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Chatbot VS Chatbot
What happens when two chatbots talk to each other? Spoiler alert: it involves unicorns. [Engadget]
Dead Dwarves Don’t Dance [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail What would you get if you combined Sam Spade...
How A Random Dude Became One Of The Most Successful Water Dowsers Of All Time
He attended James Randi’s talk at the 2008 edition of Dragon*Con as a regular guy. Yet, he left with a reputation as Zen The Dowser, having just turned in one of the most accurate public dowsing demonstrations under test conditions ever...
3 Theories On How To Build A Real Life Lightsaber
Jedi Masters pass down the secret knowledge of constructing “an elegant weapon for a more civilized age” to their young Padawan learners. We are not fortunate enough or have the midiclorean count (ech, think I gagged a little there) to...
Trainport [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail There is nothing better than the feeling of...
Make Anything You Want Appear Develop Inside An Instant Camera Picture
SPONSORED POST A spectator signs a card. They’re given an undeveloped photograph to hold. The card is lost back in the deck. Before their astonished eyes they watch as the photograph develops into an image of a hand holding their signed...
Why We Will Be Able To Build A Synthetic Dragon In Our Lifetime, Why It Is Okay
A few months ago the world was shocked to discover that a US company had designed and manufactured the world’s first synthetic living cell. The researchers had written the genetic code on a computer and then, through the aid of some very...
“Fairy” Captured Outside Guadalajara
Speaking of fairies, one was captured by a guava picker outside Guadalajara. Hundreds of residents have now lined up for hours to pay 20 pesos to see the fairy. And when I say a fairy was captured, I mean a plastic toy was placed in a jar....
Mummified Faeries Found
Who knew these delicate dead faeries were hiding on Etsy all along? This is the handiwork of Weird Things reader Jim Transue who hand makes all of these oddities by hand and sells them for those who really want to get a gift for a man who...
Containment [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail Have you ever read a book where you are left...
High Adventure In 1890 Boston With Andrew Mayne’s The Chronological Man For Only 99¢
SPONSORED POST A Tale of Scientific Adventure… It’s 1890 and the citizens of Boston are beginning to go missing in the fog. The police are confounded. The public is frightened. The city is on the edge of hysteria. It’s up to the mysterious...
Jules Verne Invented Podcasting & 3 Other Eerie References To Modern Tech In Victorian Sci Fi
Back in the Victorian era, steam engines were on the bleeding edge and electricity seemed magical and revolutionary. In those times it seemed that all could be solved by technology and in many ways this was true. Inventors like Edison,...
Get The Book That Inspired Brian Brushwood’s Scam School For Only .99!
SPONSORED POST Brian Brushwood of the Weird Things podcast wants you to get drunk. For free. And he will show you how to do it step by step in this.99 eBook Cheats, Cons, Swindles and Tricks: 57 Ways To Scam A Free Drink. In fact, it’s the...
Torment: A Novel of Dark Terror [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail “Could she murder the others to save the...
Get Andrew Mayne’s The Grendel’s Shadow For Only .99
SPONSORED POST Gritty science fiction/western comes to life when T.R. Westwood is called to hunt down a mysterious creature murdering villagers on the outskirts of a world technology forgot. Andrew Mayne’s first novella The Grendel’s...
The Long, Strange, Repetitive History Of Number Stations
We’ve talked about them on the Weird Things podcast and they ended every episode of Weird Things TV, but if you’re curious about the history of number stations (the creepy repetitive voices, transmitted on low power radio that repeat the...
Orange Goo Attacks Alaska Town
It creeps, silently. The orange goo off the coast of the remote Alaskan town of Kivalina is a mystery that could turn ugly. Not only do residents have no idea what the substance is, if it turns out to be harmful to the fishing, hunting or...
Deadly Intent [eBook Review]
Simone Allyne is the Weird Things eBook reviewer focusing on readily available, affordable Science Fiction and Fantasy. If you have a book you’d like reviewed, please email WeirdThingsMail@Gmail “The girl laid her hand on the table, palm...
Don’t Kill Hitler! & 4 Other Helpful Tips To Avoid Time Travel Paradoxes
Time travel has been a staple of science fiction since its inception. As early as 1895 HG Wells, arguably the father of modern SciFi, wrote about time travel and its implications in “The Time Machine”. Now a days we get at least one time...
Podcast: All Drug Olympics
Brian wonders if a bizarre method to get high is real or fake when the boys get word of a new FBI directive. Andrew reveals just how cheaply we can get to Mars and how the budgets of several legitimately terrible movies could help us get...