Paranormal - World-of-Newave.info World-of-Newave.info http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 2008-05-09T21:55:30Z Latest news and articles about Paranormal Copyright (c)2004-2008.ยง/Newave SARL. All rights reserved. {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - Paranoia magazine in Washington Post Today's Washington Post has a profile of Paranoia magazine, a terrific print magazine about wild conspiracies, Forteana, and the paranormal. I remember when Paranoia first launched in 1992 during the print 'zine heyday. I haven't read Paranoia in a while but I'm going out later to find a copy at my local independent newsagent. From the Washington Post: I decided to ask the co-editors, Joan D'Arc and Al Hidell. I called and Joan D'Arc answered. Well, I wasn't born yesterday so I knew that name was fake -- a subtle reference to Joan of Arc. So I asked her: "What's your real name?" She refused to tell me. "You must surely realize that there are people out there who hate us and would want to harm us." She told me that editing Paranoia was not a full-time job so I asked her what she did for a living. "I'm not at liberty to discuss that," she said. Apparently, when you're exposing the secret government you can't be too careful. D'Arc told me that Paranoia was born in 1992 in Providence, R.I., where she ran an alternative bookstore called Newspeak, which hosted weekly meetings of the Providence Conspiracy League. The league started collecting conspiracy information and storing it in a big loose-leaf binder with a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald on the cover. And the binder led to the magazine. Link to the Washington Post article, Link to Paranoia (via The Anomalist)... http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/paranoia-magazine-in-washington-post-2008025387.htm 2008-02-19T19:43:53Z 2008-02-19T19:43:53Z Boingboing.Net http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/19/paranoia-magazine-in.html Paranoia magazine in Washington Post {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - Today's Washington Post has a profile of Paranoia magazine, a terrific print magazine about wild conspiracies, Forteana, and the paranormal. I remember when Paranoia first launched in 1992 during the print 'zine heyday. I haven't read Paranoia in a while but I'm going out later to find a copy at my local independent newsagent. From the Washington Post: I decided to ask the co-editors, Joan D'Arc and Al Hidell. I called and Joan D'Arc answered. Well, I wasn't born yesterday so I knew that name was fake -- a subtle reference to Joan of Arc. So I asked her: "What's your real name?" She refused to tell me. "You must surely realize that there are people out there who hate us and would want to harm us." She told me that editing Paranoia was not a full-time job so I asked her what she did for a living. "I'm not at liberty to discuss that," she said. Apparently, when you're exposing the secret government you can't be too careful. D'Arc told me that Paranoia was born in 1992 in Providence, R.I., where she ran an alternative bookstore called Newspeak, which hosted weekly meetings of the Providence Conspiracy League. The league started collecting conspiracy information and storing it in a big loose-leaf binder with a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald on the cover. And the binder led to the magazine. Link to the Washington Post article, Link to Paranoia (via The Anomalist)...
Paranoia magazine in Washington Post - Boing Boing {...}
Published: February 19, 2008, 7:43 pm - Indexed: February 20, 2008, 10:43 am - Page Size: 41KB
Category: Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk

]]> {LITERATURE > RSS FEEDS} - DreamWorks Goes For Paranormal DreamWorks has acquired the domestic and remake rights to director Oren Peli's independent haunted-house film Paranormal Activity, Variety reported. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/science-fiction/rss-feeds/dreamworks-goes-for-paranormal-20080166017.htm 2008-01-31T05:00:00Z 2008-01-31T05:00:00Z Scifi.Com http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=3&id=47850 DreamWorks Goes For Paranormal {new window}   Www.Scifi.Com - DreamWorks has acquired the domestic and remake rights to director Oren Peli's independent haunted-house film Paranormal Activity, Variety reported.
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Published: January 31, 2008, 5:00 am - Indexed: February 1, 2008, 11:11 am - Page Size: 40KB
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]]> {LITERATURE > RSS FEEDS} - Blood's Vamps Wear Prada Valerie Stivers, author of Blood is the New Black, told SCI FI Wire that the novel crosses the paranormal/slasher genre with chick lit. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/science-fiction/rss-feeds/blood-s-vamps-wear-prada-20080192315.htm 2008-01-24T05:00:00Z 2008-01-24T05:00:00Z Scifi.Com http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=5&id=47575 Blood's Vamps Wear Prada {new window}   Www.Scifi.Com - Valerie Stivers, author of Blood is the New Black, told SCI FI Wire that the novel crosses the paranormal/slasher genre with chick lit.
SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM {...}
Published: January 24, 2008, 5:00 am - Indexed: January 24, 2008, 9:38 am - Page Size: 41KB
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]]> {LITERATURE > RSS FEEDS} - International Explores Haunted U.K. Donna LaCroix, one of the paranormal investigators on SCI FI Channel's new Ghost Hunters International, told SCI FI Wire that the first episode will find the team exploring Chillingham Castle, billed as the most haunted castle in England. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/science-fiction/rss-feeds/international-explores-haunted-u-k-2008019679.htm 2008-01-09T05:00:00Z 2008-01-09T05:00:00Z Scifi.Com http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=2&id=47111 International Explores Haunted U.K. {new window}   Www.Scifi.Com - Donna LaCroix, one of the paranormal investigators on SCI FI Channel's new Ghost Hunters International, told SCI FI Wire that the first episode will find the team exploring Chillingham Castle, billed as the most haunted castle in England.
SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM {...}
Published: January 9, 2008, 5:00 am - Indexed: January 9, 2008, 11:36 am - Page Size: 40KB
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]]> {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - End of skeptic James Randi's million dollar challenge For ten years, skeptic magician James Randi has offered a million dollars to "anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event." He's just announced that the James Randi Educational Foundation is discontinuing the Million-Dollar Challenge two years from now. The money will be freed, he says, "to generally add to our flexibility" and enable the group "to do many more projects." From his note on the matter: Now, we?re sure that there will be those who will offer all kinds of objections to this decision ? though they could have simply applied and won the prize. There will be accusations that the JREF is concerned about the safety of the prize money ? which was never any sort of concern, I can assure you ? and there will be more claims that the money was never there in the first place. I can see the professionals out there sighing in relief that they no longer have to answer questions about why they won?t take the prize, and they?ll just wait out the remaining period that the prize is available. All that?s to be expected. Ten years is long enough to wait. The hundreds of poorly-constructed applications, and the endless hours of phone, e-mail, and in-person discussions we?ve had to suffer through, will be things of the past, for us at the JREF. Those who believe they have mystic powers now have two full years to apply? Let?s see what happens. Link... http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/end-of-skeptic-james-randi-s-million-dollar-challenge-2008018395.htm 2008-01-08T16:32:45Z 2008-01-08T16:32:45Z Boingboing.Net http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/08/end-of-skeptic-james.html End of skeptic James Randi's million dollar challenge {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - For ten years, skeptic magician James Randi has offered a million dollars to "anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event." He's just announced that the James Randi Educational Foundation is discontinuing the Million-Dollar Challenge two years from now. The money will be freed, he says, "to generally add to our flexibility" and enable the group "to do many more projects." From his note on the matter: Now, we?re sure that there will be those who will offer all kinds of objections to this decision ? though they could have simply applied and won the prize. There will be accusations that the JREF is concerned about the safety of the prize money ? which was never any sort of concern, I can assure you ? and there will be more claims that the money was never there in the first place. I can see the professionals out there sighing in relief that they no longer have to answer questions about why they won?t take the prize, and they?ll just wait out the remaining period that the prize is available. All that?s to be expected. Ten years is long enough to wait. The hundreds of poorly-constructed applications, and the endless hours of phone, e-mail, and in-person discussions we?ve had to suffer through, will be things of the past, for us at the JREF. Those who believe they have mystic powers now have two full years to apply? Let?s see what happens. Link...
End of skeptic James Randi's million dollar challenge - Boing Boing {...}
Published: January 8, 2008, 4:32 pm - Indexed: January 9, 2008, 11:24 am - Page Size: 92KB
Category: Arts > Literature > Genres > Cyberpunk

]]> {SYSTEMS > NEWS AND MEDIA} - iPO Free on iTunes - Paranormal, Quasi-normal, Abbey-normal, and More Vern used his own clairvoyant powers to deduce that you want to find free downloads at the iTunes Store. This week, he divined shows for paranormal researchers, night time drama lovers, and the hidden scientist inside all of us http://articles.world-of-newave.info/computers/systems/apple/macintosh/news-and-media/ipo-free-on-itunes-paranormal-quasi-normal-abbey-20071251416.htm 2007-12-14T23:00:00Z 2007-12-14T23:00:00Z Ipodobserver.Com http://www.ipodobserver.com/story/34078 iPO Free on iTunes - Paranormal, Quasi-normal, Abbey-normal, and More {new window}   Www.Ipodobserver.Com - Vern used his own clairvoyant powers to deduce that you want to find free downloads at the iTunes Store. This week, he divined shows for paranormal researchers, night time drama lovers, and the hidden scientist inside all of us
Free on iTunes - Paranormal, Quasi-normal, Abbey-normal, and More || The iPod Observer - Now Playing {...}
Published: December 14, 2007, 11:00 pm - Indexed: December 15, 2007, 12:10 pm - Page Size: 23KB
Category: Computers > Systems > Apple > Macintosh > News and Media

]]> {EUROPE > MUSEUMS} - Seeing Is Believing - The Photographers' Gallery Goes Ghostly There are strange goings-on at the Photographers' Gallery in London in an exhibition combinging vintage documentation of the paranormal and contemporary takes on it. http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/arts-and-entertainment/museums/seeing-is-believing-the-photographers-gallery-20071296217.htm 2007-12-13T00:00:00Z 2007-12-13T00:00:00Z 24hourmuseum.Org.Uk http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/exh_gfx_en/ART52507.html Seeing Is Believing - The Photographers' Gallery Goes Ghostly {new window}   Www.24hourmuseum.Org.Uk - There are strange goings-on at the Photographers' Gallery in London in an exhibition combinging vintage documentation of the paranormal and contemporary takes on it.
