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A possible new version of the game I played the most on the Spectrum 48k is being proposed on Kickstarter.com
Here David Braben talks about procedural generation and how it is being used in Elite: Dangerous
Scott Walker is back with a new album. It sounds as odd and inaccessible as ever.
Here's the video for 'Epizootics'.
Offensive "Stupid Twats" bike safety website is taken down by advertising company after they realise that they were "stupid twats" to think it was a good idea.
The ride-smart website described cyclists involved in accidents as "stupid" and illustrated their viewpoint with un-attributed videos they stole from youtube. The videos audio was also altered by the advertising company to show the cyclists in a bad light.
The Pod Delusion is a weekly news-magazine podcast about interesting things. For part of it's 3rd anniversary, this was one of the lectures about just why the Daily Mail is so shit.
Somehow they noticed someone's RC plane getting stuck in a tree, so the decide to help out from their helicopter.
Some photos I took of the moon from my back window in the middle of the city (Edinburgh).
Taken over a couple of nights. The first lot were of the full moon. But the slightly offset sun in the last few show better crater definition.
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A play on reality TV shows. Four men at a table, whistle blows, first tear to hit the table wins.
Directed by Brent Hoff, and filmed at Venice Beach.
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Some photos from an art installation along the length of Hadrian's wall. Balloons with internal lights pass messages sent in to a web site along the wall by translating the messages into colour sequences.
Unfortunately, the day I was there the wind had burst and knocked down quite a few of the globes. Still, it was amazing just being up on the wall at night.
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A sample fest remix of Breaking bad seasons 1+2....tight.
Seven Psychopaths follows a struggling screenwriter who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
A light display made by runners wearing led light suits, running about on Arthur's seat and Salisbury Crags.
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| From Aug 10, 2012 |
From Adam Buxton's "Bug" show. Counting with some disapointment.
A new video, from the album "Bad as me".
Apparently, "Hell Broke Luce" came from a visit to Alcatraz where a prisoner had scraped the phrase into the wall
