MetaFilter posts tagged with kook

Free Energy Tomorrow

Optimus Chyme — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:12:45 -0800

Previously featured on MetaFilter, "Free Energy" company Steorn had scheduled a demonstration of their revolutionary, world-changing, physics-defying contraption Orbo to open today at London's Kinetica Museum. But due to "intense heat" from camera lighting, their fake invention isn't working today. Here's the live web feed of an empty box. Incidentally, it seems that the Steorn folks have allies in high - very high - places.

Make me glad for everything I have

Scoo — Mon, 15 May 2006 10:28:09 -0800

David Hart: L.A. Public Access TV Legend left me flabbergasted (video).

Attention Deficit Disorder

shadow45 — Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:32:41 -0800

Choking Man. This weirdo has been running around South Florida for a few months, feigning choking in front of women in parking lots. Why do people feel the need to act out Chuck Palahniuk's stories?

waxpancake — Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:43:47 -0800

The Rapture Ready index is a numerical assessment of signs that indicate the end times are here. Maintained by USAF supply sergeant Todd Strandberg, he says the Index isn't meant to show when the Rapture will come, but how quickly we are moving towards it. It's a speedometer; not a clock. (More inside.)