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Epistolary
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3 comments on EpistolaryIt turns out that I’ve been using the term ‘epistolatory’ when what I really mean is ‘epistolary’. Think of all the precious seconds I’ve lost, typing out those two extra words. Think of those lost Google hits. Epistolary literature refers to fiction where the story is told in the form of letters written by the…
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Frisbee Golf
There are about 100 times more frisbee golf courses in the US than there are in the UK. This put something of a dampener on my enthusiasm to give it a go after reading about it in Kim Stanley Robinsons’ Fifty Degrees Below, but then, I already knew there weren’t any courses in any of…
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Religion in His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman, along with a couple of other people from New Line, gave an interesting talk at the Oxford Literary Festival yesterday about the process of adaption The Golden Compass for the cinema. There was a bit of a thrill of seeing some effects shots for the first time, although it turned out to be…
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The Secret of Christmas Lights
‘Largest’ Christmas tree lit up (BBC News): When lit up, the giant redwood will be visible on board flights approaching Gatwick Airport. Two electricians spent a day replacing all 1,800 light bulbs before a pair of cranes were brought in to put the lights on the tree at Ardingly. …Conservation manager Ian Parkinson told BBC…
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Beating the Hive Mind
“What’s this?” I asked, toying with a white cylinder with letters printed across it. “It’s a cryptex,” explained Eric Harshbarger, one of Mind Candy’s in-house puzzle designers. “Like the one from the Da Vinci Code.” In The Da Vinci Code, a cryptex is a cylinder with five wheels that can be rotated independently; each wheel…
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Baba Yetu
Like other game designers, I don’t play a lot of games. I do have a Wii and a PS2, which sounds typical enough except for the fact that the only games I play on the PS2 are Katamari Damacy and Guitar Hero; Wii Sports and Warioware for the other console. Clearly I like quirky and…
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GDC 2007, ARGFest, Google…
Updated with a link to my Google presentation. Flying from west to east, I can recover from jetlag at about 2.5 hours per day. This means that when I come back from San Francisco, 8 hours behind GMT, I take a little over three days to return to my normal circadian rhythm. I once read…
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Fire Alert at Heathrow
I was sitting in the lounge area of Terminal 3 in Heathrow when the PA system came on. “This is a security announcement. All passengers are reminded that baggage should-” A sharp beeping interrupted the message. “A fire alarm has been activated in your area. Please go to the nearest emergency exit immediately. A fire…
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University
Interesting article from today’s New York Times, What a College Education Buys: Moreover, if you’re not planning on becoming, say, a doctor, the benefits of diligent study can be overstated. In recent decades, the biggest rewards have gone to those whose intelligence is deployable in new directions on short notice, not to those who are…
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Lost and Found
After two years, the Cube has been found, and with it comes the end of Season 1 of Perplex City. A couple of days ago, we launched a new site at perplexcity.com (we call it the Puzzle Portal); it’s still in beta, but there are going to be some good changes over the next few…
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