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As anyone who notices my blog much may have seen, I've been rather enamoured of the Spore Creature Creator. (My Spore Critters Here)

While many of the creatures I've made are of my own devising, I've also scoured the web for interesting sites where various forms of speculative biology are entertained artistically. So I have a few fun links ( Read more... )

 I heard that Spamalot really wimped out on some of the darker humour from its sources. Watching the Oxfam Comedy show, I see them singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life."

I think to have the bite of the original, it should be sung as a freefall routine by people who've just leapt off the Twin Towers...

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You can tell by the high-pitched whine of their motors! Some of the video in this article has been out before, but there's new stuff, like the balancing on ice. The thing looks like a headless zombie dog to me, and I had a childhood fear of big dogs so this thing really creeps me out!

They need to put a head on the thing, if only for decoration! ( Read more... )

Watching a documentary on a gold rush, I was struck by a thought. Individuals are notoriously bad at judging risk vs consequence. Modern lotteries are based on this ( Read more... )

 How come two of the last three polls showed Howard gaining ground like the shark from Jaws, when the third - and other polls all year - showed Labor winning by a clear margin (the actual result)? Was someone trying to manipulate the polls to give the Right a last-minute flash of hope? Or did two different poll companies stuff up the same way at ( Read more... )

A version of A Christmas Carol  where Scrooge is a reasonable man, sceptical about Christmas commercialisation, but after being brainwashed by supernatural horrors comes out a broken grinning shell of his former self.

Maybe it could be a play, or a comic by Garth Ennis?

At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a trainer, when they can trade the litter for fish. In this way, the dolphins help to keep their pools clean.

Kelly has taken ( Read more... )

Pluto's companion Charon might be covered with active volcanoes of ammonia-rich water spewing forth from the moon's deep interior.

"If New Horizons does show Charon to be volcanically active, the implications for the outer solar system are staggering.  There are a few other small worlds in the solar system that are known to be currently or recently ( Read more... )