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Hi! I'm Rachel (aka Nycteris online) and this is a chunk of my strange little web presence. I shall spam it mercilessly with idyosyncratic net flotsam and various arcana as long as my attention span permits. It's fun!

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Oct
10th

Fri

Creationist offering $7.5 trillion if you prove evolution Palaeontologists: this could be your lucky day. Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar has just offered ten trillion lira - a mouth-watering $7.5 trillion - to “anyone who produces a single…

Oct
9th

Thu

Rick Astley's MTV Award Hacked, With Pleasure After word dropped that Rickrolling phenomenon Rick Astley had been included in MTV Europe’s laughable Best Act Ever category, to be decided by online polling and awarded at the network’s gala in…

Oct
7th

Tue

"Intelligent" Supercomputers Put to the Turing Test This Sunday, six computer programs will be put through the Turing test in an attempt to win their creator not only an 18-carat gold medal and $100,000, but to prove that computers are capable of…

Oct
6th

Mon

24 Words The Dictionary Wants To Ditch Apparently the dictionary needs to make room for 2,000 new words. They must be trying to embrangle us with that many new words I think. Or, maybe it will just make us all more nitid?

Oct
3rd

Fri

Creative Bus Stop Advertisements Collection of creative bus stop advertisements from around the world.

Evolution of the Tree (and other objects) in Video Games Over the next few pages we’ll be looking at gaming’s unsung heroes – objects like rocks, puddles and, er, breasts – and how they’ve changed over the decades. After you’ve witnessed the horrors…

Cartoon characters brutally killed in new art exhibition The gruesome pictures include children’s cartoon favourite Daffy Duck having his head blown off by a gun-wielding Bugs Bunny, as blood is sprayed everywhere.Another violent picture shows famous…

Oct
2nd

Thu

Offshore Wind To Supply 15% of Rhode Island Electricity Rhode Island took a step toward reaching its goal of providing 15% of its electricity from wind power, when it awarded Deepwater Wind the contract to build a $1 billion+ offshore wind farm.

Oct
1st

Wed

Cool Earth Solar Building Solar Balloon Prototype Plant Cool Earth Solar’s design is unique in the solar energy world. The company uses an inflatable plastic thin-film balloon (solar concentrator) that, upon inflation, focuses sunlight onto a photovoltaic…

Teenager stabs best friend to death with a pair of Tweezers A teenage girl has killed her best friend by stabbing her over 100 times with a pair of tweezers in a row over looks.