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Dogs and Monkeys

March 21st, 2010 · No Comments

I can’t believe I got a couple of thousand words into an analysis of Something Awful dot com. I was trying to account for why I became interested in the site’s continuing success (100,000 members, around 4,000 online at once) and it was kind of interesting but, damn, that’s not really what I’m supposed to [...]

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0day leet WAREZ COLLECTION!

February 24th, 2010 · No Comments

We are the home of 0day l33t warez – members only !!! don’t forget to click the donate button on the front page to keep this warez community alive!
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Sinking feeling you had when they told you they already had somebody. They just [...]

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Creepy Children’s Television.

February 19th, 2010 · No Comments

Right now my workplace is being such a shit that come the evening I can’t think of anything much intelligent to say. But that’s why you keep coming here isn’t it? For the stupid?
Isn’t it?
I’ll cheat – Tim sent this link.

I don’t get this actually. Why is this scary? That’s not saying it’s not, but [...]

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The Golden Age of Adventure Games

February 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Conventional wisdom has it that adventure gaming started in 1975 with Crowther’s ADVENTURE, reached a literary peak with the Zork series and a golden age around the Lucas Arts point-and-click period. Myst gets a tick for huge sales figures and then all is seen as a steady decline of the kind that hit the Byzantine [...]

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Blah blah blah.

February 5th, 2010 · Comments Off

Blah blah blah blah iPad blah blah blah blah Apple blah blah blah Flash blah blahblah Adobe blah blah iPad blah blah blah iPad blah blah iPhone blah blah blah the cloud blah. Blah blah Apple blah blah web 2.0. blah blah blah iPad? I think that blah blah blah blah blah blah Newton blah [...]

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The Queen’s Christmas Message

December 20th, 2009 · No Comments

It being Christmas and all that I am going to try end this entry on a positive note. I promise. We do have to start in a deep pool of bilge because that’s what the Internet is made of.
Another few months brings another half arsed special about piracy care of The Inquirer. All the usual [...]

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Kurt Cobain VS Dorks

December 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Like all good ranters I have a few preset rants that I keep ready for Xmas, public hangings, fêtes and the like. One favourite is about Kurt Cobain, darling of the 90’s moppet, uncle of emo and man enough to marry Courtney Love. Cobain was the assassin of the last dregs of 80’s music culture, [...]

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Latest Academic Fashion News

December 11th, 2009 · No Comments

A gasp has gone out around the Academic Fashion Scene with the announcement that BRUTALIST U are bringing FRANK GEHRY in to design their new Fun House. BRUTALIST are of course best known for owning the ugliest building contemplated by the mind of man – the Dark Tower otherwise known as The Vertical Slum, Elevator [...]

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Singing the Blu-Ray Blues

December 6th, 2009 · No Comments

Warning. If you’re not interested in disc authoring then pass on by.
TV around the world is divided up in incompatible regions. America has 30 frames per second (mangled to 29.97 because of the NTSC colour system). Civilised parts of the world use PAL at 25 frames a second. In film they still use 24 frames [...]

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Interfaces

December 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

I just bought an EMS VCS3 for twenty bucks.
You were momentarily excited – actually I bought a virtual instrument which is decorated with a front panel similar to an EMS. Sonically, I got my twenty bucks. Because it doesn’t matter what the damn thing looks like when it comes to the sound. But we fools [...]

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