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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial. He has written a science-fiction novel.

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The Downside of Monomania

So, there's this video. It's apparently for a German electronics retailer whose motto is, roughly translated, "We hate expensive". Phil thought it looked really kewl. P-Zed agreed, but he said that it portrayed evolution as a linear progression along a...

Doing My Part to Help a Meme

Happy Monkey to all!...

Teaser the Second

Well, that was depressing. Enough of this sad and frustrating business! I'm pleased to report that several people correctly identified the source of the image in the previous teaser as a green laser. (No, it wasn't made using a mirror...

You Can't Do This On TV Today, Entry #42,069

Muppets. Peter Sellers. Playing a temperance preacher. Who sings about "cigarettes and whiskey and wild, wild women"....

I Think I Know Some People Who'd Like To Perform These Live

Thanks to the evilutionary superscientist P-Zed....

Reverse the Baryon Flux Polarity!

I've been watching my way through a heap of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes lately, and I've come to some uncomfortable realizations. In many cases, I hadn't seen these episodes since they were first aired, nigh on twenty years...

Friday Video: I Should Really Just Relax

James Madison and Isaac Asimov write for Mystery Science Theater 3000: Ah, the memories. Today's clip is brought to you by my officemate, who says he remembers where he was (a) the day the Challenger exploded and (b) the day...

Current Mood: Anbaropop

I've been learning my way around the KOMA-script bundle of LaTeX packages (exactly why will be made clear soon). Now, everybody knows that LaTeX was first developed in 1985, and something about working with extensions to 1980s software which are...

Thursday Neil Gaiman: Crazy Hair

I hadn't heard this poem since 2001, and given that the Dave McKean-illustrated book won't be out until next year, a video from somebody's phone might have to do....

The Next Creationism

Because there's nothing we love so much as ourselves.

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