December 2009
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Sherlock Holmes and a new twist in game narrative... →
The film sounds rubbish, the game sounds very interesting indeed
Dec 24th
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Earliest Urbanisation: the First 10 Cities of the... →
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Continuity: A Flash Puzzle Platformer →
Excellent game
Dec 24th
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Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above... →
Ok, so its the Daily Mail & I’m several weeks late on this, but I couldn’t not blog it, could I?
Dec 24th
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Clients From Hell →
Yes, I recognise all these people
Dec 24th
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Browser Pong →
Lovely ides
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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William Shatner's Christmas Bash at Madison Square... →
Sadly I don’t think I can get there for tomorrow
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Room A introduction | Level 0 | Floorplans |... →
Goodness - how have never heard of this: a room in the National Gallery that’s only open on Wednesday afternoons
Dec 24th
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Our Annual Year 2009 | The Onion - America's... →
wow: Onion still funny. That’s nice.
Dec 24th
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Welcome | sugru | Hack Things Better →
well, its been linked and blogged everywhere else
Dec 18th
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Animal magic as warlock reveals mystery behind... →
This sounds extremely dubious to me, but its pleasing, none the less
Dec 18th
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Chris Morris's 'jihadist comedy' to premiere at... →
good. hope its funny (i bet it is)
Dec 18th
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The Escapist : Christmas Eve →
An amazing (and appropriately seasonal) story - how a group of gamers spent one Christmas ruining the holiday for a group of gold farmers in Eve
Dec 18th
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Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie →
Really interesting simple movie maker
Dec 18th
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EffectGames.com →
Looks interesting: haven’t had a chance to play with it yet
Dec 18th
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The Soldier in Later Medieval England →
Muster rolls for English soldiers 1369 - 1453
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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New Statesman - Real Meals: I'm leavin' it →
Will Self is reviewing fast food outlets: MacDonalds in this case.
Dec 18th
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“a book of short stories published by the school last year called Out of the...”
– Comic belief - Features - TES Connect …and now they’re producing a graphic novel. awesome.
Dec 18th
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The Black List 2009: Full Roster – Deadline.com →
The list of the (allegedly) most-liked but still unproduced scripts in Hollywood
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Archaeologists Claim They've Found Lost City Of... →
Hard to know where to start with this one, but easy to know where to end: ‘what charming nonsense’.
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Román Cortés » CSS 3D Meninas →
a 3D/parallax effect done with CSS alone
Dec 18th
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Dan O'Bannon - Screenwriter behind Dark Star,... →
well, that’s a shame
Dec 18th
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WatchWatch
News: Andy Serkis Is Legendary British Punk Ian Dury. SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL Follow Accordingly.
Dec 18th
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Continuity: A Flash Puzzle Platformer →
Amazing game design
Dec 16th
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SuperCollider » sc140 →
22 pieces of music, each produced using only 140 characters of code
Dec 16th
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The Escapist : The Books That Founded D&D →
Slightly ashamed of how few of these I’ve read (but not that ashamed)
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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The Escapist : A Visit to Trollhalla: An Interview... →
Tunnels & Trolls was always my favourite paper RPG system - mainly for the reasons St Andre enumerates here - the skew towards interesting and exciting storytelling rather than points-scoring or tediously accurate modelling of fictional environments
Dec 16th
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Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN... →
This is a fascinating story, partly because it shows how the rise of globalisation has mitigated against the rule of law - an international grasp exceeds the reach of the long arm - and partly because it chimes with certain ideas I’ve been having for stories
Dec 16th
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BBC News - Ancient Mediterranean flood mystery... →
“This extremely abrupt flood may have involved peak rates of sea level rise in the Mediterranean of more than 10m per day,” - and all those Mediterranean inundation myths suddenly make a lot more sense…
Dec 16th
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CopyPasteCharacter.com →
potentially very useful indeed (although on my machine (firefox/windows), its throwing some broken characters anyway)
Dec 16th
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Mystery of the Narara caves - Fiji Times Online →
Dec 16th
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Ancient Amazon civilisation laid bare by felled... →
As Colin McEwan of the British Museum points out on the article, many early civilisations grew up round river basins, so why not the Amazon, too?
Dec 16th
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Batman_Writers'_Guidelines.pdf (application/pdf... →
A fascinating document - the original writer’s guidelines for the (stupendous) Batman Animated Adventures
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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All the flim that's fit to flam. →
some excellent stuff here
Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th