Do Not Pass Go: very interesting Guardian article from a while ago about the ‘solvability’ of various boardgames by AI and the tension between human champions and computer opponents. (So interesting in fact that I think I’ve blogged[…]

A Lucky Escape! – what would have happened if Lydon had walked 3 days earlier. It doesn’t bear thinking about. (Caution: pics contain ‘fun’).[…]

RIP MP3sFinder: I will miss this site a lot, a fantastic resource for current pop. It generally had things first, it was easy to use, its downloads were fast and for most of its life it even eschewed pop-up ads. I also liked its singles-only, chart-o[…]

“part of the collective swagger of a scene that’s on the up and brimming with confidence is having a name and using it”: on the other hand knowing something’s name = having power over it, including commercial power. A scene-na[…]

I was playing Peter Rabbit’s Race Game this evening! – another survivor from the weekend’s excavation of my parents’ soon-to-be old house*. Of course all race games are race games (Wikipedia claims a common ancestor in the &#8[…]

Massive thumbs-up to Independance Records – the quickest online shop I think I’ve ever used, records ordered at half three yesterday and on the doorstep this morning with very reasonable postage. Highly recommended to those few readers wh[…]

In The Nipple Of The Storm: So what’s happened here is this –
– Janet Jackson gets her breast bared in the Super Bowl half time show.
– A horde of Interweb users immediately start searching for pics of said breast
– &#8[…]

I found this shop while looking for the rules to raffish customs-evasion card game Contraband! No such luck on that front but take a look at these gorgeous and highly evocative boardgame boxes. You might even want to buy one though an asking price of[…]

Oi Jel!

(pic by our gracious host Steve M)[…]

Crumbling Loaf: I read this quite often on other people’s sidebars but it occurred to me I’ve never linked to it. I picked the Wedge for it because i) we’ve not had a post on here today yet; ii) I really like the way he writes about[…]