December 2009
6 posts
Good game, good game →
Some interesting thoughts here on what makes a game. Russell Davies had a good post on pretending, too.
YouTube surpasses Yahoo as world’s #2 search... →
Bloody hell google are doing well.
Climate Change Deniers vs The Consensus from... →
A brilliant piece of research and design that weighs up both sides of the global warming debate (I hadn’t appreciated it was a debate *really*).
The postmodern contradiction of Coronation Street →
Remember in Blade Runner the replicants had photos to “prove” they were not robots? It meant that they were real. This was my favourite example from a text book that was trying to explain postmodernity.
I just heard that Coronation Street now has its own Google Streetview. So that means it’s real, doesn’t it? Because everything Google does is real. Or perhaps it’s...
God that hurts
I’m in a really bad mood. I am suffering from a mouth ulcer. Little bastard.
I’ve always had them; they are my canary. They let me know when something’s up.
I carry a tube of Bonjela in my bag just in case. I used some earlier and I am now asking myself why.
As I inardly weep, it clearly has had little or no effect. But I still carry it. It’s the only brand I know,...
