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Doing my bit for recycling by printing out loads of A3 stuff I don't want and putting it straight into the recycling bin.
Call The Midwife's popularity shows the public's nostalgia for a time when everything was completely shit.
Getting someone's location from looking at their online friends? That's some Sherlock-level shit right there. http://www.newscientist.com/article...
If you're reading this in the UK on a Thursday morning, DON'T LOOK AT ME THE SHAME THE SHAME SHUT UP NO YOU'RE THE TARDFACED FREAKOID NOT ME
I can say that cos it's late at night. Nobody's tweeting now and they won't bother reading back tomorrow. Otherwise it'd be embarrassing.
Every time I see the ITunes U app, I shout 'PIKACHU, ITUNES U!' #everyonedoesthisright
Sorry Dame Shirley Bassey, what does Goldfinger love again? Didn't quite catch it.
I reckon the years between 50 and 70 will equal the length of one Third Form maths double period.
Getting older, time has sped up so fast I can hear it rushing by. It's awesome though. Never get bored and woah! Another weekend!
How and why Apple killed the ebook - if you like books, or gadgets, or books on gadgets, have a read. http://gizmodo.com/5465323...
Listening to the big gadget blogs talk about the iPad is like listening to the Daily Mail talking about Conservatism. It's enraging: "The real question is how long it'll take publishers to realize that's all they are to Apple: one little bullet point." Dissmissive much?
- Tont Coles
Dude, I am publishers and I know this is true. Apple doesn't need ebooks, certainly not like Amazon does.
- Joff
The New York Times takes on Scotland's Buckfast “Wreck the Hoose Juice” problem. http://www.nytimes.com/2010...
The New York Times reviews Apple's Newton tablet in 1993. Instructive stuff. http://www.nytimes.com/1993...
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What Pat Robertson was going on about in his notorious 'deal with the devil' Haiti speech. (There was a real 1790s voodoo ritual, basically.) http://www.straightdope.com/columns...
Why throwing a lot of money at Life On Mars in the US didn't make it a hit TV show. http://www.slate.com/id...
Killer brew - This caffeine-laced Devon monks' wine is behind 40% of Strathclyde's young offenders' crimes. (I just wroted a Daily Mail headline) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Want to make your luggage safe? Pack a gun. (In the US.) http://lifehacker.com/5448014...
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"Games aren't just about moving, they are about rubbing against the surface of the world." http://gizmodo.com/5420545...
This guy is kind of a dick. But he talks about texture of video games in a way everyone should be able to respond to, as it's so very important. Shame he didn't mention the Lego games, where plain movement is also amazingly gratifying.
- Joff
"For the sky, we had the image of Sun Wukong from Monkey jumping between clouds." Great interview with Miyamoto. Mario was called Mr. Video and his inspiration was the irrepressible MONKEY! http://uk.wii.com/wii...
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This is a designers' dream. He actually goes into the reasons for the whole first ten seconds of Super Mario Brothers. I am going to marry Shigeru Miyamoto when I find the mushroom that turns me into a princess.
- Joff
This thread on an exotic cats forum has lots of People. Hanging Out With. Tigers. SCARED NOW. For many reasons. http://www.exoticcatz.com/forum...
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Why next-gen games went brown and grey. http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs...
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"They also use saturated colors to make certain objects stand out so as to guide the player throughout the level" - I don't think this received the credit it deserved. It's one of those things that obviously had a huge amount of thought put into it but went largely unnoticed by the player - Exactly as it should have.
- David Steer
Bullshit. That was basically 'we did it because we could'. I smashed up a load of stuff now. Thanks joff.
- Mark Sorrell
The nutters who want to jump out of planes... without parachutes. They might even do it, too. http://www.newscientist.com/article...
A fantastic article about a party crasher that reads like a Fitzgerald story. Have a read. http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert...
Napoleon Cyberdyne. http://gizmodo.com/5403466...
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(L-R) Tont, Tont, Tont, Tont, Tont and Tont.
- Huw Evans
This is a sizeable article concerning James Cameron and Avatar. He's only 55. Now I feel old. http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
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Clive James on drugs. Not amazing, but he makes the bizarrely taboo point that drugs can be very nice. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
Another example of New Scientist greatness: why people become shortsighted. http://www.newscientist.com/article...
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Interesting stuff.
- Jon Attaway
You've seen Paranormal Activity, but did you even bother to read the demon's blog? http://paranormaldemon.wordpress.com/
You've tested positive for a disease that affects 1 in 10,000. The test is 99% accurate. Should you worry? Not so much. http://www.newscientist.com/article...
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Top 100 characters in fiction since 1900 (according to a random list.) How many have you read? http://www.npr.org/program...
About 30, I think. You?
- Daniel Griliopoulos
Not many more than that actually. (But MORE yah boo). Lots of books still to read, shit/good.
- Joff
zero
- Huw Evans
That list seems to be made up from the characters from about 6 books, altogether. No Vonnegut, no party.
- Duncan
“There is a ‘ho belt‘ phenomenon nearly synonymous with the ‘Bible Belt’.” http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008...
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