'For America' by Red Box ( Read more... )

I'm sure this is the start of a science fiction novel.

A very useful test to work out if it's worth reading someone's internet post about politics.

My cousin Rolf.

Year of the Compromised Password

Coffee, hula hoops (2), owl. (Photoshop? Maybe.)

Mapping the surnames of London. (Apparently it's not politically correct to point out that there ( Read more... )

The top 100 strangest, suggestive and steamy vintage comic book panels of all time!

Fantastic collection of pre-1925 sports photographs.

Sid Waddell, classicist and darts commentator has died. "When Alexander of Macedonia was 33 he cried salt tears because there were no worlds left to conquer. Bristow's only 27."

Google's "tax dodging". (Thanks ( Read more... )

If you play Traveller, have played Traveller or want to play Traveller at some point in the future, I urge you to support the new edition 'Traveller 5' by pledging money to its development at Kickstarter ( Read more... )

I want a function that returns a value equal to (x six-sided dice minus y six-sided dice) but which returns the answer '0' if the formula would otherwise result in a negative answer ( Read more... )

I thought I’d do something a little different with this Phligm Phlagm post. Instead of using links grabbed from Twitter or andrewducker, I thought I’d put up links to some of my own favourite LiveJournal posts. And by that I mean ones that I wrote.
Sort of a ‘Phlegmatic Greatest Hits’, or at least a ‘The Best of Philmo Phlegm’ compilation.

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The real first page of "The War of the Worlds"

The single coolest thing you can do with a touchscreen tablet or smartphone. (Well, it is if you play Traveller.)

"Guardian holiday offers page strangely omits name of one tiny little country"

Contador banned for two years; stripped of 2010 Tour and 2011 Giro

This is how to do packaging.

Smashing ( Read more... )

How do I do this in Excel ( Read more... )

Watch the very first film adaptation of The Hobbit.

If Carl Faberge played Traveller.

The International Olympic Committee learned all it needed to learn about the internet when China hosted the 2008 games.

Alienware to release gaming media centre PC. By a strange coincidence, I've just built my own.

Beautiful colour photographs of pre-bolshevik ( Read more... )

Another good post about the riots. And when was the last time you saw a livejournal post with 586 comments?

Abercrombie & Fitch seeks end to Jersey Shore links

A really good post about early Traveller. Far better than any of the many posts I've ever written about it.

The utterly amazing 'practically every robot you can think of and plenty you ( Read more... )