Posted on September 30, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Debi Linton has an excellent ‘beginners guide to Barbara Gordon’.
Beer made from bacteria from insects trapped in amber millions of years ago – I love science.
More serious science here – the annotation of human proteins has been completed. This is a far bigger thing than the human genome project.
A complaint about bloatware in free software. [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Sorry for the lower-than-normal number of posts recently – I’ve had writers’ block for a few days. Plenty of ideas, but when I come to write them out I’m completely lost for words. You can probably expect an absolute glut at the end of the week, when I suddenly get my flow back and can [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Latest Big Finish A Week will be up tonight. I’m going to try to get more written this week than in the last couple of weeks, which have been busier than normal for me….
Liberal Conspiracy have a good article on why socialists should vote Lib Dem.
A Trout In The Milk has some thoughts on science [...]
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Posted on September 27, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
It’s hard being a Dave Sim fan. Every time I write about his work, I have to preface it with an explanation that I don’t agree with any of his worldview – I don’t think women are evil voids who telepathically spy on men while they’re masturbating and who are controlled by an evil transgender [...]
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Posted on September 26, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Reviews of Glamourpuss 2 & 3 tonight, but for now a few links:
Another All-Star Superman retrospective – this one by Amypoodle at Mindless Ones. Includes underpants.
Andrew Rilstone scares me by talking about people doing a Hitch-Hikers sequel without Douglas Adams.
Brad Hicks on selling toxic toothpaste and toxic investments.
Millennium Elephant on Mr Frown’s speech to conference. [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Just a quick one today, but hopefully I’ll have something longer for tomorrow:
Chris Bird continues “Exploring Hollywood” with a look at how “My Best Friend’s Girl” must have been created.
Fred Clark points out that giving someone $700 billion without any restrictions on how he spends it is not strictly advisable.
Bobsy at the Mindless Ones wants [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
The 24th series of Doctor Who – Sylvester McCoy’s first – is almost universally regarded with cringing embarrassment by Doctor Who fans, and largely with good reason. McCoy was never one of the great Doctors, but he was better as the darker Doctor of the 26th series than he was as the buffoonish character in [...]
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Posted on September 21, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
A Big Finish A Week is running late again – my thoughts on Bang Bang A Boom will be up tomorrow evening. In the meantime, here’s more links:
Another All Star Superman review, this one at A Trout In The Milk.
Brad Hicks has a rather depressing post on the continued US economic problems.
Inform 7, the programming [...]
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Posted on September 20, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
Most of these are from a while ago, as I’m still ploughing through a huge backlog of Stuff To Read…
Mark Steel thinks that bankers should bail themselves out. Quite right too.
Jon Morris, Marc Singer and Jog all have better reviews of All-Star Superman 12 than mine.
Pillock talks about reading and synaesthesia and other good stuff.
Go [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2008 by Andrew Hickey
One of the problems of being a British comic blogger is that we get our comics a day later than the Americans. This can make it seem somewhat redundant to write about them. Once Jog, Marc Singer and a couple of others have written about All-Star Superman, what else can there be to say?
But I [...]
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