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Tell those men with horses for hearts
Presidential aspirant Carly Fiorina nominates equoidequine role model:Secretariat also had what’s called the “x-factor,” a gene located on the X-chromosome that causes an unusually large heart.*...
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There was to have been a rant here about camemberts pizzas pie charts but TL;DW
Stolen from Sean Leahy (via crenquis @ Boingboing).Also too, from Jim Hines:If I had to wear a collar like that, I would have it embroidered with tomatoes and aubergines &c so it looked like my...
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Go home, Interweb Search Engine. You are drunk
Also, Interlattice, you get all creepy and obsessive and stalky when you're drunk. UPDATED with skimpy otter beachwear because here at Riddled we are all about the fanservice.
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Deleted a few moribund blogs from the Bloglist. Not all the moribundage, of course, for that would turn the bloglist into a sad and lonely place indeed.Have finally added "Between the Hammer and the...
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Leopard-themed Hot Air Balloons
Available now from the Riddled Gifte Shoppe.[Stoled from P.Z. Myers]Zwei Pard-Ballons accounted for, only siebenundneunzig to go!Balloon Pards should not be confused with Jargoon Pards despite the...
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No Egrets
Despite an inauspicious surname, the first author was able to join in the communal apology:"All authors concur with this statement and apologise for not having detected these errors. Kamal Bouarab and...
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Weird scenes in the gold mine
It goes against the grain to say anything positive about the Omics Publishing academic scamsuckers -- they are an empire of meretricious mendacity who pollute the Intergrid with a firehose torrent of...
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Sufficiently advanced magical thinking is indistinguishable from technology
At Riddled we rate for half-baked ideas. Like half-baked bread, they keep in the fridge, ready to be popped in the oven for 15 minutes and served up to the family smelling all brown and sentimental and...
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"Mea Tulpa, mea maxima Tulpa", as the young Dalai Lama would respond when his...
"Vanishing-twin syndrome," I announced, "is the new Birth Trauma.""Have you been smoking the dried leeches again?" inquired tigris."They are for medicinal purposes only," I said. "I have just been...
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Google Deepdream has an inordinate fondness for Trump
Original GIF from Oregon Beer Snob
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In his Mountain View Googleplex, dead Cthulhu waits Deepdreaming
Other Re-animated GIFs do not work as well as the Deepdonald, perhaps because the neural network has less difficulty recognising the actual faces. Still, there is a nice Archimboldi effect going on.
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Not just your river in Europe
The anti-tsunami anti-sea-level dam around the entire coastline was not cheap but we knew it would come in useful one day to keep out the Yellow Peril: Wait, it turns out that "border" is a...
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Tell me what you know! The tips on the ends of shoelaces are called "aglets";...
A useful list of misspelled words: So if chromosomes are shoelaces -- perhaps the scrunchy kind that the Doktorling Sonja liked a decade or so ago -- then the aiglets at the tips to stop them...
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"For instance, it is possible that a medicine man may emit a focused...
Here is Canadian-born psychiatrist Colin A. Ross using his optical energy beams to defeat the reigning champion of Chessboxing. For shame, Dr Ross, that is CHEATING, which we condemn in strong terms...
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Heavy metal, Black and Silver Valhalla, we are coming
A concert at the local Heavy Metal venue is devoted to raising funds for the SPCA, the animal welfare charity. How much more soppy could this be? None more soppy. It is only a matter of time before the...
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...my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset
So this took place the other day:'Worried friends back on the mainland called police about 9pm.Police were taken out to the island in a boat with the help of the local surf lifesaving club but they...
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Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness (Fish ponds and a madman's honey #2)
How can this be?! Riddled is not the #1 hit for the search term "brain-shaped balloon"!? MUST TRY HARDER.Below, behold the intrepid Riddled honey collectors' lighter-than-air ascent of the inaccessible...
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Blood work
Kryptopyrrole! now there is a name to conjure with. Kryptopyrrole is an endogenous cause of psychosis, a schizogen... widely thought to be extinct, like phlogiston and Caloric.Commercial success with...
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Dramateur Hour
One thing I learned from watching 'Lucy' is that when you recruit smug-druggling mules, you sew the shipment of chemicalsinside each courier's abdominal cavity to prevent them going free-lance.Not...
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Turducken FAIL
Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.This is an Echidna, wrapped in a Perentie, inside a museum.It is an easy mistake to make.
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