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SimMcDonalds
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No comments on SimMcDonaldsEat 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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I am the very model of a Mefi net contributor
My theme tune for Metafilter (sorry Gilbert and Sullivan!)
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Banks interview
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.
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Trees
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…
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Driving simulators
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…
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DDR and iPod
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…
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