Posts from 11th December 2009
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Dec 09
FT Advent Calendar Of Free Online Games: 11th December
You can do pretty much anything with a flash game these days (except right click – grrrr.) But while there are no end of action games which work, I always seem to be drawn back to educational puzzle games. There are no end of build’em ups and engineering sims out there. So for today, I be looking for as much authority from my online games as possible. And this kind of set-up doesn’t get more authoritarian. Look at this furniture:
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Four quick nibbles (cheesy lovers #51 – #54)
Rubloz
Washed rind cheese, from Switzerland, bought from Kaseswiss.
My wedge of rubloz is pretty pungent, soft and squishy.The inner paste’s a pale creamy grey colour, and it’s coated in a darker biscuit-coloured rind. The rind is thick and feels crumbly. The cheese has a good strong whomph of washed-rind sockishness. Aside from that, it’s sweet and toffee-ish, mellow and creamy, a slight bit yeasty, but with a hint of bitterness underneath. There’s a bright fruity strawberry acidity that takes me by surprise, and really brightens up the cheese. Cheese-eating companion declares that this cheese looks like pie and smells like a wet dog. (He likes both pie and dogs very much.)
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HAUNTOGRAPHY: Oh Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad
Another in our series of posts about the ghost stories of MR James. You can find this story here.
“Oh Whistle” has the reputation of being one of MR James’ most chilling and effective stories. It’s also – not coincidentally – one of his funniest. He’d already mastered the techniques of hiding secrets in a half-sentence, and covering his tracks and clues with a layer or two of ornamental description. Now he applied that fully to the social life of the English don – as full of ritual and unburied grudge as any of the dark histories he’d conjured.
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