- 23rd
- The Man in the High Castle → Read this on holiday. I thought I didn’t get the ending at first, so I consulted the I Google and discovered that nobody else really did either. Some people have their own interpretations; here is mine. Spoilers spoilers spoilers! The most widely accepted explanation of the flat ending is that Philip K. Dick cast a hexagram of [...]
- Demoscene tunes → Since pop music is so crap, I’ve been listening to more and more “demoscene” tracks and derivatives lately. It’s so much better than anything you’ll find in the shops! Nectarine is a streaming MP3 radio station dedicated to scene music. No adverts and no commercial trash. Marvellous! Some songs aren’t that great since they’re written to [...]
- 25th
- Scooter racing → Via the tortuous winding passages of the incident management system of a certain large company comes this cool story. In at least one small airport in Brazil, the refuelling process works like this: the plane lands, the fuel companies’ representatives get on little scooters, race across the field to the plane door, and the first one [...]
- 29th
- Oil prices versus geek superheroes → Energy prices are going up, so it’s time to economise! I for one suggest the mass adoption of the geek lifestyle. TFT screens and laptops, more a possession of the geek than not, consume less power than CRTs and desktops respectively. The extended periods of VGA UXGA tanning leave no room for excursions to the shops, [...]
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http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64638,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 The nature of the gaming timesink becomes clear
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