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Magnetic force repel attract, once it starts there's no turning back
"Service was slow at the Old Entomologist," I said by way of exculpation when we returned late to work after lunch. "Head barmaid Evangeline van Holsterin is annoyed with us. Apparently the giant...
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Break Glass in Event of Alchemical Emergency
"The Man in the Jar" is one of only a few Sensational Alex Harvey Band songs directly inspired by a Gustav Meyrink conte cruel."So," I sez to myself, "with all these illustrations to The Man in the...
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"Primus inter Parés," Another Kiwi vouchsafed.
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It takes the phrase "tossed salad" to a new level. Robert James Mills appeared in the Invercargill District Court yesterday for assaulting his mother with a lettuce.Now inspired to write the script...
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Well I stepped into an avalanche, It covered up my soul
I had a hard time from family and teachers in my teens for reading schlocky thrillers instead of studying.Still, I learned the word 'liquefaction' and knew better over the subsequent four decades than...
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Spider spider walking fastDown the racetracks of the pastChronotechnic...
Isn't it always the same? You let someone borrow the keys to the Riddled time machine -- "just stocking up on hadrosaur steaks for the barbeque!" -- and the next thing stories like this are appearing...
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MR James Blogging: Rupture-ready edition
Some say that the Riddled Amateur Dramatic Society should not accept sponsorship for product placement. Some people are asking to be pointed in the midriff by tigris with a sharp stick. In...
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Even Mother Hitton had to start small
Littul Kitton / LOLcat mash-ups.You know you want them.... Before checking the goofle for "Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons", be aware thatThe odd spelling of the "Littul Kittons" is intentional, as...
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In Orthodox Church, paintings weep at you
Alternative title: Lonely TeardropsTwo cats moved to tears by ash-based sculpture "Why are you loonies trying to instil artworks with the ability to make people weep?" This is a question we are often...
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Pigments of imagination: Think Blue, Count Two
Underground transport network: Doin it rong"What happens if we treat colour words in a language as the stations of an underground train network?" This is the kind of question which often arises after...
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It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good
The client's brief was clear enough: "Predict coming trends in personal transport". Any of us who invested heavily in the flying car industry, only to lose our stake due to lack of consumer demand for...
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The Novel of the White Powder
1. US Patent 3956511, from 1976, is for a way of preparing glucose polymer (dextrin) particles that can absorb about their own weight in grain alcohol, the resulting powder to be dissolved in water on...
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In Lexington they're going to burnThe Library of Congress for charity
We apologise for the inactivity at Riddled. Another Kiwi and I have been busy all week, manning the security checkpoints and devising ever more bodily-intrusive forms of scrutiny for visitors to the...
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I thought of fire, but I feared that the burning of an infinite book might...
Classic novel, cultural amnesia, the death of literacy...Reading is hard but fortunately there is a graphic adaptation.Looking at pictures is hard too. I think I'll just listen to Hawkwind.
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The Execution will not be Live-blogged
Timothy Leary's Experiential Typewriter was a kind of ontological stenotype. The idea was to allow touch-typing observers to report the experience of tripping, at "twenty to a hundred codes a second",...
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Life imitates Far Side Cartoons
Praying mantids have depth perception, based on each eye seeing slightly different images, an ability they require for their remarkable facility on bicycles. Of course this is a 1986 observation and...
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Cats and Evolvamat machines: What could go wrong?
The Chameleon Moose is not fooling anyone by trying to disguise itself as a fence-post. The antlers are the giveaway.
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Just one breath and it's instant death It's the aerosol grey machine
Crack-pipe technology has advanced considerably since I were a lad. But try telling that to kids today!
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