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Cryptozoology and Nintendo
There’s something of the Pokémon about Cryptomundo.com. As American Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman’s website its remit is, as I understand it, to link to and discuss news stories and evidence of new species as and when it’s reported or discovered. This means that posts range in content from the discovery of a new beetle in the ...
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Wisdom re-applied #6
‘Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. Thomas J. Watson throws down a challenge to the games industry following David Braben’s weightless assertion that it should not be making games that ...
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Orwell on being a critic
“The prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. “It not only involves praising trash–though it does involve that, as I will show in a moment–but constantly INVENTING reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feelings whatever. “The reviewer, jaded though he may be, is professionally interested ...
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Black Cab Session
Is this idea cute or annoying? I think it’s nearly cute but the idea’s somehow missing something. I’m not sure what though. Anyhow, the Black Cab Sessions, in which a couple of London indie kids cajole indie artists to perform a song live in the back of a London taxi before uploading the video to ...
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The King of Kong
Over the weekend I had the chance to see Seth Gordan’s The King of Kong, a documentary that records the tussle between two men respectively vying to take and defend the Donkey Kong world record. Billy Mitchell is the forty two-year-old poster boy of classic high-score gaming who has held the world record for Donkey ...
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Stardust Tourism Movies
A couple of weeks back I finished doing some work for Paramount’s forthcoming Stardust movie. For those who don’t know it’s an adaptation of the similarly-titled Neil Gaiman novel, two parts Princess Bride, one part The Office. The screenplay’s been written by Jane Goldman, spouse of film critic Jonathan Ross and it stars Sienna Miller, ...