I don't know why I was mesmerized by this.  Hopefully you will be, too.

Courtesy of bauhausfrau , I thought I should pass this along. According to http://blog.makezine.com/:"During the summer of 1997, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) repeatedly detected an extremely powerful underwater sound on an array of Cold War era hydrophones originally installed to listen for soviet submarines. "While it bears the varying frequency hallmark of marine animals, it is far more powerful than the calls made by any creature known on Earth." Phil Lobel, a marine biologist at Boston University, purportedly "agrees that the sound is most likely to be biological in origin," although his opinion appears to be in the minority. (Both quotes from this article at CNN.com.) The approximate origin of the sound has been identified as 50 S x 100 W, which is almost exactly the same latitude as Lovecraft's fictitious sunken city of R'lyeh, at 48 S x 123 W, although it is 1000 miles distant in terms of longitude.

You can listen to a sped-up version of "The Bloop" on the NOAA website here."

A look at Google Maps shows that location is some 1000 miles off the west coast of Chile, waaaaaay south of Santiago.  There's nothing anywhere near there.  I've listened to that recording, and it is pretty freaking creepy.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!  Ia! Ia!

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Ladies and gentlemen,

I invite you to wish a happy birthday to Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.  Very probably the finest writer of humorous fiction in the English language, he has given joy to millions of people in dozens of languages worldwide.  Thus it is, on what would have been his 128th birthday, I ask you to raise a glass in his honor.

I mean to say, the fellow's devilish clever, what?  Can't let a chap like that go unrecognized.