Monthly Archives: January 2006

BBC report on UK gamers from 6-65

From Boing Boing: BBC report on UK gamers from 6-65 – contains some amazing figures.
“59% of 6 to 65 year olds in the UK are gamers. In total there are 26.5 million gamers in the UK. The average age of a UK gamer is 28 years old, and the gender split is almost even, averaging [...]

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Dance Dance in the Classroom

Boing Boing: Dance Dance Revolution at 765 schools – story about the fact that in the US they’re now using Xboxes with dance mats to help kids get less fat. If it helps I suppose it can’t be a bad thing. Can it?

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Zombie Infection Simulation

Sometimes I see things online and it makes me think. “I love the Internet”, and I love the crazy, crazy, eccentric freaks that inhabit it. The Zombie Infection Simulation is one of those things. I’ve got no idea why this exists, apart from a bunch of geeks decided that it should. Now there appears to [...]

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Guns ‘R’ Us

Psssst. Wanna buy some guns?
A brand new microsite by Poke. The film’s been done by Mother.
We’re trying to get it seen by as many people as we can. So we’ve put together a microsite and have done some interesting distribution stuff including our first ever Podcast (come on, you know we had to do one [...]

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The Postal Service vs Apple

I like the The Postal Service a lot. Their album is great. I also like Apple a lot. Their products are great. As has been well documented the latest Apple Intel Ad looks a lot like the video for “Such Great Heights” by the aforementioned band. Ben from The Postal Service expresses his disappointment on [...]

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Boo.com

Oh shit. It’s coming back. Just the thought of it is going to give me sleepless nights, and the girl on the front page will give me daymares! Boo.com

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Sarlacc Pit?

I saw this yesterday. I thought it looked like the Sarlacc Pit from the Star Wars film (if you’re not a SW geek you’ll need to go here to find out more). I’m not going to tell you what or where it’s from (it’s a bit yukky).

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The Saddest Photo Ever?

A poor discarded half eaten gingerbread man abandoned on the platform at Tulse Hill Station. Darned cake-cannibals, if they’re going to eat people at least they could have the manners to finish them off! I could have cried.

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Techno Faux-Pas

Whilst browsing in Micro Anvika today I was looking at the plethora of digital music players, ranging from the gorgeously designed to the truly horrible. When out of the corner of my eye I saw one particular piece of gadgetary. I thought to myself “f**k me, that is the most horrible piece of ‘bling’ design [...]

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