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Reminds me, I ought to try and describe the Kigdatsi sense of humour, because it is only like the human one in some places.

ils wrote:Link for today: if you've ever wanted your child to look like a creepy porcelain zombie, here's your chance.

There are proper computer programs to age peoples' appearances. You see them on TV occasionally, and the police use them for long-term missing persons.

chris_notts wrote:A Liberal Democrat Councillor in Devon strips for money on the side

They shouldn't have objected. They are supposed to be liberal.

The algorithm march is hilarious! It's by Pythagoras Switch . They also do Quite possibly the best Rube Goldberg machines I have every seen They are designed for watching and looking good. Nothing goes too fast to follow, and there are some very clever repeated interlinking interactions between thi...

Spin

A short about a DJ using his decks to change the past and fix a little incident in everyday life. Very cleverly thought-out.

Looks like someone took a leaf from the book of Elron... What are they selling? It isn't clear. :roll: Because homosexuals are sooo much more sexually driven than heteros. I think the idea is that: gay soldiers will be (potentially) sexually attracted to the other soldiers around them , some of the...

God, between Flat Daddies and robot teddy bears the US Army just gets weirder and weirder. There is something about ths that makes me want to cry. Possibly the idea that children may come to think their father turns to cardboard most of the time. :cry: The Inferno is fascinating because of the orde...

Nasty Methods of Execution . I didn't see one of the nastiest methods of execution there, although they were all pretty bad. I was surprised they didn't have impalement on there. But a couple of the items are new on me; the "Cave of Roses," for instance. Behold: the steps for an old Indian method T...

I like the experiment in Geneva in november, which some experts have suggested could create a rapidly-expanding black hole that will destroy the galaxy. One scientist in chage said it was "probably unlikely" that his experiment would destry the planet, assuming that their theories about high-energy...

Jackalopes are real! ISTR this idea came up when a page about the same phenomenon on human hands was posted recently. A plan for a single-storey skyscraper . I am sure there are several of those around already. My father worked in a building like that (but square), and I think the "gherkin" buildin...

In Smog and Thunder , propaganda posters from the Great War of the Californias, and Neo-Ruins , visions of a post-apocalyptic Tokyo (both found via The City Desk , a fascinating blog about an unnamed fictional city). The Yoshida Brothers do truly awesome things with the shamisen. Alt-world artifact...

China is evidently the land of bootlegging Western stuff. Forget bootleg Disney DVDs, how about a bootleg theme park?

Official site wrote:Disneyland is too far away. Please come to BeijingShijingshan Amusement Park.

(OTOH, a sober reminder .) * Sound of alignment meter going from Neutral to Chaotic. * I get unjustifiably pissed-off when people (correctly or incorrectly) go on about how America is turning into a totalitarian state. (Not at the people who do so.) I'm British. What the heck am I supposed to do ab...

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SOMETHING ELSE

A capybara I believe; the largest type of rodent in the world.

http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?p=471146#471146 It's my language and I will do whatever I want* *Which includes making Serali the word for gullible Did you have to put me in it? And Serali doesn't mean gullible and I'm not gullible. Serali is the name of one of my writing systems which al...