Seeing Is Believing - The Photographers' Gallery Goes Ghostly - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage {...} 24 Hour Museum is the UK's official guide to over 3,000 museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage attractions. 24 Hour Museum offers daily arts news, exhibition reviews, listings and in-depth online trails, as well as having a comprehensive, fully searchable, database of over 3,000 cultural institutions. {...}
Published: December 13, 2007, 12:00 am - Indexed: December 13, 2007, 9:54 am - Page Size: 43KB
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]]> {LITERATURE > CYBERPUNK} - Interview with the Daily Grail's Greg Taylor Reality Sandwich interviewed Greg Taylor, proprietor of the Daily Grail, a wonderfully strange blog covering anomalous phenomena, the occult, and high weirdness of all stripes, and editor of Darklore, a print journal of "exceptional observations, hidden history, the paranormal and esoteric science." From the Reality Sandwich interview: Another topic of esoteric interest discussed on your site is secret societies. Groups like the Skull and Bones, the Knights Templar, Opus Dei, the Bohemian Club, and the Freemasons have been shrouded in mystery and rumor throughout history. I've heard some bizarre stories involving secret rites and rituals, for example the Skull and Bonesmen who are forced to masturbate publicly in coffins as part of their initiation, and the Freemasons reciting the gruesome manner in which they will be ritualistically murdered and dismembered if they betray their oath to the group. What are we to think of stories like these? Can it be said that there is a definite occult dimension in these rituals? I think most "secret societies" that we know today are really just glorified men's clubs, although some have their basis in original occult practices. The resurrection rites of the Masons have parallels in many cultures, and are to some degree a magickal rite (on a slight tangent ? if you analyze the Catholic Mass you'll find it too is pretty much a magickal rite aimed at altering consciousness). But overall, it would seem to me that these societies have lost their past, and are basically just "going through the motions." I think the real question about modern secret societies is their influence on politics. It still bewilders me that more was not made in the last U.S. presidential election about the fact that both Dubya Bush and John Kerry were members of the same secret society, Skull and Bones. A society with only (roughly) 800 living members, who refuse to reveal anything about the society and their relationship with it, manage to have "control" of the two candidates to lead 300 million people and the world's most powerful nation? That doesn't sound like democratic choice to me. Additionally, the world's economic bodies seem to be becoming the new "secret societies." Important decisions affecting billions of people are made behind closed doors, by a very small cartel. Link (via Further)... http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/cyberpunk/interview-with-the-daily-grail-s-greg-taylor-2007127278.htm 2007-12-10T23:58:56Z 2007-12-10T23:58:56Z Boingboing.Net http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/10/interview-with-the-d.html Interview with the Daily Grail's Greg Taylor {new window}   Www.Boingboing.Net - Reality Sandwich interviewed Greg Taylor, proprietor of the Daily Grail, a wonderfully strange blog covering anomalous phenomena, the occult, and high weirdness of all stripes, and editor of Darklore, a print journal of "exceptional observations, hidden history, the paranormal and esoteric science." From the Reality Sandwich interview: Another topic of esoteric interest discussed on your site is secret societies. Groups like the Skull and Bones, the Knights Templar, Opus Dei, the Bohemian Club, and the Freemasons have been shrouded in mystery and rumor throughout history. I've heard some bizarre stories involving secret rites and rituals, for example the Skull and Bonesmen who are forced to masturbate publicly in coffins as part of their initiation, and the Freemasons reciting the gruesome manner in which they will be ritualistically murdered and dismembered if they betray their oath to the group. What are we to think of stories like these? Can it be said that there is a definite occult dimension in these rituals? I think most "secret societies" that we know today are really just glorified men's clubs, although some have their basis in original occult practices. The resurrection rites of the Masons have parallels in many cultures, and are to some degree a magickal rite (on a slight tangent ? if you analyze the Catholic Mass you'll find it too is pretty much a magickal rite aimed at altering consciousness). But overall, it would seem to me that these societies have lost their past, and are basically just "going through the motions." I think the real question about modern secret societies is their influence on politics. It still bewilders me that more was not made in the last U.S. presidential election about the fact that both Dubya Bush and John Kerry were members of the same secret society, Skull and Bones. A society with only (roughly) 800 living members, who refuse to reveal anything about the society and their relationship with it, manage to have "control" of the two candidates to lead 300 million people and the world's most powerful nation? That doesn't sound like democratic choice to me. Additionally, the world's economic bodies seem to be becoming the new "secret societies." Important decisions affecting billions of people are made behind closed doors, by a very small cartel. Link (via Further)...
Interview with the Daily Grail's Greg Taylor - Boing Boing {...}
Published: December 10, 2007, 11:58 pm - Indexed: December 11, 2007, 9:32 am - Page Size: 31KB
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