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Yeah, with the problem Amazon US (maybe elsewhere too?) has with fakes which get mixed in with the real stock at the distribution centre, and the problem I have on Amazon UK where …

I thought this link was going to be this article: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n07/jon-day/operation-columba which is an interesting article about pigeon service in WWII from a differ…

Some fun updates on the "rock family trees" [0] idea but it might have been interesting to have more technical detail - for some of them it says what technologies are used, which i…

I've definitely noticed the rise in alcohol-free beers (normally only one or two per pub, but now usually prominently marked on the drinks list or blackboard), alcohol-free wines (…

On one hand, I don't 100% miss those times unless I can have as much spare time as I did aged 14 to spend walking round a game without necessarily progressing. (It helped that I on…

I'd love that too - although I have to say I didn't really like the endings to MI2 or Thimbleweed Park, so I might love it even more if RG writes everything except the ending...

I think the site author comes from an interactive fiction background, so I suppose there were text adventures that did switchable playable characters and time travel before DotT [1…

Another stereotypically-opposite but actually possibly related pairing I find interesting: the OCD stereotype is "neat freaks" (not all that accurately, because hoarding is also co…

This sounds disturbingly familiar. You try, but it ends badly repeatedly, sometimes unobtrusively, sometimes suddenly and catastrophically and in public, until the memories of thos…

I guess they mean that most people can smell freshly sprayed cleaning products but think the products don't smell of much when still in the bottles. The aisle has a faintly bleachy…

It went down and lost control of its domain, eventually reappearing at a different TLD. A lot of people probably got lost in the move.

I miss mp3.com and still have a few favourite mp3s by other people saved on a hard disk somewhere (or so I thought - doesn't seem to be on this hard disk so I'll have to check for …

"We're constantly thinking about all of the stuff that's gone wrong with our applications previously, what new things could go wrong with them now" I really feel this. I'm supposed…

This is really cool, nice work (and sorry about your dog). It reminds me that once upon a time the roguelike dev newsgroup had a "1k (source code) roguelike challenge". The thread …

Nice to see Space Debris as a selected demosong. A few other favourites: Oldschool classics: heatbeat/rebels - street jungle https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2F…

Buzz was around in 1999 (I think - I first used it in 2000/2001) but circa 2001 the coder had a hard disk crash and lost his code, and finally resumed work on it in 2008 from a muc…

This is relevant to my interests: I live a few minutes' walk outside the delivery radius for my town, and the nearest identifiable location within the radius is a pub car park. I'v…

I sadly concur, as someone who did fine at Computing A-Level with no work, found Further Maths difficult and was lucky to get a B with extra tuition and some juggling of module res…

"Ted Nelson kept all his junk mail, for some reason" I'm glad he did, I love the design on a lot of these! Reminds me of the story of the John Johnson collection of "printed epheme…

I'd love to agree, had this not happened just a year ago: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/26/uk-governmen...

Yes, that's what I meant, thanks, and I was thinking particularly of the 2nd game - though on closer inspection I think UW2's walls are all only 45 degree and 90 degree just like t…

"The year of 1993 was a magical one ... The engine was revolutionary in that it represented a type of world that no one had seen on a computer screen before. Angled walls and halls…

I was just reminiscing with a friend about 3d landscape generator/modeller VistaPro last week, and here it is, along with a great many other nostalgia-inducing things. Thanks!

You've been downvoted but I laughed because this is exactly the inner monologue I have whenever I try to start a Dreaded Task. "I don't know where to start! Well, I could start wit…

So does the free photo backup hosting which comes with Amazon Prime, iirc. A friend who's a (mostly) retired semi-pro photographer has all his photos automatically uploaded there, …