Superficially Dundee might seem to be most useful as a place for old men to take a piss in doorways. But their Freshers Week definitely has the best events: Catchphrase with Roy Walker. Update: I have a friend who’s attended this. Unfortunately, he is adament that it was shit.
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Facebook is now open to more universities. So those of you I know that are going to Dundee — no excuses now. Be prepared to get sucked in. (Trans: Please join so that it looks like I have friends.)
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Scaryduck has a post about the worst computer games ever.
I once bought a flight simulator for my Beeb on the strength of its own advertising copy claiming it to be the best flight simulator ever made. It wasn’t, and it probably remains the one and only text-based flight simulator ever to hit the market.
He also has a list of hypothetical worst-ever computer games which includes ‘Grand Theft Auto: Milton Keynes’.
This actually comes scarily close to one of my friend’s personal projects. Apparently for the PC version of GTA there is a level creator where (funnily enough) you can create your own levels. Well one of my friends did actually begin (and I perhaps still occasionally works on) creating a Grand Theft Auto: Dundee.* Apparently he’s done between the harbour and the Overgate shopping centre, or something. Some people think that I have no life, but that really is entering another realm of sadness isn’t it?
*Although I guess if you were going to choose one Scottish town to be a hotbed of criminal activity, it probably would be Dundee…
They are the Asbos of 2005. The latest brilliant use of the Anti-Terror Laws is to arrest somebody for walking on a cycle path. I heard it on the radio this afternoon, but it doesn’t seem to have much other coverage.
It’s lucky that Curious Hamster’s around then. It’s here in Times Online.
[The pedestrian] said that she was particularly galled by the letter from the procurator fiscal’s office, which said that she would not be prosecuted even though “the evidence is sufficient to justify bringing you before the court on this criminal chargeâ€.
Evidence of what? Going on a walk? It’s crazy. I hate it when pedestrians walk on a cycle path, but they shouldn’t even be arrested (why do I even have to say that?) and they certainly aren’t terrorist threats.
Via Mark. The “baton” wasn’t “passed” to me, but I’m doing it nevertheless.
Total volume of music files on my computer:
20.81 GB (not including all of the CDs I bought yesterday).
The last CD I bought was:
Yesterday I went on a bit of a music-purchase binge, because I took a trip to Dundee which actually has music shops, an extinct species in Kirkcaldy. I found loads of bargains in Fopp!
- Björk — Medúlla
- British Sea Power — Open Season
- Eels — Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
- Herbert — Bodily Functions
- Kid Koala — Some of my Best Friends are DJs
- Laraaji — Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
- Massive Attack — Blue Lines
- Maximo Park — A Certain Trigger
- Portishead — Portishead
- The Futureheads — The Futureheads
Song playing right now:
Maximo Park — Graffiti
Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
Just looking at the ‘most played’ thingy in iTunes.
- Autechre — LCC
- Autechre — Ipacial Section
- Jonny Greenwood — Smear (live at FuseLeeds04)
- Autechre — Pro Radii
- Squarepusher — Breezeblock (16/03/2004)
These aren’t my top five songs though. In fact, none of them are even songs.
Five people to whom I’m passing the baton:
Vicky and Garry for giving me that book baton. Also Andrew, Nick and the fifth one can be … Ryan.
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