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that resonance fm time machine in full
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Click on this tantalizing thumbnail for a full schematic. (Credit goes to goopymart.com)
For more on how this wormhole faff works, you know what to do. Just click here.[…]

Freaky Trigger & The Moomins of Pop – 13 February
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PLUG PLUG!
Tonight leading Moomin academic Dr Vick, Tom Ewing and Pete Baran, corralled into brilliance by the Atommick Brane herself halloo the return of the kid-lit husband list! (Ms Puddleduck come on down!) (PuddleDUMB more like!) We’ll tac[…]

253. To. Euston
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I mentioned on Lollards last night my growing (petty) irritation with the introduction of automated announcements on London buses, whereby the bus route and each stop is announced regularly throughout the journey. This morning I did a small, non-sc[…]

The Poptimists Cookbook
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It will be no surprise to our readers that despite much food science and interest in cooking, the FreakyTrigger Cookbook is still a few years away. But it behooves me to remind contributors and anyone using a recipe on this site of the following:
CON[…]

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Elephants Not Suitable As Pets: SHOCKER
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In proper old Web 1.0 fashion*, I thought it worthwhile to bring to your attention that the UK Government is ignoring a petition of 650 signatories and outlawing Elephants as pets. WELL 650 PEOPLE IS HARDLY GOING TO SWAY THEM IF THE IGNORED TWO MILL[…]

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You Can Stick Your Novelty Guinness Hat Up Yr Arse
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And so it came to pass that the cynical amongst us noted that this year they haved moved St Patricks Day from the usual 17th March which would have been a QNI Monday, to the far more party friendly 15th March, a Saturday. Whilst the articles and so o[…]

Mario Bandwagon — Keep On Loving You
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The Physics of Super Mario Galaxy.
I’m loving this game (about half way through I reckon), but if I have a complaint, it is that the visual resolution of where you are in all the magnificent 3D-ness is a little underdetermined by the graphics y[…]

Brandwatch AKA Snifflewatch: Lemsip Cold & Flu Max Strength Direct
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This is not a new brand but Lemsip’s latest salvo in the war against the uncurable common cold (via our wallets) was new to me when I tried it yesterday. You might think that putting a couple of capsules in your mouth is pretty direct, ditto dr[…]

A Trigger Almanac: 2007
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Here’s a selection of some of the most entertaining/interesting posts on the site this year – thoroughly incomplete, as it doesn’t include much of the frothing ephemera that makes FT so good (in my partisan view). As usual when I lo[…]

Self-Organizing Systems In The London Bridge Pret A Manger
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I have been re-reading Philip Ball’s Critical Mass, his book about “social physics”, how the study of physics can lead us to understand aggregate human behaviour better. It’s very wide-ranging and interesting, with pretty obvi[…]

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