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Oasis Hong Kong – a review
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26 comments on Oasis Hong Kong – a reviewThere are a few reasons why I decided to go to Hong Kong for my holiday. Relatives, culture, shopping, food, gadgets, China, Macau and Disneyland were all factors. The biggest factor, however, was a new airline called Oasis Hong Kong that was selling return tickets for £275 (including everything). £275 is significantly less than flights…
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Releasing Ratatouille
Take a look at this list of release dates for Pixar’s new movie, Rataouille. It astounds me that a major movie like this can be released in the UK over three months later than the US. Where’s the love, Pixar? Why does France get it two months earlier than us? Is it because of our…
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Hong Kong
Just a quick note – thank you for your emails and notes everyone. I have a lot of stuff to reply to, but I won’t be getting back to the UK from Hong Kong until next week, so it will probably be a little longer than that before I reappear. I am reading everything, so…
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Perplex City, aloha
It’s said that it takes 4000 hours of study and practice to become an expert, whether it’s for sport, music, dance or academia. 4000 hours works out to be about three years of full time study – the same length as an undergraduate degree. For the past three years, I’ve worked at Mind Candy as…
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Epistolary
It 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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