My clay-pabilities continue to increase, with my first attempt at a vaguely humanoid figure!

( It's pretty Frankenstein-ian, and so hidden from frail eyes behind the cut )

Sometimes my skills as a writer are pushed too far. I can make fun of crazy ant-monsters and rogue nuclear nations, but when the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense buys actual automated flying death machines and puts them under the control of a computer system called "Skynet", I put down my pen and start digging a nuclear fallout bunker. Short of ( Read more... )

The Turkey Point nuclear power plant in Miami maintains a wildlife preserve around its twin reactors, twenty thousand acres of swamp and wetland home to seventeen endangered species. Frankly, that's suspicious. There's only one class of person that surrounds uranium reactors with pristine wilderness and carefully tended rare animals, and it's ( Read more... )

Walking through the gym the other day I notice one of the training rooms blocked off with a sign saying "Womens only training hours". "Damn", I think, "That must be pretty hot."

Then I realise "Congratulations, self, you're the exact reason they need women-only training hours in the first place".

[The Why Aren't We Dead series continues!]

In what may turn out to be the literal last word in absolute balls-out insanosity, a group of Florida researchers declared war on nature itself by firing rockets into a lightning storm just to see what happens. What happens - to the surprise of nobody who has even heard of a storm - is that the rocket ( Read more... )

Japan does not possess nuclear weapons, possibly because they're the only nation to see them from the wrong end. Or because they're working on far subtler ways to destroy us all. Their fiendish Pokemen are multiplying without end, they hypnotise our children with lightning fast cartoon ninja who - mysteriously - can take up to three weeks to ( Read more... )

If you want to write chinese characters, simply dip a spider in alcoholic ink and place it on a page. Then wait for an earthquake. I'm not saying that mandarin characters is unnecessarily complicated, but people have been known to die of starvation while attempting to read a menu. And there is the story of the man writing a birthday card who ( Read more... )

The company behind the phenomenally popular Chinese "Super Girl" series (think pop idol, with girls only, and released in a country that hasn't developed an immunity to idol shows yet) are replacing it with a male equivalent, "Happy Boys", proving that it's possible to make something enjoyed by over a third of a billion people but not have a clue ( Read more... )

I made another little clay figure last weekend, designed with the express purpose of cheering up my girlfriend.


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Science has always been a double-edged sword, with advances like penicillin, electricity and TV balanced by napalm, nuclear weapons and TVs showing Oprah Winfrey. Some inventors, however, juggle that Sword of Science along with the Throwing axe of Technology and the Petrol-powered Chainsaw of Ludicrous Insanity. The human brain can only hold so ( Read more... )