Archive

Dec 2024

10: The Whippet #183: If you are a stranger, act like one

Nov 2024

17: The Whippet #182: The Least Charitable Reader

Nov 2024

1: The Whippet #181: Much better than horses

Feb 2024

21: The Whippet Special: Venus News Extra Extra

Feb 2024

15: The Whippet #179: Antarctica is not the answer

Jan 2024

12: The Whippet #178: Somebody better say something about the moon

Nov 2023

30: The Whippet #177: The key to lasting happiness is cdeispnili

Sep 2023

19: The Whippet #176: Smeared across time

Aug 2023

18: The Whippet #175: Buttery soft conspiracy

Jul 2023

27: The Whippet #174: Extending my physical influence

Jul 2023

6: The Whippet #173: Heavy Business Pigeon

Jun 2023

22: The Whippet #172: Skeuomorphic Ghosts

Jun 2023

1: The Whippet #171: A delicate, narrow snout and a pleasant disposition

May 2023

11: The Whippet #170: The best thing I know about bones

Apr 2023

26: The Whippet #169: A feeling in search of a cause

Apr 2023

13: The Whippet #168: An indulgent loss of focus

Mar 2023

30: The Whippet #167: Just trucking right along

Mar 2023

15: The Whippet #166: What part of rubeville are you from?

Mar 2023

1: The Whippet #165: Blood, ink, shark, moon

Feb 2023

15: The Whippet #164: The son of a cat kills mice

Feb 2023

2: The Whippet #163: Vulture bees and meat honey

Jan 2023

18: The Whippet #162: Nectar Crash

Dec 2022

14: The Whippet #161: Not glowy enough out there

Dec 2022

1: The Whippet #160: Make a fish expert angry today

Nov 2022

16: The Whippet #159: The gem in the robe

Oct 2022

27: The Whippet #158: Jackdaw Democracy

Oct 2022

13: The Whippet #157: Rat snakes, strong snakes, wine snakes, germ snakes

Oct 2022

13: Mobility Routine Experiment

Sep 2022

29: The (mini) Whippet #156: Do not panic!

Sep 2022

14: The Whippet #155: Do spiders dream of electric flies?

Aug 2022

31: The Whippet #154: Refuge in audacity

Aug 2022

18: The Whippet #153: Shake off the shackles of the page

Aug 2022

3: The Whippet #152: Omnivores vs Cucinivores

Jul 2022

20: The Whippet #151: Are you worried about OUTER SPACE?

Jul 2022

6: The Whippet #150: Heart-smitten with that desire of wandering and looking on new things

Jun 2022

22: The Whippet #149: Getting rhizomatic with the lads

Jun 2022

9: The Whippet 148: The cool, high peaks of mountains

May 2022

26: The Whippet #147: How's my perceiving?

May 2022

12: The Whippet #146: Keep disguises out of sight

Apr 2022

27: The Whippet #145: Another day in the art mines

Apr 2022

14: The Whippet #144: What of it, if some old sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks?

Mar 2022

31: The Whippet #143: Echidnas pacing the frozen forests

Mar 2022

16: The Whippet #142: Experiments performed on a cosmical scale

Mar 2022

3: The Whippet #141: Say yes and figure out how later

Feb 2022

17: The Whippet #140: Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless

Feb 2022

2: The Whippet #139: Heads or tentacles?

Jan 2022

20: The Whippet #138: Nothing rhymes with money-laundering

Jan 2022

1: The Whippet #137: Please don’t make me fight a fire ant

Dec 2021

13: Whippet Cetera: Two ways to think about hope

Dec 2021

8: The Whippet #136: Please don't explain to me what a metasurface is

Nov 2021

25: The Whippet #135: “That’s not very sentinel chicken of you”

Nov 2021

10: The Whippet #134: Those that tremble as if they were mad

Oct 2021

28: The Whippet #133: Someone stubborn

Oct 2021

21: Whippet Cetera: Courage's dark counterpart

Oct 2021

14: The Whippet #132: My books are getting ruined and birds wake me before dawn

Sep 2021

29: The Whippet #131: How to pick up and hold dozens of animals

Sep 2021

15: The Whippet #130: I wish to express my joy of the cat

Sep 2021

2: The Whippet #129: Lethal Allele

Aug 2021

18: The Whippet #128: Arbitrarily dangerous cargo

Aug 2021

11: Whippet Cetera: The Ninth Metal and the blender theory of art

Aug 2021

4: The Whippet #127: Mannequin Avalanche

Jul 2021

22: The Whippet #126: iota, jot, scintilla, whit, shred, scrap, trace, crumb, smidgin, morsel, mote, dab

