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Turkey City Lexicon

An amusing catalog of literary sins. (Blogged just now by Cory Doctorow.)

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another day, another blogpost

Learned this week: a pimple can be quite astonishingly painful, if it’s in the ear-canal. Miyazaki’s 千と千尋の神隠し Spirited Away was fun. I wonder how many of the monsters in the background could be recognized (by a trufan) from other works. … Continue reading

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and it plays

Harpsichord made almost entirely of Lego parts. (vectored by Sam Yorko and Clint Chaplin)

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they’re creepy and they’re kooky

Was anyone else disappointed by the portrayal of Thing in the Addams Family feature films? In the tv series, I understood Thing to be a person (of unknown nature) who dwelt in a parallel space, intersecting with ordinary space only … Continue reading

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signs

If this were in Mad, it would be called Crop Circles We’d Like To See. “Soap on a Rope” recently marked its thousandth strip. You could do worse than to read it from the beginning.

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hard stars

Vladimir Bulatov has made some awesome stellated polyhedra in wood. When I showed the small stellated dodecahedron to my housemate, she asked, “Did you make that in PoV-Ray?”

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I just like saying “pseudobiblia”

“The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library’s catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound.” (Cited … Continue reading

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