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Appropriately, "Skin Horse", Shaennon Garrity's latest Mad Science webcomic is featuring axolotls prominently in its current storyline in which two gamer/hackers gain access to the Offices of Extreme Secret Weirdness (after they stumble onto an old friend whose consciousness has been transferred into a military helicopter - one of the regular characters). They are doing interesting things with axolotls there. Read on from there or just check out the axolotl encounters here, here, here and here. Also gamers and fans of "Groundhog Day" will appreciate the plot device of the character who gets repeatedly killed and sent back to a 'restore point', usually with an ironic "The End" transposed in-frame, like in today's comic.
Foop: when you finish your PhD you have to defend it orally. You'll be wearing a white tie and tails. After an hour the university bedel will show up in his toga and announce loudly 'hora est' (it is time). ≡ Click to see image ≡ ≡ Click to see image ≡