Jul 2021

7: The Whippet #125: Bad case of Solstice Throat

Jun 2021

23: The Whippet #124: There is no such thing as invisibility or silence

Jun 2021

10: The Whippet #123: Reasons not to be in a shipwreck

May 2021

27: The Whippet #122: The polywater fiasco

May 2021

13: The Whippet #121: Just trying to be the best lizard I can be

Apr 2021

28: The Whippet #120: The mammoths are waiting to be dug up

Apr 2021

15: The Whippet #119: Lurking in the mouths of rivers

Mar 2021

25: The Whippet #118: Meteor Salmon King

Mar 2021

10: The Whippet #117: I could probably beat a mouse in an arm-wrestling match

Feb 2021

25: The Whippet #116: Crunchy centre of the iceberg

Feb 2021

11: The Whippet #115: More crowns, please 🖐✊🖐✊

Jan 2021

28: The Whippet #114: Living that cookiecutter shark lifestyle

Jan 2021

14: The Whippet #113: An invitation-only party that you need to crash

Dec 2020

10: The Whippet #112: I spent two weeks straight on TikTok and now I can perceive the infinite

Nov 2020

26: The Whippet #111: A knife or other pointed object

Nov 2020

12: The Whippet #110: Sikorsky S-55 with a T58-G-6 turboshaft I don't care

Oct 2020

29: The Whippet #109: How to win one type of friend and influence one type of person

Oct 2020

14: The Whippet #108: The egg-collecting underground

Oct 2020

1: The Whippet #107: The fall of a grand thing

Sep 2020

17: The Whippet #106: Worried taffy

Sep 2020

3: The Whippet #104: It's a joke but it's also sincere

Aug 2020

20: The Whippet #103: Powerful grudge energy

Aug 2020

6: The Whippet #102: Night-weasels

Jul 2020

23: The Whippet #101: Without milk or absolution

Jul 2020

9: The Whippet #100: Cease and desist, null and void, macaroni and cheese

Jun 2020

25: The Whippet #99: Values only mean anything when they’re in conflict

Jun 2020

11: The Whippet #98: On the scene, discussing the numbers

May 2020

28: The Whippet #97: An impressionistic painting by a dim third-grader

May 2020

14: The Whippet #96: The Cat's Judgement & the Iron-Eating Mice

Apr 2020

30: The Whippet #95: Never trust the Praetorian Guard

Apr 2020

16: The Whippet #94: High-value cargo through difficult terrain

Apr 2020

2: The Whippet #93: Stay for the blood plastic!

Mar 2020

19: The Whippet #92: The "Nothing About Coronavirus" Edition

Mar 2020

5: The Whippet #91: Evil self-replicating origami

Feb 2020

20: The Whippet #90: Facial expressions don't indicate emotions, you just imagine they do

Feb 2020

6: The Whippet #89: Radical adequacy

Jan 2020

23: The Whippet #88: One of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab

Dec 2019

12: The Whippet #87: Triple-cream duck-infused brie

Nov 2019

28: The Whippet #86: Vectors of invisible fanciness

Nov 2019

14: The Whippet #85: On guardian spirits

Oct 2019

30: The Whippet #84: "To leave hurriedly and secretly"

Oct 2019

17: The Whippet #83: Latch and Leap

Oct 2019

3: The Whippet #82: Precious porcelain rabbit

Sep 2019

19: The Whippet #81: Fighter, Rogue, Wizard

Sep 2019

5: The Whippet #80: Be careful!

Aug 2019

22: The Whippet #79: On debt, financial and emotional

Aug 2019

8: The Whippet: #78: Eigengrau

Jul 2019

25: The Whippet #77: Any other edible being

Jul 2019

11: The Whippet #76: Overapplying the new concept you just learnt

Jun 2019

27: The Whippet #75: Prepared, polished, or fractured

Jun 2019

13: The Whippet #74: The world’s worst, most incompetent enzyme

May 2019

30: The Whippet #73: Mega Memory Workbook (1995)

May 2019

16: The Whippet #72: How much does your skeleton weigh?

May 2019

2: The Whippet #71: Beneath the icy waves

Apr 2019

18: The Whippet #70: Everything there is to know about secrets

Apr 2019

4: The Whippet #68: How to do things badly

Mar 2019

21: The Whippet #67: The Lotus Effect

Mar 2019

7: The Whippet #66: The mushroom-hunters become the mushroom-hunted

Feb 2019

21: The Whippet #65: ghost apples and butterfly symbiotes

Feb 2019

7: The Whippet #64: snake-cop interviewing a snake-criminal

Jan 2019

24: The Whippet #63: The Cut Sublime

Jan 2019

10: The Whippet #62: the not-wine in a wine glass

Dec 2018

27: The Whippet #61: New year, new [Your Name Here]

