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  • Singularitarian

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    “[When] there are wireless chips in my clothes, when I get up in the morning it’s going to simplify my life enormously. There’s all this stuff I won’t have to consciously think about anymore. If I don’t know where my cowboy boots are, they will tell me.” – Bruce Sterling I quite like Bruce Sterling’s…

  • On Bullshit

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    During my weekly trawl through the New York Times Magazine a couple of weeks ago, I came across an interview with Harry Frankfurt, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton, about his new book, On Truth. This was a followup to his book from last year, On Bullshit, which I’d heard a little about but had…

  • …and all done

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    Welcome to the new Mssv! The most obvious change is that the design is different (easier to read, I hope) and that all three weblogs have now been merged together. I’m glad I tried the four-year long experiment of three different weblogs, but ultimately it didn’t work due to the fact that I only have…

  • Under Construction…

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    Obviously, things have changed around here. I’m still in the midst of tweaking things and doing the proper changeover from my old blog (which precipitated all of this by – apparently irrevocably – deleting a huge swathe of useful comments), but things should be all finished in the next few days. Look forward to updates…

  • Bafta Video Games Awards

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    As a result of speaking at the London Games Summit, I was invited to last week’s Bafta Video Games Awards (at least, I think that was the reason). While Perplex City hadn’t been nominated, I figured that I really couldn’t turn down the invitation, if not for politeness’ sake, for the free drink and potentially…

  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

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    Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Simply reading the title causes a mental car crash of headline proportions, with ‘crazy Japanese game’ causing the first casualty, closely followed by ‘a game about lawyers?’ and then ‘I need to find out more’. While I love graphical adventure games, I’ve never played a Japanese one. From my limited understanding…

  • Doctor Who on Earth

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    Despite my dislike in the direction that Doctor Who is currently going (immature jokes, nonsensical plots), I found Russell T Davies’ remarks on why Doctor Who never seems to leave Earth very refreshing: “People will say, ‘Why doesn’t he visit alien planets more often?’” he said. “But that’s because they are expensive. They’re hugely expensive.”…

  • Indy!

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    Yesterday I went to see a matinee performance of Raiders of the Lost Ark at the local cinema. It’s a popular film, to be sure, but I didn’t really expect there to be many people watching it at Sunday lunchtime, especially since Clapham is known for its bars and clubs. You can tell where this…

  • Termination Shock

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    Termination shock – ‘the termination shock is the boundary marking one of the outer limits of the sun’s influence’. How cool. I found this on one of my random meanderings through Wikipedia.

  • lonelygirl15

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    Much as I hate to perpetuate memes like this, the whole saga of YouTube’s lonelygirl15 has just hit Metafilter. Basically, someone has posted a bunch of video diaries to YouTube purporting to be a young homeschooled girl with ultra-religious parents. She’s having drama with a boy, and she appears to be involved in some satanic…