Death Knight Love Story cast: Joanna Lumley, Jack Davenport, Anna Chancellor, Brian Blessed
You know how over the last ten years, I've occasionally mentioned home-made machinima in a "one day, you'll all want to watch this" kind of way, and most've you have looked at me funny? Yeah. That.
(tags: machinima friends)
BBC News – Bank of [...]
BBC – BBC Radio 4 Programmes – Belfast: Re-imagining the City
Bill Drummond on Belfast. Available on iPlayer for the next 7 days, well worth a listen.
(tags: belfast)
GameCamp
Am going to try and get a ticket for this, and if I do, I guess I should sit and throw some notes together based on some LARP [...]
Penny Red: Objectification: what if the world were different for a day?
Really bloody good post. Of course everyone knows that the media is perpetrating a set of damaging stereotypes, yet we don't *do* anything about it.
(tags: media sexism)
Tiger Beatdown › Girl Culture and the Race to the Bottom: About that Rant About Women
A response piece to Clay Shirky's article the other month about women not self-promoting, and the reasons why it happens. Unrelated: I really like the design of this site.
(tags: feminism culture gender psychology)
Antarctic spits out iceberg the size of [...]
Serendipity
Massive collection of random-thing generators, handy set of tools.
(tags: writing inspiration rpg generators)
ESPN The Magazine – Rick Reilly: How about a little recognition for bowling champ Kelly Kulick? – ESPN
This is kinda saddening. Women beats all the men in the male dominated sport, press indifferent. OK, so it's bowling, and that's hardly a [...]
Rivet – Stream your music, movies, and photos to your Xbox and PS3
I've got a system prefs thing set up to do this, but it's unrelaible, and I wonder if this would work better…
(tags: osx xbox360 media apps)
Integrating translation into Google Goggles – Google Translate Blog
Trying to think if there's anything I can say other than "wow". Give it a handful of years, and this will be available in real time, too.
(tags: awesome language technology translation)
Music Journalism is the New Piracy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The IFPI have sent a bunch of copyright infringement notices, and Google have killed a bunch of music blogs. Here's the thing: at least some of the blogs that have been taken down are not infringing. Even absent arguments like fair use, they actually had permission [...]
Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » Chip and PIN is broken
The tech details will be lost on most of you, but in brief: if an attacker can get your card cloned, then they can also pretend to know your PIN – fraudulent transactions they make will be reported to the bank as "Verified by [...]
Boris Johnson is waging war on our city’s subversive south | News
All true Londoners have a south London past. There they experienced their first flat, their first date, their first taste of city life, with nothing too exotic. They dallied in Clapham, flirted with Dulwich, tested their mortgage muscle on Stockwell. (I lived awhile in [...]