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THE PIRATES ARE OUT TO GET YOU! DOOM! DOOOOOOM!!! (Also, they sponsor prostitutes to advertise their wares, sell drugs on street corners and re-edit Bambi to include commercials for crack.) Yeah, so. That’s a FACT video from a few years ago. ...
Two things have happened this morning which are insanely annoying...
(film clip via boingboing) This is your brain on digital… A weird thing has just occurred to me, which is, in and of itself, not weird or even unusual.I was looking at this clip of colour footage of London from, like, a gajillion years ago – well, okay, 1927. To...
Facts are bad. Yes, yes, they are. It’s well known (though clearly not a fact) that all facts adduced in argument by people we do not agree with are evil. Facts undermine fiercely-held convictions with their wicked, scientific factiness. ...
A few weeks ago I tweeted grouchily that this government appears to me to have an absolute contempt for the law and the truth. Let me explain. 1...
Today is a day dear to my heart. No. No, no, no. I do not refer to this weird pumpkin fetish you all have, nor to the horde of under-10s currently engaged in learning the nuances of the protection racket in the streets of London. I refer to the fact that it is Mrs Harkaway’s birthday. ...
A million years ago, when the Internet was young, I was researching supertankers for a project I had in mind for a film. (It was one of the completely awesome ideas which got pissed on from a great height by the luminaries of our industry...
[image by Bernd Settnik under cc share alike 3.0 via Wikipedia] London, October 22nd...
Just so it doesn’t slip off your radar: the Google Books thing is still trundling along. Because it is, as I noted when I first started looking at it, basically very boring, it’s apt to drop off one’s to-do list. Howe...
More news I made up, but which is alas factually accurate. London, 16th October...
[Sledgehammers under CC Sharealike 3.0 by Shakespeare] Public announcement: I have today secured a gagging order through the good offices of Messrs Weezil, Crouke, and Fylthe, which binds not only the conventional media but also the entire internet not to talk about my recent disgraceful behaviour...
A few years ago now, I was sitting at my desk and feeling confused about my life. Not unusual. Not for anyone, and certainly, at that time, not for me. I noodled around, hated my latest script (I honestly have no idea what it was) and couldn’t get to grips with it. ...
Musing on books and AI… (because of the piece I just did for the Guardian Books blog, which isn’t up yet but when it is I’ll put a link right here.) When the Singularity occurs, and we mammals are herded into reservations so that robot children covered in sweets and robot parents with harri...
Everyone knows about Six Degrees by now, right? In case the answer is no: it’s the social mathematical phenomenon which connects everyone in six steps or fewer. ...
