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Susan Atkins, Manson Follower, Dies
Susan Atkins, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson whose remorseless witness stand confession to killing pregnant actress Sharon Tate in 1969 shocked the world, has died. She was 61 and had been suffering from brain cancer. (nyt)

The Lie Machine
GOP operatives are running a secret campaign to kill health care reform, and it’s based on Karl Rove’s old playbook. (rolling stone)

Brits have had ‘indirect sex’ with 2.8 million people
The “Sex Degrees of Separation” ready reckoner tots up the numbers based on your number of partners, then their previous partners, and their former lovers, and so on for six “generations” of partners. (yahoo)

New tool to fight syphilis? Wal-Mart gift cards
During times of economic downturn, people are more likely to turn to unhealthy behaviors that contribute to the spread of syphilis, such as trading sex for money. (msnbc)

The story of how Detroit died
If Detroit had been savaged by a hurricane and submerged by a ravenous flood, we’d know a lot more about it. If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we’d see it on the evening news every night. Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it — if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice. (time)

Warning: this unrealistic image has been Photoshopped
The French parliament has held its first hearing of a proposed law that would require every advertisement to display a disclaimer telling the public that images of people were manipulated. The goal is to help cut down on body issues in adolescents, and violating the law could be costly. (ars technica)

Million to one apple is half red, half green
Fruit grower Ken Morrish was left stunned when he found a golden delicious apple on his tree split exactly half green, half red down the middle. (telegraph)

Dutchman Flips Tractor Trailer While Masturbating, Doesn’t Stop
A high-on-drugs Dutch trucker en route to Gothenburg, Sweden, was masturbating while driving and lost control, flipping the truck and blocking multiple lanes of traffic. While in the wreckage, he kept masturbating. Under police interrogation, he kept masturbating. That’s determination. (jalopnik)

Future is TV-shaped, says Intel
By 2015 more than 12 billion devices will be capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content, says chip giant Intel. (bbc)

Spaced: Ten Year Anniversary
The ground-breaking, hugely influential and enormously funny sitcom that launched the careers of Edgar Wright (who directed), Simon Pegg (who co-wrote and starred), Jessica Hynes (who did the same) and Nick Frost (who made his acting debut as the deranged Mike) – is ten years old. (empire)

Exclusive New Interview with David Lynch
Brand new interview with the one and only David Lynch. Topics include his films (of course), smoking, Transcendental Meditation, and his daily quota of 15 cups of coffee. (viceland)

No Signal
A montage of cellphones in horror movies. (youtube via metafilter)

From the guys who made “Forrest Gump, In 1 minute in 1 take”; Here’s “28 Days Later, In 1minute in 1 take”.
(youtube.com)

The 25 Best SNL Commercial Parodies Of All Time
With “Saturday Night Live” premiering its 35th season this weekend, we’re counting down some of their funniest moments, including their best digital shorts, and most fabulous presidential impressions. But the true highlight of “SNL” has always been its fake commercials, which have offered everything from edible floorwax to edible energy drinks. Unfortunately, three of our favorites (Nikey Turkey, Compulsion by Calvin Klein, and Steve Martin’s All-Natural Penis Beauty Cream) are not available online, but the rest are here! (huffingtonpost)

Maybe Halloween is coming early this year?

Anyone who regularly trolls imageboards are familiar with Creepy Pasta: short snippets of stories (cut and pasted again and again) designed to seriously scare the ever-loving-bejesus out of you. They’re very popular, in fact, there’s a website (a very good one BTW) that collects them.

Which brings us to Candle Cove. This is one of those things you click on and wonder: is it real?

Candle Cove is the subject of an internet forum discussion about a locally-broadcast children’s show in Ashland, Ky. that ran back in the early 1970′s. There is some argument about whether it was 1971 or 1972.

Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Candle Cove ran for only a couple months in ‘71, not ‘72. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after the news. Let me see what I remember.

It took place in Candle cove, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Pirate Percy wasn’t a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don’t remember the girl’s name. Janice or Jade or something. Think it was Janice.

The discussion about the show goes back and fourth, and more details are revealed. Evidently, there is a character called the “skin taker,” a dirty skeleton wearing a brown top hat and cape, “sewn up crazily of children’s skin.” One poster asks the obvious, “Why did our parents allow us to watch that show?”

Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Candle Cove local kid’s show?
I’m so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.

Seriously, you should just read the whole thread.

Yahoo Answers claims the whole thing is fake. I’m not so sure. There’s a video snippet on YouTube, but be warned, some people insist all they see is several minutes of static.

Is Candle Cove real? I imagine somewhere, in someone’s head it is. I find it difficult to believe, but then again, every time I try to type the words “Candle Cove” I mess up, and type “candle cover” instead. It’s as if my fingers have a mind of their own. You give it a try.

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