"Take a capon, scald it, drain it clean, then cut it in half at the waist; take a pig, scald it, drain it as the capon, and also cut it in half at the at the waist; take needle and thread and sew the front part of the capon to the back part of the pig."
A London Underground map photoshopped with anagrams of all the stations, with an excellent sense of humour. Concerning Torments.
Dropping good, solid rule-based mythology into nervous-laughing, non-plussed western scepticism.
A clip from Eastenders with David Cann as a doctor, woozily stretched and soundtracked to resemble a Jam sequence.
Art exhibition. "The theme out of time place scale provides an opportunity to challenge the taxonomic limitations of hierarchy, linearity, chronology, and/or context that museums and art history manipulate to control presentation and reception."
Enthusiastically muddled article about the genetic fallout of nuclear war, from 1953. "Will a new race, spawned out of the hellish radiation of a world-wide Atomic War, go on to challenge mankind's supremacy on Earth?"
"Square-shaped watermelons, imported from Brazil and taking 60 days to reach maturity, are to be sold in Tesco's British stores for the first time this autumn."
"Insect Lab is an artist operated studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components."
Scattered interviews on the trail of collectors, judges, and smugglers. Some good historical angles, but the smuggling issue is laughably one-sided, CETIS never being interviewed, and Kew Gardens built up as a den of tea-drinking British supervillains.
"The beverages known by the popular names Coffee and Tea, are well known from their usage in the daily lives of most Americans. The inventor has found no prior mixtures of these two products into a single beverage component."
Appalling atheist filk. "O, tidings of knowledge and truth, knowledge and truth. O, tidings of knowledge and truth."
Very odd press event for a Chernobyl-set FPS, sounding a lot like they've just been paid to pretend they were there. "Unbelievably, we're no more than 200 metres from Reactor 4, the site of the worst nuclear accident in human history."
Fun platformer; some of the usual obsessive-compulsive trial-and-error, but balanced by the ability to wander back through old levels, and gear up with the right power-ups.
"[Thomas] believes that the mutation for lactose tolerance [in adulthood] spontaneously arose in Europe within the past 7000 years and quickly became prevalent through natural selection."
An ultra-simple boardgame, with random powerups scattered on the board, to be collected and stored Stratego-style. There's some scope for clever combo-building, but the underlying randomness is frustrating. Needs to be more CCG-style.
How Planar Chaos nearly had a new mana colour. "But this was the perfect opportunity to do it for just a single set, because once you left alternate reality and returned to normalcy, Magic would clearly be back to five colors again."
Explore the dark and unbidden corners of eBay by autogenerating a search full of common typos. "Slimeline playstaion 2 with 6 games."
Not as interesting a plot as expected; a brightly confusing tour through the backstage of monolithic Russian theatre, as a writer's art suffers arbitrary censorship and setbacks.
"In a world not quite like our own, where the industrial revolution was triggered not by steam, but by springs [...] Daedelus Murphy and his ragtag band of friends and rivals are about to learn that that curiosity can be the most dangerous crime of all."
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