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Charlie
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No comments on CharlieAn excellent article in the Times today examined the content of Prince Charles’ letters to ministers, and found them sadly lacking in logic and facts. I’m not too concerned about Prince Charles writing to government ministers since this article echoes my thoughts that the letters don’t say anything useful anyway, apart from woolly heartful platitudes.
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Small World Big Piano Silliness
A conversation with my girlfriend from yesterday, paraphrased: Me: “This is the Jools Holland album I bought the other day. I read an interesting review which was generally positive except about the silly piano flourishes that Jools always seems to squeeze into places where they shouldn’t be.” Her: “Well, maybe people like him for the…
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Blind access
Quite a nice article from Wired about research being done to give blind people the same kind of access that sighted people have to maps.
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Big Trouble in Little DDR
I went out with a few friends to go and see Signs last night. We got to the cinema a little late and had to get tickets for a later showing, so we went over to the nearby bowling alley and had a few drinks. One thing led to another and eventually I found myself…
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Buying Music
I have a serious aversion to buying music; I’ll readily admit that I get the vast majority of my music from the Internet (without paying, obviously). Over the past few weeks, that’s changed considerably. Part of the reason is that I’m at home and it takes longer to download high quality mp3s. Also, with the…
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SimMcDonalds
Eat at McDonalds in Sims Online. I have no problem with in-game advertising, but apparently you can improve your standing in the game by eating McD’s food, which is ridiculous and will no doubt cause a player backlash (via ec).
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The BA Festival of Science
Thanks to a generous grant from Trinity College at Cambridge University, I was able to attend the full week-long British Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Festival of Science in Leicester this year, from September 9th to 13th. This is a brief report of what I learned there.
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Orange
It seems there’s bad news for all Orange customers. According to their press release they’ll be scrapping all their old tarriffs at the start of October, and introducing a new set that on the face of it seem significantly more expensive. I believe the only good news is that current Orange customers can keep their…
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Turok Scam
Stephen Fulljames wrote to the Culture about a terrible scam being perpetrated by Acclaim (a computer games company). Basically, Acclaim ran a marketing promotion for their new game Turok Evolution, where volunteers would receive £500 and a free X-Box if they changed their name by deed poll to ‘Turok’. The winners have been announced, and…
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Nutcracker Lemmings
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…
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