Father Ted Read My Blog!

by Iain on October 30, 2008

Well that’s not strictly true. But I was looking at my stats when I noticed some unfamiliar activity… That’s not strictly true either. But I did get some traffic from this lovely blog http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/ which is written by Graham Linehan (…)

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Strange Photographic Co-Incidence

by Iain on October 30, 2008

I hadn’t noticed that the sign in this photo said “Dress Code?” on it in big letters when I took it. But oddly it ended up right next to this… It’s the totally bonkers dress code from Miyagi’s in LA. (…)

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The Unfinished Swan – So So Beautiful

by Iain on October 24, 2008

This in-development game looks absolutely amazing. I love the art direction so much it makes me want to weep tiny black tears of joy onto a white thing. Via: Wired Game Blog Obligatory buttons:

The Value of Really Big Pictures

by Iain on October 24, 2008

Still at Webby Connect: Michael Zimbalist from the NYT has just said that the Big Picture Blog has doubled traffic to Boston.com year on year. Big pictures are in. ‘The fold’ is out. Obligatory buttons:

What I’m Feeling About Webby Connect

by Iain on October 23, 2008

It’s interesting. But through the sessions it’s becoming very clear that it’s a world of 2 halves. One half is people who believe that it’s just business as normal. Everything conforms to the old rules in the end. It’s all (…)

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On My Way To LA

by Iain on October 21, 2008

Only airports have such odd novelty decorative power outlets… I’m on my way to LA to take part in the Webby Connect Conference and I’m very much looking forward to it. If you’re in the area or going to the (…)

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The Taxi Driver’s Question

by Iain on October 19, 2008

I just lazily took a cab ride from the other side of town back home (and it wasn’t the taxi of the beast as pictured above – that was the first picture I found on Flickr). Anyway… The cab driver (…)

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Vintage Pole Position Advert – Playful Conference

by Iain on October 16, 2008

I’m sure this has been featured a few places, but it is pretty awesome. I came across it whilst trawling around for various game-related things. Reason is… I’m really looking forward to it. Not because I’m speaking, but because there’s (…)

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Reusing not Recycling

by Iain on October 15, 2008

Just realised I posted a dumb comment over on Ben’s blog. He’d blogged about how we should re-use our Amazon boxes and how it’d be better than recycling. I commented about how I’d cleverly thought of re-using some Innocent pots (…)

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On The Hunt For a Technical Director

by Iain on October 15, 2008

Anyone know any brilliant technical director types who’d be up for working at Poke? Our Igor is leaving to go to a super job at the Guardian. Being an agency and doing work for ‘the man’ we can hardly persuade (…)

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