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I thought some of you might not yet be entirely aware that there's a new TF2 mode, where RED and BLU get to team up against hordes of monstrous robots. So, there's that.
But there's also this, which is quite sweet, and which seems oddly appropriate as a lovely pet for at least a couple of you. Because you need a dove covered in blood, in both real ( Read more... ) -
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Tonight, I'm off to PunchDrunk's production of Crash Of The Elysium, a live Dr Who interactive play type thing.
Yes, I'm mostly posting this to see if I can make Dr Who fans jealous - or least those fans not able to get to Ipswich. Event details are here, for anyone that's somehow missed it but would like and be able to attend. -
Updates!
It's been rather a reasonable few days, despite fate's attempted impediments.
Tuesday I managed to take all the skin off my knee and it's only started healing now, which combined with bruises all down one arm it looks like I've been a victim of some sort of abuse. Pavements, especially those pretending to be smooth and safe, are not to be trusted.
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Museum
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Why BMI (and similar metrics) suck, part 2
Following on from Health Is Not Weight, I thought I'd run a quick comparison of different health metrics. There are tons available, all purporting to tell you if you're healthy or not, how much weight you need to lose/gain/rearrange to be healthy, and they tend to have very varied results. Here's two of the easiest:
Now, BMI says that I'm distinctly ( Read more... ) -
Health is not weight, or, why BMI sucks for people
I found a lovely thing that demonstrates just how bad BMI is at indicating individual health, and why it should only be used for general trends - and not used to gauge individual health, as it so often incorrectly is.
Illustrated BMI Categories shows people of all weight categories, from underweight to morbidly obese - and very often, they're ( Read more... ) -
Why I still don't have an e-reader
I keep hearing that books are going to die and e-readers are the future and so on. And I'm just not convinced.
This is because there will always be people like me. I need my books to -
- survive a fall onto a hard surface, because I often read at pubs and train stations and other crowded areas. Readers are more fragile than books, and may smash when ( Read more... ) -
Second long ranty post, different topic
Oh do fuck off, you anti-choice douchewranglers. And you, the journalist - have the decency to call lies out as such, instead of using "claim" for both hateful fictions and actual fact.
The claims being made by Abort 67 are not merely things that "BPAS claim are misleading information", they are outright lies. BPAS is disputing A67's claims, because ( Read more... ) -
Race and Fiction
Saladin Ahmed, author of the not-in-Fantasy-Medieval-Europe debut novel "Throne Of The Crescent Moon", has written an interesting piece about the depiction of race and racial stereotypes in fantasy, contrasting Tolkein's Middle Earth with George R R Martin's Game Of Thrones world.
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Oooh, cartoons
This year looks to be a good year for cartoons.
Not only do we get the American heavy metal gem, Metalocalypse, back for a fourth season, but there are some great anime series coming up as well!
Shinchiro Watanabe and Yoko Kanno are collaborating again for a jazz-driven anime series set in the 1960s. You might remember that pairing from Cowboy Bebop ( Read more... )