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Biff! Pow! Computer Games Grow Up!
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— 3 Jun 2004 Andrew Farrell Comment

Biff! Pow! Computer Games Grow Up!
No, wait, that’s every news article about comic books ever. Computer games don’t usually fare much better, despite a higher profile in real life – compare the number GAME bags around town with thos[…]

Pre-stained black T-shirt, sir?
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— 3 Jun 2004 Tom Comment

Pre-stained black T-shirt, sir? This week’s Marketing news is that clothing brand Diesel are teaming up with 2000AD to offer “a science-fiction range of casual clothing”. Imagining what this might actually involve baffles me, but a […]

“You could be up to one size slimmer”
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— 3 Jun 2004 Tom Comment

“You could be up to one size slimmer” claims a new ‘body modelling’ product on a poster ad. Hmmm. The key words are “up to” – since dresses, unlike shoes, don’t traffic in half-sizes then the ad is esse[…]

Introductions
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— 3 Jun 2004 Mike Comment

Introductions
One of the nuisances with novels is the introduction which gives the plot away. The dictionary definition states an introduction to be “That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject.”[…]

Fortnum And Mason
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— 3 Jun 2004 Tom Comment

Fortnum And Mason is one of the great and holy places of High Englishness, particularly since Harrods turned vulgar. Its fourth floor tea rooms are as elegant as one would expect, decorated with Constables and Henry Scott Tukes; your ’20 gets y[…]

Love The Pie
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— 3 Jun 2004 Tom Comment

Love The Pie[…]

Boffins Celebrate D-Day Too
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— 3 Jun 2004 Alan Comment

Boffins Celebrate D-Day Too
Apparently 10 Colossuseseses were built! Anyway, the Colossus Rebuild Project started in 1993 and now it’s been rebuilt by studying 8 photographs!?
Give them something to work on with Enigma Emulators! It’s fab[…]

The Post-TV Diaries (aka I Don’t See): part 3
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— 3 Jun 2004 Archel Comment

The Post-TV Diaries (aka I Don’t See): part 3
This will be the first year I’ve not watched any Big Brother at all. Each year previously, my viewing has followed a similar pattern: resolution not to watch it at all, then grumbling, cynical[…]

Linkular
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— 3 Jun 2004 Tom Comment

Linkular
Paintbox Jury (scroll down) – readers of ILM may raise an eyebrow at this.
Good Songs From Useless Albums – good column idea from Matos.
Peter Blake designs Brian Wilson album cover – massive missed opportunity here, surely[…]

i am excited about Agnes Martins new work–for the longest time nothing seemed to phase her, she still painted the same thing. She could live beside the grotesque and new fangled creations of Bruce Nauman (as she had been for almost forty years, until 2000 where she had to be moved into a nursing home), and have him over for tea but still put lines on canvases, she could move from Saskatchewan to New York to Taos and still put lines on canvases, she could be 90 and in the tate and sold for a million and have her book of writing out and still put lines on canvases. She could be a cult favourite instead of loved by everyone and still put lines on canvases. Sometimes the fields are a different colour, more bright or more dark, sometimes she uses yellow or taupe instead of lavender or mauve–and sometimes the lines are dark, sometimes they are almost Pace and sometimes they hum like power lines–but she has had a zen forbearance, like the man who spent 70 years painting bamboo. Then in her latest work, now at the Pace Wildenstein in New York–she has placed yellow tipped triangles and black trapezoids in the middle of her lines, and i’m ecstatic, its the most exciting, new and sexy thing i have heard in at least this year–and she did it in her mid 90s … gives me hope, it doe
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— 3 Jun 2004 Anthony Easton Comment

So, i am excited about Agnes Martins new work–for the longest time nothing seemed to phase her, she still painted the same thing. She could live beside the grotesque and new fangled creations of Bruce Nauman (as she had been for almost forty […]

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