Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
I am going to come out and say it : I like Facebook.
Yes, I know it is a soulless corporate entity that sells out it's user base by allowing the various third-party apps to harvest data for nefarious ends. However the core idea is great and the site works well ...
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Citadels is an easy but fun card game where the players compete to construct the most impressive city by amassing wealth to spend building various districts (docks, university, cathedrals, etc). The game ends when a player plays an eighth district then everyone's city is scored (and certain bonuses added) to ...
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
I think it is best to say two things right up front : firstly, The Spoils is a collectable card game just like Magic the Gathering. If you are not familiar with this form of gaming the rest of this review is going to be impenetrable, but in short each ...
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Being an Important Publication, The Economist has Important Ads for Important Job Openings or Important Services used by Important People.
"Hello, D&D Lawyers. How may we help you today?"
"My 3rd level fighter was dissolved by a Gelatinous Cube because the cleric wouldn't use his last healing potion on me. My damages ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
The Secret of Monkey Island consumed a lot of my time back in the day, it is one of the best (and funniest) games ever produced. I have wondered for a while now why some of the old adventure games haven't been dusted off and republished for the new consoles ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Once again Hollywood dredges up the corpse of a much-loved TV show to desecrate with a pointless remake that misses the whole point of wha....Hey wait a minute! My brain just typed that automatically. Even now I have trouble gathering my wits to write the truth, so shocking and unbelievable ...
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
My previous blog entry on TXTing provoked this response from my friend Lloyd:...[I] figured out that longest word typed with only the upper letters in the QWERTY keyboard is not only TYPEWRITER but also includes several 3 other words: PERPETUITY, PROPRIETOR and REPERTOIRE. The longest in the middle line is: ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke
Possibly going for the title of "Most English Book Ever Written", Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell tells the unlikely story of two magicians in the early 1800s, a time when magic is all-but forgotten. The two title characters have very different ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
The question came up at work: what is the longest English word you can TXT using only a single key on your phone assuming no fancy predictive text?
Using a list of my favorite 147948 words (the same dictionary used in WordMap) and a few lines of python the answer is ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
I have quite a lot of books. I am not a book hoarder, I quite often do purges of books I don't intend to read again, but my bookcases are always overflowing. I have tried various methods of keeping track of what I have read, but nothing really seemed that ...
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Alright! This is the last one of these I am going to do, partly due to the time they take, but mostly because they make me look bad.
Fantasy is a much (and accurately) maligned genre. Unlike SciFi, Fantasy cannot pretend that its authors are offering up visions of our ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Yesterdays list of the 100 best books was judged by some to be a little unfair to the more nerdy side of the spectrum. To make up for it, here is the same thing done with this list of the 100 top SciFi novels.
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
My first-generation MacBook laptop had only one problem - its first generation 60 gig hard disk. Actually it used to have two problems, but I installed more memory in it ages ago. 60 gigs doesn't go far in today's world of movies and huge software packages, so I felt it ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Typical! No sooner do I post an excellent Doctor Who retrospective video than my attention is alerted to an even better one. For your consideration:
And that's the last one, I promise.
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Not feeling nerdy enough? The following video should fix that right up, it's 45 years(!) of Doctor Who stories edited into 8 minutes.
What? Thats not enough Doctor Who? Perhaps you need one of the almost 300 remixes of the awesome theme music. That should hold you over until the new ...
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