Though it irks be to be writing about sudoku once again (I think we can stop capitalising it now) it’s what I spent all weekend on, so it’s my own fault. Previously I had devised a cunning rule to solve all sudoku puzzles, and I called this the Rule of N. Subsequently I got very [...]
Okay, I haven’t actually got a show at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Nor any other year’s, for that matter. But if I did have a show, I know what I’d be doing. I’d be performing e-mail spam. I’d read it out loudly and dramatically, with very quiet bits, and sudden big LOUD BITS, and then [...]
Yesterday I confirmed my electoral register details. I did it online. The process took me through about four steps. The first asked me to enter my reference number and password. Then there were a series of very simple questions. No graphics. No colour. Easy options. Sentences that the Plain English campaign would be proud of. [...]
New words from — well, for — the new Oxford English Dictionary: discoverage (n) – The amount of media coverage given to a particular story which is disproportionate to the story’s significance. Example: The Today programme spent about 10 minutes on the new OED this morning, but 9 minutes and 50 seconds of that was [...]
Dave quotes this, and more, from George Monbiot… I don’t hate Britain, and I am not ashamed of my nationality, but I have no idea why I should love this country more than any other. There are some things I like about it and some things I don’t, and the same goes for everywhere else [...]
As someone who (a) doesn’t live in the USA, and (b) doesn’t have a television, it’s only natural that I faithfully follow Johnathan Bernstein’s weekly column on US TV. I felt particularly sorry for Showtime, the US cable network, when he wrote last year that they always seemed to be the underdog against HBO, no [...]
This story has a happy ending, but it has a sad beginning: I lost my Beethoven CD. I originally bought it a few years ago after seeing The Man Who Wasn’t There — a wonderfully sad film, with a wonderful tune that kept running through it which I wanted to put on repeat. But while [...]
Some photos from a walk round London yesterday. Tags: london
Apparently… According to the New York Times, the US military is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to send scientists on a screenwriting course in Los Angeles, with the aim of producing movies and television shows that portray scientists in a flattering light. We look forward to… Professor White and the Seven Dwarves – Professor [...]
There’s much to say about the GTA Hot Coffee mod — some of it constructive. My personal concern is how we’re sliding unnoticed the wrong way down a copyright scale. But before that, a brief synposis. The video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a wide and sprawling affair. The player is given pretty [...]
