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Exactly when the world is not expecting it Exactly when we're sure of...
How time flies! It seems only last Thursday that tenured mouth-breather Johan Goldbreg was extolling the electability of Newt Gingrich in a presidential election, having identified a thirst amongst the...
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Rah Rah Radula
It was last Thursday 18 months ago that Evangeline van Holsterin (head barmaid at the Old Entomologist) announced an "Invent Your Own Cocktail" night to help dispose of the dozen varieties of novelty...
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Casting aspersum
A more tasteful blogger observes thatquite why putting protein molecules (which are highly unlikely to be absorbed through your skin) on the dead outer surface of your skin would encourage the cells...
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O tempura, O morays
American culture has always rated Youth too highly, other parents have always over-indulged their children, and this dotage has always been reaching an unprecedented level. Thus it has always been, so...
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Hawkwind is always appropriate.
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Come the Revolution, children's abecedaries will become much simpler
'G' is for Guillotine.'A' is for Auillotine, 'B' is for Buillotine, 'C' is for Cuillotine.
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Notes towards a re-make of 'Сталкер'
"I'm off for lunch," I said; "I'll be back after two pints. Don't let Another Kiwi play with the Morphogenic Field Flux Intensifier. Especially don't let him intensify the foxes-and-sandwiches...
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The marble Index of a mind
Dear Riddled,I would like to borrow the time machine. I have a novel and interesting idea for reconstructing the missing arms of the Venus de Milo, but my therapist advised me that the Golden Age of...
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Warm Spinnerette
It is far from clear why these Italian researchers were seized with a whimsy -- or with a caprice, which is the same thing but in Italian -- to spray spiders with aqueous suspensions of graphene or...
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Dentistry not just theft, also sexual assault
A Wellington man accused of pulling out women’s teeth told a girlfriend he liked “gummy women” and said she was more beautiful when she was not wearing her dentures, his trial has been told.Wait, what?...
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The liberals at the dinner party were rendered speechless by my quip
They are so embarrassed that they are all wearing scramble suits to conceal their identities.
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Competition
Oh noes! There is mayoral competition for mah porcini patch!Mrs Spat, why are you not out there guarding them?
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Must be your eyes up on Mars But it seems like the headlights from the cars
Mars, ancient Mars. Planet of mystery. Planet of MBA degrees, cuff-links, 360° reviews and 6-Sigma consultancies.We are disappoint. This is not the Mars we were promised, all red and purple like Bruce...
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The Law of Nominal Determinism is a Harsh Mistress
Some lessons I have learned from reading about the Institute in Basic Life Principles:1. Avoid any organisation offering counselling for sexual abusers and sexual-abuse victims founded by someone...
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The Yeast is Read
So were the editors of Natureinterested in publishing an opinion piece about the legal ramifications of splicing the genes for psilocybin synthesis into Tinea pedis fungi, to produce a hallucinogenic...
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In vitro, in vivo The revolution's begun
A 2006 paper in Cancer, let me show you it:See Fig 2 below. Each column contains cultures of a different line of human prostate cell -- normal (PrEC), and three less-to-more invasive lines of prostate...
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Dear Frontiers Editorial staff
Thank you for the recent invitation to review the manuscript [XXXXXXX]. I have regretfully declined it on the grounds of my total ignorance of the field of cultural psychology, just as I have...
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Worst 'Robot B-9' costume EVAH
Don Driver, New Zealand's leading exponent of the artistic medium of flexy plastic tubing, died in 2011.But in a sense he lives on, as long as his admirers are constructing improvised shrines in his...
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Freak industrial accident: Midget caught inside Egg-whisk
Some of these case studies come from Electronic Gem Therapist Michael Kelly; some are from The Third Policeman. See if you can tell which is...
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