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I had a SNES, but I obviously wasn't amazingly enthusiastic about it. Yes, it had the best version of Street Fighter II, the best Mario platformer so far, and the One True...
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Sunny Day...When I said "no one comes here" in the previous post, I wasn't fishing for sympathetic testimonials. I honestly didn't think anyone read this blog. Now, of course,...
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Re: ME MEME ME MEME ME MEME MERad challenged me with this, and I've had nothing to post anyway, so this'll do. Not that I really understand these internet meme things,...
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Splat?You know those joke items you can attach to your car? Like the fingers you put around the edge of your boot to make it look like someone's trapped in there, or the...
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"Nintendo surprised many by unveiling a new version of its best- selling GameBoy, called the GameBoy Micro, due to go on sale in the autumn.The tiny game player is just...
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To Badly Go...Enterprise got an absolutely wonderful series finale tonight, a poignant episode that really got to the heart of what the show was about. Excellent stuff.Except...
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Jan Ken Pon!So you've got eleven million quid in paintings you want to offload, and both Christie's and Sotheby's want the job of selling them. How do you decide which...
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DC Comics, the home of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, has acquired a new logo, for the first time in thirty years.Sadly, rather than saying "exciting superhero stories...
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Do not attempt. Again.So there's this advert for some generic car in which it's being driven along some country road somewhere. It's not being driven particularly fast, and...
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That's The Spirit!Gah! For the past couple of weeks, I've been struggling with drawing a strip for Sunny For Girls #2. It's been a right pain in the arse, but I got there in...
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Wasn't she in Leprechaun?New game: pick any non scifi/fantasy/horror film and spot all the cast members who have appeared in scifi/fantasy/horror films. For example, bland...
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Wanted: Mr Tibbles - Dead Or AliveSince they discovered that killing Hmong immigrants tends to lead to thorny civil rights issues, Wisconsin hunters have decided to set their...
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Do Not Attempt.America has no legal system. Instead of actual laws and punishments, everything seems to be about money. You don't prosecute, you sue. As such, adverts are full...
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CacophonyI know that iTunes does it, but I'm not sure I want to get involved with all that business unless I have a Mac and/or iPod, so is there any other way to standardise...
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The Controversy ReloadedThe writer is Joss Whedon, an American. The character is Wolverine, a Canadian. Frankly, if Wolverine says it's "Lego", I'd go with that.
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Obviously, I've not seen the film yet, but the novelisation of Revenge Of The Sith makes quite clear something I'd suspected since I saw The Phantom Menace.Darth Sidious is...
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Spot The BallAmericans don't know the delights of the ancient game of spot the ball, but if they did, surely this image from Saturday's paper would be a contender:
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Federal Theater ProjectI've managed to secure a whopping 55mb of free webspace, but I'm told that I need FTP to get access to it, and I'm afraid I'm stumped. As with most...
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Big In JapanDoes anyone know how or where I can get imported Japanese CDs in the US? I'm particularly interested in soundtracks from games and anime. Any ideas?
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Liberal Bias In The MediaNow, I know that the Grauniad is a left-wing paper, but even I didn't expect this of them, from Saturday's front page:That's not to say I don't...
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For RadI don't want to be left open to the nasty fondlings of spambots, so here's a screenshot of my Gmail address. Quite why electronic communications seem to have completely...
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Lost In Time (or the King of Geek)I'm still alive here, but all available bandwidth is being put toward dowloading the "leaked" Doctor Who episode. So, you see, everyone benefits...
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Is it because the award itself looks like a yellow T-1000?Does anyone know why the theme music to the Oscars this year was a Mexican cantina version of the Terminator theme? I...
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it's snow problemAnyone know how to get past this screen in Creatures 2: Torture Trouble?I can move that rock back and forth by shooting it, and my guess is that I need to...
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Given that I'm about 4000 miles away from the country it was broadcast in, the last thing I expected to see in my local Blockbuster was a dvd of Stella Street. Now I understand...
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Apparently, I am some natural anomaly, an abomination, an abberation. It seems that it's impossible to anaesthetise me. Ouch.
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A Blot On My ConscienceWell, all the inking is done for my O Men strip. With any luck, I'll have the lettering and colouring done by Monday. Hurrah!
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Public Safety Announcement There's a cover of Bjork's "Hyperballad" going around, by the Twilight Singers. It is absolutely awful, and may prompt you into self-harm, so avoid...
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The Blessing Of Nurgle Oh great, another chuffing cold. That's the fourth in as many weeks, I think. In better news, I made something of a breakthrough concerning Photoshop...
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Does Alan Partridge Work At Fox Sports? By recording the Superbowl, I've managed to avoid watching the actual "game", and still get to see the movie trailers they like to stick...