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Went for a walk and saw these mushrooms.
Sometimes we need a film where society’s rules are cheerfully trampled upon. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) is the perfect example of joyful anarchy. The titular character, Ferris Bueller, is a high school senior who, with his...
The first recording today starts with the end of Finley the Fire Engine. Then it’s Kerwhizz – Hat-trick Highway. Media Centre Description: The animated quiz with the added whizz continues, with Ninki, Twist and Kit facing a tricky time...
One of society’s moral dramas (and my, is there drama) is the “good products that come from bad people / companies” dilemma. You know what I’m talking about - that service you don’t even think twice about using…
Time for another entry in my occasional series unpacking what PC games I’ve been playing lately. This time around, it’s a puzzles-and-narrative special, with one point-and-click adventure and two more purely puzzle-oriented games, all...
I did my job fine before AI came along. Now my workplace ‘suggests’ we use it. How do I say no? Sigh. Fuck. Fine. OK. Buckle up. How to use NO as a complete sentence Been following Mike Monteiro and his writing for a few years now and...
I know! But after nearly 20-years, even the thesaurus starts to fail you! It's a charity lot; soon after the last posting in this vein, I popped into a couple of the charity shops in Fleet and managed to come away with five things of...
I can ride out a wave of stress to meet a deadline or finish an emotionally intense activity, but as soon as it’s over and I let myself relax, I hit a wall and become functionally useless, woozy almost. Zombified. It’s not a blood sugar...
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Interview with Matthew Florianz, sound designer of one of my all-time favorite videogames.
The third episode of Magical & Revolutionary is now available. I'm joined by Adam Engst, known for TidBITS, Take Control Books, and much more...
Monday night a near sell-out crowd filled the El Capitan Theater on Hollywood Boulevard to see The Rocketeer on its 25th anniversary with along with three of its principal creators: director Joe Johnston, production designer Jim Bissell,...
Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. A follow-up to Jensen's New Math. On May 5th, while the tech press was busy looking elsewhere, NVIDIA quietly announced something that got a fraction of the attention it deserved. No...