Today we went to London Zoo, which was grand. Highlights included multiple tiny primary-coloured (bright blue, yellow, orange and red) poison arrow frogs, meerkats, some enthusiastically swinging non-surly gibbons, a very sleepy tiger and a great leafcutter ant exhibit with ants parading along ropes strung between boxes containing their nest and ( Read more... )

My deepest thanks to metame but I have to hyperlink this on my own journal.

Go here if you want to listen to Yahtzee's ZeroPunctuation review of my game.

(He kinda likes it - and the bits he doesn't like, I'm not unhappy about)

I'm a muppet. I've only just realised that my latest game was reviewed in the Guardian today (Tuesday 3rd Feb).

Does anyone have a copy they could save that review from for my scrapbook? It's a short couple of paragraphs.

Yes, snow. It's great. We went for a walk in the park where there were lots of people making snowmen, and one furtive group of youths making an enormous snow cock-and-balls. We then got a great seat in the bay window of a local pub, and watched it snow some more.

I took several photos. This one ( (behind the cut, 150Kb) )

The first of many... A panning shot over an Adélie penguin colony.

"My lord, I suspect an incredible secret has been kept on this planet... that the penguins exist in vast numbers... vast numbers... and it is they that control it."

The BBC is remaking The Day of the TriffidsThe problem is the fundamentals here - it's not the inevitable yoof characters they'll impose that'll kill it. What will kill it is the inability of the BBC to deliver intelligent drama any more. They won't be able to deliver the science, they won't be able to deliver the bleakness, they won't be able to ( Read more... )

I own one of these things, but not the other.

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Ooh, I think he kinda likes it!

But here's the important thing: The game makes a decent first hands-on impression -- certainly better than previous high-profile Wii franchise revivals like Samba de Amigo and Nights. Since the version I played contained one straightforward level without features like the ability to upgrade weapons, it felt a lot ( Read more... )

I don't usually post reviews of books - I get through so many that it would be ridiculous.
However, I am going to celebrate my enkeyboardedness with a big double-thumbs-up for Neal Stephenson's latest tome, Anathem.

I don't really know what made me love it so much - except it's like Eco's Name of the Rose crossed with Xkcd. I can't actually say ( Read more... )

One wine-into-keyboard event and I'm now clicking on the on-screen-keyboard utility ( Read more... )