815 Space Dharma

2007-03-31T09:15:00.000-07:00

Pasadena, Calif. -- An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission.

. . . "This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We've never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn's thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you'd expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is."

The hexagon is similar to Earth's polar vortex, which has winds blowing in a circular pattern around the polar region. On Saturn, the vortex has a hexagonal rather than circular shape. The hexagon is nearly 25,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) across. Nearly four Earths could fit inside it.

It moves too:

Exclusive! Secret Baby Brainwashing Scene

2007-02-14T08:15:00.000-08:00

Check this exclusive never-before seen footage of Claire's baby going through the Young Carl brainwash treatment while he was kidnapped a few seasons back. This was apparently cut for decency's sake, and for good reason. It's just a baby, man. Just a baby.

A New Refutation of Time and Space.

2007-02-13T20:15:00.000-08:00

Claire has a hard time getting comfortable with the Supreme Court all up in her uterus.

Wow. LOST writers are really reachin' with this whole backwards-masking of talk about enslavement to time and space during last week's Young Carl brainwashing scene.

Male Pregnancy

2007-02-08T20:15:00.000-08:00

This and this have gotta be LOST affiliated, right? Otherwise...

SIGN ME UP!

It's Always Sunny on the Island

2007-02-08T08:15:00.000-08:00

Forever Young: Mac is rumored to play a big role in Lost's upcoming "Prom Episode."

Except when something bad happens; then it rains every time.

2006-10-18T08:15:00.000-07:00

Wire - I Feel Mysterious Today

Remix better than the OG

2006-10-17T20:15:00.000-07:00

Turns out that video posted below isn't new after all, not by internet standards at least. it's known as the Sri Lanka Video, and it came out piece by piece as part of one of those online LOST role-playing alternate reality fake website follow the clues things that I skipped out on this summer whilst travelling around checking out real-life mysterious islands.

Looks like I missed out, though, because that Sri Lanka video (up until the unintentionally comical chase at the end) is more interesting than anything we've seen yet this season on the actual television show.

There's too many of us

2006-10-12T20:15:00.000-07:00

Another week, another song from Repo Man. Oh yeah, new(?) DHARMA/Hanso video too...

Fear - Let's Have A War

2006-10-10T20:15:00.000-07:00

Normally I'd be a little salty at this guy over the pointless negativity of his "Why Lost Sucks" blog, but dude is also the man behind this magical spot (where despite the bitching, hope springs eternal,) and it's not in me to ever speak ill of a true supporter of the A.

So instead of a "you mad, doggie?" admonishment, I'll simply say, "do you, homie, and update that Lost blog while you're at it. You aren't even through Season 2 yet."

Meanwhile, I need to get on registering Atlanta Krunk dot blogspot dot com.

2006-10-08T08:15:00.000-07:00

While the unexplained appearance of this Creepy Little Girl™ in the promotional flicks for last week's season premier might lead some to believe the episode was secretly guest directed by M. Night Shyamalan, it wasn't.

Nope. Would have been even worse.

Looking for the joke

2006-10-04T20:15:00.000-07:00

with a microscope.

Juicy Bananas - "Bad Man"

Whut?

2006-10-03T20:15:00.000-07:00

Just in case you're a little short on *buck!* for Wednesday, don't worry, systemD128--the genius who gave us this--offers up a little help in the form of this "Let's Go!(Lost Mix)Say Whut."

Thanks to 51:51 for the heads up.

Internet Pervert's Photoshop Game So Focused!

2006-06-01T20:15:00.000-07:00

Alright! Anybody got an animated gif?

Bet it smells like ranch dressing...

2006-05-26T20:15:00.000-07:00

Mmm, ranch.

