Break.com Oddness: United 300

What with all the deep, serious conversation around here this week, I reckon it's about time for a few minutes' light relief. Big thumbs-up to Ed Ashby for the heads-up on this one:

300 Spartans on a Plane - via www.break.com

Laugh? I nearly bought the loincloth... :)

May 24, 2007 | Filed Under Humour, Odd | Leave a Comment

Youtube oddness III - Star Wars, silent-movie style

Thanks to Ed Ashby for the heads-up on this rather entertaining piece. Turn the sound on for this one (yes, I know it's silent-movie style, but you still need to hear the sound-track...)

January 23, 2007 | Filed Under Humour, Odd | Leave a Comment

Daft Personality Quiz: Which Supervillain am I?

Always fancied myself as a bit of a supervillain. I used to practice my "Mwahahahahaaaa!"s until my throat bled. Even bought a Super Doomsday Device once, but when I got it home I found it needed batteries and the 24 hour supermarket was shut. So I guess I'll just have to live my dreams vicariously, through the medium of a handy DPQ (via Ramblings in Space and Time) instead.

This week, it turns out I am mostly being this guy:

[Take the Supervillain Personality Quiz]

'Apocalypse'. Nope, never heard of him. Anyone?

And to think, I missed out on being Lex Luthor by a lousy 2%...

January 18, 2007 | Filed Under Comics & GNs, Odd | 7 Comments

File under: Oddstuff

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

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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