As though plushy microbes and Albert Einstein action figures weren’t enough, The Particle Zoo has gone and made something else to totally entangle my attentions.

At around a tenner for each particle, it may be a while before you get them all – but you know you will need to get them all. You know that, right?

Much in the same way a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese is made with what is technically an all beef patty but is in actuality some sort of strange beef-ish distortion of man’s idea of what it is to hate, so too is this website technically a blog. One may argue the value of the chopped, reprocessed and undoubtedly out of date content presented here and I think that one would be wholly justified in doing so. Not only because it is like one to make these sort of well-formed fourth-wall penetrating observations but also because one tends to wear nice clothes, really did knock it out of the park at last week’s meeting and has an almost supernatural ability to make the right decisions in terms of delicate soaps. Here’s to you, one, and your taste in classical music!

It would seem, however, that those bone-dry days of skinnytie.com being just plain outdated are over.

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