Another article of mine is up at Bit-Tech – a top 10 list of ‘unique’ game controllers: “There’s only so far you can go with a traditional gamepad. A few talented, brave and frankly bonkers designers have managed to convince and cajole their corporate paymasters into creating a special, unique add-on controller, solely for theirContinue reading “Top 10 Unique Game Controllers”
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Paintballing – They Got Me!
All the Dennis IT mags went on a day out yesterday – paintballing! Glorious weather and lots of fun. Although my legs really ache today, so I’ve been walking like a rusting robot 🙂
New Blog: Treacle Down
Lyle’s Black Treacle Originally uploaded by Sifter. Announcing Treacle Down (www.treacledown.co.uk), a brand new weblog of which I am a co-creator/co-writer/co-mad-scientist. It’s all about art, design, style and food in London. We started last weekend and things are going well, the first week’s posts covering: * Tube Anagram map* Flickr’s amazing geotagging, whichContinue reading “New Blog: Treacle Down”
Webreading 29th August
Two friends of mine, Phil and Josh, have started a videogames blog, and what a start: Phil has been playing the Battlefield 2142 beta, and it doesn’t sound like a particularly good recruit: "Just a quick preview on this impending tug on the Battlefield cash cow’s udder. Expect more later when the vitriol has hadContinue reading “Webreading 29th August”
ROCK!
Today’s thought for the day is a guest spot, going to my friend Phil, who has just returned from the Leeds Festival: ‘Slayer rocked so hard, people exploded.’
Dream PCs
Custom PC Issue 37 is out, which features our annual ‘Dream PCs’ competition. We invite four top PC building companies to submit a no compromise PC – so there’s no budgetary constraints, we just want the most amazing computer going. This year, we asked four companies to enter – Scan, Vadim, Quiet PC (all UKContinue reading “Dream PCs”
Web 2.0 and Bauhaus
If it’s as good as the US version, it will be worth keeping tabs on the Tech CrunchUK blog. As Sam Sethi writes in his first post there, which went up yesterday: "Where are all of the UK start-ups? Besides the tenuous UK links to the success of Skype and the deservedly and often quotedContinue reading “Web 2.0 and Bauhaus”
Webreading 25th August
Today…. * Sucks if you’re a Plutonian, you don’t have a home planet any more, you’re home is just a ‘small, icy "Trans-Neptunian’. BBC News.* But you can buy lovely Rez t-shirts from Way Of The Rodent [via Waxy]* And you can add your own reaseon why civilization is doomed to 10,000 Reasons.* You canContinue reading “Webreading 25th August”
Politics and technology
My latest piece for Bit-Tech is up there now – well, actually it’s been up there a few days, I’ve just not had time to post it here. It’s all about the influence of politicians on technology, or rather, their lack of influence: “Senator Stevens isn’t the only one who is, to put in bluntly,Continue reading “Politics and technology”
Shoot London
Clue 10: 2012 – What are you going to compete in? Originally uploaded by Sifter. It’s near the end of the month, so that means I’m broke and prone to moaning about money. It is an unpleasant habit I’ll admit – though I think it’s better than, say, public nose-picking – and it’sContinue reading “Shoot London”
The Wired Jester 