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Habeo igitur quod ex eum quaesisti, quid esset hopper. Non est hopper, non...
Imagine the excitement at the Old Entomologist when conversation turned to this paper at last night's meeting of the "Nocturnal Insect Vision and Table-top Clog-Dancing" discussion group:Tobacco...
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Out of countenance (the Unreasoning Mask)
Courtesy of Xeni @ boingboing, here are some people who were in too much of a hurry in the morning and forgot to put their masks on. The rules of society often seem unreasonable. What difference should...
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In your burning tight leather you're a firebomb
The plan is worthy of Baldrick in its cunningness. The falcon is wearing false boobies so the crew of the U-boat will be distracted by the view through the periscope and will not notice the...
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The hot chocolate drink ration is to be increased to 25 grams per week
Back at the Old Entomologist Korova Milkbar...A customer is not happy with the Moloko Plus. Too much palm-oil and vellocet, not enough drencrom and synthemesc. My droogs, this is no way to sharpen up...
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Apparently kitty photographs make people go "Squeee"
He's a pedigreed aristocrat who can trace his ancestry to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule... she's a street-wise feral with no known parentage.Yet they found each other!These were taken back...
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The Bantam of the Opera
No history of the use of poultry in warfare would be complete without a reference to the BLUE PEACOCK nuclear landmine, and to the chicken-powered heating scheme that the boffins came up with when it...
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'Nirvana Cabal'... Electrosynth-Klezmer band name, or next novel in the...
In my day, when we felt inspired to run a one-dimensional cellular automaton that would simulate how pigment cells switch on and off in the growing shell lip of Conus textile and C. geographus...
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The Bantam Menace
Q.: What do you call an angry giant mutant hoverboard-riding chicken that's chasing Ann Althouse? A.: Leia.
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Bad luck, Skippy
Kangaroos are not considered to be legitimate service / sensory-assistance animals.An excess of scruples and qualms prevents me from living my intended career as a cad, so I need this assistance...
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It transpires that a "suppository" is not the room in one's house devoted to...
Oh how frustrating. The library pixies appear to have commandeered the baroque fountain in the courtyard of stately Riddled Manor, and have converted tigris' shoe collection into small galleys, which...
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This rhetorical question was brought to you by the Riddled Rhetor Service
Giant floating stone heads. Does the world need a sequel to Zardoz?OF COURSE IT DOES.Also too.
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If I had known the Abyss looked like that, I would never have stared into it
thx Boing-BoingAlso just look at all these adorable little sloth parasites about to hatch from infected tissue:
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You're very clever, young man, but it's greater fleas and lesser fleas, all...
"Tell us more about GcMAF!" said absolutely no-one. But at Riddled we are steadfast in our determination to bring you nothing but the freshest, artisanal, hand-curated loons. Also I am in thrall to the...
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The Reverse-Phi Motion Effect
One seldom sees it used so effectively. In other news, I went all the way to a conference in Japan in order to drink Riga Black Balzam.
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Colour-Vision Deficiency in old-world primates: A case study
The monkey is clearly a dichromat, unable to distinguish reds and greens, which is why his painting is dominated by the tonality of blues and yellows which stand out from grey for him.One would take...
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Spellcheck. Is it your friend?
Spoiler alert: NO.Derp animal* is amused. ----------------* From the Otoyo Jinja shrine.
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Ethics in gamma journalism
It is not immediately clear why Mavi et al. set about exposing blue-green algae and cyanobacteria to gamma radiation from a Cobalt-60 source.Perhaps they dreamed of mutating the algae into an advanced...
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The inhabitants of that street impressed me peculiarly. At first I thought it...
From The Casebook of Erich Zann, Consulting Detective....The absence of Conan Doyle / H. P. Lovecraft cross-overs is not satisfactory.Leaning back in his armchair of an evening, he would close his eyes...
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Keep the Giraffe Burning
It is time again to announce the results of last week's competition, and to thank all those busy little Riddled readers who sent in their entries.The competition was (as any fule kno) to suggest a new...
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