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Lyrics XP
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No comments on Lyrics XPBrimful of Asha, Explained – an enterprising member of Kuro5hin provides a explanation to the Indian roots of that classic 90s song, Brimful of Asha. Not quite as good the Annotated American Pie, but still fun.
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Syberia Review
Since my last post, I haven’t made much progress on the article. At all. Between my 21st birthday and playing Syberia, I’ve been kept from doing any serious writing. Luckily, both were a lot of fun. Syberia is a graphical adventure game of the old-fashioned thirdperson point-and-click ilk, and was produced last year by Microids…
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CTP2 Source Code to be released
Call To Power 2 Source Code To Be Released – I’m not fully aware of the story behind this, but it seems like the source code to this buggy yet fun Civilization pseudo-clone is going to be released, as open source, to the online community very shortly. It can only be good news!
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Another one bites the dust
The Sims Online hits $10 at Amazon indicating that things aren’t doing so well at Maxis or EA these days. The reviews at Amazon paint a similar picture of departing players and lack of excitement. Back to the drawing board, it seems.
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Stop the Junk
The Telephone Preference Service and the Mailing Preference Service are the UK web’s best-kept secret. These two websites allow you to opt out of almost all marketing phone calls and junk mail, and despite them having existed for several years, I only discovered them a few days ago.
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Recursive
During dinner yesterday, I mentioned to Andrew Paul and The Official Bear Of The Third Millennium that I’d recently had an MRI scan done of my brain. Someone then said how strange it must be to see the activity of your brain in real time. I was just in the middle of replying that the…
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Here in my car
There was a lot of driving today to go and see the Penguin Parade at Phillips Island, about two hours south of Melbourne. This will hopefully explain all of the exposition on driving that I’ll make later. On the way to the Penguin Parade, we stopped off at a little wildlife sanctuary to see some…
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Casino
After an interesting day where I got to see remote controlled planes with moveable cameras fly around a field west of Sydney (photos up when I get back) I went to the Star City Casino in the evening with Andrew, the friend I’ve been staying with. Star City was quite a touristy place and was…
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Singapore
I’m writing this from the improbably clean and tidy Singapore International Airport. I’ve just gotten off a 13 hour flight from Manchester, and I’m feeling surprisingly okay; Singapore Airline is pretty good. The plane had a very impressive entertainment system with the usual complement of movies and TV shows, but more importantly, they had about…
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The TEDMED3 Experience: Day 1
A review and summary of the presentations given on the first day of the TEDMED3 conference in Philadelphia.
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