Back To The Newts
May 4, 2008 · 1 minute readThe final words, from who else but Saint Etienne.
Ken Are We Gonna Be Alright?While I Bristle Everytime BBC News Says "Mayor Johnson"...
May 3, 2008 · 1 minute readToday it’s snopes.com day at Snappish Thoughts:
Over the past weeks there have been a number of rumours circulating via email regarding Holocaust education here in the UK. The emails suggest that the UK Government are removing Holocaust education from the National Curriculum and that in general British schools steer away from teaching what they might consider a ‘controversial’ subject. We want to make it clear that our understanding is the Holocaust is and will continue to be on the National Curriculum and therefore continue to be taught in all UK schools.
London
May 2, 2008 · 1 minute readI don’t want to hear anybody in this country complain about how America elected George W. Bush ever again…
You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes...<em>And You Get What You Deserve</em>
May 2, 2008 · 1 minute read
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party.
Schrödinger's Law
Apr 30, 2008 · 1 minute readIf no sexual offence is being committed it seems very odd indeed that there should be an offence for having an image of something which was not an offencedoubleplus good!
Just a feeling
Apr 29, 2008 · 1 minute readBut this week is turning out bad politically on both sides of the Atlantic so far…
And The Mystery Man Is Revealed
Apr 28, 2008 · 1 minute readIt was J. Nash, all-round good egg and excellent chap all the time! Heavens!
Peppermint Patties
Apr 27, 2008 · 2 minute readUnfortunately, I only remembered the camera towards the end of today’s sweet making. Sorry!
Anyway, what I was trying to do was recreate the York Peppermint Pattie, something that kept me going on many a TA office hours morning at UNC. Turns out they're fairly simple to make: you pour half a can of condensed milk into a stand mixer, add some peppermint extract and then beat in enough icing sugar to turn the mixture into a dough. And enough to cover the kitchen in a fine dust. Ahem. The dough is then rolled out onto a cookie sheet (well, okay, I used a silicon mat instead) and placed into the freezer for about ten-fifteen minutes. While it's freezing, why not melt some dark chocolate? Doesn't have to be too fancy; I used 60% cocoa baking chocolate. Anyway, after the dough has been in the freezer for a while, pull it out (it should be quite stiff). Take a brush and paint a layer of chocolate onto the dough.
Oddly, I Feel Quite Proud
Apr 25, 2008 · 2 minute readMy quest for the sales figures of Robocop on the Spectrum seemingly has no end in sight. But I can tell you that Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles sold 420,000 copies on the Spectrum in one month in 1990. Yay research!
It's a weird sensation to be wiped from a discussion. You would have thought that after being on the Internet for eleven years, it would have happened to me sooner. In the end, it was the Spectrum that brought me down; sins of the past and all that. Of course, with his edits, it now reads like Bruce Everiss is arguing at thin air for a lot of the time, but he's done so well at looking silly this week; he might as well finish as he started. But hey, it's not like somebody made a copy, is it? (For all the praise it gets, I never really liked Arcadia either. I do remember getting a collection of Imagine games like Pedro, Cosmic Cruiser and The Alchemist, but I didn't understand why those Imagine games were awful, yet the current ones like Target: Renegade were rather splendid. It wasn't until a few years later that I learnt the full story of Imagine.) UPDATE: Intuition Told Me Part Two: A couple more links will probably follow after reconstruction is completed on the second article: Or How Ultimate Stopped Worrying And Made A Fortune.