Tuesday reads
I found reading this piece on a gun crime victim’s family depressing but enlightening - and reminded me how fortunate I am to live in a country where guns are exceedingly rare. Contrast this with the struggles of a “B...
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Monday reads
Game developers talk about bugs over at EuroGamer - a decent piece but I’m sure a field with a lot more potential and insight (I’d hope most of the remarks about code being a point of pride are common sense, but I gue...
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My favourite read of the weekend is the Verge’s item on Biohacking - when I first read about people adding magnets and chips to their bodies I was fascinated but was totally unconvinced this was the future (since the ...
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It feels like only earlier in the week (it was) that I lamented the lack of nonviolent verbs and then comes a review with a game with no violence at all - and it gets a good review over at RPS - Yonder. Equally, it’s ...
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For years the specialist press has talked about security issues but now we’re really seeing the impact thanks to Petya. The lessons learned from this are hopefully ones everyone already knows (patching) but I still se...
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Dead Cell’s weapon conversation over at Gamasutra is a good piece even if the type of game is a big turn off to me (difficulty levels are not my friend unless they have various shades of easy!). So many weapon choices...
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Money, money, money- it seems like a topic I’m obsessed about and, to a degree, I am, but mainly in it’s implications for society. So the BBC’s short history of tally sticks and cheques is interesting- it would be int...
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With the G20 meeting and Trump presumably kicking the Paris climate agreement further to the curb with moves to strengthen ties to Russia, it’s good to read that “nation states” are rebelling and rebelling well. I’m a...
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Has a stranger ever sang a song to you, with your name in it? How about a song about your local town? I previously assumed songs about small towns and custom birthday tracks where rarities, but it turns out Spotify ha...
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