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Yes, and you won’t find anyone stranger than Gordon. No, but seriously he is...
It was tempting to make fun of this article when it came out earlier this year, amid much bloggosphere ballyhoo about "science confirming what everyone already knows", but there was so little substance...
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A bridged version
Ho, stalwart varlet. Art thou the one hight John Little, who y-claim mastery of this bridge, and wouldst let no wight cross without toll? Fetch thee a stout quartstaff, for I would contend with thee....
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Speak to me in many voices #2
"Do you remember how Act Like a Jack Vance Character Day was more fun," another Kiwi vouchsafed, "before it got so commercialised?" But Evangeline van Holsterin -- head barmaid at the Old Entomologist...
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He locks the door behind the door behind the door [Update]
Lazy update to an earlier post. Just wondering, what was it about golden-age SF art and Magritte doors?
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Pushing the envelope down the thin end of the slippery slope
Act 1.O hai, monkey boy. We are your new laptop. Take us next time you go travelling.OK, cats, I suppose you can sleep in the computer satchel. But remember, you're not allowed on the table.Act 2.I'm...
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Sorry, lady, only first sentences are eligible for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction...
Anne Hornaday: WashPost movie reviewer, Pulitzer-Prize finalist and crap writer:Toxic DNA and toxic monoculture? I can only suppose that she was also writing another article on GMO agriculture and the...
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Skull-blogging: Face-in-the-Frost edition (101 uses for an enticingly high...
Is it just me getting older, or does the Cranial Snowglobe Competition and Absinthe Cocktails night at the Old Entomologist seem to come earlier each year?Another Kiwi's design used paper rather than...
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Johnny-Depp-in-Lone-Ranger Cosplay: What could possibly go wrong?
Commenting at a better blog, à propos the Laffer-curve cargo cult, Aimai wrote:But if you were to put it into a science fiction novel the story of a society or a civilization in which the novels of Ayn...
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sm*t cl*desays: June 2, 2014 at 6:01 pmThe Unified Theory of Republican Projection leads me to predict a resurgence of “Libruls spat on returned veterans!” anecdotage.Next day:@baseballcrank Or...
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Bring on the Empty Horses
Cam O'Flage #1. Remember that time in the 80s when there was that fashion for telephone booths shaped like dead horses? "Think how it will enliven the next round of Dr Who reboots!" said the...
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Insert joke about Googol's "Dead Souls" here
There was a time when being dead meant an end to one's employment, but modern advances in zombification allow the university to enforce the contract posthumously, with a full academic workload...
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That drug really tied the Theory-of-Everything together
"I remember Lamia," Another Kiwi vouchsafed, staring dreamily into the middle distance and groping blindly across the table in front of him. For safety I removed the full glass out of the way of his...
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Skull-blogging: Float like a Butterfly Effect, sting like a bee
H/t AlisonWhen Carrier and Morgan's recent paper on "fisticuffs among robust Australopithecines" crossed our desks at Riddled Research Laboratory, our first thought was to wonder how much fans of the...
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First-world Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Problems
Problem #74: Academic Journal Identity Theft. Imagine the disappointment here at the Riddled High-Energy Library. We had thought to see the light of a new Renaissance dawning across the scientific...
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The Way of the Dodo
About 3,470,000 Googlehits for the phrase (including here).Worst martial-art technique EVAH.
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Full Metal Žižek: We read self-promoting obscurantist bafflegab so you don't...
One side-effect of recent inquiries into the world of money-leeching rep-snatching journals (and the people who publish in them) was to introduce me to the whole bogus bolus of Neutrosophy. Which is a...
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I for one welcome our invisible-piano-teaching alien overlords
I'd like to remind them that I could be helpful in rounding up quadrupeds to undergo their invisible piano lessons. Any quadruped which graduates from Invisible Piano School will be qualified to play...
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Selfie with Lion
H/t to BSpencer and Snarki son of Loki.As any fule kno, tiger selfies require a Shriekback soundtrack for full effect.
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τράγος γένειον ἆρα πενθήσεις σύ γε
It is time to draw a stand and take a line in the sand against modern sloppiness of language. The phrase is "on tenterhooks", people; not "on pins-and-needles"; the latter idiom is an ABOMINATION, a...
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The Metadata of Dorian Gray
Intrusive surveillance of the entire population was easier back in the days when magnetic tapes and punched Baudot-code ribbons were the media of mass data-storage, and could be presented as endearing...
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