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Ukulele Orchestra of GB - Shaft

Dreamlords, Yawn

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Last night, I travelled home angry. I nicked a seat on the tube, I bullied stumblebums out of my way; I was generally a bundle of passive-aggressive geekery. Why? Not because my day had been bad or because I'd messed up in the office. It was because the Chancellor (boss) of my Convergence (guild) had kicked me out, after I'd pressed the "mistrust" button on Dreamlords' rudimentary web interface.

Another day, another dollar.

A Room With A Private View

A Room With A Private View, originally uploaded by Hot Grill.

I think this is in Slough... If you know for certain, you're a betjeman than I...

Out Of The Ocean

Bioshock: Why 2K Boston Aren't Making BioShock 2

2K Boston, with help from 2K Australia, made BioShock. And what a great game it was. But they're not making BioShock 2. Somebody else is. Why somebody else and not 2K Boston? Ken Levine (pictured, emerging from the ruins of Rapture clutching the last remaining...Coke Zero!) explains:

I'm always excited when someone uses one of my pictures...!

Eye Contact

Ritting

Rattling along underground in a vicious humour, all around me are temporarily like me; none can see the blue of the sky. The tube disgorges beneath Kings-Cross and we all barrel out, the stick-wavers, the 20-20s and me. There's probably some of my kin around too, but we never make eye contact, head for the city. There's a city in all of our eyes, great towers of rhodopsin raising up, the rods and the cones, an empty city that collapses at the touch of light. In my city the architect's plans went awry, or he lacked imagination and my city looks all samey, not enough variety in those towering discs. As in the eye, so in the world and my world, outside the vitreous humour (if it's really there) also has lost something from that failure; colour.

Champers

My cat champers has been dead for at least seven years now. I still miss him.

According to my timesheet at work, last week I worked sixty five hours, not including freelance. If I'd been at Future, I would have begrudged every moment of that stolen time, in my penury and misery, but here in the glossy, happy world of PR it's varied, exciting, and interesting; my only irritation is that I can't spend every hour of every day with Maria - oh, how low this onetime bachelor hath sunk... Anyway, that week of schlepping was tolerably pleasant because it included a day trip to Paris to see the really interesting city-building MMO Cities XL and 2 1/2 days on the Hop Farm at the War & Peace show (large numbers of scary men in military/Nazi uniforms or 1940s civvies walking around buying cheap machetes and "decommissioned" machine guns, mortars. And one very brave Vietnam war protestor) demoing Men of War, a very cute and clever realtime tactics / roleplaying game that reminds me of nothing so much as a non-pausable Hidden & Dangerous II. Now, back to the working week...

The Warslow Beef Restival 2008

My creation, originally uploaded by Hot Grill.

1. The Last Thing The Field Mouse Sees, 2. Possibly The Most Beautiful Flower Ever, 3. God, Macro Flowers Are Great., 4. The Cutest Dog In The World, 5. Foxglove Cascade, 6. Linen Flowers, 7. Butterfly Flower, 8. Dov's Schnozz, 9. Bad Barman, 10. The Cutey, 11. Farm Fun, 12. Angry Bud

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Totalitarianism Just Jumped The Shark

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