Then they put the electrodes on me ¹
Floating disembodied hands have none of your new-fangled 'qualms' or 'scruples' about "ethics" or "limits to knowledge". This makes them invaluable assistants around the Riddled Research Laboratory....
View ArticlePolitical Permutations with Peterson Peçanha
Bob Rummel: Hi Politics fans Bob 'Rum man' Rummel here bringing you the next programme Political Permutations with Peterson Peçanha, Rapid București Goalkeeper. Hey PP what's up?Peterson Peçanha: Hi...
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In further news, and to bring our Umlaut usage up to internationally-recommended levels, here's Björk:
View ArticleThe penis thieves grow bolder by the day
ETERNAL VIGILANCE is the key. Even swimming in mid-ocean you are not safe. "As long as you're feeling itThe witches aren't stealing it."H/t Peacay at Bibliodyssey.
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Having recently emerged from the attack of the small font thingo in the HTML I am at liberty to explain the latest round of Gubblement shonkyness in these here islands. Islands which may change their...
View Article'Huis Clos' was of course re-made for English-speaking audiences as 'Red Dwarf'
“They want to shut us up completely, and that’s why the attacks against me have been so vicious,” Carson said on the Mark Levin radio show. “I represent an existential threat to them.”An“existential...
View Articleif you talk for long enough to a hand, the hand talks also to you
See how well we treat our staff of disembodied hands at Riddled Research Laboratory, often treating them to weekend camping retreats in the bush! Here they are enjoying themselves around the campfire,...
View ArticleFriends don't let friends vote for a creeparsed , climate change denying,...
Australians and New Zilders are supposed to be friendly rivals. Occasionally this is supposed to spill over into something a little more heated, usually with some sporting fixture as the catalyst. 1Feb...
View ArticleHere are two cupids duelling with nunchaku in lieu of the usual bow-&-arrows
People laughed when we decided to launch the Riddled Cupid-only Web Channel, but they were wrong about the public's appetite for gladiatorial combat and we were right. HA HA Who's laughing now?! Credit...
View ArticleNovelty beehives and Scramble-Suit technology: A bad combination
No wonder the bees can't find their way home and the colonies collapse.
View ArticleThe Game of Rat and Dragon ¹
What is the definitional essence of a 'game'? If you believe Evangeline van Holsterin's vile nephew Throgmorton, a game is "any occupation requiring expensive apparatus that you buy from a traveling...
View ArticleThe First Law of Thermodynamics states that a thermodyne may not injure a...
The tendency to distort two unconnected fields of knowledge so as to draw a tenuous parallel between them -- and then to treat that parallel as a genuine insight into reality -- is the disordered...
View Article10CC Blogging: Like a Bus edition
I wanna be a bus, I wanna be a big bus, I wanna bus the world aroundI wanna be the biggest bus that ever bussed the world aroundJust think of the dramatic possibilities inherent in a non-stop...
View ArticleMy Friend Flicker
I thought we had already used this demonstration of the "Pattern-Induced Flicker Colour" effect, but I can't find it under titles like "Horse of Another Colour" or "Do these Stripes make my Ass look Big".
View ArticleColours out of space (and time)
Back with Another Kiwi and I were young, the world was monochrome as shown in old photographs, and if we wanted any colours we had to make them ourselves, by taking a spatial pattern of...
View ArticleFurther examples of poor taste: Waging aggressive war and creating pretexts...
Tony Blair has criticised people who held parties to "celebrate" the death of Baroness Thatcher, saying they were in "pretty poor taste".
View ArticleOh the huge manatee, and other secret weapons
Scenes from this North Korean documentary reveal the secret American plan to invade them with warships and rockets that look like Jimmy Durante.Evidently someone in the American military is convinced...
View ArticleWe remind all staff that when a slot in the control panel is labelled "Taq...
It remains to be seen whether the market for gourmet pork ice-cream onna stick really exists. However, when a minor contamination issue in the Vat-grown Godmeat facility results in a glut of...
View ArticleA banner with a strange device
Ground Zero Man warns us that feeding too many equations into the right side of the experimental subject's head can cause his left ear to turn into a cauliflower. The story is loosely based on a...
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