February 2010
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“Harry: Do you think I’m stupid?
Perry: I think you wouldn’t know...”
– From Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, written and directed by the oustanding Mr Shane Black.
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shoesonwrong: I'm out. →
I made the huge mistake of playing the online component of Bioshock 2. …. Bioshock 2 multiplayer reduces all that down to eight thirteen year olds screaming, “GET THE LITTLE BITCH. WHO HAS THE BITCH? YOU FUCKING DROPPED THE BITCH?!” About a fake little girl.
Your first mistake was trying to play anything in the cesspool that is Xbox Live public games. I worked around this problem by...
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On clever advertisting
When I came to the US in January I arrived at Chicago and had to go through the check-in security again for my connection to Indianapolis (as I was connecting from international to domestic). So there I am, struggling with my carry on bag, extracting my laptop, duming change, belt, etc into little plastic trays, and hopping around taking my shoes off.
In the bottom of the little plastic tray was...
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First Person Tetris →
This is quite likely to cause motion sickness. Try it though, it’s a clever gimmick.
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xntrek:
daniellei:
monkey-tone-news:
Oh shit… I had popcorn and club soda for dinner. Again.
This is my usual dinner except swap out club soda for V8.
However, since I am in Wales, I had crumpets, a mandarin orange, pineapple and passion fruit juice, and Yorkshire tea.
I recommend finding a nice Welshman who feeds you.
I tried that once, but the only welshman I found I could understand...
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On Welsh rugby shenanigans
The Times:
Andy Powell’s international future has been thrown into doubt after he was dropped from the Wales squad following his arrest on Sunday for driving a golf buggy while over the alcohol limit. Warren Gatland, the Wales head coach, has asked the flanker to leave the team hotel and told him he would not be considered to face France on Friday after he was caught with the...
Google Buzz is Already Dead | AlanHogan.com →
Thoughtful criticism of Buzz’s UI. I agree with all his points.
I’d also add — mapping email addresses to contacts is rubbish, because a lot of people have more than one address. In one case, I’m following a friend on one of his addresses, and he is following me but on a different address. So he sees none of my content, even though at a glance it looks to him like...
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List of confirmed Rock Band DLC coming via Rock... →
If you are a fan of fake plastic rock, prepare to become poor.
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“Occasionally, you may receive a “Page not found” message when you...”
– Seen on the developer documentation site of a company I’m working with. The company turns over more than $2.5bill per year and has over five thousand employees world wide. I’ve clicked the link 25 times so far.
Hey, remember when Google Wave was exciting?
Good times.
Last night my Sky HD box failed to record Lost...
Now the torrent is doing 300kb/sec and will be here in about another hour.
There’s a lesson here, TV broadcasters. You should at least be more convenient and reliable than pirate downloads.
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Incidentally, I am the Mac Daddy of web service...
In case that wasn’t clear from my last post.
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On CSS
Despite my carefully maintained aura of being an unbeatable all-round geek I’m not good at front end stuff. I last did websites (as opposed to web services) professionally in the year 2000, when it was all Perl CGI and all this was fields and Pulp were still fashionable and <table> ruled the world. Since then, all this newfangled CSS stuff has come in. Every 18 months or so, I have to...
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“Policemen have started carrying guns – big, visible, frightening guns – quite...”
– Victoria Coren: He stepped out of the dark with a gun… | The Observer (via crowth) (via brilliantology) (via stuffparty)
Wow. Brilliant writing from Coren. The last paragraph is fantastic.
On the Tumblr dashboard radar
I’ve just seen Luckyshirt on there now, in addition to Steelopus, Milkglassmao, MonkeyFrog, and probably more I haven’t noticed.
As a group, we own this thing, guys.
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tj asked: Does ctrl-a / ctrl-e do what you want?
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On OS X Keyboard Shortcuts
RAGE.
Number of times each day I want to hop to the beginning or end of a line: many
Number of times each day I want to hop to the beginning or end of an entire document: few
Behaviour of the Home and End keys under OS X, which map to the latter function, not the former: retarded.
Google has shown up KeyFixer, which seems like a half-baked solution to the problem. I’ll try that later....
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“It was reported that a new series of interviews was conducted by the United...”
– Seven paragraphs redacted from a report given by the CIA to the UK government, revealing the treatment of a British resident (Binyam Mohamed) at the hands of American investigators. The British government, who still claim with straight faces to be “against torture and cruel and inhumane...
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On Watchmen 2
Empire Online:
The word is that, despite DC’s very public falling out with the irascible Moore, head honcho Paul Levitz was always adamant that Watchmen, at least in print form, was not to be messed with. But with Levitz stepping down, Watchmen is now without in-house defenders…
Apparently an expanded Watchmen universe is now the pet project of DC’s senior vice president...
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Indianapolis's AT&T Building →
AT&T Building is a high rise in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was completed in 1932 and is 22 stories tall. …
The building has been expanded and has achieved its present form only after a few iterations. Amazingly, it has not always had its current location nor orientation. In 1930, the building, then [eight stories tall and] weighing 11,000 tons, was moved 100 feet west and 52 feet...
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