Archive for July, 2004

1602

Tuesday, July 27th, 2004

I’m not going to offer a review of the series or anything like that as I don’t feel I can do it justice. But if you do have copies of the comic book series, 1602 by Neil Gaiman, and you aren’t all too familiar with the Marvel universe then you may find this useful: […]

Smoking jackets

Monday, July 19th, 2004

Whilst trying (unsuccessfully do far) to find myself a nice smoking jacket (and cravat and pipe) I stumbled on this live football report from the Guardian online. They are almost always humourous to the the extend that I wonder if the people in charge realise what their staff are saying on the web site:
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Warning Forever

Friday, July 16th, 2004

Dowload yourselves a copy of Warning Forever v1.04 and see if you can beat mine or John’s scores. Heres my best so far:
score: 12839600
stage: 14
deaths: 7
duration: 07:10:51

Literature

Friday, July 16th, 2004

I’ve been busy ordering books this week. Mainly because I stumbled on cold tonnage who “specialise in new and out-of-print, collectible science fiction, fantasy, horror and the supernatural first editions: hardcovers, vintage paperbacks, pulps, magazines and much more.” So, shortly to be added to my collection are a first edition of Grant Morrison […]

Law (American I’m afraid)

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

Anybody heard of the Induce act? It is basically an act to make it illegal to “induce” people to infringe copyright. Sound reasonable to you? Well I suppose it does until you think that it will open up the floodgates for copyright holders to bring lawsuits against CD burner manufacturers and VCR recorders […]


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