If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants
The famous 2-pound-coin/Oa*is-album quote, written in a letter to Mister Robert Hooke by Sir Isaac Newton ‘ but it hasn’t escaped the attention of some historians that th[…]

Before I get down to the rez, Let me just second Mark’s post below. Spy Ring looked brilliant, played like Ludo on Tamazepan. It is quite possible that I had a later version of the game which used the almost impenetrable code of reading mirror […]

Watching Star Trek: Insurrection on Monday night (it might not have been me, this is somewhat out of character), I was shocked by the adverts. Not by the content; that was standard Linda Barker trying to sell me her range of sofas and flogging electr[…]

Most comedy records are appalling as music, even if they are funny, which they usually aren’t. That’s why I have to recommend the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz (warning: I suspect he’s not a real Reverend). He’s maybe the funniest l[…]

For older readers, BREAK THE SAFE factors in one further strength, which is that it seems to be a descendent of Waddington’s long-vanished SPY RING: inherited elements include safecracking, “secrets” as tablets you have to seek out […]

It’s all very well getting the recent 100 referrals on SIteMeter but unless you stump up the cash, that’s as much as sitemeter will let you see, and IT’S NOT ENOUGH. I crave referral stats, I want to keep the data FOREVER. So as the[…]

I am taking a break from playing Wind Waker because I have started L-Targeting my rabbits when I want to pick them up. So instead I will write about it – or rather one particular aspect of its endlessly lovely graphics: the glaringly obvious (a[…]

CHEAP FOOD I LOVE #4: Marmite On Toast
Three fairly inexpensive foodstuffs – bread, butter, marmite – come together with superhuman effect when heat is applied, like the kids in G-Force turned into that bird thing except I can remember ex[…]

Marlin, the fish voiced by Albert Brooks in the BRIGHT Finding Nemo, does not find Nemo. This is pretty much all you need to know about the film. Yeah it is exciting, fun, animated and did I mention BRIGHT. But Nemo is not so much found as located, a[…]

The prosecution points out that the gun belongs to the accused, the defence points out that the fingerprints are someone else’s, the jury nods to one another, the accused goes free.
In the case of The Port of Houston vs. Aaron Caffrey, the gun […]