As Above
Curriculum vitae. Oh yes.
HTML format or Word
Throw me a job, someone.
Brain children. Those that overlap the Internet.
Dvorak
The improvised card game.
Blog Twinning Project
Democratic blog-pairing.
TV Misguidance
Reconstituted TV listings.
The Foldover Game
Blind communal prose.
The Surrealist Link
You are the spikiest moth.
Back on the Orion Express
Interactive fiction.
Generic Nomic Data Tracker
It's a Nomic thing.
Two-Word Guestbook
Sign it.
Online cliques. Trespassers may be welcome.
Upsideclone
Stem-cell fiction.
Hate the Stupid
Because we do.
Mornington Crescent
In outer space.
In the bookpile. About to read, or currently reading, or meaning to take back to the library.
Emergence
John H. Holland
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes
David Stuart Davies
Imaginary Magnitude
Stanislaw Lem
Incidental music. Ohrwurmen or otherwise.
English Fool
Carfax
Gubba Lookalikes
Half Man Half Biscuit
Other weblogs. The ones I make a point of reading, at least.
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(Updated UK Blogs)

Supporting cast. That have Web pages. In alphabetical order.
Alice Chrissy Dan Dave Dunx Eperdu John Lori Nik Paul Raven Riana Sandy Simes Tracy Tyrethali Yao
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Archive search. You never know.

22.09.01
"48 Preludes and Fugues (T)
(S) Lowri Turner and her team of
thousand wannabes turn up to
track down a shoal of sardines
to pay for their daughter's
jazz band."
(Guardian Guide, Wednesday the 26th.) A superb wit-exercise time-killer from the long-lost Graham; create exciting new TV listings by stitching together individual (but intact) lines of existing ones. Hm. This may well merit some sort of online archive.
Ole is back, and blogging in three different languages, seemingly selected at random from his repetoire. Superb. "Key words include faith, observation, investigation, discrimination, meditation, discovery, knowledge, wisdom, perfection, fear, faithlessness, pessimism, skepticism, doubt, ignorance, and escapism." [via Raven]
21.09.01
Another pretty online game to take you half an hour nearer to your own death; Gears. [via Lukelog] More nice sciencey pictures here, including laser-light in a stream of water and yet more ferrofluid.
Good interview with the soi-disant "science photographer" Felice Frankel in NewScientist today, combining aesthetic beauty with scientific integrity. Some of her work is online, including a thoroughly amazing shot of some ferrofluid.
20.09.01
Behold; absurdly lovely Java-game simplicity in the form of Slime Volleyball. [via LMG]
A new toy; the Blog Twinning Project attempts to establish vague links of similarity between blogs, on the basis of hazy democratic opinion. Exceptionally well-matched pairs get to consider themselves twinned, for what it's worth. "'Operation Infinite Justice' sounds like a thriller you don't want to see, or a video game you can never win. It's all worked up with nowhere to go. It's scary to us, not to our enemies."
19.09.01
Boy on the bus today with a walkman whose tinny bits sounded entirely like a life-support ventilator. Tssssssssssh-clik. Clik. Tssssssssssh-clik. Clik. So much so that I was utterly convinced that something horrible would happen if I asked him to turn it down.
Hm, another game. Fubar - a soi-disant "bizarre board game". Monopoly-style running-in-circles, with the raw power of Nomic injected into a blank board. I've actually been pondering a board-sibling of Dvorak, skeletal game rules to invent fresh flesh for, but more along the lines of chess than this. But this looks fun. Perhaps worth hashing together a MUSH engine for. Hm. [via the shadows of the Dvorak Lounge]
C-Dogs; a Gauntlet for the deathmatch generation, with surprising flavours of Half-Life and X-COM to some of its "campaigns". Pleasingly lo-fi stuff, with smooth and stylish graphics; the sort of thing that draws you in and - for an hour or so - convinces you that it's the best game in the world.

Bonus points for a refreshingly vague but wide-angle level editor; although you can't put your own graphics in (a shame) and the maps are always generated randomly (which isn't so bad), you can get some rather nice effects by simply changing colours, shuffling heads and bodies and tweaking extensive character stats. I managed a passable Day of the Triffids, earlier. Fun. And multiplayer on the same machine. Those were the days.

17.09.01
"But don't offer to trade places until you see my on my knees outside the kitchen door, screaming because I've checked the taps are off twenty or thirty times and all I can remember is the first time I ever checked the taps were off in this flat, four months ago."
No Clowning today, but the most recent one is the sort of stuff that can't be read enough. I shall keep quoting the shining points until everyone gives me confirmation that they're reading the site anyway, every week, thankyou.
Well, I'm one of the people who'd first heard Neil Innes saying that "There are two types of people in the world - those who divide the world into two types of people, and those who don't.", but it seems a fairly widespread quote. AA Gill writes some good writing on the shallows of the endlessly bifurcating worldview. For all my vague rage yesterday, tickbox questions like "Would you be willing to give up some of the liberties we have in this country in order for the government to crack down on terrorism, or not?" really are stupidly unanswerable. [via Matt]
More or less everything by Kevan Davis.
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