File under: Oddstuff

Filed by: Darren Turpin on December 15, 2006 at 8:16
Filed under: Miscellania

It's all gone a bit quiet, I know, but I do have a very good excuse: I've got my head down on my current work project. It's a major re-vamp of both www.lesedwards.com and www.edwardmiller.co.uk, the site(s) of multiple BFS Award-winning fantasy artist Les Edwards and his alter-ego Edward Miller.

The new sites look great (they should do, Les designed them himself...), they go live on January 1st, and I'm currently in full-on data-entry mode, getting all the images into the new PHP driven, MySQL back-end; so I'm afraid there's not much time for full-on blogging just now.

But here are a couple of moments of oddness that crossed my radar recently that I thought I'd share. In the immortal (and no doubt slightly mis-quoted) words of Calvin, best friend of Hobbes: "I like to make everyone's day a little bit more surreal"...

"With this molar, I thee wed..."

Those wacky boffin-chappies have worked out a way to grow bone from cell cultures taken from wisdom teeth. Of course, this all has a very serious, medical application, but they've decided to draw attention to the potential of the technique by growing bone rings for five volunteer couples, who can then exchange them as a sign of their love, affection and macabre interest in wearing each others' body-parts...

Man builds Dalek, scares students silly

EXTERMINATE! dirt with this natty dalek shower gel from Forbidden Planet's online store...Okay there's this guy in York, right, who doesn't like students very much, yeah? Sick of them cluttering up his street, looking scruffy, discussing Nietszche and nuclear physics, all that crap.

So what does he do? Well, the same thing just about any sane person would: he builds a dalek, hides inside it and screams "EXTERMINATE!" whenever a student comes near. Um, yeah. As you would...

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Filed on: December 15, 2006
Filed under: Miscellania
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3 Responses to 'File under: Oddstuff'

  1. Armchair Anarchist on December 15th, 2006 1:44 pm

    Interesting ... we too had a recent infestation of daleks here in Velcro City, and I caught them in a state of disarray!

  2. Ariel on December 15th, 2006 3:12 pm

    lol :)

    Oh, the humanity! Won't someone please think of the children?

    etc.

  3. Joe on December 15th, 2006 11:22 pm

    huh uh huh huh - you said 'MySQL back-end' huh huh uh huh...

    For odd stories this week though, I loved this one about the dolphins who swallowed plastic, leading authorities to ask the world's tallest man to help because he was the only one with arms long enough to reach inside the dolphins to extract the plastic. Blimey, just as well he isn't a gyneacologist. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wor.....178659.stm

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