Dec 2018

13: The Whippet #60: Riverbank justice

Nov 2018

29: The Whippet #59: "People are 20 times more likely to repeat or rephrase themselves to dogs than to humans"

Nov 2018

15: The Whippet #58: Small-town librarian solves tea-based mysteries

Nov 2018

1: The Whippet #57: Spooooooooooooky

Oct 2018

18: The Whippet #56: Enough to sustain a living hoard

Oct 2018

4: The Whippet #55: goblin energy

Sep 2018

20: The Whippet #54: Always finish your obelisks

Sep 2018

6: The Whippet #53: 'Keep a patch of sky above your life'

Aug 2018

23: The Whippet #52: A painting in the right loungeroom

Aug 2018

9: The Whippet #51: Perhaps you would be satisfied with a chrysanthemum instead?

Jul 2018

26: The Whippet #50: No eucalyptus trees in Narnia

Jul 2018

12: The Whippet #49: the Patron Saint of Kitsch

Jun 2018

28: The Whippet #48: Earth, wraiths, graves and sand

Jun 2018

14: The Whippet #47: It's always 3am somewhere

May 2018

31: The Whippet #46: Pomegranate seeds on white sheets

May 2018

17: The Whippet #45: Wolves are a terrible metaphor

May 2018

3: The Whippet #44: Confer with your political advisers

Apr 2018

19: The Whippet #43: Smash the glass and fall in among the snakes

Apr 2018

5: The Whippet #42: specific natural cats

Mar 2018

22: The Whippet #41: Thus we live ever without tedium or envy

Mar 2018

8: The Whippet #40: Avoid the edges of tectonic plates

Feb 2018

22: The Whippet #39: With conquering limbs astride from land to land

Feb 2018

8: The Whippet #38: The Library of Discarded Books

Jan 2018

25: The Mini-Whippet #37: Snow at Mukôjima

Jan 2018

11: The Whippet #36: There is love even in the smallest of things

Dec 2017

28: The Whippet #35: How to become a coconut palm

Dec 2017

14: The Whippet #34: Build yourself two tiny telescopes

Nov 2017

30: The Whippet #33: Ways of sparkling are separate to ways of shining

Nov 2017

16: The Whippet #32: “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond?"

Nov 2017

2: The Whippet #31: the stork and the turtledove, the crane, and the swallow

Oct 2017

19: The Whippet #30: Cash in on the other fellow's experiences

Oct 2017

5: The Whippet #29: globe-spanning, internet-connected, telepathic rat-king

Sep 2017

21: The Whippet 28: Time is no longer our master

Sep 2017

7: The Whippet #27: Drink carbon, spin steel

Aug 2017

24: The Whippet #26: We don't have an official position on bats

Aug 2017

9: The Whippet #25: Building goats again

Jul 2017

27: The Whippet #24: Virtually indistinguishable from the surrounding terrain

Jul 2017

13: The Whippet #23: Encourage me to quit my job and go live in a yurt

Jul 2017

6: The Whippet #22: You have no right to do this to me

Jun 2017

29: The Whippet #21: Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants

Jun 2017

22: The Whippet #20: Should you rob a bank?

Jun 2017

15: The Whippet #20: Paprika fight

Jun 2017

8: The Whippet #19: destroyed at dawn and renewed again each night

Jun 2017

1: The Whippet #18: I would have used more ginger

May 2017

25: The Whippet #16: Even the dead will drink tea if they can

May 2017

18: The Whippet #15: It beats martinis hollow

May 2017

11: The Whippet #14: Not a single bolt remains

May 2017

4: The Whippet #13: You are Mario!

Apr 2017

27: The Whippet #12: From hell’s heart I stab at thee!

Apr 2017

20: The Whippet #11: Coins, surnames, the shoreline, sleep, consciousness

Apr 2017

13: The Whippet #10: Poison, gene editing (not CRISPR), other people's clothes, advice from comedians

Apr 2017

6: The Mini-Whippet #9: Breakfast Edition

Mar 2017

30: The Mini-Whippet #8: Rats and rolemodels

Mar 2017

23: The Whippet #7: Rōnin spiders, a dandruff cure, Dickensian alarm clocks, a passive-aggressive art gallery

Mar 2017

16: The Whippet #6: Ghost miners, moss, knife-theft and kitchen dogs

Mar 2017

9: The Whippet #5: Mammoths, a cursed emerald, sign language and the sea

Mar 2017

2: The Whippet #4: Crystals , keys, conundrums and a Caveat for Common Cursitors

Feb 2017

23: The Whippet #3: Bodyguards, bees, black birds and bones

Feb 2017

16: The Whippet #2: Silence, snow, sleuths and celebrities

Feb 2017

9: The Whippet #1: Crabs, cats, cake and crows