism that siphons the cachet of 'beta' in its traditional sense - that certain nerdy coolness that comes with being part of a private development process."
programming
design
cheating
illusions
november 2006 by kevan
The Prestige (2006)
november 2006 by kevan
Duality and sacrifice among stage magicians. Could have very easily been ridiculous, with the same plot elements, but it's all constructed flawlessly, built with an intricacy that unfolds with reflection, rather than causing plot-holes to creak open.
filmlog
5stars
magic
secrets
illusions
technology
mysteries
science
november 2006 by kevan
Car owners can fake it with add-on luxury emblems - USATODAY.com
november 2006 by kevan
"Mercedes owners can buy the lettering indicating their cars are the high-end AMG version for about $65 at a dealer's parts department. Chrysler 300 owners who want their cars to mimic the Hemi-powered 300C can buy the insignia for about $12.50."
transport
hacking
illusions
lies
november 2006 by kevan
Freakonomics Blog » Mickey Mouse is the answer
november 2006 by kevan
"I was told that you do not become 'a' Mickey Mouse because there is only one Mickey Mouse. When I asked how one Mickey Mouse manages to be both at [multiple DisneyWorlds], they simply repeated their assertion that there was only one Mickey Mouse."
illusions
delusions
children
rodents
religion
november 2006 by kevan
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
november 2006 by kevan
A film director trying to experience enough poverty to feel justified in making films about it. Endlessly and easily drawn back to the comfort of Hollywood, the looping plot keeps coming back on stranger and darker levels.
filmlog
3stars
films
money
meta
depression
society
illusions
lies
november 2006 by kevan
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Faking it as a priest in Japan
november 2006 by kevan
"Being a fake priest is big business in Japan - I've done a TV commercial for one company. [...] In Sapporo, there are five agencies employing about 20 fake priests. In a city like Tokyo, there must be hundreds."
religion
japan
illusions
via:hoaxes
november 2006 by kevan
The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
november 2006 by kevan
Half-watched. David Niven being nonchalant in a ridiculous collar, with a few particularly clever flourishes of bluff and subtle psychology.
filmlog
3stars
history
france
secrets
prison
illusions
november 2006 by kevan
Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
september 2006 by kevan
Common confusions of luck and skill, and taking the wider probabilistic-multiverse view. Sluggishly rambling and poorly edited, though; dull personal opinions and untidy brackets.
booklog
coincidences
money
business
illusions
delusions
society
september 2006 by kevan
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - G.K. Chesterton
september 2006 by kevan
Barrelling metaphysical identity thriller, each chase and character being spun out expertly, despite the inevitability of everything.
booklog
secrets
police
illusions
delusions
september 2006 by kevan
cre.ations.net - Creation: The Time Fountain
september 2006 by kevan
Video clips and construction details for an amazing strobe-lit water fountain, with the frozen droplets being surprisingly coherent when poked with a stick.
design
light
water
technology
illusions
september 2006 by kevan
The Escapist - "I'm Evil" - Confessions of an Online Guerilla Marketer
september 2006 by kevan
A slightly made-up-sounding interview. "I always have several accounts. [...] If several people are talking about a certain 'something special' and how awesome it is, it seems more popular than it really might be."
camrad
advertising
interviews
web
lies
illusions
september 2006 by kevan
Spamalot: A Toolkit for Consuming Spammers' Resources
august 2006 by kevan
"The Spamalot system uses intelligent agents to interact with spam messages and systems referenced in spam. The goal of Spamalot is to consume spam senders' resources by engaging the spammer in an unproductive conversation or information exchange."
email
spam
robots
illusions
august 2006 by kevan
Participants in London watergun 'assassination' game could face arrest
august 2006 by kevan
"Participants in a citywide watergun game could face criminal charges from law enforcement patrolling London's subway stations, police said Monday."
police
weapons
games
terrorism
water
illusions
august 2006 by kevan
New World Notes: -- And He Rezzed A Crooked House
july 2006 by kevan
A tesseract-shaped house in Second Life, with video clips. "When you step into a room, the other rooms cluster around it so that they're always connected together the right way."
