Category: apophenia
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"Lioconcha hieroglyphica" these venus shells with the squiggle writing make the head go Wot? Images from this imgur gallery References - imgur gallery - Wikipedia: Lioconcha hieroglyphica…
I can't explain how much I love this song, and I definitely can't explain why. There's a mystique and a power and something just so very odd about it. I feel like I enter a trance on every listen. Meanwhile, fans turned this album into a mystical treasure hunt. It's a code to be…
Analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog, in the end they both die. —Woody Allen Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. —Martin Mull Against all good advice, I plan to dissect every lyric in Custard's 2015 album, "Come Back, All Is Forgiven". I don't intend t…
Nonsense is nonsense. But the study of nonsense? That is a science. —Saul Lieberman - Apophenia is when the human mind finds meaning in the meaningless. A specific well-known special case of apophenia is “pareidolia”: the seeing of human faces in things which do not contain huma…
What is the connection between these three things? - A Chinese legend of an invisible cord tied around the ankle that connects those who are destined to meet. - Kabbalist belief that a thin scrap of woolen thread can be worn to ward off misfortune brought about by the evil eye. -…
As mentioned on my ridiculously over-long analysis of Come Back, All Is Forgiven Analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog, in the end they both die. —Woody Allen ...hence I must first apologise for the murder I am about to perform upon this most perfect song. I only pray that…
Steganography is about *smuggling* information. It is the process of hiding one message inside another in such a way that a person finding the outer message will not realise that a second message is hidden within. Consider a prisoner who needs to receive a secret message. They k…
There's a long long tradition, dating back at least five years, of reimagining a movie to have a different premise, generally in which one or all characters are dead, imaginary, or linked in an unexpected way, possibly involving time-travel. "This amazing pixar fan theory" -- Pi…
If you have a loved one missing, I just want to wish you the best. Research shows how ambiguous loss is so devastating and the grief so unrelenting. The disappearance of this young software developer, from Queensland, is to me a particularly puzzling event. I didn’t know Kathlee…
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