Current Music: News Radio ( Read more... )

Current Music: Yendri -- Scream

Quake in Javascript.

Current Music: Midnight Oil -- Read About It

Lamer have voted to sell.

All you apologists can save it until I can see your eyes.

Current Music: Something off eMule

April 26 is supposedly World Intellectual Property Day, so it's perhaps darkly fitting that today news should break [*] that the European Parliament has passed the appalling IPRED2 legislation, which criminalises a whole raft of IP-related matters, on its first reading.

[* In this timezone, anyway.]

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Current Music: Sonic Animation -- Enter the Temple of Dawn

Using some of the biggest of big blue iron, boffins recently simulated a mouse neurocortex at a tenth normal speed ( Read more... )

Current Music: A Player Piano playing Requiem in my head

Kurt Vonnegut is dead. This makes me sad.

Current Music: Assemblage 23 -- Ground

Wittenoom is to be expunged from maps and roadsigns. Meanwhile, the sick sham that is Second Life persists. (Disclosure: Linden Labs operates in the same market as the gameco for which I now work.)

Current Music: Underworld -- I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This is My Horse

Coolest javascript demo eva.

Current Music: Madonna -- Ray of Light (Sasha's Stripped Down Mix)

I took an interest in programming-MiniWAFT on punchcards in the late '70s-because I saw the potential for automating character generation, and the first thing I ever coded was a Space Invaders clone. I learned to hand-compile 6502 code to hack raw disk sectors of Wizardry saves and ( Read more... )

Current Music: The Glasshouse -- End Credits (Last. Episode. Ever.)

Clearing out my excess open FF tabs recently I came across, amongst other things:

• a neat singularity vignette;
  
• how to put off those annoying "Updating your computer is almost complete - Restart Now?" messages;
  
• an MMO internationalisation conference I'd love to attend;
  
• a tiny but ( Read more... )