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Before it went mainstream and lost its hipster edginess, Medical Hypotheses was a boon to lazy bloggers on account of its regular supply of hilarity. In the opinion of the journal's founder (shared by...
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You kids have gone too far with your novelty coffee flavours.Also too, where do espresso-machine wranglers get off, calling themselves "barristas" like they are a kind of Roman siege catapult?
View ArticleFrontiers Masterpiece Theatre, Vaccine Edition (in three acts) Manuscripts...
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and explanation of the backstory. OvertureAcademic journals...
View ArticleHe's found the awful truth, Balthazar He's found the saucer news
Arthur Clarke once mused in an essay somewhere (can't be arsed looking up the details) about faking a threat of alien invasion, as the best way to end the Cold and Hot Wars by uniting the superpowers...
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New Zealand roadsigns are weird. I think this one means "Plumber ahead", or "Watch out for faucets" or something.Would it be very wrong to open a plumbing business called "Farrah Faucet-Majors"? Asking...
View ArticleSo I beheld, and lo! an ensign borne Whirling, that span and ran, as in...
The last of the photos 163 to 167 of the Kaipara Harbor with the site of the Moai Tidal Turbines in the future There are a few other books bound with the Manukau Kawharu History of New Zealand and...
View ArticleLeft to die by two good friends Abandoned me and put to sleep: Extraordinary...
Crowd-funding through on-line charity is one option, if you or a family member seeks some kind of therapeutic intervention unavailable through your local health-care provider (because it is not known...
View ArticleFoundation and Empire
So I wandered into a rough neighbourhood of the Interweave the other day while looking for information about David Halsall (European drug distributor for David Noakes; scores 4 Teslas in terms of...
View ArticleBecause the world was not stupid enough already
CHIZ CHIZ the January 20/21 lunar eclipse will not be visible from this side of the world. But this has the consolation that we are spared all the media bollocks about WOLF MOON.Journamalists are no...
View ArticleDem dry wet bones
"The owner of the unusual footwear likely made his living on the water"I don't know if they have ruled out the 'Skeleton Courier' possibility.
View ArticleSTOP PHOTOGRAPHING SMUT
I have no idea who Geoffrey is, but he should definitely stop peeping.
View ArticleGoats, goats, got no goats And stitches don't help at all
New Zealanders are no longer passive consumers of other countries' news. Lately they have been producing all the best news themselves!1. At the end of last year, a Scary Sea Alien found on Rakaia Huts...
View ArticleAn béal bocht a chur ort
A classic tale of struggle, power, personalities and tripeOh noes! I must have dozed through an episode of the long-running saga of tripe GcMAF (the all-curative blood- or colostrum-sourced...
View ArticleSMUT DON'T EAT IT
The story of Chew Chong is not well-known enough (which is to say, I didn't know it until recently so therefore everyone else must be equally ill-informed). Around 1870 (1868, in one version of the...
View ArticleThe starry wisdom Owned by the Baron And he’s got the cure [Carpe Diem edition]
Glymino? Glycolush? Glycovive? Glycoshyne? Are these really someone's well-considered choices for brandnames; or are they car marques from an alternative time-line, or the outputs of a neural network...
View ArticleTexas Brain-sore Massacre
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the nonfrivolity and Explaining Voice. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing, explanation of the back-story, and...
View ArticleWe cannot call a mortal bein happy before he’s passed beyond game free from pain
Is it wrong to be piping the classics of Greek Tragedy through the Gizoogle Textilizer?PRIEST: Oedipus, rula of mah natizzle land, you peep how tha fuck playas here of every last muthafuckin age...
View ArticleNature attacks you and Nature heals you #2: My vegetable love should grow
This is an admirably forthright, doubt-free Review Article:The authors sing the praises of carnivorous plant-squeezins as a Cure for Cancer, advertising a cancer-fraud product and seeking validation...
View Article"History is a nightmare in which I am trying to get a good night's sleep"
[h/t Greg Jenner]It is a consolation to know that current events will ultimately prove to be a wholly fictitious farrago of imaginary, non-eventuating non-events -- decades (if not centuries) that...
View ArticleRipe and ready to the eye Yet rotten somehow to the core
We are pleased for putting your profitable time in looking this blogpostJeffrey Beall described 'Juniper Publishers' as "Rotten to the Core", suggesting some familiarity with BÖC lyrics.These "Juniper"...
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