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Posts matching tags 'lobsters'

2003/12/28

Pranksters dress lobster in Barbie outfit; this repeatedly saves its life as amused lobstermen throw it back. (via Charlie's Diary)

¶ lobsters barbie pranks détournement [1 comment]

2002/11/7

Freddie the Lobster: Just Wait 'Til I Get These Fucking Rubber Bands Off. (The Onion)

¶ the onion humour satire lobsters pathos [no comments]

2002/5/15

Lobsters, a pretty doovy scifiesque short story by Charles Stross. Go read.

¶ fiction charlie stross lobsters uploading ai singularity [no comments]

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2006/9/8

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2003/9/8

Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of the Dead , an interesting short story postulating an afterlife not unlike the world of the living, and its interaction with events in the living world.