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Missing Moments from Classical Mythology: Timberus – The Cat at the Gates of Hades
Open the gates of hades to let the cat out. Open the gates of hades to let the cat in. Repeat.
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Today’s Infographic: Pie Charts of James Bond Movie Theme Singers
I was wondering what proportion of Bond theme songs were sung by somebody Welsh. Quite a few because Shirley Bassey sang several and Tom Jones sang one. There are a few basic questions about how to count things along the way though. Firstly, do you count Shirley Bassey once or three times? Secondly, Jack White […]
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Debarkle Conversations
One more of these network explorations. I tried a bit of data mining on the Puppy Kerfuffle Timeline. The idea was to pick out from entries people talking about other people or being talked about together. So John Scalzi talking about Vox Day or vice versa. A few stray non-people (or groups of people) got […]
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Spaceships
I made a pile of spaceships on twitter yesterday. Here is a gallery of some of them.
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Timothy versus a glass of water
Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
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Blogiversary: Greatest Hits
Five years of all this nonsense but what nonsense were people reading and when? I’m down here in the archive stacks of Felapton Towers and blowing the dust off the weird old filing cabinets to find out. These posts are just the numbers-game hits rather than special favourites and often other factors drove the traffic […]
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Some colouring in activities!
More things to occupy your time after the fold!
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Important correction from our infographic department
Felapton Towers and the Cattimothy House News Network would like to retract our recent infographic (see below) entitled “anatomy of a virus”. It has come to our attention that the labels were added by an intern who was also drunk and were not, as stated, the “latest details from the CDC”. In the interests of […]
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Missing Moments in Comic Book Art: Bob Kane’s Discarded Early Concept
Reputedly, Bill Finger asked repeatedly why a giant purple cat was flying through the window until Kane agreed that a bat made more sense. Only after a further series of attempts with first a baseball bat, then a cricket bat, that a compromise was reached with a flying mammal bat, which had already been drawn […]
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My bad genre drawings
I posted on Twitter yesterday some very quick and very bad drawings of things that did their best to NOT represent the genre written on them. Here they are as a slide show. Hope the slide show works!
Camestros Felapton
2022 Hugo Award Finalist
Camestros Felapton 