ALT A very complicated flow chart that always results in the suggestion that you buy a book unless you steadfastly refuse in which case it gets in a huff.

ALT Title: The exceedingly tiny bookshop It is no wider than its own narrow door but is easy to find as there is always a queue of eager customers outside. One at a time, they enter to find themselves uncomfortably close to the proprietor. His impeccable suggestions are more than worth the indignity. In the miniature stockroom a professional contortionist is employed to unpack deliveries and replenish the display. The shelves can accommodate only eleven volumes, but each is chosen with such care that nobody leaves empty handed. On Saturday mornings, a local author reads stories to as many small children as can be wedged into the shop.

ALT Caption; The physicists’ attempt to unify their theories faltered almost immediately due to a fundamental disagreement on the nature of gravity. Image: A scientist stands before a blackboard upon which is written, upside down, the equation for Newton's law of universal gravitation. “You’ve written it upside down!” he shouts to another scientist who is standing on the ceiling (so that the equation reads correctly to him) and who replies “I have not!”

ALT A boxy robot trundles on its small wheels along a stony beach, it is met by a hooded figure. The caption reads: "Finding itself with no more computer or human opponents to conquer, AI-CHESSBOT-5000 travels to a remote scandinavian beach to test its skills in a chess match against Death" Death leads the robot to a chessboard and leans his scythe on a rock. The two sit down and begin to play....