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DEATH OV POLITICS, 6.55pm, Tuesday 2 May 2006, BBC1
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OK, I don’t expect party election broadcasts to be just one old, white, public school educated bloke sat behind a desk reeling off a list of things their party has done/will do if you vote for them, and i know it’s difficult to run a nati[…]

You Take 16 Blocks And What Have You Got?
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The reviews of 16 Blocks are almost a text book example of damning with faint praise. A better than average buddy movie, a notch above th usual buddy movie fare – phrases like that don’t make you storm the cinema. And you know what, they&[…]

Day 64: One Night In Bangkok
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
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I was a little bit off the beaten track, stuck – as I believe they call it – In Country in Vietnam. Very friendly people whose food was excellent and all their radios ran of batteries, which were easily stolen. In my time their the only m[…]

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NEVER THAT FUNNY
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i dremt mr sayle came up to me in the street and challenged me to tell him what i thought of his work, only i woke up before i could, so HERE IT IS ALEXEI
(update: as’s besetting sin is TECHNICAL IMPRECISION)[…]

Cattle and Other political Animals
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Looking Through Garry Winnogrand’s book Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo, initially, I thought it wasnt very good. Though it came via interlibrary loan at the same time as a couple of livestock catalogs, so maybe it was un[…]

Text Adventure Programming Takes A Linguistic Turn
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Inform 7 is here and it’s crazy mental. I’m very excited, made all the worse because the Mac app is currently (accidentally) Tiger only. The excitement might just be enough to get me to dig out the reams of source code that comprise an ol[…]

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  2. "Dave Sim sticks the landing." That is my feeling too. As frustrating and borderline unreadable as the last 50 issues…

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  5. LOL - I'm reading through these, and the "Jaka's Story" one drew my first reaction, and in it I said…

  6. I think the notion that conservatives can't make art is nonsense. J.R.R.Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton are two of my favorite…