• DNA crime scene analysis -- a wonderfully useful investigative tool. Or is it?

"It turns out that standard molecular biology techniques (...) enable anyone with basic equipment and know-how to produce practically unlimited amounts of in vitro synthesized (artificial) DNA with any desired genetic profile. This artificial DNA can then be applied to ( Read more... )

... or Lovecraft is Missing is written to very short deadlines.

You should read it, by the way, if you're at all interested in Lovecraft-type stuff (and why wouldn't you be?) -- an excellent style, setting and story which so far has just been deepening and deepening in all sorts of interesting directions.

Two webcomics I often find amusing are scp_feed and optipess_feed, which have a pretty similar kind of PBF-ish humour and also a fairly similar visual style.

Doubly so today, as it could easily be the same narwhal. On a good day, vs. on a bad day.

Poll Narwhals

I think this is funny, because it's true. And also very nicely conceived and executed.

Actually this comic is generally pretty good. I liked this one too.

(I can't draw, so you'll have to imagine this in the style of Slow Wave.)I am a corporate predator. I've invited my latest victim to dinner to seal the deal ( Read more... )

Yay, I finally got some money from Predictify. This is the site where you make wisdom-of-crowds type predictions, and if they turn out to be correct, you get a share in the money put up by whoever it was wanted to know the answer. I've so far shared in about 35 payouts, the biggest being $12.86 for predicting Clinton's % share of the vote in the ( Read more... )

I'm in a state of woe today, with a stinking cold, not much sleep, and would really like to take the morning off -- particularly as will be driving up to Derbyshire this afternoon -- but unfortunately I have some complicated urgent stuff that needs doing before the weekend. Ho hum. To cheer up, some snippets.

• An interesting piece here by Scott Adams ( Read more... )