Links

The Postmodernist Generator – generates absurdly realistic postmodernist texts

The Lyre Bird/David Attenborough – a bird which incorporates all kinds of sounds, including camera shutters and chain saws into its call

Ig Nobel Awards –   “For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK”

Magnetic Poetry – Play Online – For when you haven’t got a fridge handy

1957 Spaghetti Harvest – in 1957 many people in Britain were capable of believing that spaghetti grew on trees. The BBC made a spoof documentary on the first of April that year on the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland and received a number of requests on how to plant spaghetti trees.

Arts & Letters Daily – provides excellent links to articles on culture which have recently appeared in magazines of all tendencies.