I'm not insulting the quality of the picture, but I don't get the Alphaville connection either -- Alphaville (in the movie) was basically just 1960s Paris -- the point in treating it as a futuristic "1984"-like society was to show just how freaky it was.

I'm not seeing any of this in the drawings.

Laika was a female so she didn't need to lift a leg; according to http://dogsinthenews.com/issues/0211/articles/021103a.htm
that was actually the reason they chose a female.

I'm not defending stabbing anyone, but calling Sheldrake a biologist (or any kind of scientist) is a bit of a stretch. His work on mystic "morphic fields" and other pseudoscience doesn't "spark controversy" any more than Uri Geller's spoon bending does. Yes, Sheldrake has a doctorate in biochemistry, but degrees do not a scientist make; publishing repeatable research in peer reviewed journals does.

Hey this cake is r'leyh interesting...

Why can't I ever find bakeries that do custom orders like this? They usually act like you're a nut or something for asking.

Well, Cthulhu cultists aren't known for their mental well being...

All these freaky colours on 'modern' cakes really spoil it for me...
It makes the food look (/taste) chemical and artificial, in my opinion.

What, you wanted a *wholesome* Cthulhu cake?

Presumably, manufacturers want testers to publish glowing reports of their goods -- Sequoia's basically saying, "We're scared of what you'll find when you pop the hood on our product."

No -- because the possibility of negative press far exceeds the possible benefits of "glowing reports". I mean, how exciting is saying "Sequoia's machines are way cool -- they actually tally up counts correctly!"? But any report showing errors (even perfectly honest ones that don't require a conspiracy theory involving deliberately altering votes) could potentially destroy the company. Why would any company want to expose itself to that risk even it is honest? If you don't like such legal action the only reasonable action is to make it illegal; you can hardly blame a company for acting in its own best interest.

I now find the spoon bending and kirlian photography bit hilarious, though at the time Uri Geller was taken seriously

Yes, Usborne published a number of rather weird "non-fiction" books for children in the 1970s. I had the one about ghosts -- it was very similar to the future one with lots of pretty pictures. The thing is, reading it, a kid would think that ghosts were a perfectly normal research subject and being a paranormal investigator was as a normal an occupation as being a paleontologist or something.

Then there are the creepy ones, like 'UNHOLY', 'TORMENT', 'MALICE', and 'RAISIN'"

The first three, okay, but did I miss a memo declaring dehydrated grapes to be creepy?

There's just no way. Al Qaeda and the Taliban aren't true "fascists." Fascists can at least make trains run on time

Whether or not fascism is a good analogy for theocracy, it is a well known myth that fascists "made the trains run on time", and I'm surprised that Bruce would repeat it. The founder of fascism, Benito Mussolini liked to claim credit for improvements to the Italian train system, but Snopes at least isn't buying it

http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp

It isn't really a "rule", just a way to avoid weaselly language like "Mistakes were made" and "Experiments were done". Who made the mistakes? Who did the experiments?