As promised, this year’s annual Custom PC Mince Pie Megatest is up at the CPC site, here. The whole magazine team took part in the testing way back at the end of October, and the article itself was then written up in fine, fine, funny style by Slacker Hack Phil. Enjoy!
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Make Your Own GeForce
The Custom PC website is quite a focus for me and all the other members of the mag team at the moment. I say focus, perhaps obsession is a better description 🙂 What we’ve currently got is based on an very old framework and it’s definitely looking and feeling creaky. While we’re planning a revampContinue reading “Make Your Own GeForce”
The Mince Pies Are Back!
Shockingly, it’s that time of the year again. Well, actually, no it’s not. It’s not even been Halloween yet. But at Custom, we’re well into work on Issue 40, which comes out at the end of November, making it our Christmas issue! As well as reviewing performance PC hardware, every year we do a round-upContinue reading “The Mince Pies Are Back!”
Oasis Masterplan video, directed (sort of) by L. S. Lowry
I’ve always had a soft spot for Oasis. Partly this is just becuase I was the right age when they first appeared, but I loved the music, too. I remember getting Definitely Maybe with money from my 15th birthday and sitting in the car in Milton Keynes while my Mum had gone into the station,Continue reading “Oasis Masterplan video, directed (sort of) by L. S. Lowry”
A Trip To A Real Army Surplus Store
The weather’s turned grim, so the following sentence already seems very old and dated, yellowing around the corners: it was a busy end to the summer. I went to loads of events at the London Design Festival and blogged about them for Treacle Down, including trying my hands at a massive paint-by-numbers installation and checkingContinue reading “A Trip To A Real Army Surplus Store”
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”
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”
Webreading 15th August
Stuff I’ve been reading/surfing today: * 1up has a week of coverageof the English version of gorgeous Japanese painting-action game Okami, where you play Okami Amaterasu, wolf warrior and sun-goddess. * Bookmooch – online book swapping, inspired by file sharing. It’s got a lot of positive press and blog coverage, and I’m really keen toContinue reading “Webreading 15th August”
Webreading 13th August
Master topic list for first-time readers of Neomarxisme, the only blog that makes the use of the word ‘orthopraxy’ look like a good idea. (Via Jean Snow). "Once the "pop sociology of pop" and now a "post-blog," Néomarxisme primarily analyzes the social mechanics and historical circumstances behind contemporary Japanese pop culture." * Guardian Photographer DanContinue reading “Webreading 13th August”
The Wired Jester 