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    Creatine ‘boosts brain power’ perhaps by regulating brain energy levels. Since meat is a source of creatine, it’s not known whether meat-eaters could actually gain any intelligence advantage by taking supplementary creatine, but along with modafinil it’s yet another step along the road to the widespread use of intelligence enhancing drugs.

  • Anti-webloggers

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    I’m continually amazed by the way in which some people harbour such a vitroil against weblogs; there aren’t many of them, but they seem to perceive weblogs as a personal affront towards their honour. Take Bill Thompson from the BBC, for example. He’s managed to stir up quite a bit of trouble by claiming that…

  • Contestant Calls

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    Be on TV – contestant calls for UK gameshows. Most sound like the usual rubbish but the ‘Time Commanders’ show has some promise.

  • Cheap Futurama

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    Futurama Season 1 for £15 – for those of you who haven’t seen Futurama yet or want to buy the DVDs, Play.com has just discounted the first box set to only £15. This, my friends, is nothing short of an excellent bargain. Season 1 may not have as many episodes as later ones, but it…

  • Button cameras

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    Button cameras the size of a penny will soon be on the uniforms of Scottish police, recording with a 20 minute cache – a truly excellent idea that I feel will solve a lot of problems.

  • Krait

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    In Wednesday night’s pub quiz, this question came up: What kind of animal is a krait? After a bit of silence and mulling, I volunteered, ‘You know, that’s the name of a ship class on Elite.’ Someone perked up. ‘Really? What were the other classes?’ ‘Well, there was the Cobra – that was the standard…

  • Road Range Warrior

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    An amusing little saga has been unfolding at the Mercedes Road Range centre about five minutes away from where I live. Sometime last week, a new Mercedes SUV appeared, parked opposite the centre with large posters and writing on it that said, “Don’t buy from them!” and “If they treat you the same way as…

  • Lyrics XP

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    Brimful of Asha, Explained – an enterprising member of Kuro5hin provides a explanation to the Indian roots of that classic 90s song, Brimful of Asha. Not quite as good the Annotated American Pie, but still fun.

  • Syberia Review

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    Since my last post, I haven’t made much progress on the article. At all. Between my 21st birthday and playing Syberia, I’ve been kept from doing any serious writing. Luckily, both were a lot of fun. Syberia is a graphical adventure game of the old-fashioned thirdperson point-and-click ilk, and was produced last year by Microids…

  • CTP2 Source Code to be released

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    Call To Power 2 Source Code To Be Released – I’m not fully aware of the story behind this, but it seems like the source code to this buggy yet fun Civilization pseudo-clone is going to be released, as open source, to the online community very shortly. It can only be good news!