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Saturday, June 20, 2026

Disclosure Day - Movie Fox Tower


Disclosure Day | Official Trailer
Universal Pictures

It was a fine movie, plenty of mystery, appealing heroes, detestable villains, lots of bad guys chasing our heroes. And aliens, which are fine if that's what you want to believe. There are plenty of unexplained phenomena, and maybe they are caused by aliens, but I tend to think they are hallucinations, and if they are not, then the aliens are so far out of our league as not be worth worrying about. On the other hand, all these weird things that people see might just be a glitch in the matrix. That would be a more serious worry, but I'm not gonna worry about it on account of I'm fat, dumb and happy in this world that is filled with cheeseburgers, beer and girls.

You don't suppose Trump's releasing the UFO files was done to promote this movie, do you? It sure looks suspicious to me. I think somebody should investigate, and then we can make a movie about the investigation.

There is one clever scene where the good guys are holed up in a warehouse and the good guys come in the front door. Our girl gets ahold of the alien device which expands her mental powers. She sends something to the bad guys, negative waves, alien radiation, something, that convinces them the warehouse is empty. But something is off, so they halt, and they can hear the good guys running for the exits.

I loved Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It came out in 1977 which is like 50 years ago, and I've seen a lot of movies since then, so there wasn't anything really new in this movie. For someone who hasn't watched a zillion films, it will probably be pretty cool.

Virtual Piano

Virtual Piano

I wrote a little program in C the other day, and I thought it might be more useful if I rewrote it in Javascript, that way I could post it on the web. It's not a very useful program, more just messing about with numbers, but while I thinking about this it occurred to me that you could use your computer keyboard to play music like a piano. That sounds like a fun project. So yeah, I'm a little late to the party. Several other people have already done this.


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10 Short Videos #6169

10 Short Videos #6169

This has gone on long enough pal - Sam Alkhatib

The Last 72 Hours in Aviation - posted June 15

Camaro in CarSplashART painting - making a car look like a cartoon

justo - a wreck, but there's a bangin' tune on the radio

IMPORTED A $4000 ASIAN INFLATEABLE YACHT

This Offshore Platform Has Mechanical Legs - automatic stability

This Airliner Was Faster Than Some Fighter Jets - Concorde retracts nose and windshield

A Silent World Where Craters Last Billions of Years - Meteor skipping across surface of the Moon

Gender reveal party got out of hand… 

Is this camera "faster than light"?

Friday, June 19, 2026

10 Short Videos #6168

10 Short Videos #6168

Up until the 1950s most sofas used these springs, until cheaper alternatives took over.

I need answers - Sam Alkhatib

More like the worlds one percent cup

Classic Swiss Precision! - Longines stopwatch

Not Your Typical Taxiway Hazard! (Twin Otter Seaplane Avoids Snorkelers in Maldives)

This owl has more attitude than me

Hippos Walk Underwater?!

Where Does The "Mile" Come From?

No Electricity, No Sparks — The Pneumatic Explosion-Proof Fan

Cakmak Tepe. Boncuklu Tarla. The Sites Keep Getting Older. Gobekli Tepe Was Never the Starting Point

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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

Chariots of Fire - Loren Blackburn

We built over 12,000 B-17s, but only 5,000 went to Europe. Thousands were used for training stateside. A few hundred were sent to the Pacific theater. Who knows how many ended up on the scrap pile.


B-17 gunners and fighter gun cam video
OkraJoe


The TERRIFYING Side of B-17 Flying Fortress Crews
Unbelievable true stories


Masters of the Air Clip - “Battle of Münster” (2024)
Action Society

The National Archives and Records Administration has the image at top.
The B-17 has been mentioned here before, once or twice.