"Australian scientists have created a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play real music - without resorting to a real guitar."\m ( Read more... )

"People would get run over if they wanted to run over the road to vandalise it. The only people that would pass comment would be the pigeons."

Margaret Thatcher may get a statue on a roundabout in her hometown of Grantham.

After surviving an attempt to shut it down over the sale of mod chips, Lik-Sang has finally succumbed to multiple law-suits brought against it by Sony.

"ultimately, we're trying to protect consumers from being sold hardware that does not conform to strict EU or UK consumer safety standards, due to voltage supply differences et cetera; is not - in ( Read more... )

The Sharpener (contributed to by liadnan) has drawn attention to a worthy counter for those in favour of capital punishment

LJ has spoken. Following the result of my Thailand or not poll, I booked my tickets on Saturday and will be flying to Thailand on November 15th, returning on December 5th and going back to work on December 6th in the midst of the testing of my current project. Who cares? Long holiday in a country I've been meaning to visit for years = AWESOME ( Read more... )

A post on Joystiq* has had its comments locked after a large number of people took offense at the use of the term "round-eyes"** and things headed rapidly into off-topic slapfight territory. Funnily enough, many seemed to be white people who misread "round-eye" as "slant-eye" and then went into one about racism against Japanese people. Possibly ( Read more... )

At one point a few months back, I had the fourth largest number of unread books on the LibraryThing website. Or, to be more accurate, I was the fourth greatest user of the "unread" tag. Whilst adding my latest purchases to the site, I had a look and found that I've slumped down to 17th place ( Read more... )

Up until now, there was no single game that made me want to buy a PS2. Not Vice City, not Ico, not even the awesome Guitar Hero. And then I saw the God Hand trailer. It's like someone has done a Fist of the North Star game right.

Just to put things in perspective, here's the Japanese trailer, coming to an episode of Tarrant On TV soon.

Just repeating news found at The Alien Online news blog (scroll down to news for Sunday September 17th) here:

The final book in David Gemmell's Troy trilogy, Fall Of Kings, will be finished by Gemmell's wife, Stella. Gemmell died after heart-bypass surgery in July prior to finishing the book, but had handed in 70,000 words taking the story up to ( Read more... )

The plan to post every day for a month has died a miserable death already as I failed to take into account the weekend, so here's a general catch-up ( Read more... )