The Horrible Screaming Skyscraper

Turn it down, mate

December 1, 2015 at 6:14PM
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This headline had better deliver:

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Eleven boats. Twenty-five bodies. So that's about two people per boat. Over the course of eight weeks. Just shows how any aggregated data can sound ominous.

QUIZ Here's an online quiz from the Guardian you may enjoy: what's this?

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Etch-a-sketch drawing? Crack in the windshield? Spiderweb after a dose of weed? The answer may surprise you, as they say on the internet, over and over, until you grind your teeth and beg them to stop.

ARCHITORTURE The architect has apologized for his screaming building. He lives there, so he couldn't be unaware his creation was howling and moaning every time the wind came up.

Watch people in the comments arguing about which note it is. C? B?

In related news, here's the Verge on the 200-story building going up in Saudi Arabia, complete with Coruscant-like pictures of the tower lancing the clouds. What will they possibly fill it with?

SPACE UPDATE Aliens? Probably not. Every time someone says it might be aliens, your first instinct should be "probably not," but over and over we get our hopes up. Again and again, Lucy yanks the ball away. That Alien Megastructure that could have been proof of a Dyson Sphere? Yeah, well, no.

Yet still we hope, because we want to believe. I'd post the story about the mysterious signal coming from another galaxy, but that'll be debunked in a few weeks. They're probably picking up the signal from a guy in the parking lot using his remote to lock his car.

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