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Follow along with their hopes, fears and dreams!

I got stuck with Lance. He’s a real wash-out.

What if Microsoft became self-aware?

What if shaped artifical intelligence becomes an artform?

- Yves could only meditate on a particular shade of blue.

Teen, MILF and raver

Judas’ noose and silver pieces

Cunningly disguised as an adult

When puppets get married, they lost their strings.
Beware of strong winds.

Teenagers help pensioners to commit suicide with overdoses.

Archaeological fraud. Get rich by aging artifacts.
Creationists faking evidence?

The voluptuary and von Neumann
Bored Europans
Nudibranchs, like slugs dressed for carnival
Heart cells beat in time
‘roid warriors

And their amazing adventures.

Because You Demanded It: John the Baptist and John the Evangelist: Together At Last!

Lazarus, the First Zombie

(nb lazarus was not undead or living dead. he died and was brought back to life)

Looking at the game today, what you see on screen has very little to do with what was in my head. Chris Hill and I had visions of dystopian futuristic cityscapes like in Blade Runner, with lots of trash, hover cars and atmosphere. Of course, very little of this came across in the end, and I’m now convinced that future civilisations won’t be tile- and sprite-based.

Paul McLaughlin, designer on Bullfrog’s Syndicate
Edge 140, September 2004

Edward Hopper painted still lives of light

>> Mantlepiecing <<
How to win friends in Hollywood

Jon Peters, elderly producer, hairdresser
and former shagger of Catherine Zeta-Jones
is the inventor of Mantlepiecing.

Jon used to carry small framed pictures of
himself to Hollywood house parties.
When no-one was looking he’d place one on
the piano/mantlepiece of the host alongside
the other famous faces.

My heart is cold, my heart is black

She is Boadicea, I am the General and the baby was a spy

The ranks of angels, who come, unbeknownst to this heathen, in the pecking order of Seraphim and Cherubim, followed by Thrones and Dominions, Virtues then Powers, Principalities then Archangels and finally plain old Angels.

He was the ultimate minimalist

Teenage skag addicts euthanise old people

Did you hear that the first married astronaut couple are getting a divorce? Apparently they just drifted apart

Experts examined the inscription and pronounced it genuine.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
- Robert A. Heinlein -

If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20
years, grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.
— Chinese proverb

From A Word a Day

A weeklong journal of an astrobiologist. By David Grinspoon

All planets will have convoluted histories that will seem, to their own semisentient inhabitants, surprisingly well-suited to produce their own kind of life. Why conclude that “this is the best of all possible worlds” (the Pangloss hypothesis)?