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  • Nutcracker Lemmings

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    It just occurred to me that there must be an entire generation of kids (they’re probably adults now) who only know Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, and other classical works, by their use on Lemmings. There don’t seem to be that many games using classical music these days, although I have to admit that I probably wouldn’t…

  • iainbanks.net

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    Iain Banks has a shiny new website completely devoid of content, apart from an extract from Dead Air (it’s not bad). Oh, and the covers of his non-SF novels have been updated and become quite respectable now.

  • I am the very model of a Mefi net contributor

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    My theme tune for Metafilter (sorry Gilbert and Sullivan!)

  • DeLong and science

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    Brad DeLong makes an electric motor and worries about kids and science.

  • Sum of All Fears

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    Saw The Sum of All Fears(2002) tonight. It was pretty good – much better than the terrible novel, which I tried to read twice, without success. I admit I don’t like Clancy’s novels, but 1040 pages? You’ve got to be joking.

  • Banks interview

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    View from the left Banks – another interview with Iain Banks (better than the Guardian one). “He played Civilisation 3 for a month recently, then wiped the files and binned the CD.” Ah, a man of my own heart.

  • Trees

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    While I was working at UC San Diego earlier this summer, I’d often hear some music (country style, usually) wafting over the trees as I was walking home. For about a month, I never really had any idea where it was coming from – I assumed that it was maybe from the bar or the…

  • Adverts

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    Lately I’ve been having a lot of fun (well, okay, some fun) going around the web with Mozilla 1.1 and BannerBlind making all the adverts disappear. Between them, they knock out all popups and most sizes of ad banners. For all the other ones that remain, I just block the images coming from the server…

  • Driving simulators

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    Something I’ve been idly wondering about on and off for a while is why there aren’t any decent driving simulator/trainers for PCs (or consoles). Surely there must be a market for this sort of thing? If you sold a package with force-feedback driving wheel, pedals and gearstick, together with a fairly up to date and…

  • DDR and iPod

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    I made my regular pilgrimage to the nearby bowling alley a couple of days ago to worship at the altar of the Dancing Stage Euromix machine they’ve got there (“I don’t want to go there just for DDR!” said I”), and was inordinately pleased to discover that you now get 5 songs for £1 instead…