mmorpgs
architecture
illusions
maths
july 2006 by kevan
Times Online - Cheating chefs leave bad taste with fake food
june 2006 by kevan
"The site also explains how to inject wild-mushroom flavour into duck, make a 'wine sauce' with a violet-coloured powder, add a zest of bottled scallop to scallop tagliatelli, and spray saffron perfume on to a marzipan turnover."
food
france
cheating
illusions
science
via:hoaxes
june 2006 by kevan
Test Shared Vision - Community Bridge Project
june 2006 by kevan
A boring old inner-city concrete bridge repainted as brown-stone trompe l'oeil. "The illusion is so strong that art professionals sometimes stand next to the bridge and ask where the mural is."
architecture
art
illusions
construction
via:holly
june 2006 by kevan
New Scientist - Evolution gets busy in the urban lab
may 2006 by kevan
"Evolution is operating with a vengeance in the urban environment as animals struggle to adapt to novel conditions and cope with 'evolutionary illusions'."
evolution
mammals
birds
cities
illusions
via:collision
may 2006 by kevan
Miracle Fruit - The Old Sweet Lime Trick
may 2006 by kevan
"Placing a quantity in the mouth together with a sour substance initially tastes sour, but will slowly change to a sweet taste as the protein binds gradually to the receptors of the taste buds, modifying their function."
food
plants
illusions
may 2006 by kevan
Very cool illusion
march 2006 by kevan
"If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. If you stare at the black + in the center, the moving dot turns to green. [...] After a short period of time, all the pink dots will slowly disappear."
eyes
illusions
via:ben
march 2006 by kevan
Times Online - Budgie tops the bill as mimicry is put on CD
march 2006 by kevan
"The sound of a budgerigar singing in a Geordie accent and a blackbird imitating a computer modem have been released on a CD compiled by the British Library." Links to a couple of sound clips.
birds
sound
illusions
via:mcios
march 2006 by kevan
Ireland's "Crack" Habit - Explaining the faux Irish pub revolution
march 2006 by kevan
"They reinvented the holiday at home to kick-start the tourist season. Now thousands of partiers head to Ireland for the 'St. Patrick's Day Season' as Guinness has called this time of year. (It used to be called 'March' or, for Irish Catholics, 'Lent.')"
ireland
drinks
illusions
construction
lies
march 2006 by kevan
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Elephant theory in Nessie search
march 2006 by kevan
"When their elephants were allowed to swim in the loch, only the trunk and two humps could be seen - the first hump being the top of the head and the second being the back of the animal."
elephants
monsters
illusions
water
march 2006 by kevan
So-net blog:the bitter*girls
february 2006 by kevan
More blurred-perspective scale-mangling photos. Does actually seem perfectly easy to generate these with Photoshop blur, for a sufficiently high-angled picture - will have to give it a go.
photos
japan
illusions
via:webb
february 2006 by kevan
gravestmor » Notes on the Denial of Perspective 02 - Felice Varini
january 2006 by kevan
Skewed-perspective geometric shapes taped out across gallery walls, such that they're only correctly visible from one viewpoint.
art
illusions
january 2006 by kevan
CCTV Sabotag, London, United Kingdom 1998
january 2006 by kevan
"After a careful and detailed study of the surveyed control zones of the inner city a campaign of cctv system sabotag via optical illusion will be undertaken."
surveillance
illusions
via:wmmna
january 2006 by kevan
How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
december 2005 by kevan
Essay from Philip K Dick, towards the end. "Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change. [...] Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real."
books
writing
coincidences
delusions
illusions
drugs
time
december 2005 by kevan
Grand Illusions
november 2005 by kevan
Wonderful mechanical illusions and scientific toys, a lot of them available for purchase. A mix of explanatory articles and videos, and vague "we aren't really sure how this works".
illusions
magic
technology
science
toys
via:raven
november 2005 by kevan
Night of the Living Dead 3d - A New Dimension of the Horror Classic
november 2005 by kevan
Bizarre 3D-glasses remake of the Romero original, vaguely updated. The plot apparently includes a spin on the fake-cremation-scam body-stockpiling news story from a couple of years ago.
films
zombies
illusions
november 2005 by kevan
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