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FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARY THINGS10. Threads
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FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARY THINGS
10. Threads
This is the only fictional work to get onto the list. Whether it should be so low overall is open to debate, but I genuinely think it’s the most frightening film I’ve ever seen – by a m[…]

Always look on the bright side
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Always look on the bright side
Huo Jiyu, China, whose apartment was demolished by a space capsule on re-entry, is quoted in New Scientist,
“The satellite landed in our home. Maybe this means we’ll have good luck this year”[…]

Why Genesis failed
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Why Genesis failed
Apparently they put the sensors that detected re-entry in the wrong way up. A serious case of “elbow-posterior uncertainty at work” as the caption in this week’s New Scientist would have it.[…]

I AM LEGION
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“I AM LEGION“: or Making the Contradiction the Hook
Aging leftists often wring their hands and shake their heads: “What happened to rock? In my day it was the soundtrack to the revolt against war…” And then they up and […]

Popjustice
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Popjustice suggests multi-format bonanza as the best way to shift copies of a new Band Aid single. But with the line-up face-off currently being between ‘credible’ bands like Coldplay (i.e. music for cunts) and pop bands (i.e. music for p[…]

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  1. Viva Berlardinelli! Glad to see you comment directly on the way the deaths of Zack and Slim are thrown away.…