2006-05-25T08:15:00.000-07:00

"The place is quite a wilderness," said Squire Headlong: "for, during the latter part of my father's life, while I was finishing my education, he troubled himself about nothing but the cellar, and suffered everything else to go to rack and ruin. A mere wilderness, as you see, even now in December; but in summer a complete nursery of briers, a forest of thistles, a plantation of nettles, without any livestock but goats, that have eaten up all the bark of the trees. Here you see is the pedestal of a statue, with only half a leg and four toes remaining: there were many here once.

-CHAPTER IV: The Grounds

Answer your telephone!

2006-05-24T20:15:00.000-07:00

You know, they had me--from the surprise appearance of Caleb Nichols, to the giant four-toed statue and the talking bird, through to the Byrd Gang colored sky--right up until that well put-together English broad who happens to bear a suspicious similarity to the star of that elaborate commercial/ARG, "The Lost Experience," answered the telephone at the end.

Corporate espionage is so lame.

What is this "O Clone"?

If only.

Finally.

2006-05-23T20:15:00.000-07:00

McFarlane Toys will be selling "Lost" action-figures. They may make dolls, but these guys are not playing around...

AGAIN DO NOT COMBINE FIGURES FROM DIFFERENT SERIES UNLESS BOTH SERIES ARE IN STOCK!!! You MAY not recieve your entire order if you do not follow these instructions. ORDERS CANNOT BE ALTERED AFTER THEY ARE PLACED so be CAREFUL!

~~GREAT~~, err, I mean, Great. I guess that means I'll have to place my "Vince Young Titans Baby-Blue" order seperately. Why must they torment me so?

RIP Ana-Lucia Cortez

2006-05-20T20:15:00.000-07:00

Cortez?

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cortez the Killer (Live)

2006-05-19T08:15:00.000-07:00

"'Lost' is the sudoku of network television, a brainteaser that puzzles but does not enlighten."

Spoken like someone who sucks at sudoku.

No Rerun.

2006-05-16T20:15:00.000-07:00

ABC has decided chunks are better than fits and spurts. Next season, they will air seven new "Lost" episodes in the fall, then put the show on hiatus while "Day Break," which seems to be some kind of Grown & Sexy update of "Groundhog Day" starring Taye Diggs, airs. "Lost" will then come back in the Spring with new episodes through the end of the season.

This year, though, we'll have to continue to rely on these guys.

Clocks

2006-05-13T08:15:00.000-07:00

Looks like we finally know what caused that plane to crash. The very fabric of the universe was ripped asunder by the unholy "mash-up" of woodgrain errything and trendy high-design.

I'll take two, please.

Biddy Biddy Bong Bong

2006-05-11T20:15:00.000-07:00

One by one, load up the van, all of-a ganja it ram.

Dude, is that ganj? Dude, that's totally ganj.

Eek-a-Mouse - "Ganja Smuggling"

subLYMONal.com

2006-05-10T20:15:00.000-07:00

Please tell me the Hanso Foundation spot that ran tonight instructing viewers to go to subLYMONal.com (a site prominetly featuring the word "obey" as in "obey your thirst" not as in this) didn't have tiny print in the corner reading "paid for by Sprite."

Shit, at least it didn't play that god-awful "Falling Away" song.

UPDATE: These guys seem to be doing a remarkable job of running down all the clues involved in this interactive game.

The Shock of Recognition?

2006-05-06T08:15:00.000-07:00

Oops. You weren't supposed to shoot her, Mike. She's one of them.

1-877-HANSORG

2006-05-04T08:15:00.000-07:00

So somehow, despite the fact that we here at 815 are nerdy enough to maintain a blog about Lost, we missed the fact that the producers have been hyping up and now unveiled a new interactive puzzle/game.

The first clue was revealed last night in the form of a Hanso Foundation commercial that ran during the broadcast. The TV was on mute up here at HQ, but we caught the phone #, which doesn't seem to work, but supposedly reveals a password that one (if one is so geekily inclined) may use to access some kind of secret virtual reality Davinici Code riddle over at the revamped and heavily flashified Hanso Foundation website.

~~Obsess.~~Enjoy.