A free version of Another World has just been released for the GBA. (Beware; the person who runs that site seems to be something of a furry. Safe for work, but kind of sad.)
For those of you too young or too forgetful to remember it, it was a lovely early polygon-based adventure game, where you [...]
If, like me, you’re a horrible video games nerd (if it makes you feel better, I work in the industry, so I probably need more help than you,) then you’ve probably heard about Sony Online Entertainment’s Station Exchange.
This is a service for Everquest 2, which acts as an official service for selling in-game currency and [...]
A trailer for ‘Serenity’ has been released, and looks quite spiffy. Firefly seems to have been one of those programs that was initially only watched by a small number of cool kids, which doomed it to being canned after 1 series. However, these cool kids later told their friends, who ended up buying the DVD [...]
A Malaysian student claims to have made a breakthrough in AI which will allow ‘thinking robots’ to be created in five to ten years. Sadly, that’s about all of the information that the article contains. He’s won awards for it though, so I’m presuming there’s more to it than him saying “Hey Guys! I’ve just [...]
It’s amazing what you can find on the web when you need to distract yourself away from compulsively messing about with HLSL/Cg code:
Worryingly addictive flash games. I got to level 27 before wrenching myself away.
Email is bad for you. No news on whether this has an additive or multiplicative effect when combined with the first [...]
This guy is apparently still on the bridge (23:45 Sunday night). I hope they’re feeding him. He apparently first went up there during the early hours of Saturday morning, but didn’t get the attention of the police until about 07:30. Note that people threatening to jump off North Bridge isn’t particularly unusual, but they normally [...]
This story, sadly, doesn’t quite fulfil its Darwin award winning potential.
A list of audio quotes of Marvin from the new HHGTTG movie. It’s weird, Alan Rickman is such an ideal choice to play Marvin, but they got the rest of the cast so wrong. All the reviews I’ve seen so far have been extremely nervous-making.
Imagine [...]
This guy wins. I’m not sure what he wins, but he’s my favourite person on the Internet for at least the next 30 minutes.
John Spencer Blues Explosion - at Liquid Room - I went along to this as a last minute “Nothing better to do” thing on Monday night, and I’m pretty glad I did. I’ve only got a couple of their albums, but I still enjoyed it even though I didn’t know a lot of the stuff [...]
Flash and PDF collide! That sound you hear is a million high-speed CPUs crying out in fear, accompanied by a base line of hard drive thrashing. Seriously though, aside from now totally controlling the DTP market, (leaving aside the digital abortion known as Quark,) is this merger really going to produce anything interesting, or just [...]
Against my better judgement, I just sat and watched (most of) Channel 4’s 100 Greatest Albums.
Going by the fact that they’ve done ‘The 100 Greatest <every subject on Earth>’ by now, and that, by and large, it was never going to be anything like the list I would have made, I was expecting to be [...]
My my, so this is what the bottom of the barrel looks like.
While, in another quarter of the media, something like sanity prevails.
And, on a different note entirely, stabilisers are apparently just not cool enough for today’s discerning five year old.
Now, it’s entirely possible I’ve had too much delicious vodka by this point of the night, but what the (potentially literal) Hell? (Further background)
P.S. In all seriousness, iTunes randomly selected ‘Birdhouse in Your Soul’ by They Might Be Giants while I was reading this article. Jamie, if you’re reading, was I just too drunk last [...]
So says the Lib Dem newsletter which has just been delivered for the first time in the year-and-a-half I’ve lived here, less than a month before the election.
(Also, they’re doing that infuriating thing of trying to get votes not by saying why they deserve them, but by saying “The Conservatives and SNP will never win [...]
A completely excellent idea. Someone’s removed everything but the swearing from N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton, creating an ‘Explicit Content Only’ mix. Probably best to go for the edited down version, and it would be even better if they could have left the music intact in the background. Now, if only they’d try this with ‘Uncle [...]